St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-09-05

| heiG'tltct tHe AHJutsahL dcncfal dgpartnel
shall consist OF the following officers. namel,
One adjutant general, With the rank. nav. an
emoluments of brigadier general one assis
ant adiutant general, with the rank. nav an
emolunents of a colonel of cavalry two n,
sistant adiutant generals, with The rank. n,
and clnoluments each of lieutenant colon,
OF cavalry; four assistant adiutant neneral
with the rank, pay, and emoluments each {
major of cavalry; and twelve assistant n,
IJutant generals, with the rank, pay. and emo
uments each of u captain of cavalry ard thg
there shall be added to the Subsistence depart
ment tour commissarics of subsistence. eac
with the rank, pay, and cmoluments of u ma
Jor OF cavalry and eight commissaries of sui
sistence, with the rank. pay, and emoiument
each, OF captain OF cavalry, and to b
taken from the line of the army, either Of tb
volunteers or regular army
SEC. 3. And 6e IL father eygrsey That ther
shall be added to each of the corps of engineer
/ and typographical engineers three first an
| three second ieutenantS, to bo promoted there
| to III accordance with the existing laws An,
/ regulations. And there shall he added to In
| aeuartermaster' department one colonel. tv.
lieutenant colonies, four majors. and twent
| captains, with the rank, pay. and allowance
of officers OF cavalry; and whenever any ar
my captain OF the Quartermaster department
shall have served fourteen years continuou
service he shall be promoted to the rank @
mayor and that there shall be added TO tin
Quartermaster's department as many maste
| wagoners, with the rank, paw, and allowance
OF sergeants of cavalry, aud as many wagon
eTs, with the pay and allowances of corporal.
oil cavalry, as the military service i'm the iudg
naent OF the President, may render necessary
Ana there shall he added TO the ordnance de
partment OF the United States army. as now
organized, one Chief of Ordnance. with tn,
rank, pay, and emoluments of the Quarter
master General of the army one colonel. on,
lieutenant colonel, and six second licutcnants
the held officers to be appointed by selection
from the officers of the army, and the second
ileutenants from the graduates of the United
states Military Academy, by transfers from
the engineers, or the typographical engineers,
or the artillery.
SIC. 4. Ind lie IL fiutLer enacted. That there
shall he aided to the corps of engineers three
companies OF engineer soldiers, to be cornman-
ded by appropriate officers of said corps, to
nave the same pay and ntions, clothing and
other allowances, and be entitled to the same
dement's, III every respect, as the company ere
ated bN the act for the organization of a com
pahy OF sapPcrs and miners and pontonicrs.
approved May sixteen, eighteen hundred and
foriy-six. The said three companies shall he
subject 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, aud shall have their vehicles.
pohtohs, tools, Implements. arms. and other
supplies, regulated i'm the same manner as the
existing engineer company and each of the
four companies of engineer soldiers shall here
atIer bc composed of ten scrgcants ten corpo
rails, two musicians, siXty-fuur priyatcs Of tile
inst class. or artiiicers, and sixty-four rrvates
OF the second class, in all one hundred and
fifty men each.
SIC, g. Ind de IL further enacted. That there
he added to the medical staff of the army a
corps of medical cadets, whose duty it shall
he to act rs dressers in the general hospitals
and as ambulance attendants in the field. uu-
der the direction and control of the medical
officers alone. They shall have the same rank
and pay as the military cadets at West Point
Their number shall be regulated by the exi-
gences of service, at no time to exceed fiftv.
IL shall be composed of young men of liberal
education, students 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 a
medical college. They shall enlist for one
year, and be subject To the rules and articles
oi war. oa tie fifteenth day of the last
their discharge shall be reported To- the sur
gcon general, in order, ii desired. that they
may bc relieved by another detail OF appli-
cants.
SIC. o, Ind 6ed further eaacte1, That in gen.
eral or permanent hospitals female nurses NAV
be substituted Tor soldiers, when, in the opin-
ION OF the surgeon general or medical officer
in charge it is expedient to do So the number
of female nurses to be indicated hy the sur.
qeon general or surgeon i'm charge of the hos.
pltal. The nurses SD employed To receive for
ty cents day and one ration in kind, or by
communication, in lieu of all emoluinents except
transportation i'm kind.
SEC. Y. Ind be IL further eaaefal, That one
chaplain shall be allowed to each regiment of
the army, TO be selected and appointed AS the
President may direct Prortde,f, That none but
regularly ordained ministers of some Christian
denomination shall be eligible to selection or
appointment.
SIC. 4. Ind Be IL further enaek65, That no
cadet who has been or shall hereafter be re-
ported rs deficient, either in conduct or studies,
and recommended to be discharged from the
academy, shall be returned OF rcappointed, OF
appointed to any place in the army before his
class shall have left the academy and received
their commissions, unless upon the reeommen-
datlon ot the academic board of the academy
Ifoeadta, lhat all cadets now in the service, or
hereafter entering the Military Academy at
West Point, shall be called on to take and
subscribe the following oath ~. A. b. do
solemnly swear that | will support the Consti-
tuition OF the United states, aud bear true allie
gience to the National Government that /
will maintain and defend the sovereignty OF
the United states paramount 10 any and all
allegiance, sovereignty, or fcalty may owe
10 any State, county, or country whatsoever
and,that | will ut all times obey the legal or
dcrs of my superior officers and the rules and
articles governing the armies of the United
States. And any cadet ~ candidate for All
mission who shall refuse to take this oath shall
be dismissed from the service.
SEC. 8. ind be il furthtr enacted, That the
three months extra pay allowed by the TWEEN
ty-ninth section of the act of the fifth OF July
eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, for rc-en-
listments under certain conditions, the bounty
granted by the third section Of the act of the
seventeenth of June, eighteen hundred and
fifty, for enlistments at remote and distant
stations, and the premium now paid for bring.
Ing accepted recruits to the rendezvous, be and
they are hereby abolished.
SIC. 10. Ind be a fttrticr enacted, That here
after two dollars per month shall be retained
out OF the monthly pay ot each enlisted man
in the regular army until the expiration of his
term of service, instead of one dollar pei
month, as authorized hy existing laws.
SIC. H. Ind be Il further enacted, That in al
cases of enlistment and fe-enlistment I'm tn,
military service Of the United States the pre-
scfihed oath Of allegiance may be administer
cd by any commissioned officer of the army.
Sfc. L. 1fid Be further enacted, That tho
two regiments OF dragons, the regiment o
mounted riilemen, and The two regiments o
cavalry, shall hereafter be known and rccog
nizcd us the first, second, third, fourth, ant
fifth regiments Of cavalry, respectively tht
officers thereof to retain their present rclativ,
rank, and to be promoted as of one arm Of ser
vice according to existing law and establishe,
usage and regulation.
SEc Ii. 1ad be IL ftrther enacted. That TIL,
! army ration shall be increased as follows, viz
Twenty two ounces of bread or flour, or on,
pound of hard bread instead of the present is
sue fresh beef shall bc issued as often as til,
commanding officer Of any detachment or reg
iment shall require il, when practicable, ii
place Of salt meat beans and rice or homin,
shall I've issued in the same ration in the pro
portions now provided by the regulation, an'
one pound of potatoes per man shall he Hsue'
at least three times q week II practicable an'
when these articles cannot be iasted III thes
proportions, an equivalent in value shall b
issued ia some other proper iood, aud iatioi