Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-21
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Second Session of the Thirty .Sevent
Congress.
PuBLIC-No. lGG.

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
uefects 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-iye, and shall be apportioned among the
states according to the representative popula
ton.
Sect. 2. 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 ). And be it further enacted. that the
president be and he is hereby authorized, III
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,
for period of nine months, unless sooner
discharged. And every soldier who shall en-.
list under the provisions of this section shall
receive his first months pay, and also twenty
hve 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 wears. 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 pu1-
pose, tor twelve months, if not sooner dis
charged. And such volunteers, when mus
tered into the service, shall be in all respects
upon 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. .. And be it further enacted, that the
president shall appoint, by and with the adj
wee and consent of the senate, Judge advo-
cate general with the rank, pay, and emolu-
ments of a colonel of cavalry to whose Of
free shall lp rpturDn1 4,,r
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
penltentlary, shall be carried into execution
until the same shall have been approved by
the president
Sect G. 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 rank, pay, and emoluments, each, o
major OF cavalry, who shall perform the du
ties of judge advocate for the army to whicl
they respectively belong, under the direction
Of tho judge advocate general
Sect. Z. And be it further enacted. tha
hereafter all offenders in the army charged
with offences now punishable by regimenta
or garrison court-martial shall be brought
before a field officer of his regiment, who
shall be deta led for that purpose, and who
shall hear and determine the offence, anC
order the punishment that shall be inflicted
and shall also make a record of his proceed.
ings, and submit the same to the brigade
commander, who, upon the approval of tn.
proceedings of such field Officer shall order
the same to be executed provided, that the
punishment in such cBses be limited to that
authorized to be inflicted by a regimental o.
garrison court martial: and provided, fur
Their, that, in the event of there being a bri
gade commander, the proceedings as afore
said shall be submitted for approval 20 tin
commanding officer of the post.
Sect. 8. And be il further enacted. tina
all officers who have been mustered into tn
service of the United States as battalion adiu
tants and quartermasters of cavalry under til
orders of the war department, exceeding til
number authorized by law, shall be paid a
such for the time they were actually employc
in the service of the United States and tina
all such officers now in service, exceeding til
number as aforesaid shall be immediatel
mustered out Of the service Of the Unite
States.
Sect. 8. And be it further enacted, that TIN
president be and he is hereby authorized t,
establish and organize army corps accordin,
to his discretion.
sect 10. And be it further enacted, tina
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
hae'ei one commissary Of subsistence, an,
one assistant inspector general, who shal
Dear respectively, the rank of lieutenant colo
mel ana who shall be assigned from the arm,
or volunteer force by the president. AIS
three sioes-de-cahlp, one to bear the rank q