Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-08-25
IUFFICIAL,l
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passsd al ths First Session OF the Forty
third CoBgrsss.
GENERAL NATURB-No. 92.l

GENERAL NATURB-No. 92l
AN ACT reorganizlng the several staff corps
OF the Army.
Be ii enacted by the Senate end House Of Repre-
SeRtItires Of the United States of America ia Con-
gress assembled, That the Inspector Generals
Department shall consist OF one colonel, two
lieutenant colonies, and two majors, with the
rank, pay, and emOluments of officers Of said
grades; and the Secretary of War may, in ad-
diton, detail officers of the line, not 10 exceed
four, to act as assistant inspectors general Pro-
Uided That officers Of the line detailed acting
inspectors-gene shall have all the allowances
OF cavalry officers of their respective grades and
spector- Generals Department until the num-
Der of inspectors general is reduced to five.
SEC. 2 That the Bureau of Military Justice
shall hereafter consist of one ge-Advocate-
General, with the rank, pay, and emOluments
of brigadier general; and the said Judge-Ad-
vocate- General shall, receive, revise, and have
recorded the proceedings OF all courts martial,
courts of inquiry and military commissions, and
shall perform such other duties as have been
heretofore performed by the Judge Advocate
General OF the Army. In the corps OF Judge ad-
vocates no appointments shall be made as vacan-
cies occur until the number shall be reduced to
four, which shall thereafter be the permanent
humber of the officers of that corps.
SEC. 3. That hereafter there shall be three as.
sistant commssaries-general of subsistence,
with the rank, pay, and emouments of lteuten-
law of said grade in the Subsistence Depart,
ment; that the number Of commissaries OF sub.
sisteDce with the rank, pay, and emoluments of
10
twelve, and no appointment to fill vacancy in
said grade shall be made until the number
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 emoluments
general, and one chief medical purveyor, each
with the rank, pay, and emoluments OF a colo
mel; and two assistant medical purveyors, with
10 ny,I No ,~Erg
colonies, who shall give the same bonds which
are or may be required OF assistant paymssters-
general of like grade, and shall, when not
SURGEONS by the President: Atty surgeons. with II
the rank, pay, and emoluments or majors; one
hundred and fifty assistant surgeons, with the
rank, pay, and emoluments OF ieutenants of
cavalry for the first five years service, and with
the rank, pay, and emoluments or captains OF
cavalry after five years service; and four med:-
cal store-keepers, with the same compensation
as is now provided by law; and all the original
vacancies In the grade of assistant surgeon shall
be filled by selection by competitive examina-
ton; and the Secretary of War Is hereby author
Army, or cause to be enlisted, as many hospital.
stewards as the service may require, to be
permanently attached to the Medical Depart
ment, under such regulations az the Secretary
of War may prescribe. And the number Of
contract surgeons shall be limited to seventy
dve on or before the first day Of January In the
year eighteen hundred and seventy-hye; and
thereafter no more than that number shall be
employed.
SIC g. That the Ordnance Department shall
consist Of one Chief Of Ordnance, with the
rank, pay, and emoluments of . brigadier-
general; three colonies, four ieutensnt-colo-
pels, ten majors, twenty captains, sixteen first
lieutenants; and all vacancies which may here
after exist In the grade OF first lieutenant In
said Department shall be filed by transfer
from the line Of the Army: Pvorided, That no
appointment or promotion In said Department
shall hereafter be made until the officer or per-
son so appointed or promoted shall have passed
q satisfactory examination before 0 board Of
ordnance-offcers senior to himself.
SRC. Q. That no oficer now in the 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 corpsof
the staff.
$40. Z. That - vacancies shall occur In any
Of the grades Of the Ordnance and Medical De-
partDants, no appointments shall be made 10
hll the same until the numbers In such gfsde
shall be reduced TO the numbers which are fixed
for permanent appointments BY the provistons
Of this oct; and thereafter the number Of perma-
nent officers insaid grades shAll continue 70 con-
form to said reduced numbers, and ell other
grades In said Ordnance and Medical Depart
ments than those authorised By the provisions Of
this act shall cease to exist as Boon - the same
shall become vacant by death, resignation or
otherwise; and no appointment or promotion
shall HEREAFTER be made % an any vacancy
which may occur theron.
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