Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-09-03


INTO gunpowder IN the United States and exported
thereirom, equal IN amount to tho duty maid on
tne foreign saitpeter from which il shall be man
ulaetured, 70 be ascertained under such regula-
tions as shall be prescribed by the SeeretaTv az
the treasury, and no more: Pr0uided That ten
per eentum on the amount of all drawbacks "a
allowed shall be retained for the use Of the United
states by the collectors paying such drawbacks
respectively,
Approved March 5, 1868,
ohapter LAAVIiI.-An Act TO promote the efti-
cheney of the Corps of Engineers and of The
Ordnance Department, and for other purposes
Ben enacted by ne Senate and House of Rem
reSehtdhueS ofhe United States of America IN Con-
grtSs assembled That the corps OF Typographical en-
gineers, as distct branch of the army is hereby
aoonshed and iron and after the passage of this
act, Is merged into the corps of engineers which
shall have the following organization. viz one
ehlei engineer, with the rank nav and emolu
,nehts OF orgadier general four colonies: ten
Ieutehailt colonies twenty majors thirty cap
tains; thirty first lieutenants, and ten second
heutenants S>N011
Sec. ?. And be IL further enacted, That the gen.
erai ohcer provided by the first section of this act
shaii be selected from the corps of engineers as
therein established and that officers OF ali lower
grades shall take rank according to their respect
i've dates oil commission in the existing CORPS of
engineers or corps OF typographical engineers.
o ~ .. ana DC u Jurther enacted That officer
OF the corps OF engineers below the rank of a field
otneer, shall, hereafter, be promoted to a higher
grade before having passed satisfactory exam
NATION before board of three engineers senior
70 nlh N RANK and should the officer fail at said
examination, he shall be suspended from promo
uoh from tfor one year, when he shall be re-
examined, and, upon second failure, shall be
dropped by the President from the army
oec; l. ana DC u further enacted, That there
snail be added to the ordnance department one
lieutenant colonel, two majors, eight captains,
eight first heutenants the additional officers here
IN authorized to be appointed by promotion so far
as lhe present officers OF the ordnance corps will
permit and the residue to be appointed by trans
lers from other regiments or CORPS of the army
Pfoctded, That no officer of the ordnance DEPART
ment below the rank of field officer shall be pro-
noiea on commissioned to higher grade, nor
snail any othcer OF the army be commission ed as
an ordnance officer, until he shall have passed a
satisfactory examination before board OF not less
than three ordnance officers, senior to him in rank
ana should such oticer fail on such examination
ne snail be suspended from promotion or appoint-
ment Tor one year, when he may be re-examined
before like board, and if, upon such second ex-
ANIMATION, an ordnance officer fail, he shall be dis
missed from the service, and if an officer of the
Army he shall not be commissioned.
Sec. D. ARd be ii further enacted That section
TWO OF the act approved March three, eighteen
hundred and forty-nlne, entitled "An act to pro-
Nae LOT the payment OF horses and other property
lost or destroyed in the military service OF the
United States,'' shall be construed to include tbe
steamboats, and other vessels, and ssrailroad en-
glnes and cars" in the property to be allowed and
pau iof "hen destroyed or lost under the cireum-
stances provided for in said act
Sec. 6. And be 1t fagrths, enacted Tba. al,
payments OF advance county made to enlisted men
VINO nave peer discharged before serving out the
term required by law for its payment in full shall
De allowed In the settlement of the accounts of
paymasters at the treasury but hereafter, in all
such cases, the amount so advanced shall be charged
against the enlisted men, unless the discharge he
upon surgeons certificate for wounds received or
sickness incurred since their last enlistment
4. III
any requstiS2 hereafter being made by the
President of the United States for militia any per-
son who shall have volunteered or been drafted For
the service Of the United States for the term of
nine months, or shorter period, may enlist into
regiment from the same state to serve for the
term OF one year, and any person so enlistnp shall
be entitled to and receive bounty of ffty dollars
10 be paid III time and manner provided by the act
OF july twenty-second, eighteen hundred and
sixty-one, Tor the payment of the bounty provided
Tor by that act. Ne"
see. y. Ind be further enacted, That the
oneers OF the medical department shall unite with
the llne officers OF the army under such rules and
regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary
OF War, IN supervising the cooking within the
same as an important sanitary measure, and that
SAID medical department shall promulgate to ts
oHicers such regulations may tend to insure the
proper preparation Of the ration of the soldiers
sec: y. And be at further enacted, That cooks
snail be detailed, in turn, from the priyates of
eacn company OF troops in the service of the United
states, at the rate of one cook for each no,nranv
numbering less than thirty men, and two cooks
lor each company numbering over thirty men,
who shall serve ten days each,
Sec ~. And be II further enacted, That the
PRESIDENT OF the United States be- and he is hereby
authorized to cause to be enlisted, for each cook
TWO under-cooks of African descent who shall re-
celve Tor Their full compensation ten dollars per
month"; ana one ration per day-three dollars of
SAD monthly pay may be in clothing.
Sec II. ind be 1t further enacted, That the
army latons shall hereafter include pepper in the
proportion OF four ounces to every hundred "a
Sec. IL Ahd be 1t further enacted, That the in
crease OF rank of officers, and in the number az
9nicers provided for in this act shall continue oplv
curing the existence of the present rebellion; and
the several officers promoted under this
act shall have the respective rank thew would have
h , 7 his act had not passed, and the number
snaii ne reduced by the President to the number