Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-08-19

IFUBLIC-NO. 81
AN ACT providing for the better organization of


AN ACT providing for the better organization of
the military establishment
Be il enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatiyes 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
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
anu IN accordance with existing regulations, five
inspector generals, with the rank and pay
OF majors OF cavalry, ten surgeons and twenty as
sstant surgeons, TO have the pay, rank and allow
anees and perform the duties of similar officers in
the present military establishment That hereafter
the adJutant generals department shall consist of
tne following officers, namely: One adjutant gener-
a., WIN the rank, pay. and emouments of a briga-
dler general; one assistant adiuant general with
tne rank, pay, and emoluments of colonel of cav
airy TWO assistant adjutant generals with the rank
pay and emouments each of lieutenant colonel
OF cavalry tour assistant adjutant generals with
the rank, pay, and emoluments each of major of
cavalry and twelve assistant adiutant geI,erals
with the rank, pay, and emoluments each az a COZ
tain OF cavalry and that there shall be added 10 the
subsistence department four commissares of subsist
ence, each with the rank, pay, and emoluments of a
major of cavalry; and eight commissares of sub
slstence, with the rank, pay, and emoluments each
o. captain OF cavalry, and TO be taken from the
line OF the army. either of the volunteers or regular
army
Sec 8. And be it further enacted That there Shall
pc ADDED TO each OF the corpS0f engineers and top
ographlcal engineers three/first and three second
heutcnants, to be prom9fed thereto in accordance
with the existing lays and regulations And there
snaiI pe added to1the quartermaster's department
one eolohel- I'VE lieutenant colonies, four majors,
and twenty CAPTAINS with the rank, pay, and allow
ahcfS Dt SaGcers of cavalry; and whenever any ar
captain of the quartermaster's department shall
IN pryiPp In
shall be promoted to the rank of maior and that
there shall be added to the quartermasters depart
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 lie added to the ordnance depart
ment of the United States army, as now organized,
one chief of ordnance, with the rank, paw and
emoluments OF the quartermaster general Of the
army; one colonel one lieutenant colonel and six
second lieuenanis; the field officers to be appointed
by selection from the officers of the army, ana the
second lieutenants from the graduates OF the United
States Military Academy by transfers from the en-
gineers the typographical engineers, or the ar
tillery.
Sec 4. And be it further enacted That there shall
be added 10 the corps of engineers three companies
of engineer soldiers TO be commanded by appropri-
ate officers of said corps TO have the same pay and
rations, clothing. and other allowances, and be en-.
titled 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 limitation
shall be instructed in and perform the same duties
and be liable to serye in the same way, and shall
have their vehicles, ponions, tools, Implements
arms and other supplies regulated in the same man
ner as the existing engineer company; and each of
the four companies of engineer soldiers shall here
alter be composed OF ten sergeants, ten corporale
two musicians sixty -four pryates of the first class
or arfifcers and sfxty-four prvates of the second
class in all one hundred and fifty men each.
Sec 8. And be il further enacted, That there be
added to the medical staff of the army q corps of
medical cadets whose duty ii shall be TO act as dres
sers in the general hospitals and as ambulance at
tendaBts In the field under the direction and control