Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1863-08-29
the United States by the collectors paying
such drawbacks respectively.
APPROVED, March 3, 1868.
PUBLIC-No.7 IS. !

An act to promote the efficiency of the Corps
of Engineers and of the Ordnance De-
partment, and for other Purposes.
! Be 1t enacted by tie Senate and IIonse Of
Representatives IF tile United States Of inner
ica IN Congress assembled, That the corps
of Typographical engineers, as a distinct
branch of the army, is hereby abolished, and
from and after the passage Of this act. is
merged into the corps of engineers, which
shall have the following organization. viz
one chief engineer, with the rank, pay, and
cmoluments of brigadcr-gencral; four COL
onels: ten observation-disclosures: twenty ma
iors: thirty captains thirty first licutcnants,
and ten second lieutcnants.
Sec. 2. And be 1t .t1rthry cnacted, That
the general officer provided by the first Sec
ton of this act shall be selected from the
corps of engineers as therein established:
and that officers of all lower grades shall
take rank according to their respective dates
of commission in the existing corps of engin-
GERS or corps of Typographical engineers.
I Sec. 3. And bc it .t4nhcr c0artrd, That
no officer of the corps of engineers below the
rank of u fcld-oiiicer shall, hereafter, be
promoted to higher grade before having
passed satisfactory examination before Il
board of three engineers senior to him in
rank: and should the officer fail at said OK
animation, he shall be suspended from pro-
motion ti'om for one year, when he shall
be rc-cxamincd, and, upon second failure.
shall be dropped by the President from the
army.
Sec. 4. Ind he II further caacfcd. That
there shall be added to the ordnance depart
ment one lieutenant colonel, two majors,
eight captains, eight first lieutcnants the
additional officers herein authorized to be ap-
pointed by promotion. so far as the present
officers of the ordnance corps will permit:
and the residue to be appointed by transfers
from other regiments or corps of the army:
Pror;ded. That no officer of the ordnance
department below the rank of field officer
shall be promoted or commissioned to a
higher grade. nor shall any officer of the
army be commissioned as an ordnance officer
until he shall have passed satisfactory ex-
animation before board of not less than
three ordnance officers, senior to him in
rank and should such officer fail on such
examination he shall be suspended from pro-
motion or appointment for one year. when
he may be re-cxamined before like board:
and if, upon such second examination, an
ordnance OnlCCT nc Snall Oc ulS1nlSScu
from the service, and if an officer of the army
he shall not be commissioned.
/ Sec. 5 Aad be Il further enacted, That
section two of the act approved March three.
eighteen hundred and forty-ninc. entitled
'An act to provide for the payment of horses
and other propert! lost or destroyed in the
military service of the United States," shall
be construed to include steamboats, and
other vessels, and "railroad engines and
cars, in the property to be allowed and paid
for when destroyed or lost under the crcum-
stances provided for in said act.
Sec. 6. And he it further enacted, That all
payments of advance bounty made to en-
listed men who have been discharged before
serving out the term required by law for its
payment in full shall be allowed in the set
tlemcnt Of the accounts of paymastcrs at
the treasury; but hereafter, in all such cases,
the amount so advanced shall be charged
against the enlisted men. unless the discharge
be upon surgeons certificate for wounds re-
ccived or sickness incurred since their last
enlistment.
Sec. 7. And be it .fatAw enacted, That
upon any requisition hereafter being made
by the President Of the United States for
militia, any person who shall have volun-
tcered or been drafted for the service of the
United States for the term of nine months,
or shorter period, may enlist into reg-
ment from the same state to serve for the
term Of one year, and any person so enlist
ing shall be entitled to and receive bounty
of fifty dollars, to be paid in time and man
ner provided by the act of July twenty Sec
ond, eighteen hundred and sixty-onc, for the
payment of the bounty provided for by that
act.
Sec. 8. And he 1t further enacted, That
the officers Of the medical department shall
unite with the line officers of the army under
such rules and regulations as shall be pre-
scribcd by the Secretary of War, in super
vising the cooking within the same as an |
important sanitary measure, and that said |
medical department shall promulgatc to its
officers such regulations and instruction as |
may tend to insure the proper preparation of
the ration of the soldier.
Sec. 9. And be Il further enacted, That |
cooks shall be detailed. in turn, from the
privates of each company of troops in the
service of the United States, at the rate of
one cook for each company numbering less
than thirty men, and two cooks for each
company numbering over thirty men, who
shall serve ten days each.
Sec. 10. And be 1t further enacted, That
the President of the United States, be, and
he is hereby, authorized to be enlisted, for
each cook, two under-cooks Of African de-
scent, who shall receive for their full COM
pensation ten dollars per month, and one ra-
ton per day-three dollars of said monthly
nav may he in clothing.