Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-10-09

use and risk of the horses of company officers
of cavalry, and the tenth section of the afore-
said act, approved August three, eighteen hun
dred and sixty. one, be, and the same are here
by, repealed.
SEC. II. And be it further enacted, That
whenever an officer shall be put under arrest,
except at remote military posts or stations, it
shall be the duty of the officer by whose orders
he Is arrested to see that copy of the charges
on which he has been arrested and Is to be
tried shall be served upon him within eight
days thereafter, and that he shall be brought
TO trial within ten DAYS thereafter, unless the
necessities of the service prevent such trial
and then he shall be brought to trial within
thirty days after the expiration of the said ten
DAYS or the arrest shall cease Provided, That
II the COPY of the charges be not served upon
the arrested officer as herein provided, the ar
rest shall cease but officers released from ar
rest under the provisions of this section may
be tried whenever the exigencies of the SER
vice will permit, within twelve months after
such release from arrest And provided further,
That the provisions Of this section shall apply
to all persons NOW under arrest and awaiting
trial.
SEC. r. And be 1t further enacted, That
whenever the name of any officer Of the army
or marine corps, now in the service, or who
may hereafter be in the service of the United
States, shall have been borne on the army reg
lister or naval register, as the case may be,
forty-five years. or he shall be of the age of
sixty-two years, it shall be i'm the discretion of
the President to retire him from active service
and direct his name to entered be on the retired
list of officers of the grade to which he be-
longed at the time of such retirement and
the President Is hereby authorized to assign
any officer retired under this section Of the act
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Ole, to any appropriate duty; and such officer
thus assigned shall receive the full pay and
emoluments of his grade while SO assigned
and employed.
SEC. IT, And be IL further enacted, That all
contracts made for, or orders given for the
purchase of, goods OF supplies by any depart
ment of the Government shall be promptly
reported to Congress by the proper head O
such department ii Congress shall at the time
I've in session, and If not in session said reports
shall he made at the commencement OF thu
next ensuing session.
SEC. IA. And be it further enacted That M
contract or order or any interest therein, shall
be transferred by the party or parties to whom
such contract or order may he 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 Procided, That all rights of ac-
ton are hereby reserved to the United States
for any breach of such contract by the contract
ing party or parties.
SEc. is. And be it further enacted. That ev-
cry 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
eaid supplies in such manner as the Secretary
of War and the Secretary of the Navy may re-
spectively direct, and no supplies of any kind
shall be received unless SO marked and distin-
guished.
SIC. 16. And be it further enacted, That
whenever any contractor for subsistence, cloth
ing, arms, ammunition, munitions OF war,
and for every description of supplies for the
army or navy of the United States shall be
found guilty by court-martial of fraud or
wilful neglect Of duty, he shall be punished
Ivy fine, imprisonment, or such other punish
mcnt as the court martial shall adjudge and
any person who shall contract to furnish sup
plies of any kind or description for the army
or navy he shall lie deemed and taken as part
If 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
H. authorized and requested to dismiss and
discharge from the military service either in
the army, navy, marine corps. or volnnteel
force, in the United States service, any Office
for any cause which, in his Judgment, eithe
renders such officer unsuitable for. or whoe
(lismission would promote, the public service
SEC Is. And he it further enacted, That tn
President of the United Stases shall have pow
or, whenever in his opinion it shall be expedi
ent, to purchase cemetery grounds, and caus
them to be securely enclosed. to he used MS
national cemetery for the soldiers who shal
die in the service of the country.
SEC. 10. And he it further enacted, That S
much Of the act approved the fifth Of August
eighteen hundred and sxty-one, entitled "a
act supplementary to an act entitled An &C
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 addition
nj aides-de. camp. be, and the same is hereby
repealed. But this repeal shall not be con
struel SO as to deprive those persons alread,
appointed, in strict conformity with said ac
of the fifth of August. eighteen hundred ant
sixty-one, from holding their offices i'm the
same manner as if il had not been repealed
Sec 90 And be it further enacted, That the
different regiments and independent compa-
mics heretofore mustered into the service OF
the United States as volunteer engineers, pio-
neers. or sappers and miners, under the orders
of the President or Secretary of War, or by
authority 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 recognized and
employed engineers, pioneers, or sappers
and miners, shall be. and the same are hereby
recognized and accepted as volunteer engin-
GERS, on the same footing, in all respects, in
regard to their orgaization, pay. and emolu-
ments, as the corps of engineers Of the regular
army of the United States, and they shall he
paid for their services, already performed, as
Is now provided by law for the payment Of Of
ficers and non-commissioned officers and pri-
Yates Of the engineer corps of the regular ar
my.
SEc. 81. And he 1t further enacted That any
alien, of the age of twcnty-one years and up
wards, who has enlisted or shall enlist In the
armies of the United States, either the regular
or the volunteer forces, and has been or shall
he hereafter honorably discharged, may he adj
mitted to become a citizen of the United
States upon his petition, without any previous
declaration Of his intention to become citi-
zen Of the United States, and that he shall
not he required to prove more than one year S
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
satisfed by competent proof Of such person
having been bonorably discharged from the
service of the United States as aforesaid.
SIC %. And be it further enacted, Tha
there shall be added to the Adjutant General
department, by regular promotion of its pres
ent officers, one colonel, two lieutenant colo
nels. and nine majors; and that the grade O
captain in said department shall thereafter b
abolished, and all vacancies occurring in tn,
grade Of major shall be filled Ivy selection
from among the captains of the army.
Approved, July IL, 1862.
PUBLIc-No. 1G6.
AN ACT to amend the Act calling forth the