Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-08-20

[PUBLIC-No. 81
AN ACT providing for the better organization OF

Re IL enacted bv the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatyes 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 officer IN the war
department 10 be called the Assistant Secretary of
War, whose salary shall be three thousand dollars
per annun. 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. MS shall be prescribed by tile
Secretary of War, or as 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
and in accordance with existing regulations, five
assistant inspector generals with the rank and pay
of majors of cavalry, ten surgeons, and twenty
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 adjutant gener-
al, with the rank pay, and emoluments of briga-
der general; one assistant adjuant general, with
the rank, pay and emoumenls of colonel of cav
airy two assistant adjutant generals, with the rank,
pay, and emoluments each of lieutenant colonel
of cavalry; four assistant adjuant generals, with
the rank, pay, and emoluments each of major of
cavalry; and 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 cOmmissares of subsst
ence, each with the rank pay, and emoluments of a
major of cavalry; and eight commissaries of sub
sistence, with the rank, pay, and emouments each
of a captain of cavalry, and TO be taken from the
line of the army either Of the volunteers or regular
army.
Sec g. And be it further enacted, That there shall
be added to each of the corps of engineers and top
ographical engineers three first and three second
lieutenauts, TO be promoted thereto in accordance
with the existing laws and regulations. And there
shall be added to the quarteImaster's department
one colonel. two lieutenant colonels four majors,
and twenty captains, with the rank, pay and allow
ances of officers of cavalry; and whenever any
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 wagoners, with the rank pay,
and allowances of sergeants of cavalry and
many Wagonefs. 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 be added to the ordnance depart
ment of the United States army, as now organized.
one chief of ordnance, with the rank, pay, and
emoluments of the quarermaster general of the
army; one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, and six
second ieutenans; the field officers to be appointed
by selection from the officers of the army. the
second lieuenants from the graduates OF the United
States Military Academy, by transfers from the en-
gineers or the Typographical engineers, or the
tillery,
Sec l. And be it further enacted, That there shall
be added TO the corps of engineers three companies
of engineer soldiers, TO be commanded by appropri
ate officers of said corps, TO have the pay and
rations, clothing, and other allowances, and be
titled to the same benefits, in every respect the
company created by the act for the organization of
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 duties
and be liable to serve in the same way, and shall
have their vehicles, pontons, tools, implements,
arms, and other supplies, regulated in the same
ner as 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 sXtyfour privates of the first class
or artifcers, and siXtyfour prvates of the second
class, in all one hundred and fifty men each.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That there be
added TO the medical staff of the army a corps of
mo Int fSba hn m aetas
sers in the general hospitals and as ambulance at
PENDANTS i'll the field under 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 eX-
fgencies OF service, at no time TO exceed fifty. 1t
shall be composed of young men of liberal educa.
ton, students of medicine between the ages of eigh
teen and twentythree, who have been reading med
icne for two years, and have attended at least one
course of lectures in medical college. They shall
enlist for year. and be subject TO the rules and
articles of On the fifteenth day of the last
month of their service the near approach of their
discharge shall be reported to the surgeon general
in order, if desired, that they may be relieved by
another detail of applicants.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That in general
or permanent hospitals female may be subsi.
tuted for soldiers, when in the opinion of the
geon general or medical officer in charge, il is eXpe-
dent TO do so; the number of female nurses to be
indicated by the surgeon general or surgeon in
charge of the hospital. The nurses SO employed to
receive forty cents day and one ration in kind or
by communication, in lieu OF all emoluments except
Sec. Z. And be it further enacted, That one chap
lain shall be allowed TO each regiment OF the army,
70 be selected and appointed as the president may
direct: Provided That none but regularly ordained
ministers OF some Christian denomination shall be
eligible to selection or appointment.
sec. s. And be it further enacted, That no cadet,
VINO has been or shall hereafter be reported as deli
Gent, either in conduct or studies, and recommend
ed to be discharged from the academy, shall be
turned or reapponted or appointed to any place in
the army before his class shall have left the academy
ana received their commissions, unless upon the
ommendation of the academic board of the acade-
my: Provided. That 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 Il A. B, do solemnly swear that
Will support the constitution of the Unad States.
and bear true allegiance to the national govern
ment; that will maintain and defend the soyer-
elgnty OF the United States paramount to any and
al allegiance, sovereignty, or iealty may owe to
any state. county or country whatsoever; and that
will at all times obey the legal orders Of my SUI
perior officers ana the rules and articles GOVERNING
the armies the United Statesn And any cadet or
candidate for admission who shall refuse to take this
oath shall be dismissed from the service.
Sec 8 And be it further enacted, That the three
months extra pay allowed by the twenty-ninth sec
ton of the act of the fifth July eighteen hundred
and thirty eight. for re-enlisments 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 dis
tant stations and the premium now paid for bring
ing accepted recruSto the rendezvous, be and they
are hereby abolished.
Sec, &c.. And be it further enacted That hereafter
Two dollars per month shall be retained out of the
IRonthly pay of each enlisted man in the regular
Army until the expiration of his term of service, in.
stead Of one dollar per month, as authorized by
isting laws.
Sec IL. And be it further enacted That in all
cases of enlistment and reenlistment in the military
service of the United States the prescribed oath OF
allegiance may be administered by any commissions
ed officer OF the army.
Sec r. And be it further enacted, That the two
regiments OF dragons, the regiment of mounted ri
femen. and the two regiments of cavalry shall
hereafter be known and recognized the first, sec
ond, third, fourth, and fifth regiments of cavalry
respectively the officers thereof to retain their pres
eDt relative rank and to be promoted as of one
of service, according TO existing law and established
usage and regulation.
Sec 10. And be it further enacted, Thatithe army
ration shall be increased follows viz Twenty-Five
ounces of bread or flour, one pound of hard
bread instead of the present ISSUE fresh beef shall
be issued often as the commanding officer of any
detachment regiment shall require it, when prac-
ticable, in place ofsalt meat beans and rice or hon.
iny shall be issued in the ration in the proper
lions now provided by the regulation, and one
pound of potatoes per man shall be issued at least
three times week, if practicable; and when these
articles cannot be issued in these proportions, an
equivalent in value shall be issued in some other
proper food, and ration of tea may be substituted
lOI ration OF coffee upon the requision of the
proper oneef provided, That after the present in
euiecloh eha cease, the ration shall be proyid.
cd by law and regulations on the first day OF Jnly
eighteen hundred and sixty -one -
sec. IL AND be II further enacted That there NAV
oe nlioNsu ~ hofpfas, TO be provided under such
rules ne ile surgeon seHelal Of the army with the
spp,ona q, NY &C. Ylary Of war, may prescribe,
such quantities OF fresh or preserved fruits milk or
butter, and Of eggs. may be NECESSARY for a.
proper diet of the sick. '' "'
Sec Is. And be it further enacted That any, co,,,
misoned officer of the army or of The ins lin,
corps who shall have served as such for forty con-
secntiye years, may, upon his own application 10 the
president OF the United States, be placed upon the
list Of retired officers with the pay and emoumens
allowed by this act