Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-08-17


AN ACT providing for the better organization of
Inc military establishment.
be II enacted by the Senate and II ouse of Repre
sehlatlVes of the United States of America i'm con
eress assembled. That the president he and l,o l.
hereby authorized 10 appoint, by and with fine adj
wee and consent Of the senate, an officer in the war
department, TO be called the Assistant Secreta, Of
war, whose salary shall be three Thousand dollars
peI ahhuhl' payable in the same manner as that of
sne secretary OF war who shall perform all such
uules IN Inc oifce OF the Secretary of War belong
ihg 10 that department, shall be prescribed by the
secretary OF war, or as may be required by law
~. :, An1 De II 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
au9iloh 10 the number authorized by existing laws
anu IN accordance with existing regulations five
sss.aht Inspector generals, with the rank and pay
VI mayors OF cavalry, ten surgeons and twenty as
sislaht surgeons, 10 have the pay, rank and allow
hcesi ana perform the duties Of similar officers in
me present military establishment That hereafter
.he adJutant generals department shall consist of
e l1.iowlng officers, namely; One adjutant gener
~, WIN ile rank, pay, and emoluments of briga-
uler generali one assistant adjutant general with
tne rank, pay, and emOunenls of colonel Of cav
any TWO assistant adjutant generals with the rank
pay, and emoluments each Of q ien,"nen, wy i'iiA
OF cavalry iour assistant adiutant generals IN
o ,ii,mHi Pa.; anu eInoluments each of a major of
eaNaiIf anu Twelve assistant adjutant generals
with the rank, pay, and emoluments each 81 a. co.'s,
tam OF cavalry and that there shall be added tofhe
subsistence department -four commissares of subsist
ence, each with the rank, pay and emolumenfs of a
major Of cavalry and eight commssaries Of sub
sistehce, with the rank, pay, and emoluments each
army. - o
Sec; 8. And be it furtherenacted, That there shall
be added to each of the corps of engineers and ton
ographieal engineers three first and three second
ne;ulehahis to be promoted thereto in accordance
shall h laws and regulations. And there
ii'ii nc ahded to the quartermasteris department
oiiSI Eolonel. two lieutenant colonies. four majors
md twenty captains with the rank pay, and allow
ances OF officers OF cavalry; and Whenever any ar
my 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 auartermaster's dqpart-
ment as many master wagoners, with the rank pay
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, may render necessary.
And there shall te added TO the ordnance depart
ment of the United States army, now organized,
one chief of ordnance, with the rank, pay. and
emolumcDts of the quartermaster general of the
army; colonel, one lieutenant colonel, and six
second leutenanis the field officers to be appointed
by selection from the officers of the army. ana the
second leutenants from The graduates OF the United
States Military Academy, by transfers from the en-
gineers, or the Typographical engineers, or the az.
tillery,
See L. And be it further enacted That there shall
be added to the corps Of engineers three companies
of engineer soldiers, 10 be commanded by appropri
ave omceis OF sald corps, to have the same pay and
lailons clothing and other allowances, and be en-
htleu 10 the same benefits. in every respect as the
company created By the act for the organization OF
company OF sappers and miners and pontoniers,
approved May sixteen, eighteen hundred and forty,
RS ine salu three companies shall be subject to
me rules ana articles of war; shall be recruited in
me same manner and with the same limitation /:
snail be INSTRUCTED in and perform file same duties
ana DC haDie 70 ter,e in the same wav and shall
aase ,nSir Vehicles, ponons, tools, implements,
arms ana Oiher supplies regulated in the same ma ~
ner as the existing engineer COMPANY. and oani -
the four companies of engineer soldiers shall here.
after be composed OF ten sergeants ten cornorals
two musicians, sixty-four priyates Of the Err, '
or aricers, and sixty-iour priv aes of the second
class, in all one hundred and fifty men each
3. II hat
added TO the medical staff Of the army a corps oi
medical cadets, whose duty il shall be to act as res
sers in the general hospitals and as ambulance at
tendants in the field under the direction and eontro