DR. The United States to Major W. H. Russell-Continued. Be it remembered, that on this eighteenth day of March, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, personally appeared before me, the subscriber, William H. Russell, and made oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, in due form, that the foregoing account, amounting to six hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirtythree cents, is accurate and just; that he has not received pay, drawn rations or forage, or clothing in kind, or received money in lieu thereof, for or during any part of the time therein charged; that he actually owned and kept in service the horses, and employed the servants charged for the whole of the time charged; and that he did not, during the term so charged, or any part thereof, keep or employ as waiters or servants soldiers from the line of the army; that his place of residence was Fulton, Missouri, and that he is not indebted or accountable to the United States on account of bounties or premiums, pay, contingencies, arms or accoutrements, ammunition, stores, clothing, camp equipage, medicine, or medical instruments, or on any other account whatsoever; and that he has no unsettled accounts with the United States other than the above. WM. H. RUSSELL, Sworn to the day and year above written, before B. K. MORSELL, J. P. The United States to Major William H. Russell, of the California battalion. For myself Assistant commissary of subsistence.. For commanding company. March 24, 1847. Aug. 24, 1847. Five.. For two private servants, (not soldiers)- March 24, 1847. Aug. 24, 1847. Five. Forage REMARKS.-This amount includes pay, &c, from the date of last payment, by Paymaster Van Ness, up to the period of his arrival in Washington, under the orders of Lieut. Col. J. C. Frémont, allowing five weeks for notice of the disbandment of the battalion, which took place on the 19th April, 1847, to arrive in Washington, when his service ceased. DR. The United States to Major William H. Russell-Continued. I certify that the foregoing account is accurate and just; that I have not received pay, nor drawn rations, forage, or clothing in kind, or received money in lieu of any part thereof, for any part of the time therein charged; that I actually owned and kept in service the horses, and employed the private servants for the whole of the time charged; that I did not, during the term so charged, or any part thereof, keep or employ as waiter or servant a soldier from the line of the army; that the annexed is a description of my servant; that for the whole period charged for my staff appointment, I actually and legally held the appointment; that I actually performed the duty of assistant commissary of subsistence during the whole time for which pay as such is charged; that I commanded a company during the whole time for which extra pay for such command is charged; that (if a subaltern, charging four rations) I have held no staff appointment for which I claim or have received extra pay during the time of such charge; that I was the actual and only commanding officer at the double ration post charged for, which was garrisoned by at least one company of troops; that I have had a command according to my brevet rank, agreeably to law and regulation, during the whole time brevet pay is charged; that no officer, within my knowledge, has a right to claim, or does claim, for said services for any part of the period charged; that I am not in arrears with the United States on any account whatsoever; and that I was last paid by Paymaster and to include the last day of I at the same time acknowledge that I have received of Paymaster day of the sum of dollars this 184 184 being the amount in full of said account. 100 (Duplicate.) Rep. C. C. 144—3 An act in addition to the act entitled "An act to raise an additional military force, and for other purposes," approved 29th January, 1813: "SECT. 15. And be it further enacted, That whenever any officer or soldier shall be discharged from the service, except by way of punishment for an offence, he shall be allowed his pay and rations, or an equivalent in money, for such term of time as shall be sufficient for him to travel from the place of his discharge to the place of his residence, computing at the rate of twenty miles to a day. See claim of Lieut. Wm. B. Brown, paid, No. 7,472, dated May 9, 1849. Refer to decisions in the case of Dr. Alexander Perry, of Stephenson's Regiment, (Sept. 1850,) for travelling allowance from San Francisco, California, to New York. The principles decided in that case apply to those of Russell and Loker. See joint resolution, No. 8, approved 16th June, 1848. |