R.

RAILROAD, extension of, by order of President, repealed, 542.
lines, President may take possession of, 492.

Railroads seized for use of United States, damages assessed, 492.
Rangers, additional companies of, 233, 242.

appropriation for raising company of, 233.
dragoons established instead, 329.
organization of, 211, 325, 451.
pay of, 211.

Rank and compensation of teamsters, 384.

and file of army, increase of, repealed, 397.
and pay of staff, 245.

brevet, 234, 235.

commissioned officers take, how, 99.
of adjutant-general, 308, 383, 481.
and assistants, 481.

of assistant apothecaries, 254.
inspector-generals, 480.

surgeon-general, 502.

of brigadier-generals of volunteers, 468.

of certain officers of quartermaster's department, 481.
of chief of ordnance, 481.

of commandant of cadets at West Point, 455

of commissaries, 321, 481.

of subsistence, 481.

of commissary-general, 286.

of ordnance, 226, 250.

of deputy commissaries of ordnance, 250.
inspector-general, 137.
quartermaster-general, 136.

of detached officers, 213.

of division-inspector, 257.

quartermaster, 257.

of hospital stewards, 444.

of inspectors-general, 308, 489.

of inspector of fortifications, 138.

of judge-advocate, 532.

of judge-advocate-general, 532.

of major-generals of volunteers, 468.

of master-wagoners and wagoners, 481.
of medical cadets, 482.

of medical inspectors, 502.

of medical inspector-general, 502.

of members of courts-martial, 72, 79.
of officers appointed inspectors, 136.
of militia and regular army, 194.
of pay department, 385.

of regular forces, 75.

taken from line to staff, 343.

of paymaster-general, 402.

of quartermaster-general, 217.

of quartermasters, 308, 344.
of brigade, 257.

of signal officer, 459.

Rank of superintendent of military academy, 455.
of surgeon-general, 502.

of surgeons and assistants, 480.

rations furnished according to, 144.

relative, between officers of army and navy, 517.
seniority of, disregarded, when, 539.

Ranks, quitting of, prohibited, 70.

Rate of forage, 276.

Rates of pension, 221.

Ration, additional, for every five years' service, 346, 352.
to subaltern officers, 276.

estimated, 144.

increase of, during rebellion, 484.
of provisions, 138.
President may alter, 286.

Rations, additional, to captains, &c., 317.

to certain officers, 387.

to whom granted, 352.

allowance of, 89.

on frontiers, 116.

to certain officers, 361.
alteration in certain, 459.
and clothing, 78.

augmentation of, 105.

back, 351.

commutation for, 203.

composition of, 88, 93, 112, 144, 213.

double, to commandants of posts, repealed, 486.

doubled, when, 118.

for majors, 118.

for paymaster's clerks, 423.

furnished according to rank, 144.

increase of, to surgeons, &c., 331.

money in lieu of, 88, 93, 144, 203, 215.

of commissioned officers, 88, 93, 112, 116, 118, 144, 201, 202, 266, 387.

of female nurses, 483.

of matrons and nurses, 144.

of medical cadets, 501.

staff, 255.

of sergeants of sappers, miners, and pontoniers, 369.

of servants, 144.

of soldiers, 88, 93, 111, 112, 115, 118, 138, 266, 346.

of subalterns of sea-fencibles, 253.

of women, 144.

Rebellion, punishment for aiding, 520.

African race may be employed to suppress, 523.

Rebels, property of, to be confiscated, 519.

Receipt, duplicate, for public moneys, 450.

Recruit, sum allowed for each, 91.

Recruiting, commissioned officers employed in, 115.

for service against United States, punishment for, 488.
officers, sum allowed to, 92, 111, 128, 135, 237, 239.
service, 145.

suspension of, 210.

Recruits, age of, 87, 88, 128, 238, 239, 260, 495.

Recruits, articles of war to be read to, on enlistment, 64, 176.
bounty to, 90, 92, 128, 239, 261, 532.

Redress of grievances of commissioned officers, 68.

of inferior officers, 68.

Reduction of military establishment, 476.
Re-enlistment before discharge, desertion, 66.
of troops, 83.

Re-enlistments, act to encourage, 250.

certain regulations in regard to, abolished, 483.
extra pay for, 329.

in lieu of bounty, 348.

regulations in regard to, 251.

without discharge, penalty for, 179.

Refusal of certificate of service, penalty for, 154.
to receive prisoners, 74, 81, 189.

Regiment, additional, of artillerists and engineers, 119.
organization of, 90.

of artillery, organization of, 134.
of cavalry, organization of, 134.
of dragoons, bounty to, 386.
organization of, 329.

of infantry, organization of, 88, 114, 342.
of riflemen, organization of, 371.
Regimental bands abolished, 526.

pay of, 475.

court-martial, powers of, 187.
summoned, when, 182.

courts-martial, 73.

paymasters, 228.

pay, &c., of, 273.

to give security, 137.
quartermasters, pay of, 259, 379.
Regimentals, color and fashion of, 98.
Regiments, additional, raised, 127, 436.
colors for, by whom provided, 98.
consolidation of, 387.

deficient, consolidated, 254, 387.
enlisted for five years, 251.
number of, in regular army, 473.
of artillerists, 142.

of artillery, organization of, 252.
of infantry, 142.

completed, 92.

organization of, 127, 133, 238.

of riflemen and light infantry, 347.
organization of, 97, 383, 474."

Regulations, general, to be prepared by secretary of war, 246.

subject to alterations, 275.

in relation to cadets, 225.

Reimbursement of volunteers, 479.

Relatives," definition of the term, 391.

Release and escape of prisoners, 74, 81, 189.

Relinquishment of bounty land for pensions, 269, 284.

Rendezvous, allowance for travelling to, 334.

expenses of marching militia to, 259.

Paymaster, pay of, 93.

powers of, 146.

subject to directions of President, 146.
to pay department, 342.

Paymasters, additional, appointment of, 337.

and their duties, 273.

assistant, appointment of, 256.
commissions to, 396.

deputy, discharge of, at end of Mexican war, repealed, 393.
district and regimental, 227.

duties of, 326.

drawn, how, 255.

of the army, 142.

of volunteers, nomination of, 385.

of volunteers or militia, 348.

pay, &c. of, 308.

pay and allowances of, 402.

regimental and battalion, duties of, 274.

to give security, 137.

taken from whom, 273.

Paymaster's clerks, citizens employed as, 347.

pay allowed to, 397.

rations for, 423.

Payment for horses and property destroyed in service of United States,

404.

of expenses incurred by the States, 472.

of officers of volunteers, 507.

of pensions, 441.

of surplus adjutants and quartermasters, 533.

of sutlers, 498.

Payments for public lands, 222.

Penalties, additional, for desertion, 117, 240.

chaplains, for undue absence, 63.

for delinquencies, 163.

for exciting mutiny, 64.

for misbehavior during divine service, 63.

for omitting the suppression of mutiny, 64.
for profane swearing, 63.

Penalty for abandoning a post, 70, 184.

for absence from parade, 70.
for absence without leave, 66.
for accepting a challenge, 179.

for advising desertion, 66.

for chaplain to absent himself without leave, 63.

for chaplains refusing to join the army, 380.

for creating false alarms, 70.

for desertion, 66.

for disobeying orders of President, 95, 478.

for drunkenness of officers, 183.

for drunkenness on guard or other duty, 70.

for duelling, 66.

for embezzlement of money, 182.

for encouraging desertion, 179, 214.

for entertaining deserters, 66.

for exciting mutiny, 64.

Rock Island, arsenal at, 511.

Rocky Mountains, mileage to or from stations east or west, 526.
Rules and articles for government of armies of United States, 174.

of war, 63.

1806, established, 170.

1776, repealed, 195.

inmates of soldiers' home subject to, 457.
militia subject to, 477.

mitigation of punishments authorized by,
officers governed by, 113.

officers to subscribe to, 63, 174.

to be read once in six months, 194.

to be read once in two months, 75.

to be read to recruits on enlistment, 64.

77.

troops governed by, 79, 83, 87, 113, 117, 145, 193, 239,
309, 436, 452, 467, 472, 477, 488, 531.

and regulations for military asylum, 417.

&c., officers retained to subscribe to, 63.

Safeguards, 185.

within United States, during rebellion, penalty for forcing, 495.
Salaries of armorers, &c., 359.

of officers, act providing for, 335.

Salary, no additional, to officers on lighthouse board, 426.

of assistant secretary of war, 480.

of paymaster's clerk, 397.

of storekeepers of ordnance department, 429.

Sale of distrained goods, 110.

of military sites, 448.

of useless military sites repealed, 455.

Sales of unserviceable arms, &c., by whom made, 314.
or transfers of property of rebels, 521.

Sappers and miners, 224.

Sappers, miners, and pontoniers, organization of, 369.

Scandalous behavior, 81.

Schedule of articles to be sold by sutlers, 496.

Scott, Major-General, appointed brevet lieutenant-general, 441.
gold medal voted to, 267.

thanks of Congress and gold medal voted to, 398.

Scrip, bounty land or, to soldiers in Mexican war, 381.

Seaboard of United States, defence of, 247.

Second artificer, pay of, 93.

Second lieutenant, pay of, 143.

lieutenants, ensigns and cornets denominated, 134.

Seconds, &c. deemed principals to duels, when, 179.

Secretary, military, commanding general may appoint, 374.
of commander-in-chief, 228.

of treasury to pay costs, &c. for arming troops, 472.
of war and clerks, oath of, 86.

assistant, salary of, 480.
compensation of, 429.