Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-20
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Second Session of the Thirty Seventh
Congress

Congress.
PUBLc-No. l66.
AN ACT to amend the act calling forth the
militia to execute the laws of the Union
suppress instructions, and repel inyasions,
approved February twenty-eight, seventeen
hundred and ninety-fve and the acts
amendatory thereof, and for other purposes
Be it enacted by the senate and house OF
representatives OF the United States of Amer"
ca in congress assembled, that whenever the
president of the United States shall call forth
the militia OF the states, to be employed in the
service of the United States, he may specify
IN his call the period for which such service
will be required, not exceeding nine months
and the militia so called shall be mustered III
and continue to serve for and during the term
so specified unless sooner discharged by
command of the president. If by reason of
defects in existing laws, or in the execution of
them, in the several states, or any of them it
shall be found necessary to provide for en-
rolling the militia and otherwise putting this
act into execution, the president is authorized
in such cases to make all necessary rules and
regulations; and the enrolment of the militia
shall in all cases include all able-bodied male
citizens between the ages of eighteen and for.
ty-fye, and shall be apportioned among the
states according to the representative popula.
ton.
Sect. ,. And be it further enacted, that
the militia, when so called into service, shall
be organized in the mode prescribed by law
for volunteers.
Sect. 3. And be it further enacted that the
president be and he is hereby authorized. in
addition to the volunteer forces which he is
now authorized by law to raise, to accept the
services of any number of volunteers, not ex-
ceeding one hundred thousand, as infantry,
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discharged. And every soldier who shall en-.
list under the provisions of this section shall
receive his first months pay, and also twenty
t1ye dollars as bounty, upon the mastering
OF his company or regiment into the service
Of the United States And all provisions of
law relating to volunteers enlisted in the SER
vice of the United States for three years or
during the war, except in relation to bounty,
shall be and the same are extended to, and are
hereby declared to embrace, the volunteers to
be raised under the provisions of this Section.
Sect. 4. And be it further enacted, that, for
the purpose of filling up the regiments of in
tantry now in the United States service, the
president be, and he hereby is, authorized to
accept the services of volunteers in such
numbers as may be presented for that pur-
pose, for twelve months, if not sooner dis
charged. And such volunteers, when mus
tered into the service shall be in all respects
upon a footing with similar troops in the
United States service, except as to service
bounty, which shall be fifty dollars, one-half
of which to be paid upon their joining their
regiments, and the other half at the expiration
of their enlistment
Sect. 8. And be it further enacted, that the
president shall appoint, by and with the adj
vice and consent of the senate, a Judge advo-
cate general, with the rank, pay, and emolu-
mentS of a colonel of cavalry, to whose Of
fee shall be returned, for revision, the rec
Ords and proceedings of all courts-martial and
military commissions, where record shall be
kept OF all proceedings had thereupon. And
no sentence of death, or imprisonment in the
penitentiary, shall be carried into execution
until the same shall have been approved by
the president.
Sect. 6. And be it further enacted, that
there may be appointed by the president, by
and with the advice and consent of the senate
for each army in the field, judga advocate
with the rahk pay, and emoluments, each, of
major of cavalry, who shall perform the du-
ties of judge advocate for the army to which
they respectively belong, under .the direction
of tho judge advocate general
Sect. 7. And be it further enacted, that
hereafter all offenders in the army charged
with offences now punishable by regimental
or garrison court-martial shall be brought
shall be detailed for that purpose, and who
shall hear and determine the offence, and
order the punishment that shall be inflicted;
and shall also make a record of his proceed.
lngs, and submit the same to the brigade
commander, who, upon the approval of the
proceedings of such field officer shall order
the same to be cXecuted provided, that the
punishment in such cBses be limited to that
authorized to be inflicted by regimental or
al.
ther, that, in the event of there being a bri.
gade commander, the proceedings as afore-
said shall be submitted for approval TO the
commanding officer Of the post.
Sect. 5. And be it further enacted, that
all officers who have been mustered into the
service of the United States as battalion adju-
tants and quartermasters of cavalry under the
orders of the war department, exceeding the
number authorized by law, shall be paid as
such for the time they were actually employed
in the service of the United States, and that
all such officers now in service, exceeding the
number as aforesaid, shall be Immediately
mustered out of the service of the United
States.
Sect. 8. And be it further enacted, that the
president be and he is hereby authorized to
establish and organize army corps according
to his discretion.
Sect. 10. And be it further enacted, that
each army corps shall have the following off.
GERS and no more attached thereto, who shall
constitute the staff Of the commander thereof:
one assistant adjutant general, one quarter.
MASTER one commissary Of subsistence. and
one assistant inspector general, who shall
bear, respectively, the rank of lieutenant colo.
mel ana who shall be assigned from the army
or volunteer force by the president Also
three aides de-camp, one to bear the rank Of
major, and two to bear the rank of CAPTAIN
TO be appointed by the president, by and with
the advice and consent Of the senate, upon
the recommendation Of the commander of tbc
army corps. The senior officer of artillery in
each army corps SHALL in addition to his other
duties, act as chief Of artillery and ordnance
ut the headquarters Of the corps.
Sect. IL. And be it further enacted, that
the cavalry forces in the service Of the United
States shall hereafter be organizeda as follows
Each regiment OF cavalry shall have one col
onel, one lieutenant colonel, three majors
one surgeon. one assistant surgeon, one regi
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