The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-11-12

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SEC And be It further eaacted, That
the President be, and he is hereby, authorized,
at his discretion, to place on the retired list of
the army, on their own application, any com
missi ned officers who have been thirty years
in the service, and the officers who may be re-
tired by virtue of this section shall be en-
titled to tho same pay and eInoluncnts as are
now allowed, or may be hereafter allowed, to
officers retired from active service.
SEC. 5. And Be IL further enacted. That
the proviso of the sixteenth section of the act
approved August three, eighteen hundred and
sixty-one, limiting the number of officers on
the rctirssi list to seven per centum of the
whole number of existing officers, be, and the
some is hereby, repealed; and hereafter the
number of officers who may be retired in ac
cordance with existing laws shall be in the dis
cretion Of the President Provided, That the
whole number the retired list shall at
time exceed three hundred.
SEC. 6. And be IL further enacted, That
the offices of General and Lieutenant General
of the army shall continue until vacancy
shall occur in the same, and no longer; and
when such vacancy shall occur in either of
said offices, Immediately thereupon all laws
and parts of laws creating said office shall be-
come imperative, and shall, by virtue of this
act, from thenceforward held to be repealed.
SEC. 7. And be it furtAcr enGcfed. That
no appointment to tho grade of major gen
cral shall be made until the number of officers
which the number Of major generals shall not
exceed three.
SEC 8. Aad Jr 10 farther enacted, Tta,
appointment to the grade of brigadier gen
eral shall be made until the number of officers
of that grade is reduced below six after
which the number Of brigadler generals shall
not exceed six.
SEC g. And be IL further enacted. That
the grade of regiInentai commssary in the
several cavalry regiments is hereby abolished; /;
and the lieutenants now holding the appoint
ments Of regimental commissary may be as
signed for duty to companies of their regl-
ments, and shall fill the first vacancies that
may occur in their respective grades of first or
second lieutenant in the regiments to which
they now belong, and nothing herein con-
tanned shall agect their relative rank with
other Iieutenants of their grade.
sac. 10. Asd be Il further enacted, That
the grades of regiment tai commissa-y sergeant
and regimen tai hospital stewapd are hereby
abolished. The number of corporals in each
company of cavalry, artillery, and infantry
shall be reduced to four; and the said non
commissioned officers shall have the privilege
of receiving an honorable discharge, with full
pay and allowances to date thereof, if they
shall so elect, in preference to remaining in
the service in such other grades as may be as
signed to them by the Secretary of War.
SEC. IL. And be ii further enacted, That
the General of the Army and commanding of
fcers of the several military departments of
the army, shall, as practicable after
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tary of War list of officers serving in their
respective commands deemed by them unfit
for the proper discharge of their duties from
any cause except injuries incurred disease
contracted in the line of their duty, setting
forth specifically in each the cause of
such unftness. The Secretary of War is here
by authorized and directed to constitute
board to consist of one major general. one
brigadier general, and three coiouels, three of
said officers to be selected from among those
appointed To the regular army on account of
distinguished services in the volunteer force
during the late war, aud recommendation
of such board the President shall muster out
Of the service any of the said officers
ported, with one year'spay but such muster
out shall not be ordered without allowing such
officer hearing before such board to show
cause against It.
SIC II Ard be IL further eaacted, That
the President is hereby authorized to transfer
oVcers from the regiments OF cavalry, artil-
lery, and infantry to the list of supernumera-
res and all vacancies now existing. which
may prior to the arst day of January
next, in the cavalry artillery, infantry, by
reason of such transfer, or from other causes,
shall be filed in due proportion by the super
numcrary officers, having reference to rank.
seniority, and fitness, as provided IN existin g
law regulating promotions in the army. And
If any supernumerary officers shall renaain af-
ter the first day of January next. they shall
be honorably mustered out of the service with
years pay and allowances: Provided,
second lieutenants, or which may occur prior
to said date, may be filled by the assignment
of supernumcrary first leutenants; or officers
of higher grades, who, when assigned shall
rank second lientenants. prociding fprovid-
edl such officers shall prefer to be 50 assigned,
instead of being mustered out under the pro-
visions OK this section and officers assign
cd shall take rank from the date of their orig
ina1 entry into the service And provided fur
thcr, That chaplain be appointed to pests or
regiments until those on waiting orders are as
signed.
Sec. IS. And Be IL further enacted, That
the professors of the United States Military
Academy, whose service in the army and al
the academy exceeds thirty-fi years, shall
have the pay of colonel, and those whoss like
service is less than thirty-fve, bat e1eeeds
twenty-five years, shall have the pay Of lieu
tenant colonel and all other professors shall
have the pay of major and hereafter theirs
ehall be allowed end paid to said professors
ten per centum of their eurren, yearly pay for
each and every term of i've years continuous
service: Provided, That such addition shall
in no case exceed forty per ccntum Of said
yearly pay and said professors are hereby
placed upon tho same footing IS regards re-
tiremeat from adtive service n officers in the
army.
SEC IA And be ii further eracted, That
the pay and allowances of the enlisted men OF
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