Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-08-15


AN ACT providing for the better organization of
the military establishment.
lie 1t 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 an Othcer 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 ollce the Secretary of War belong
ing to that department. as shall be prescribed by tie
Secretary of War, or may be required by law
Sec. 2 And be it further enacted, That the presi-
dent be and lie is hereby authorized to appoint by
and with the advice and consent of the senate in
addition to the number authorized BY existing laws
aud in accordance with existing regulations, five
assistant inspector generals with the rank and pay
of majors OF cavalry, ten surgeons, and twenty as
sistant surgeons, to 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 adutant gener-
al, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of Il briga-
dier general; one assistant adjutant general, with
the rank pay, and emoluments of colonel of cav
airy; two assistant adjutant generals with the rank
pay, and emoluments each of lieutenant colonel
of cavalry four assistant adjutant generals, with
the rank pay, and emouments each of major of
cavalry ana twelve assistant adjutant generals,
with the rank, pay, and emoluments each of a cap
tain of cavalry and that there shall be added to the
subsistence department four commissaries of subsist
ence, each with the rank; pay, and emouments of a
major of cavalry; and eight commissaiies of sub
sistence, with the rank, pay, and emouments each
Of captain of cavalry, and to be taken from the
line of the army either Of the volunteers or regular
army.
Sec 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall
be added TO each of the corps of engineers and top
Ographica engineers three first and three second
leuienants, TO be promoted thereto in accordance
with the existing laws and regulations. And there
shall be added TO the quartermaster'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 quartermasters 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 quartermasters depart
ment as many master wag0ners with the rank, pay,
and allowances of sergeants of cavalry, and as
many wagoneIs, with the pay and allowances of
poras of cavalry, as the military service, in the
Judgment of the president, may render necessary.
And there shall he added TO the ordnance depart
ment of the United States army, as now organized,
one chief of ordnance, with the rank, pay, and
emolumenis of the quartcImaster general of the
army; one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, and six
second euienants the field officers 10 be appointed
by selection from the officers of the army, and the
second lieutenans from the graduates OF the United
States Military Academy by transfers from the en-
gIneers or the typographical engineers, or the ar
Sec. a. And be it further enacted That there shall