The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-07-30

SEC 2. That the Bureau Of Military Justice
shall hereafter consist of one Judge Advocate
General with the rank, pay, and emolliments
OF brigadier general and the said Judge
Acknowledgement shall receive. revise, and have
recorded the proceedings of all courts-inartial
courts Of inquiry and military commissions and
shall perform such other dIiti.s as have been
heretofore performed by the Judye-Advocate-
General of the Army. In the corps of Judge
advocates no appointment shall be made as
vacancies occur until the number shall be re-
duced to four, Which shall thereafter be the
permanent number OF the officers of that
corps.
Sec. 8. That hereafter there shall be three
assistant commissares- general of subsistence.
with the rank, pay, and enloluments OF lieu
tenant-colonel, instead OF the two now allowed
! by lazy Of said grade. in the subsistence De
partment; that the number Of commissaries of
subsistence with the rank, pay, and emolu-
ments OF captain of cavalry,is hereby reduced
| to twelve, and no appointment to fill vacan-
| cy IN said grade shall be made until the num-
Der thereof shall be reduced to twelve, and
| the number thereafter Shall remain fixed at
! twelve.
| Sec. 4. That the Medical Department of the
| Army shall hereafter consist Of one Surgeon
general, with the rank, pay, and emolpments
OF brlgadier- general; one assistant surgeon
general, and One chief medical purveyor, each
with the rank pay, and emoluments OF a colo
mel; and two assistant medical purveyors, with
the rank, pay, and emouments of lieutenant
colonies, who shall give the same bonds which
are or may be required of assistant paymasters-
general OF like grade, and shall, when not act
ing as purveyors be assignable to duty as sur
geons by the President; fifty. surgeons, with
the rank, pay. and emoluments OF majors; one
hundred and fifty assistant surgeons, with the
rank, pay, and emoluments of Geutenants of
cavalry for the first five years. service, and
with the rank, pay and efioluments of cap
tains of cavalry after five years service; and
four medical store-keepers, with the same COM
Spensation as is now provided by law; and all
the original vacancies in the grade of assistant
surgeon shall be filled by selection by eonipeti-
tive examination; and the Secretary of War
is hereby authorized to appoint, from the en-
listed men of the Army,or cause to be enlisted,
as MANY hospital stewarts as the service may
require, to be permanently attached to the
Medical Department, under such regulations
as the Secretary OF War may prescribe. And
the number OF contract-surgeons shall be lirn- |
ted to seventy-fye On or before the first day of
january in the year eighteen hundred and sew
enty-fiye; and thereafter no more than that |
number shall be employed y
SEC: 5. That the Ordnance Department shall |
consist OF one Chief of Ordnance, with the
rank, pay and emoluments of a brigadier-oen-
eral three colonies, four observation-disclosures,
ten majors, twenty captains, sixteen first lieu
tenants; and all vacancies which may hereaf-
ter exist in the grade of first lieutenant in said
Department shall be filed by transfer from the
line OF the Army: Provided, That no appoint
ment OF promotion in said Department shall
hereafter be made until the officer or person so
appointed. or promoted shall have passed sat
lsfactory examination before board of ord
senior to himself.
SEC. b. That no officer now in service shall be
reduced in rank or mustered out by reason of
any provision OF law herein made reducing the
number OF officers in any department or corps
OF the staff
DEC. Z. That as vacancies shall occur in any
OF the grades of the Ordnance and Medical De-
partments, no appointments shall be made to
I'LL the same until the numbers in such grade
shall be reduced to the numbers which are fix
ed for permanent appointments by the provs-
ions OF this act; and thereafter the ntiifiher of |
permanent officers in said grades Shall continue
to conform to said reduced numbers, and all |
other grades in said Ordnance and Medical De- |
partments than those authorized by The pro-
visions OF this act shall cease to exist as soon
as the SAME shall become vacant BY DEATH res |
lgnation or otherwise; and no appointment or
promotion shall hereafter be made to fill any
vacancy which may occur therein.
SEC. q. That so much of section six of an act
entitled San Act making appropriations for
the, support of the Army for the year ending |
Julte thirtieth, eighteen hundred and severity, |
and for other purposes, approved March third, |
eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, as applies to
the Ordnance, Subsistence, and Medical De |
partments of the Army be, and the same is |
hereby. repealed Provided, That this section |
repeating said section snail not apply to any of |
the gr;fdes OF the medical or Ordnance Depart |
ments which are omitted OF abolished by the |
provisions of this act