APPENDIX KLEGISLATION AFFECTING THEARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT,MARCH 1815 TO APRIL 1818
March 1815: That there shall be . . . suchnumber of hospital surgeons and surgeon's mates as the service may require,notexceeding five surgeons and fifteen mates, with one steward and one ward-masterto each hospital. [This act also reaffirmedthe ratio of one surgeon and two mates for each regiment.]
April 1816: . . . and that the apothecarygeneral, as heretofore authorized, be allowed two assistant apothecaries.
That the medical staff shall be so extended thatthere shall be four hospital surgeons and eight hospital surgeon's mates,to eachdivision, with as many post surgeons as the service may require, not exceedingtwelve to each division; who shall receive thesame pay and emoluments as hospital surgeon's mates. . . . . . and that the garrison surgeons and mates be hereafter consideredas post surgeons.
April 1818: That so much of the act "fixingthe military peace establishment of the United States," passed the3d of March1815, as relates to hospital stewards and ward-masters, and so much ofthe "Act for organizing the general
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staff, and making further provision for the armyof the United States," passed April 24, 1816, as relates to hospitalsurgeons, hospital surgeon's mates, ... be and the same is hereby repealed.
That there shall be one surgeon-general, witha salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, one assistantsurgeon-general with the emoluments of a hospital surgeon, . . . to eachdivision . . . and that the number of post-surgeons beincreased, not to exceed eight to each division.
SOURCES: Owen, Legislation,pp. 10-11; Callan, Military Laws, pp. 266, 273-76, 285.
