FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. On. 458, 4.59. 187 4. 245 and ernoluments of heutenants of cavalry for the first five years’ service, and with the rank, pay, and emoluments of captains of cavalry after hve years service; and four medical store-keepers, with the same compensation as is now provided by law; and all the original vacancies in _0rizi¤=¤1 v=w¤·¤- the grade oi assistant girgeon shall be iilled by selection by competitive °!°° "‘ €"d° °f "' examination ;_ and the ecretary of War is hereby authorized to appoint. ::`*{°,,°§§:§_g”°’h°W from_ the enlisted men of the Army, or cause to be enlisted, as many Euimmenttfnts. hospital-stewards as the service may require, to be permanently attached pital stewards. to the Medical i)epa.rtment, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe. And the number of contract-surgeons shall be limited to seventyfive on or before the iirst day of January in the year E¤°LI}i€,;L`,Q°0?,°`8°r` eighteen hundred and seventy-tive; and thereafter no more than that gopm, em. *` number shall be employed. 812:0.5; That the Ordnance Department shall consist of one Chief of Ordnance, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of a brlgadier-general; mg,Qd”“"°° D°I’"f three colonels, four lieutenant-colonels, ten majors, twent captains,, , sixteen first lieutenants; and all vacancies which may hereafter exist in of-V‘Q,‘QQ§°}f§Q,‘;gf,'tf;1;’ the grade of iirst lieutenant in said Deipemment shan be filled by trans- how to 1,,, mM_ ’ fer ifr0m_the hue of the Army: Prom ad, That no appointment or pr0— Examinations {0, motion 111 said Department shall hereafter be made until the officer or appointment or properspn so appointed or promoted shall have passed at satisfactory exam- m°°*°¤· mation before a board of ordnance-ohicers senior to himselil Sec. 6. That no officer new in service shall be reduced in rank or Oineers not to be mustered out by reason of any provision of law herein made reducing h°’°bY ¥°d¤°<*d in the number of officers in any department or corps of the stahl $21* °’ ”‘““°'°d Sec. 7. That as vacancies shall occur in any of the grades of the No gppoiuhmchtg Ordnance and Medical Departments, no appointments shall be-made to to be pane to nu fill the sa-me until the numbers in such grade shnll be reduced to the "°°°“°*°¤ m Digi numbers which are fixed for permanent appointments by the provisions Qtgfwgztumgtu of this act; and thereafter the number of permanent officers in said 4,,,,, ’ grades shall continue to conform to said reduced numbers, and all other grades in said Ordnance and Medical Departments than those authorized Umm gum, in by the provisions of this act shall cease to exist as soon as the same Ord,,,,,,,,,, and M_ G;- shall become vacant by death, resignation or otherwise; and no appoint- on Departments to ment or promotion shall hereafter be made to iill any vacancy which °°°°° °° °¤¤* “'b°¤· may occur therein. Sec. 8. That so much of section six of an act entitled “An act making RWM, of Pm of appropriations for the support of the Army for` the year ending June motions, ,.,;,051869, thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes/’ ch. 124, vol. xv, p. approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, as applies to $$5 ` the Ordnance, Subsistence and Medical Departments of the Army be, and the same is hereby, repealed z Provided, That this section repealing pmvi,,°_ said section shall not apply to anyof the grades of the Medical or Ordnance Departments which are omitted or abolished by the provisions of this act. Approved, J` une 23, 1874. . .—— the creation of n court for the a 'udieation and dis osition c§i;t:i?19m0n§y:c:e£giwd into the Treasury under an agwgurd madeby the Igibuuzxl of arbitration constituted by virtue of the that article of the treaty concluded at Vol. xvu,p. 863. Weshin ton the ei kth of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-one, between tie United gtates of America. and the Queen of Great Britain. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United _ com or Comm·is· States be, and he is hereby authorized to nominate and, by and with ¤¤;>q¤r¤ of %;¤3·¤;=¤g·{=¤ the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint five suitable persons, who C ““““ °°"° ‘“ ‘°* · shall constitute a, court, to be known as the “Court of Commissioners of Alabama. O1aims.>* Each of the judges and other otiioers oxsmd Om: •>f<>¤\¤¤- court shall take the oath of office prescribed by law to be taken b all Pmmiugjudgc to officers of the United States. The President shall designate, by appoint- be d,,,,g,,md by ment, one of the said judges to be presiding Judge of the court; and President.
