to receipt and account for all ammunition, implements, and cannon, furnished by the ordnance department for said company, and to do and perform such other services as the war department may direct; and that for the performance of these services they be allowed each ten dollars extra per month.
Two regiments of light dragoons formed into one.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of the two regiments of light dragoons now in service, there shall be organized one regiment, to consist of one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, two majors, one adjutant, one quartermaster, one surgeon, two surgeon’s mates, one serjeant-major, one quartermaster-serjeant, one principal musician, one principal farrier, and eight troops.
Component parts of each troop.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That each troop shall consist of one captain, one first lieutenant, one second lieutenant, one third lieutenant, one cornet, five serjeants, eight corporals, one riding master, one master of the sword, two trumpeters or buglers, one farrier, one blacksmith, one saddler, and ninety-six privates.
Officers of the corps of artillery and light dragoons, their pay.
Additional rations to subalterns of corps.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the officers of the corps of artillery, and the regiment of light artillery, shall severally receive the same pay as is now provided by law for the light dragoons in the service of the United States; and the subalterns of all other corps shall be allowed one ration in addition to the pay authorized by existing laws.
Allowances of blankets, &c. &c.Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed annually to each non-commissioned officer, musician and private in the corps of sea-fencibles one blanket, one knapsack and one canteen.
President to prescribe the kind and amount of clothing.Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the President of the united States be, and he hereby is authorized to prescribe the quantity and kind of clothing to be issued annually to the troops of the United States.
Regulations concerning waiters to the officers, &c.Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first day of June next, the officers of the army shall be entitled to waiters agreeable to grade, as follows:a major general, four waiters; a brigadier general, three; a colonel, two; the physician and surgeon general, two; a lieutenant colonel major, and hospital surgeon, each, one; the officers of each company, three; every commissioned officer who holds a staff appointment which gives the rank of captain, or any higher grade, one; and to every company officer who commands a separate post or detachment, one; any law or regulation heretofore existing to the contrary notwithstanding.
Further regulations.Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That no officer shall be permitted to employ as a servant any soldier from the line of the army, and that the servants of officers, not exceeding the number allowed by the preceding section, shall be mustered with some corps of the army, and that on the muster rolls formed in consequence thereof payments shall be made in money to the officers employing them in lieu of wages, subsistence and clothing, by the paymasters of the several corps or districts where such servants are mustered, at the rate allowed to privates of infantry, which shall be published to the army annually, by the Secretary for the department of war.
President may appoint assistant apothecaries.
Their pay, &c.Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be authorized to appoint so many assistant apothecaries as the service may, in his judgment, require: each of whom shall receive the same pay and emoluments as a regimental surgeon’s mate.
Promotions, how to be made.Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this act, promotions may be made through the whole army in its several lines of light artillery, light dragoons, artillery, infantry, and riflemen respectively; and that the relative rank of officers of the same grade, belonging to regiments or corps already authorized, or which may be engaged to serve for five years, or during the war, be equalized and settled by the war department, agreeably to the established rules;Act of June 26, ch. 108. and that so much of the act, entitled “An act for the more perfect organization of the army of the United States,”
