Regiments 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.

reduced, not to be officered, 560.

Regulations, general, to be prepared by secretary of war, 246.
subject to alterations, 275.

in relation to cadets, 225.

Reimbursement of volunteers, 479.

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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.

Repeal of act of September 29, 1789, 89.

Reporter to court-martial, appointment, duty, oath, 562.
Report of board for examination of officers, 470.

of clerks made annually to Congress, 362.

of examination of military academy, 459.

of light-house establishment of United States, 419.
of superintendent of artificers, 223.

Reports, daily, of prisoners, 81.

of colonel of ordnance, 264.

of contracts, 528.
of desertions, 82.

of paymasters, 274.

of prisoners, by whom made, 190.

of surveys of Pacific Railroad route, 430.

Reproachful speeches, &c. prohibited, 66.

Resignation of heads of executive departments, how provided for, 546.
Resistance to military superiors, 64.

Retired list, 528.

Retired officers, 484.

President may assign duties to, 486.

Retreat, beat, retiring to quarters at, 69.

beating of, 183.

Return of adjutant-general, 100.

Returns, abstracts of, made annually, 99.

annual, of brigade-inspector, 100.

forms of, furnished by brigade-inspector, 159.
made by brigade-inspector, 162.

monthly, 66.

remitted to department of war, 178.

of companies, how made, 160.

of contracts, penalty for failing to make, 505.

of legions, 160.

of militia, by whom received, 99.

made annually, 151.

"Returns Office" established, 505.

of superintendent of stores, &c., 227.

penalty for false, 65.

Revenue from duties on imports, collection of, 463.

laws, execution of, at ports of delivery, 463.

Revolution, relief of officers and soldiers of, 327, 330.
Revolutionary soldiers, bounty lands to, 440.

pensions to, 296.

provision for widows of, 390.

Reward for apprehension of deserters, 82.
Riding-master to regiment of cavalry, 230.
Riflemen, mounted, 384.

extra pay of, on Oregon route, 430.
number of privates in each company, 251.
one company to each battalion, 98.
organization of battalion of, 136.

of regiment of, 251, 371.

pay of officers of, 326.

raised for defence of frontier, 325.
regiment of, 347.

remounted, 364.

Rio Grande, officers and soldiers who fell at, 377.

Ripley, Brigadier-General, gold medal voted to, 268.

Rock Island, arsenal at, 511.

Rocky Mountains, mileage to or from stations east or west, 526.

Rosecrans, Wm. S., thanks of Congress to Major-General, and men, for gal-
lantry, 575.

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, 77.

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.

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.

SADDLER sergeants, pay of, 563.

Saddlers, pay of, 216, 469.

Safeguard, penalty for forcing, 71, 495.

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.

contracts to be made by, 139.

duties of, 85, 86, 243.

subject to President's instructions, 86.

Secretaries of executive departments, duties of, 356.
Senior assistant instructors at military academy, pay of, 455.
Sentence, limitation of, 76.

of cashiering to be published, 81.

of court-martial, confirmation of, 187, 560.
execution of, 73, 77, 79, 186.

party entitled to copy of, 191.

of death, 81.

by court-martial, 72, 80, 190.

Sentences of courts-martial, confirmation of, 490.

Sergeant, additional, allowed, 237.

major, pay of, 93, 143.

pay of, 93, 143.

Sergeants, master-workmen of ordnance department designated as, 509.

of ordnance department, 509.

Servants, rations to, 144.

Service bounty of volunteers, 532.

certificates of, 154.

dismissal from, at option of President, 529.

divine, indecent behavior at, punishment for, 63.

length of, how computed, 421.

period of, 327.

Shelby, Isaac, Governor of Kentucky, thanks of Congress and gold medal
voted to, 294.

Shipp, Ensign Edmund, sword presented to his representatives, 333.

Sick and wounded in convalescent camps to be paid within sixty days, 575.
Sickness of public officers, provisions in case of, 101.

Signal corps, increase and organization of, 567.

duty, 459.

officer, rank and pay of, 459, 496.

officers, pay of, 496.

Signals, field, 459.

Sites, military, laws authorizing sale of, repealed, 455.

sale of, 295.

Slaves of rebels to be deemed captives of war, 522.
of traitors declared free, 519.
Sleeping upon post, penalty for, 70, 183.
Soldiers, act to improve condition of, 328.
as servants or waiters, 276.
charged with crime, 189.

desired to attend divine service, 63.
discharge of, 64.

effects of deceased, 193.

exempt from arrest, 215.

number of commissioners of asylum for relief of, reduced, 456.
one company added to topographical engineers, 488.

pay and subsistence of, 128.

reproachful speeches of, prohibited, 66.

who served in Mexican war, entitled to extra pay, 394.
Soldier's home, 457.

duty of commissioners of, 458.

Specie accounts, rendered, how, 243.

Spies, 194, 495, 564.

provost-marshals to detect, 556.
punishment of, 495.

to suffer death on conviction, 564.

Spirits, sugar and coffee in lieu of, 346.

Springfield, pay of superintendent of armory at, 278, 349.
superintendent of armory at, abolished, 359.

Squadron courts of inquiry, 232.

Squadrons, 473.

Staff, general, appointments in, 374.

officers of, 94, 115, 116, 128, 136, 137, 142, 212, 226, 234, 307.
organization of, 245, 272, 285.

regulations for, 246.

legionary, 162.

may be taken from the line, 276.

of lieutenant-general, 449.

officers, commissions of, conferring equal rank in army, 374.
of volunteers, how commissioned, 468.

taken from the line, 245.

organization of general, 245.
pay and emoluments of, 275.

Standards taken from enemy, disposition of, 257.

Star on flag for every new state, 285.

Statement of contracts, by whom made, 205.

State legislature, traitorous words against, punished, 63.

States indebted to the United States expend balances due, how, 119.

militia officered by, 97.

Steamboats, &c. to be paid for as horses, &c. lost in service, 565.

Stewards of hospitals, pay of, 344.

St. Louis, Missouri, arsenal at or near,

316.

Storekeeper, military, at Watertown arsenal, pay of, 403.

Storekeepers, 309.

at arsenals, salaries of, 359.

medical, pay and duties of, 504.

military, number of, 510.

Stores, captains accountable for, 69.

military, embezzlement, waste, &c. of, 69.

Stores, public, taken from the enemy, 71, 185.
Subaltern officers, additional ration to, 276.
penalty for delinquency of, 163.

Subalterns, 88,

allowance to, 253.

number of, to a company, 384.
of sca-fencibles, rations to, 253.

Sub-inspectors, 228.

pay and appointment of, 123.

Sub-legions, organization of, 111.

Subsistence allowed to officers, 88, 93, 112, 116, 118, 128, 131, 139, 144,

201, 203, 266, 346.

allowed to soldiers, 88, 93, 112, 116, 139, 144, 201, 203, 266, 346.
department increased, 481.

rate of commutation for, 88, 112, 203, 215, 447.

Substitutes furnished by drafted men, 559.

regulations in regard to, 262.

Sugar, allowance of, increased, 459.

Suits may be carried to Supreme Court, 572.
to be commenced within two years, 572.

Summons, delivery of, 258.

Superintendence of armories, 489.

of military academy, 149.

Superintendent-general of military supplies, appointment of, 242, 244.

of armories, compensation of, 140.

of Government Insane Hospital, 437.

of military academy, rank and pay of, 410, 455.

of military supplies, office abolished, 279.

Superintendents of armories, 359, 429.

of armories at Springfield and Harper's Ferry abolished, 359.
Supernumeraries, discharge of, 267.

Supernumerary captains, 307.

officers discharged, 387.

Superiors, penalty for striking, 176.
Supplies for army, how made, 286.
medical, purchase of, 502.
of army, provided for, 242.
purchases and contracts for, 462.
quarterly accounts rendered, 243.

species and amount of, defined, 243.

Surgeon-general, rank and pay of, 285, 502.

Surgeon, punishment of, for fraud in inspection report, 558.

Surgeons, additional, appointed, 201, 349, 459.

discharge of, at end of Mexican war, repealed, 393.
and assistants, appointment of, 380, 501, 507.

appointment of additional, 338.

pay of, 331, 480.

assistant, discharge of, at end of Mexican war, repealed, 393.
for certain cavalry regiments, to be paid, 573.
number of, 507.

hospital, 213.

number of, increased, 326.

of volunteers, 507.

pay of, 93, 143, 285, 309.

withdrawn from their regiments, when, 130.