CHAPTER 109.-Approved, June 18, 1862.—Vol. 12, p. 431. An Act providing that the officers of volunteers shall be paid on the pay rolls of the regiments or companies to which they belong. That company officers of volunteers shall be paid on the muster and pay rolls of their company, party, or detachment, and not otherwise, except when such officer may be on detached service without troops, or on leave of absence CHAPTER 127.-Approved, July 2, 1862.-Vol. 12, p. 502. An Act to provide for additional medical officers of the volunteer service,1 That there shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, forty surgeons and one hundred and twenty assistant surgeons of volunteers, who shall have the rank, pay, and emoluments of officers of corresponding grades in the regular army: Provided, That no one shall be appointed to any position under this act unless he shall previously have been examined by a board of medical officers to be appointed by the secretary of war, and that vacancies in the grade of surgeon shall be filled by selection from the grade of assistant surgeon on the ground of merit only: And provided, further, That this act shall continue in force only during the existence of the present rebellion SEC. 2. That from and after the passage of this act brigade. surgeons shall be known and designated as surgeons of volunteers, and shall be attached to the general medical staff under the direction of the surgeon-general; and hereafter such appointments for the medical service of the army shall be appointed surgeons of volunteers. Ste 3. That instead of one “ assistant surgeon," as provided by the second section of the act of July 224,' 1×61, each regiment of volunteers in the service of the United States shall have two assistant surgeons. 1 See chap 55 16 April, 1×62 7 Chap 9, but see, for cavalry regiments, see. 11, chap 201, 17 July, 1×62. CHAPTER 128.-Approved, July 2, 1862.-Vol. 12, p. 502. An Act to prescribe an oath of office, and for other purposes.1 That hereafter every person elected or appointed to any office of honor or profit under the government of the United States, either in the civil, military, or naval departments of the public service, excepting the President of the United States, shall, before entering upon the duties of such office, and before being entitled to any of the salary or other emoluments thereof, take and subscribe to the following oath or affirmation: "I, A. B., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of, any office whatever under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power, or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto. And I do further swear (or affirm) that, to the best of my knowledge and ability, I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true. faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God;” which said oath, so taken and signed, shall be preserved among the files of the court, house of Congress, or Department to which the said office may appertain. And any person who shall falsely take the said oath shall be guilty of perjury, and, on conviction, in addition to the penalties now prescribed for that offence, shall be deprived of his office, and rendered incapable forever after of holding any office or place under the United States. 1 This is a substitute for the form of oath prescribed by chap. 64, 6 Aug. 1861, vol. 12, p. 326. CHAPTER 133-Approved, July 5, 162.-Vol. 12, p. 505. An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtreth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and additi mal ajpropriations for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and for other purposes. For pay of volunteers. * Proruded, That the President shall not be authorized to appoint more than forty major-generals, nor more than two hundred brigadier-generals. And all acts and parts of acts authorizing a greater number of major and brigadier generals than are above provided for are hereby repealed.1 For providing for the comfort of discharged soldiers who may arrive in the principal cities of the United States so disabled by disease or by wounds received in the service as to be unable to proceed to their homes, and for forwarding destitute soldiers to their homes, two millions of dollars to be applied and expended under the direction of the President of the United States. SFC. 2. That so much of the seventh section of the act approved March 3, 1×51, entitled "An act to found a military asylum for the relief and support of invalid and disabled soldiers of the army of the United States,” as requires that "all moneys, not execeding tw-thirds of the balance on hand, of the hospital fund and of the post fund of each military station, after deducting the necessary expenses,” shall be set apart for the support of the military asylum, be, and the same is hereby, repeated. Se 3. That the enlisted men of the ordinance department now designated as master-workmen shall hereafter be designated and mustered as sergeants; those now designated as armorer», carriage-makers, and blacksmiths shall be designated and mus. tered as corporals; those now designated as artificers shall be designated and mustered as privates of the first class; and those now designated as laborers shall be desegnated and mustered as privates of the second class: Provide 1, That the pay, rations, and clothing now authorized by law to the respective grades of enlisted ordnance men shall not be changed Sic 6 That section five of the act "to authorize the employ. ment of volunteers to aid in enforcing the laws and protecting public property," approved July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and section five of the act to increase the 1 See chap 17, 25 July, 1×61 * Chap 9. present military establishment of the United States," approved July twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and sixty-one,' shall be so construed as to allow twenty-five dollars of the bounty of one hundred dollars therein provided to be paid immediately after enlistment to every soldier of the regular and volunteer forces hereafter enlisted, during the continuance of the existing war; and the sum of seven million five hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for such payment. SEC. 7. That all the aids-de-camp appointed by authority of the act approved fifth August, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled an 'Act to increase the present military establishment of the United States," approved July twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and sixtyone, shall be nominated to the senate for its advice and consent. SEC. 8. That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized, by and with the consent of the senate, to appoint as many military storekeepers in the quartermaster's department of the army as the exigencies of the service may require; provided the whole number of military storekeepers in that department shall not exceed twelve.3 SEC. 10. That the secretary of war be authorized to commute the army ration of coffee and sugar for the extract of coffee combined with milk and sugar, to be procured in the same manner and under like restrictions and guarantees as preserved meats, pickles, butter, and desiccated vegetables are procured for the navy, if he shall believe it will be conducive to the health and comfort of the army and not more expensive to the government than the present ration, and if it shall be acceptable to the men. [Approved, July 5, 1862.] CHAPTER 144.-Approved, July 11, 1862.-Vol. 12, p. 535. An Act making appropriations for the payment of the bounty authorized by the sixth section of an Act entitled “ An Act to authorize the employment of volunteers to aid in enforcing the laws and protecting public property," approved July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and for other purposes. For payment of the bounty to widows, children, fathers, mo 1 Chap. 24. 2 Chap. 48. As fixed by chap. 163, sec. 4, 21 June, 1860. 3 There were seven before. 5 Chap. 9. thers, brothers, and sisters of such volunteers as may have died or been killed, or may die or be killed, in service, authorized by the above-recited act: Provided, That said bounty shall be paid to the following persons, and in the order following, and to no other person, to wit: First, to the widow of such deceased soldier, if there be one. Second, if there be no widow, then to the children of such deceased soldier, share and share alike. Third, if such soldier left neither a widow or child or children, then, and in that case, such bounty shall be paid to the following persons, provided they be residents of the United States, to wit: First, to his father, or, if he shall not be living, or has abandoned the support of his family, then to the mother of such soldier; and if there be neither father nor mother as aforesaid, then such bounty shall be paid to the brothers and sisters of the deceased soldier, resident as aforesaid. SEC. 3. That that part of the sixth section of the act' above recited, which secured to the widow, if there be one, and, if not, the legal heirs of such volunteers as die or may be killed in the service, in addition to all arrears of pay and allowances, a bounty of one hundred dollars, shall be held to apply to those persons who have enlisted in the regular forces since the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, or shall enlist in the regular forces during the year eighteen hundred and sixtytwo, and be paid to the heirs named in this act, and that the bounties herein provided for shall be paid out of any money appropriated for bounty to volunteers. [Approved, July 11, 1862.] CHAPTER 148.-Approved, July 11, 1862.—Vol. 12, p. 537. An Act for the establishment of certain national arsenals. That there be, and hereby is, established a national arsenal at Columbus, in the state of Ohio, at Indianapolis, in the state of Indiana, and on Rock Island, in the state of Illinois, for the deposit and repair of arms and other munitions of war. [SEC. 2. $100,000 for each of these arsenals appropriated. ] 1 Chap. 9, 22 July, 1861. |