Medical corps, incapacity of an officer to be reported 503.
department, act to increase efficiency of, 501.

appointment of officers of, 130.

establishment of, 129.

obedience required of officers of, 131.

pay of, 347.

establishment of 1796 increased in case of war, &c., 131.
inspector-general, rank and pay of, 502.

inspectors, rank, pay, and duties of, 502.
officers, additional, of volunteers, 507.
purveyors, duties of, 502.

staff, extension of, 273.
increase of, 402.

rations and pay of, 255.

storekeepers, pay and duties of, 504.

Meek, Lieutenant John, sword presented to, 333.
Members of courts-martial, rank of, 72.

Mexican war, additional force raised during, 379.
war, volunteers for, 367.

Mexico, account of military contributions in, 430.
discharge of sappers, &c. who served in, 403.
discharge of soldiers who served in, 397.

money paid to prisoners of war in, in lieu of subsistence, 401.
receivers of contributions in, to be paid, 430.

Mileage, cases where not allowed, 456.

rate of, fixed, 526.

to officers, 456.

Military academy, appointment of cadets to, 363.

appropriation for buildings, 226.

for support of, 357, 376, 409, 414.

at West Point, constituted, 148.
books, &c. for, how procured, 149.

commandant at, 361.

commission to examine into organization of, 459.

composed of whom, 224.

experiments made by whom, 150.

pay of master of sword, 230.

increased, 431, 447.

pay of superintendent of, 410.

professors in, 224.

provisions for support of, 355.

rank and pay of superintendent, 455.

superintendence of, 149.

teachers for, authorized, 150.

term of service of cadets at, 348.

agents, 142.

abolished, 220.

duties of, 146.

pay of, 143.

appointments, suspension of, 141.

asylum for invalid and disabled soldiers, 415.

funds for support of, 416.

site for, western, 424.

board for examination of officers, duties of, 470.
claims in department of West, 538.

Military contributions, collection of, 404.
contributions in Mexico, accounts of, 424.
duties, exemption from, 167.

establishment, former laws respecting, 124.
of 1785, 78.

of 1787, 83.

of 1787 recognized, 87.

of 1789, 87.

of 1790, 87.

of 1790, increased, 90, 92, 104.

of 1790, limited, 87.

of 1795, 111.

of 1796, 114.

of 1796, increased, 119, 127.

of 1796, modified, 118.

of 1796, officers of, 115.

of 1796, reduced, 141.

of 1802, 141.

of 1802, completed, 211.

of 1802, increased, 150, 169, 200.

of 1812, 212.

of 1812, increased, 212, 227, 233, 238, 242, 251.

of 1812, organized, 230, 237, 252.

of 1812, reduced, 266.

of 1815, 266, 271.

of 1815, reduced, 306.

of 1821, 306.

of 1821, increased, 341, 371.

of 1821, reduced, 358.

of 1850, 408.

of 1855, 435.

of 1858, 451.

of 1861, 466.

of 1861, increased, 473, 476, 487.

of 1861, limited, 472.

of 1861, organized, 480.

of 1862, 531.

of United States, act for regulating, 87.

statement of contingent expenses, 210.

force, additional, 216, 247.

additional, act to raise, 378.

hospitals, officers of, 130.

laws of United States, 85.

music, instruction in, 167.

peace establishment of United States, 141, 169, 266.

corps subject to rules of war, 267.
reduced, 306.

pension roll, 272..

secretary, pay and emoluments of, 374.

service, persons exempt from, 140.

services, provision for, 269.

storekeepers, 274.

Military stores, embezzlement, waste, &c., of, 69.
superiors, penalty for resistance to, 64.
superiors, resistance to, 64.
trophies, preservation of, 436.

Militia, additional officers of, 257.

age of enrolment in, 96.

and volunteer corps, officered, how, 169.
annual appropriation for arming, 277.
arming and equipping, 205.

arms for, 126, 205, 277, 435.

call for, term of service may be specified, 531.
compelled to serve six months, 259.
corps, loan of artillery to, 124.

payment of, 334.

courts-martial for trial of, 109, 478.
detachment of, from several states, 169.
disabled in service of United States, 248.
discipline and field exercise for, 300.
districts, how designated, 154.
division and arrangement of, 97.
duties of adjutant-general of, 150.
duty, persons exempt from, 97, 126.
volunteers exempt from, 126.

enrolment of, 95, 151, 531.

equipments of, exempt from distress, 166.
establishment of uniform, 95.

formation of divisions, 98.

governed by rules and articles of war,
in service, arms delivered to, 127.

may serve as cavalry, when, 91.

109.

of District of Columbia, act for arming, 314.

arms for, 314.

organization of, 231.

officered by the States, 97.

officers, courts-martial composed of, when, 193.
officers of, 271.

officers take rank after those of regular army, 194.
organization of, in District of Columbia, 149, 151.
paid by paymasters of regular army, 256.

pay and allowance of, 354.

pay of, 95.

increased, 293.

regulated, 106.

when in service, 87.

power of President to call forth, 108, 94, 87.

when, 89.

returns of, by whom received, 99.

made annually, 151.

rules for governing, 75.

rules of discipline observed by, 99.
term of service of, 353, 477.

Militiamen appear armed, when, 96.
pensions for disabled, 114.
removal of, 154.

Militiamen, wounded or disabled, 100.

Miller, Brigadier-General, gold medal voted to, 268.
Minors, enlistment of, 261.

equipments of deceased, paid for, 406.

Misbehavior before the enemy, penalty for, 70, 184.
Misconduct of officers on duty, 161.

Misdemeanor, 288, 290, 291.

Missouri, claims in department of, 540.

payment of money expended in arming troops, &c., 535.
volunteers, horses lost by, 365.

Money and public property, how accounted for, 274.
arising from sales of arms, 127.

contracts requiring advance of, 129.

duty of officers receiving, 301.

for war and navy departments, how drawn, 310.
in lieu of arms, 236.

forage, 88, 145, 248.

pensions, 272.

rations, 88, 112.

penalty for embezzlement of, 182.

public, deposited in banks, 210.

penalty for misapplication, &c. of, 69.

received in advance, accounts of, 243.

receivers of public, render accounts, 208.

Monterey, officers and men under General Taylor at, 389.

Monthly returns, 66.

returns remitted to department of war, 178.

Music, military, instruction in, 167.

Musicians, courts of inquiry provide for, 167.
pay of, 93, 143.

two principal, to each regiment of artillery, 387.

Muskets, description of, 96.

Muster, certificates in regard to absentees at, 65.
legionary, in October, 158.

volunteer regiments, paid according to, 530.
Muster-rolls of militia, by whom signed, 260.
time of absence inserted in, 177.
Musters, commissary of, when to be removed, 65.
conduct of bystanders at, 161.

continuance of, limited, 159.

duties of commissary of, 65.

false, of those not soldiers, 65.

penalty for making, 65, 177.

legionary, 231.

of servants, 253.

penalty for false, 65, 177.

time and place of, by whom fixed, 158.

Mutiny, failing to endeavor to suppress, penalty for, 64.

penalty for exciting, 64, 175.

suppression of, 64.

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N.

NAMES of contractors on articles furnished, 529.
Naval service, appropriation for, 460.

Navy department, establishment of, 129, 207, 297.
Navy, officers of army and, relative rank between, 517.
pensions to, 512.
retired, 528.

Neglect of horse, arms, &c., penalty for, 182.
Negroes, emigration of, 523.

in service of United States, pay of, 535.

may be employed for suppression of rebellion, 523.
mother, wife, and children of certain, made free, 535.
rendering military service, free, 535.

to be employed to labor for army, 534.

Newspapers and periodicals, appropriation for, 362.
Niagara, pay of military agent at, 143.

Non-commissioned officers and soldiers, furloughs to, 65.
officers and soldiers, imprisonment of, 81.

officers, appointment of, 160.

brevets to, 386.

discharge of, 64, 80.
misconduct of, 161.

&c., pay of, 236, 346.

penalty for delinquency, 163.

Notice given of musters, 159.

Nurses, extra pay to soldiers acting, 444.

female, 482.

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Oath administered by judge-advocate, 80, 187, 192.

on enlistment, 64, 87, 89, 93, 113, 117, 128, 147, 176, 240.
to cadets at West Point, 483.

form of, of officers of militia in District of Columbia, 155.
taken by members of court of inquiry, 82, 157, 192.

of allegiance to so-called Southern Confederacy, 521.

of enlistment, by whom administered, 455, 484.

of judge-advocate, 72, 79, 188, 192.

of courts of inquiry, 82.

of members of courts-martial, 72, 79, 187.

of office under Government of United States, 508.
of secretary of war and clerks, 86.

of witnesses before court-martial, 73, 80, 188.
of court of inquiry, 192.

Oaths, auditors empowered to administer, 282.
profane, penalty for using, 63, 175.
Offences committed two years before trial, 191.
not capital, courts-martial for, 187.

Offenders tried by field officer, 533.

Officer, cadet may be supernumerary, 225.

commissioned, cashiered for fraud, &c., 190.
duties of commanding, 66.

field or staff, entitled to pay, when, 240.