The national Republican., 1861-08-07
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN.
OFFICIAL.

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OFFICIAL, ,,-
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES e,9
Passsd at the First Session Of the Thrty-sspenth
Congress.
lPuBLIc-No. IS.
AN ACT providing for the better organization
... Of the military establishments u
H BE Il enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives. ofthc United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the President be,
aud he is hereby. authorized to appoint, by
aud with the advice and consent Of the Senate.
an officer in the War Department, to be called
the Assistant Secretary Of War, whose salary
shall be three thousand dollars per snnum,
payable in the same manner as that Of the Secre.
tary Of War, who shall perform all such duties in
the efhce Of the Secretary of War; belonging to
the' Department. as shall be prescribed by the
Secretary of War, or as may be required by
law. -.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the
President be, and he is hereby, authorized to ap
point, BY and with the advice and consent oil
the Senate, in addition to the number author.
iz "a by existing laws, and ia accordance with
existing regulations, FIVE assistant inspector
generals, with the rank aud pay of majors Of
cavalry, ten surgeohs, and twenty assistant sur
geons, to have the pay, rank, and allowances,
and perform the du'ies Of similar officers in the
present military establishment. That hereafter
the Atj ,tant Generals department shall con.
sist Of the following officers, namely: One ad.
jttsnt general with the rank pay, and emolu.
ments Of o brigadier general one assistant
a ,taut general, with the rank, pay, and emol.
unents Of colonel Of cavalry two assistant
adjutsnt generals, with the rank, pay, ard
emoluments each Of lieutenant colonel Of cav.
airy; four assistant scju'snt generals, with the
rank, pay, and emoluments each of a major OF
cavalry; and twelve assistant adjutant gener.
ais, with the rank, pay, and emoluments each
of captain Of cavalry and that there shall be
added to the ,hsi:tence Department four com.
misssries of bsitence, each with The rank, pay,
and emoluments OF a N 'r Of cavalry aud
eight con missaries Of subsistence, with the
rank, pay, and empluments each Of a captain
Of cavalry, and to be taken from the line OF the
army, either Of the volunteers or regular army.
Sec. 3. And be ii further enacted. That there
shall be added to each Of the corps OF engi.
neers and typographical engineers three FIRST
and three second lieuteDants, to be promoted
thereto IN &C ,ordance with the existing laws
and regulations. And there shall be added 70
the Qusrtermasters department one colonel,
two lieutenant colonel, tour maj ,rs, aud twenty
captains, with the rank, pay, aud allowances Of
officers of cavalry and whenever any army
captain Of the Qlar,ermsster's department
shall have served fourteen years continuous
service he shall be promoted to the rauk of
major and that there shall be added to the Quar-.
tern,aster's department rs many master wag.
oners, with the rank pay, and allowances Of
sergesnts Of cavalry, and as many wagoners,
with the pay and allowances of corporals Of
cavalry, as the military service, in the judg.
ment OF the President may render nece ssary.
Aud there shall be added to the ordnance de.
partment Of the United States army, as now
organized, one Chief Of Ordnance, with the
rank, pay, and emoluments Of the Quarterpas.
ter General of the army one colonel, one lieu.
tenant colonel, and six second ieutenants
the field officers to be appointed by selection
from the eff GERS Of the army, and the second
lieutenants from the graduates of the United
States Military Academy, by transfers from the
engineers, or the Typographical engineers, OF
the artillery.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there
shall be added to the corps of engineers three
companies Of engineer soldiers, to be comm nd
ed by appropriate officers Of said corps, to hav,
the came pay and ra,ions, clothing, and othe
allowances, and be entitled to the same bene
fits, in every respect, as the company create,
by the act fer the organization Of q compan
Of seppers and miners and pontoniers, ap
proved May sixteen, eighteen hundred and for
ty six. The said three companies shall b
subject to the rules and articles. Of war ; shal
be recruited in the same manner and with tn
same limitation shall be instructed in an,
perform the same duties, and be liable to serv
Ia the same way, and shall have their vehicles
n nd he
supplies regulated in the same manner as tb
existing engineer company; and each Of tn
four companies Of engineer soldiers shall here
after be composed Of ten sergeants, ten col
porsls, two musicians, sixty.iour privates G
the first class, or arti6cers, aud sixty four pr
Yates Of he second class, in all one hundre
and fifty IN IN each.
Sec. 5. Ind be ii further enacted, That ther
be added TO the medical staff of the army
corps Of medical cadets, whose duty it shall b
10 act as dressers in the general hospitals an
Gs ambulance attendants in the field, under tn
direction aud control OF the medical ficel
alone. They shall have the same rank an,
pay as the military cadets at West Poin,
Their number shall be regulated by the exi
gencies uf service, at no time to exceed fifty
1t shall be composed Of young men Of libera
education, students Of medicine, between tn
ages Of eighteen and twentythree, who hav
been reading medicine for two years, and bav
attended at least one course Of lectures in
medical college. they shall enlist for one year
and he suSject 10 the rules and articles OF war
On the fifteenth day of the last month of lbei
service the near aPproach Of their discharge
shall be rcpor'ed to the surgeon general, il
ordor, if desired, that they may be relieved b,
another detail OF applicants.
Sec. g. A"d be 1t further enacted, That il
general or permanent hospitals female nurse
may be substituted for soldiers, when, in tn,
opinion OF the surgeon general or medica
othcer In chart 0, It Is expedient to do 50; The
number OF female nur,es to be indicated h,