The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-08-08

company quartermaster sergeants, and drum
majors, will receive the pay and allowances
of sergeants of cavalry. The battalion ad-
jutant and battalion quartermasters and
commissaries will receive the emoluments
now provided by law for regimental adju-
t2nts.
| Sec. 5. And be IL further enacted, That,
the term of enlistments made and to be
made in the years eighteen hundred and
sixty-one and eighteen hundred and sixty
two, in the regular army, including the
| force authorized by this act, shall be for the
/ period OF three years, and those to be made
! after January one, eighteen hundred and
/ sixty-three, shall be for the term of five
/ years, as at present authorized, and that the
men enlisted in the regular forces, after the
| first day of July, eighteen hundred and six
/ ty-one, shall be entitled to the same boun-
ties in every respect as those allowed, or
| to be allowed to the men of the volunteer
/ forces.
Sec. 6. A7rd be At further enacted, That
| the increase of the military establishment
/ created or authorized by this act is de-
clared TO be for service during the existing
| insurrection and rebellion; and within one
year after the constitutional authority of
the Government of the United States shall
be re-established and organized resistance
to such authority shall no longer exist, the
military establishment may be reduced to
number not exceeding twenty-five thousand
men, unless otherwise ordered by Congress.
Sec. Z. And be 1t further enacted, That
the President of the United States shall
cause regiments, battalions, and companies
to be disbanded, and officers, non-commis-
stoned officers, musicians, and privates to be
discharged, so as to reduce the military es-
tahlishment as is provided by the preceding
section PROVIDED, That all the officers of
the regular army who have been or may be
detached or assigned to duty for service in
any other regiment or corps shall resume
their position in the regular army, and
shall be entitled to the same rank, promo
ton, and emoluments as if they had con-
tinued to serve ia their own regiments or
corps.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That
the enlistments for the regiments authorized
by this act shall be in charge of the officers
detailed for that purpose who are appointed
to said regiments from civil life; and that
in the meantime the officers appointed to
the same from the regular army shall be de-
tailed by the commanding general to such
service III che volunteer regiments now in
the field as will, in his Judgment give them
the greatest military instruction and eff
cheney; and that the commanding general |
may, in his discretion, employ said officers |
with any part of the regular forces now in |
the field until the regiments authorized by |
this act shall have been fully recruited, and |
detail any of the officers now in the regular |
army to service with the volunteer regi- |
ments nsw in the field, or which may here
after be called out with such rank as may
be offered them in said volunteer regiments |
for the purpose of imparting to them mill
fssrP instruction and efficiency
Approved July %, 1861.