Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-08-14
[PunL1o-No. 81.


AN ACT providing for the better organization OF
the military establishment.
BE il enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in con
| gress assembled. That the president be and he is
hereby authorized TO appoint, by and with the adj
vice and consent of the senate, officer in the war
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. z And be it 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 maj OF cavalry, ten surgeons, and twenty as
sstant surgeons, 10 have the pay, rank, and allow
ances, and perform the duties Of similar officers in
the present military establishment. That hereafter,
the adjutant generals department shall consist of
the following officers namely: One adjutant gener-
al, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of briga-
der general; one assistant adiutant general with
the rank, pay, and enoluments Of colonel of cav
airy two assistant adjuant generals with the rank
pay, and emoluments each of q lieutenant colonel
OF cavalry; four assistant adiutant generals with
the rank, pay, and emoluments each of q major of
cavalry; and twelve assistant adjutant generals
with the rank, pay, and emoluments each Of cap
tain of cavalry and that there shall be added 10 tile
subsistence department four commssaries of subsist
enee, each with the rank, pay, and emoluments of
major OF cavalry; and eight commissaTies of sub
sistence with the rank, pay, and emoluments each
line of the army either Oft the volunteers regular
army. ..
Sec. g. And be it further enacted, That there shall
be added to each of the corps of engineers and top
ographcal engineers three first and three second
lieutenants, to be promoted thereto in accordance
with the existing laws and regulations. And there
shall be added to the quartcfmaster's department
one colonel, two lieutenant colonies, four majors
and twenty captains, with the rank, pay and allow
ances of officers of cavalry; and Whenever any ar
my captain of the quartcrmasters department shall
fourteen he
shall be promoted to the rank of major; and that
there shall be added TO the quartermasters depart
ment as many master wagoners, with the rank. paw
ana allowances Of sergeants of cavalry, and as
many wasoners. with the pay aud allowances of cor
porals OF cavalry, as the military service, in the
Judgment OF the president, may render necessary
And there shall &c added to the ordnance depart
inent OF the United States army, now organized
one chief Of ordnance, with the rank. pay. and
emoluments OF the quartermRster general of the
arny one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, and six
second ieutenatts; the field officers 10 be appointed
by selection from the officers of the army, ana the
second euienants from the graduates OF the United
States Military Academy, by transfers from the en-
gineers, or the typographical engineers, or the
tillery,
Src T. And be it further enacted, That there shall
be added TO the corps OF engineers three companies
Of engineer soldiers TO be commanded by appropn-
ate officers of said corps TO have the pay and
rations, clothing, and other allowances and be en-
titled TO the benefits in every respect as the
company created by the act for the organization of
q company of sappers and miners and pontoniers,
approved May sixteen, eighteen hundred and forty
SIX The said three companies shall be subject TO
the rules and articles of war shall be recruited in
the same manner and with the same limitations
shall be instructed in and perform the same duties
aud be liable TO serve in the same way and shall
have their vehicles, pontons, tools, implements,
arms, and other supplies regulated in the same man
ner MS the existing engineer company; and each of
the four companies Of engineer soldiers shall here
after be composed of ten sergeants, ten corporals
TWO musicians sixty'four priyates of the first class,