The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-03
CHAP. LXXl.

An act to promote the Efficiency of the Corps of
Engineers and of the Ordnance Department,
and for other Purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the corps of topo-
graphical engineers, 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 Or
ganiZaton, viz: one chief engineer with the
rank pay and emoluments of brigadier- general :;
four colonels; ten Heutenant-colones; twenty
majors thirty captains; thirty frst-lieutenants,
and ten second-lieutenants.
See. 3 And be it further enacted, That the
general officer provided by the first section of
this act shall be selected from the corps of eng-
neers as therein established; and that officers of
all lower grades shall take rank according to
their respective dates of commission in the exist
ing corps of engineers or corps Of Typographical
engineers.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That no Off
Ger of the corps of engineers below the rank of a
field officer shall hereafter be promoted to high
er grade before having passed satisfactory ex-
animation before board of three engineers senior
TO him in rank and should the officer fail at said
examination, he shall be suspended from promo
ton from one year, when he shall be rc-eXam-
ined, and upon a second failure, shall be dropped
by the President from the army.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there
shall be added to the ordnance department one
ieutenant-colonel, two majors, eight captains,
eight tirst-lieutenants; the additional officers
~ f M @ ~ tI t w ~ tPo 49, f y =, P'o.io.rOli, 5,
corps will permit and-the residue to be appoint
cd by transfers from other regiments corps of
tue army: rro'lucu, lhat no ohicer Vi the 20 oro-
nance uepartlheht peio" tnc rank VI Heid oiiccl
shall be promoted or commissioned to Il higher
grade, nor shail any oilcer OF the army De com,
mlssioned as an orGnance omcer unlll ne shall
board of not less than three ordnance officers,
senior senior 10 nm ID Ialla ana shouid % sucn onleeI
iali on suen eAaiiliiatlon ne silaii ee suspenueo
wiz Will u ne y ii.'y i u. d ~ i+i ~Hn = I'M oo.iu ,
anu IL uPoai s';I'i s;I -, ,u ~, aiid 80 ~ vi .,
nnco os ,, t t,; So f tL ~ t im ~ o ny unt
service anu IL an oilcer VI 'no army ne elii hol
De commissioners: .,.
See. .. ana DC IL lurther enacted, lhal section
two OF the ACT aPpfoSeo March tnree, elshten
o he and 20
lost or aestroyea III ,ne y nlil.ary service OF the
onited states shail DC coIstruea 20 lnEiuue tne
steamnoats ana otheI Vessels, anu Ialiroau 3I en-,
and paid ior ~nen or; or LOST @ uhuer tne
- tth aui actad Tho+ 81,
,nents VI of advapce bontv made to enlisted me- men
hn hoUa M been dischor1ed before SERVING ont the
term reouired Inv law for its navment in mil Shall
h. aIIowed in tEe settlement IF the accounts ot
navmosters at the treasury. bnt hereafter in ali
sSnch cases the amount so advanced shall he
chorpcd AGAINST the enlisted men. unless the dis
chars,e ha Tnon surceon's certificote for wounds
noiye6 or Seintness incnrred since their last en-.
istn,ant ~
G. -. And bo ~ f,rtb.r anooted Tbo+ ,no,
on1, rnon;s;tion hereafter beinr made bv the Pres
+ ftS TH4ed Sites for miiitio INV narson
, Ham W. Ioa oinntaered or heep dro led fn
w, Nv ;a ~ = ~ s ~ ITnitad So tom ~, -, ~
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n1 u ne;t f,n, w the same state To ssrre fr the
t.r,S nf nna Ta.r and any nerson so eniistino.
hom ha @ eutit,sd to and receive a hountT of fftv
dollars to he Maid in time and manner provided
by the act of July twenty-second, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-one for the payment of the boun-
tv provided for by that act