BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America on Congress assembled, THATthe proper accounting officers of the army of the United States be, and they are hereby, required to pay, in money, to each volunteer of the Arkansas regiments, and to each volunteer of any other corps that has been in the military service of the United States, who has been a prisoner of War in Mexico, the sum of forty cents a day, in lieu of subsistence, during the whole time of his imprisonment

Sec. 2 And be it further enacted, That the benefits provided by the first section of this act expend to the legal representatives of said volunteer.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the same evidence as is now required to establish the fact of ordinary service, shall be sufficient to establish the fact of imprisonment, and to authorize and require said accounting officers to make the payment provided by the first section of this act, upon application of said volunteer, his authorized agent, or legal representative.