Volume 3 · 35
Public Law 13–XVII
to regulate the allowance of forage to officers in the army of the United States.
Approved July 22, 1813
Statutory text
An Act
to regulate the allowance of forage to officers in the army of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That all officers in the military service of the United States, who are by law entitled to forage, shall receive in lieu thereof when not drawn in kind, an equivalent in money, at the rate of eight dollars per month for each horse to which they may be entitled: Provided, That no allowance shall be made to THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 18, 21. 1813. any officer for more horses than he shall actually employ in the public service.
Approved, .