The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-08-15
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Laws Of the United States,
Passed at the Second Session of the Thirty
seventh Congress-.
[P UBLIC-N O. 1861

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| suppress instructions, and repel inva.
| sions, approved February twenty. eight,
seventeen hundred and ninety-fve, and
the acts amendatory thereof, and for other
purposes.
Be aenacted By the Senate and House of Reo-
resentatiues of the United States Of America IN
Congress assembled, That whenever the Presi-
| dent of the United States shall call forth
the militia of the States, to be employed in
the service of the United States, he NAV
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 in and continue to serve for and
| during the term so specified, unless sooner
discharged by the command of the Presi.
| dent. 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 enrolling 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 mill
tia shall in all cases include all able bodied
male citizens between the ages of eighteen
and forty-fve, and shall be apportioned
among the States according to representative
population.
Sec. 2. And be 1t further enacted, That the
militia, when so called into service. shall be
organized in the mode prescribed by law for
volunteers.
Sec. 8. Ind be 1t further enacted, That the
President be and he hereby is 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
| exceeding one hundred thousand, as in
fantrU nf mir he
sooner discharged. And every soldier who
shall enlist under the provisions of this sec.
ton shall receive his first month pay, and
also twenty-five 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 en-
listed in the service of the United States for
three years, or during the war, except in re-
| lation to bounty, shall be and the same are
extended to, and are hereby declared to en-
brace, the volunteers to be raised under the
provisions of this section.
Sec. I. And be 1t further enacted, That, for
the purpose of filling up the regiments of
infantry now in the United States service,
the President be, and he hereby u.s. author
lied to accept the services of volunteers in
| such numbers as may be presented tor that
purpose, for twelve months, if not sooner
| discharged. And such volunteers, when
| mustered into the service, shall be in all re-
spects upon footing with similar troops in
the United States service, except as to SER
vice 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.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the
President shall appoint, by and with the adj
| vice and consent of the Senate, a Judge ad-
| vocate general, with the rank, pay, and
| emoluments of colonel of cavalry, to
| whose office shall be returned, for revision
| the records and proceedings of all courts
martial and military commissions, and where
a 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.
| Sec. 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, Judge
advocate, with the rank, pay and emolu-
ments, each, of a major of cavalry, who
shall perform the duties of Judge advocate
for the army to which they respectively be
! long, under the direction of the Judge advo-
| cate general.
| Sec. Z. And be 1t further enacted, That here.
after all offenders in the army charged with
| offences now punishable by regimental or
garrison court-martial, shall be brought be-
fore field officer of his regiment, who 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 proceedings,
| and submit the same to the brigade com.
mander, who, upon the approval of the pro-
ceedings of such field officer, shall order the
same to be executed Provided, That the
| punishment in such cases be limited to that
authorized to be inflicted by regimental or
garrison court-martial And provided fur
| Their, That, in the event of there being no
brigade commander, the proceedings as
aforesaid shall be submitted for approval to
the commanding officer of the post.
Sec. s. And be 1t further enacted, That all
officers who have been mustered into the
service of the United States as battalion ad-
jutants and quartermasters of cavalry, under
the orders of the War Department, exceed
ing 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, ex-
ceeding the number as aforesaid shall be
Immediately mustered out of the service of
the United States.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the
President be and he is hereby authorized to
establish and organize army corps according
to his discretion.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That
each army corps shall have the folio wing
officers and no more attached thereto, who
shall constitute the staff of the commander
thereof: one assistant adjutant general, one
quartermaster, one cOmmissary of subsist.
ence, and one assistant inspector general,
| who shall bear, respectively, the rank of
lieutenant colonel, and who shall be as
signed from the army or volunteer force by
the President. Also three aidesde. 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 recommen-
dation of the commander of the 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 at the
headquarters of the corps
Sec. II. And be 1t further enacted, That the
cavalry force in the service of the United
States shall hereafter be organized as fol-
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