Aug. 12, 1848.
Chap. CLXVIII. — An Act concerning the Pay Department of the Army.
Certain paymasters to be allowed a commission on the sums disbursed by them.
Not to exceed $1000.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the Paymaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow any of the paymasters
of the army, who shall have been employed in the payment of volunteers, during the
late war with Mexico, such a commission, not exceeding one half of one per centum
on all sums disbursed by them as aforesaid, as he shall deem a reasonable compensation
for the risk and labor attending such service: Provided, That the said commission to any one paymaster shall not exceed one thousand dollars
per annum, from the commencement to the close of the war.
Paymasters' clerks may be allowed an annual salary of $700 in lieu of pay now received.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Paymaster-General may, in his discretion, allow to any paymaster's clerk,
in lieu of the pay now allowed by law, an annual salary of seven hundred dollars.
Approved, August 12, 1848.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Public Acts, 30th Cong., 1st sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 303