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APPENDIX ILEGISLATION CONCERNINGTHE U.S. ARMY MEDICALDEPARTMENT
March 1813: That, for the better superintendenceand management of the hospital and medical establishment of the army ofthe United States, there shall be a physician and surgeon-general, withan annual salary of $2500, and an apothecary-general,with an annual salary of $1800; whose respective duties and powers shallbe prescribed by the President of the United States.
[January-March 1814: legislation reaffirming ratioof one surgeon and two mates per regiment.]
March 1814: That, from and after the firstday of June next, the officers of the army shall be entitled to waiters,agreeable tograde, as follows: ... the physician and surgeon general, two; ... hospitalsurgeon, each, one....
That the President of the United States be authorizedto appoint so many assistant apothecaries as the service may, in hisjudgment, require; each of whom shall receive the same pay and emolumentsas a regimental surgeon's mate.
That the physician and the surgeon general ofthe army be entitled to two rations per day, and forage for two horses;and that in addition to their pay, as at present established by law, theregimental surgeons and regimental surgeons' mates be entitled to$15 per month each.
SOURCES: Callan, Military Laws,pp. 246, 253-55; William O. Owen, ed., A Chronological Arrangement ofCongressional Legislation Relating to the Medical Corps of the United StatesArmy From 1785 to 1917 (Chicago: American Medical Association, 1918),pp. 10-11.
