Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-08-16

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AN ACT providing for the better ORGANIZATION Of

AN ACT providing for the better organization of
the military establishment.
BE il enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatves of the United States of America, III CON
gress assembled That the president be and he is
hereby authorized 10 appoint, by and with the adj
vice and consent of the senate an officer in the
department, to be called the Assistant Secretary of
War, whose salary shall be three thousand 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, shall be prescribed by the
Secretary of War, or as may be required by law
Sec 2. And be il further enacted, That the presi-
dent be and he is hereby authorized TO appoint by
and with the advice and consent of the senate, in
addition to the number authorized BY existing laws
and in accordance with existing regulations five
assistant inspector generals with the rank and pay
OF majors OF cavalry, ten surgeons, and twenty as
slstant surgeons, TO have the pay, rank and allow
anees, and perform the duties of similar officers
the present military establishment That hereafter
the adlutant generals department shall consist of
tne following officers, namely: One adutnnt gener-
al with the rank, pay, and emoluments of a briga-
uler general one assistant adjRtant general with
ny rank, pay, ana emeuments of colonel of cav
any TWO assistant adHtant generals, with the rank
pay and emolumepts each of a lieutenant colonel
% cavalry iour assistant adjutant generals with
the rank, pay, and eInoluments each of a major of
cavalry; and twelve assistant adiutant GENERALS
with the rank, pay, and emoluments each Of a can
iain 81 cavalry ana that there shall be added tile
subsistence department four commissaries of subsist
enee each with the rank, pay and enoluments of a
major Of cavalry; and eight commissaries of sub
sstence, with the rank, pay, and emoluments each
OF captain OF cavalry and 30 be taken from the
line OF the army, either Of the volunteers regular
army.
Sec 9. And be it flrtherAnacted That there shall
be added to each of thecerps of engineers and top
ographical engneeSsthr first and three second
healenants t9-oe promoted thereto in accordance
WIN Ing existing laws and regulations And there
shaI~be added to the quarternaster's department
99h colonel. tive lieutenant colonies, four majors,
hd twenty captains, with the rank, pay, and allow
anees OF officers OF cavalry and whenever any ar
my captain of the quartermaster's department sha
have served fourteen years continuous seryise, he
shall be promoted to the rank of major; and that
there shall be added TO the quartermaster's depart
ment as many master wagoners, with the rank paw
and allowances of sergeants of cavalry and as
many wagoners with the pay and allowances of cor
pOrals of cavalry, as the military service in the
Judgment of the president, render necessary.
And there shall tie added TO the ordnance depart
meDt of the United States army, organized,
one chief of ordnance, with the rank pay and
emoluments OF the quarternaster general of the
army; colonel, one lieutenant colonel, and six
second lieuteDants the field officers 10 be appointed
by selection from the officers of the army, ana the
second ieutenants from the graduates OF the United
States Military Academy, by transfers from The en-
gineers, the typographical engineers, or the ar.
tilery,
Sec L. And be it further enacted That there shall
be added TO the corps Of engineers three companies
of engincersoidieTs, TO be commanded by appropTi
ate officers Of said corps to have the same pay and
rations; clothing. and other allowances, and be en-.
titled TO the same benefits, in every respect, the
company created by the act for the organization OF
acompany OF sappers and miners and pontonieIs,
appioTSu May sixteen, eighteen hundred and forty
tnIte lanles knaIl be subject to
the rules ana articles of war; shall be recruited in
ue came manner and with the same limitation /;
sha De instructed in and perform lie SANG duties
hauo Oe iaDe 70 ,erYe in the same way, and shall
arms ana hereies pontons TOOLS Implements
arms anu olher supplies, regulated in file = me
ner a. me eAistng engineer company; and each of
tne our companies Of engineer soldiers shall here
after be composed Of ten sergeants ten cornora1s
two musicians, siXty-four privates Of the first css
artiicers, and sixty four priv ates Of th ciass
class, IN all one hundred and fifty men each 'o"u
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted Thai thar. !, .
added TO the medical staff OF the army a coTns nj ot
medical cadets, whose duty it shall be to act as dres
sers in the general hospitals and as ambulance AZ
tendants in the field under the direction and control