Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-09-11

Surgeon. General, with the rank, pay, aud
emoluments of u brigadier general one
assistant general, and one chief
medical purVeyOr, each with the rank, pay,
and emoluments of a colonel and two as
sistant medical purveyOrs, with the rank,
pay, and emoluments of lieutenant colo
nels, who shall give the same bonds which
are or may be required of assistant pay
masters-general OF like grade, and shall,
when not acting as purVeyOrs, he assignh-
BILE to duty as surgeons by the President
fifty surgeons, with the rank, pay, ana
emoluments of majors; one hundred ahu
fifty assistant surg cons, with therank, pay,
an emoluments of lieutcnanls ol caNalrN
for the first five yrars' service and with
the rank, day, and emoluments OF cap
tains of cavalry after hve years
service; and four medical sto, G.
keepers, with the same compensation
as Is now provided by law amt all the
original vacancies in the grade Of assistant
surgeon shall be filled 10y selection by COM
petitive examination; and the Secretary of
War is hereby authorized to appoint, from
the enlisted men of The Army, or cause to
be enlisted, as many hDspital-siewards as
the service may require, to he permanent
ly attached to the Medical Department un-
der such regulations Us the Secretary OF
War may prescribe. And the number OF
contract surgeons shall be Limited To- sew
cnty- five ON or before the first day Of jan
uary in the wear eighteen hundred and
seventy-tiVe; aud thereafter no more Than
that number shall he employed.
SEC. 3. That the Ordnance Department
shall consist of one CHIEF of Ordnance,
with the rank, pay and emoIuments of Il
brigadier general three colonies, four
lieuterant-culOncls, ten majors, twenty
captains, sixteen first licutenauts and all
vacancies which may hereafter exist in the
grade of FIRST lieutenant in said Department
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the Army: prOUidcd, That disappointment
or promotion IN said Department shall
hereriter be made until the officer or per-
son so appointed or promoted shall have
passed a satisfactory examination before
board of ordnance Officers senior to him
self.
SEC. @, 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.
SEC. 7. That as vacancies shall occur in
any of the grades of the Ordnance and
Medical Departments, no appointments
shall be made to I'LL the same until the
numbers in such grade shall be reduced TO
the numbers which are fixed for =, rma-
nent appointments by the provisions of
this act aud thereafter the number of per-
manent officers in said grades shall contin-
ne to conform to said reduced numbers,
and all other grades IN SAID ordnance ana
NJ edical Departments than those authorized
by the provisions of this act shall cease to
exist as soon as the same shall become va
cant by death, resignation or otherwise:
and no appointment or promotion shall
hereafter be made to fill any vacancy which
may occur therein.
SEC. 8. That so much of section six OF
an act entitled "An act making appropria-
tons for the support of the Army for the
year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hum
dred and seventy, and for other purposes, 3"
approved March third, eighteen hundred
and sixty-nne, as applies to the Ordnance,
Subsistence, and Medical Departments OF
the Army be, and the same is hereby, re-
pealed PrOuidcd, That this section repeal
ing said section shall not apply to any of
the grades of the Medical or Ordnance De-
partnents which are omitted or abolished
by the provisions of this act.
Approved, June %, 1874.