The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-08-20

tim of the military establishment.
Be ilenacted 6y the Senate and House OF
Representatives. Of the United States of Amer
ica n C1ngreSs assembled, That the Presi-
dent be and he is hereby authorized to ap-
point, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, an officer in the War Depart
ment, to be called the Assistant Secretary
! of War, whose salary shall be three thoHs-
and dollars per annum, payable in the
same manner as that of the Secretary of
War, who shall perform all such duties in
| the office of the Secretary of War, belong
ing to that Department as shall be prescrib-
1 ed by thu Secretary of War, or as may be
required by law.
] Sec. 911s1Aad be ii further enacted, That
/ the Pra---nt be and he Il hereby author
| lied tO9lslsoint, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, in addition 90 the
number authorized by existing laws and in
/ accordance with existing regulations, Eve
assistant inspector generals, with the rank
and pay of majors of cavalry, ten surgeons,
and twenty assistant surgeons, to have the
pay, rank, and allowances, and perform the
duties of similar officers in the present mil
itary establishment. ThatEhereafter the
Adjutant Generals department shall consist
/ OF the following officers, namely; One ad-
jutant general, with the rank, pay, aRd
emoluments of brigadier general; one as
sistant adjutant general, with the rank, pay,
and emoluments of colonel of cavalry
two assistant adjutant generals, with the
rank, pay, and emoluments each of lieu
tenant colonel of cavalry; four assistant adj
luiant generals, with the rank, pay, and
emoluments each of major of cavalry and
twelve assistant adiutant generals, with the
rank, pay, and emoluments each of cap
tain of cavalry and that there shall be adj
ded to the Subsistence departmentfour COM
missaries of Subsistence, each with the rank,
pay, and emoluments of major of cavalry;
and eight cOmmissaries of subsistence, with
the rank, pay, and emolnments each of
captain of cavalry, and to be taken from the
line of the army, either OF the volunteers or
regular army.
Sec. 3. And be al further enacted, That
there shall be added to each of=the corps of
engineers and Typographical engineers three
first and three second lieutenants, TO be pro-
NOTED thereto in accordance with the ex-
isting laws and regulations. And there
shall be added to the Quartermaster's de-
partment one colonel, two lieutenant colo
nels, four maj0rs, and twenty captains, with
the rank, pay, and allowances of officers of
cavalry; and whenever any army captain of
the Quartermaster's department shall have
served fourteen years continuous service he
shall be promoted to the rank of major and
that there shall be added to the Quarter
masters department as many master wag-
oners, with the rank, pay, and allowances
of sergeants of cavalry, and as many wag-
Oners, with the pay and allowances of cor
pOrals of cavalry, as the military service, ia
the judgment of the President may render
ordnance department of the United States
,sOF- g Id
nance, with the rank, pay, and emoluments
of the Quartermaster General of the army
one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, and six
second lieutenarts; the field officers to be
appointed by selection from the officers of
the army, and second lieutenants from the
graduates of the United States Military
Academy, by transfers from the engineers,
or the typographical engineers, or the ar
tillery.
Sec. 4. Aud be 1t further enacted, That
there shall be added to the corps OF engin-
eers three companies of engineer soldiers,
to be commanded by appropriate officers of
said corps to have the same pay and ra-
tions, clothing, and other allowances and
be entitled to the same benefits, in every
respect, as the company created by the act
for the organization of a company of sap
pers and miners and pontoniers, approved
May sixteen, eighteen hundred and forty
six. The said three companies shall be sub
iect to the rules and articles of war; shall
be recruited in the same manner and with
the same limitation; shall be instructed in
and perform the same duties, and be liable to
serve in the same way and shall have their We
hicles, pontons, tools, implements, arms, and
other supplies, regulated in the same man
ner as the existing engineer company and
each of the four companies of engineer SOL
diers shall hereafter be composed of ten ser
| geants, ten corporals, two musicians, sixty
| four privates of the first class, or artifcers,
| and sixty -four privates of the second class,
| in all one hundred and fifty men each.
! Sec. s. .And be it further enacted, That
/ there be added to the medical staff of the
i army a corps of medical cadets, whose duty
| it shall be to act as dressers in the general
| hospitals, and as ambulance attendants in
| the field, under the direction and control OF
the medical officers alone They shall have
the same rank and pay as the military ca
| dets at West Point. Their number shall be
regulated by the exigencies of service, at
no time to exceed fifty. 1t shall be compos-
ed of young men of liberal education, stu
dents of medicine, between the ages Of
eighteen and twenty-three, who have been
| reading medicine for two years, and have
| attended at least one course Of lectures in q
medical college. They shall enlist for one
year, and be subject to the rules and articles
of war On the fifteenth day Of the last
month of their service the near approach OF
their discharge shall be reported TO the sur
,geon general, in order, if desired, that they
may be relieved by another detail of appli-
cants.
Sec. 6. And b. IL further enacted, Tha,
in general or permanent hospitals female
nurses may be substituted for soldiers, when
in the opinion of the surgeon general OF
medical officer in charge, it is expedient to
do 50 the number of female nurses to be
indicated by the surgeon general or sur
geon in charge of the hospital. The nurses
60 employed to receive forty cents day
and one ration in kind, or by Communication
in lieu OF all emolumeuts except transporta-
ton in kind.
Sec. T. And be Il further enacted, Thai
one chaplain shall be allowed to each regi-
ment OF the army, to he selected and ap-
pointed as the President may direct Pro
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