Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-09-08

the president to retire him from active SER
vice and direct his name to be entered on the
retired list of officers of the grade to which
he belonged at the time OF such retirement;
and the president is hereby authorized to as
sign any officer retired under this section or
the act of August third, eighteen hundred
and sixty-one, to any appropriate duty; and
such officer thus assigned shall receive the
full pay and emoluments of his grade while so
assigned and employed.
Sect ID. And be it further enacted, that all
contracts made for, or orders given for the
purchase of goods, or supplies by any depart
ment of the government shall be promptly re-
ported to congress by the proper head of such
department if congress shall at the time be in
session, and if not in session said reports shall
be made at the commencement of the next
ensuing session.
Sec. IA. And be it further enacted, that no
contract or order, or any interest therein, shall
be transferred by the party or parties to whom
such contract or order may be given to any
other party or parties, and that any such trans
fer shall cause the annulment of the contract
or order transferred, so far as the United States
are concerned: Provided, that all rights of
action are hereby reserved to the United States
for any breach of such contract by the con-
tracing party or parties.
Sect. 10. And be it further enacted, that
every person who shall furnish supplies of any
kind to the army or navy shall be required to
mark and distinguish the same, with the name
or names of the contractors SO furnishing said
supplies, in such manner as the secretary of
war and the secretary of the navy may respec-
lively direct, and no supplies of any kind shall
be received unless SO marked and distin-
guished.
Sec 16 And be it further enacted that
whenever any contractor for subsistence,
clothing, arms, ammunition, munitions of war,
and for every description of supplies for the
army or navy of the United States, shall be con-
victed by acourt martial of fraud or wilful neg
lect Of duty he shall be punished by fine, impris
onment, or such other punishmentas the court
martial shall adjudge; and any person who
shall contract to furnish supplies of any kind
or description for the army or navy he shall
be deemed and taken as part of the land or
naval forces of the United States for which he
shall contract to furnish said supplies, and be
subject to the rules and regulations for the
government of the land and naval forces of
the United States.
Sec. II. And be it further enacted, that the
president of the United States be and hereby
is authorized and requested to dismiss and dis
charge from the military service either in the
army, navy, marine corps, or volunteer force,
IN the United States service, any officer for
any cause which, in his Judgment either rem
ders such officer unsuitable for, or whose DIS
mission would promote the public service.
Sect. IS. And be it further enacted, that
the president of the United States shall have
power, whenever in his opinion it shall be ex-
pedient, to purchase cemetery grounds, and
cause them to be securely enclosed, to be
used as national cemetery for the sol diers
who shall die in the service of the country.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, that SO
much Of the act approved the fifth of August,
eighteen hundeed and sixty-one, entitled San
act supplementary to an act entitled IAN act to
increase the present military establishment of
the United States, approved the twenty-ninth
of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one," as
authorizes the appointment of additional
aids-d camp, be and the same is hereby re-
pealed. But this repeal shall not be con-
strued so as to deprive those persons already
appointed in strict conformity with said act of
the fifth of August, eighteen hundred and six
ty-one, from holding their offices in the same
manner as if it had not been repealed.
Sect. 20. And be it further enacted, that the
different regiments and independent compan-
les heretofore mustered into the service of the
United States as volunteer engineers, pion-
GERS, or sappers and miners, under the orders
of the president or secretary of war, or by au-
thority of the commanding general of any
military department of the United States, or
which having been mustered into the service
as infantry shall have been reorganized and
employed as engineers, pioneers, or sappers
and miners, shall be and theSsame are hereby
recognized and accepted as volunteer engin-
GERS, on the same footing in all respects in re-
gard to their organization, pay, and emolu-
ments as the corps of engineers of the regu-
lar army of the United States, and they shall
be paid for their services already performed
as is now provided by law for the payment Of
| officers, non-commissioned officers, and pri-
Yates of the engineer corps of the regular
| army.
Sec. 81. And be it further enacted, that any
alien of the age of twenty years and up
wards who has enlisted or shall enlist in the
armies of the United States, either the regu-
lar or the volunteer forces, and has been or
shall hereafter be honorably discharged may
be admitted to become citizen of the United
States upon his petition without any previous
declaration of his intention to become cltl-
zen of the United States; and that ne shall
not be required to prove more than one years
residence within the United States previous
to his application to become such citizen; and
that the court admitting such alien shall, in
addition to such proof of residence and good
moral character as is now provided by law, be
satisfied, by competent proof, of such person
having been honorably discharged from the
service of the United States as aforesaid.
Sec. %. And be it further enacted, That
there shall be added to the adjutant generals
department, by regular promotion of its pres
ent officers, one colonel, two lieutenant colon
els, and nine majors, and that the grade OF
captain in said department shall thereafter be
abolished, and all vacancies occurring in the
grade of major shall be filled by selection
from among the captains Of the army.
Approved, July II, 1862.