This chapter of the Revised Statutes, including sections 1094-1242 thereof, prescribed the composition, organization, and equipment of the Regular Army and of the various Departments, Corps, and other organizations forming part of it. Many of the provisions of this chapter were superseded, soon after its enactment, by statutes relating to particular departments or corps or other parts of the military establishment, particularly Act June 23, 1874, c. 458, 18 Stat. 244, which reorganized the several staff corps. The organization of a Volunteer Army was provided for by Act April 22, 1898, c. 187, 30 Stat. 361, and additions to the volunteer forces were authorized by Act May 11, 1898, c. 294, 30 Stat. 405, and further provisions for raising and organizing and mustering out volunteers were made by Act March 2, 1899, c. 352, §§ 12-15, 30 Stat. 979. The provisions of these sections which may be regarded as permanent are set forth in this chapter, post, §§ 2020-2044. Provisions of a temporary nature, relating to the increase and organization of particular departments or corps, were made by later statutes. The better organization of the line of the Army and its increase in time of war were provided for by Act April 26, 1898, c. 191, 30 Stat. 364. But, to a great extent, the provisions of the Revised Statutes and of the subsequent acts mentioned above relating to the permanent military establishment, were superseded by Act March 2, 1899, c. 352, 30 Stat. 977, which altered the composition and organization of the Army, and the provisions of that act, in turn, were superseded almost entirely by those of Act Feb. 2, 1901, c. 192, 31 Stat. 748. Many changes in and additions to the organization under said Act Feb. 2, 1901, c. 192, were made by later statutes, the more important of which were the establishment of a General Staff Corps, by Act Feb. 14, 1903, c. 553, 32 Stat. 830, changes in the organization of the Adjutant-General's Department, by Act April 23, 1904, c. 1485, 33 Stat. 262, and Act March 2, 1907, c. 2511, 34 Stat. 1158, the reorganization of the artillery, by Act Jan. 25, 1907, c. 397, 34 Stat. 861, the reorganization of the Medical Department as the Medical Corps and the Medical Reserve Corps, by Act April 23, 1908, c. 150, 35 Stat. 66, the increase of the Corps of Engineers, by Act Feb. 27, 1911, c. 166, § 5, 36 Stat. 957, the consolidation of the Quartermaster's Subsistence, and Pay Departments into the Quartermaster Corps, by Act Aug. 24, 1912, c. 391, § 3, 37 Stat. 591, and the provisions for an Army Reserve, made by section 2 of said last-mentioned act, 37 Stat. 590. This chapter includes the provisions of said sections of the Revised Statutes Sec. and of the subsequent statutes mentioned above and other acts which remain in force and are applicable to the military establishment, particularly to the Regular Army and the Volunteer Army. Provisions relating only to the Militia are set forth under Title XVI, "The Militia." Portions of this chapter in the Revised Statutes were placed as subchapters under separate headings, "Of Promotions, Brevets, and Certificates of Merit," and "General Provisions of Organization." In addition to these two, other such headings have been inserted, such as "Line of the Army," "Staff Corps and Departments," etc., and provisions appropriate to each have been grouped under them, respectively, for convenience of arrangement and reference, thereby modifying somewhat the original order of such sections of the Revised Statutes as remain in force. 1714. National forces; liability to mili- 1717. Composition of the Army. LINE OF THE ARMY 1718. Composition of cavalry regiment; pay and allowances of squadron adjutants, quartermasters, and commissaries; cavalry band; composition of troop. 1719. Regiment of cavalry; band. 1720. Regiment of cavalry; veterinarians, grade, appointment, pay, etc. 1721. Regiments of cavalry and of artillery; veterinarians, grade, pay, etc. 1722. Troop of cavalry; horseshoer; farrier. 1723. Colored cavalry regiments. 1724. Dismounted. 1725. Artillery; regimental organization discontinued. 1726. Artillery; master electricians. artillery and field artillery; 1728. Chief of Coast Artillery an addi- 1731. Composition of corps of coast ar tillery. 1732. Composition of company of coast artillery. 1733. Coast artillery; band. 1734. Composition of regiment of field artillery. Sec. 1735. Composition of battery of field artillery. 1736. Battery of field artillery; horseshoer. 1737. Pay and allowances of noncommissioned officers and other enlisted men; additional pay, and limitations thereof. 1738. Composition of infantry regi- 1739. Regiment of infantry; band. 1742. Philippine Scouts; office of cap- 1743. Philippine Constabulary; detail ance. 1747. Porto Rico regiment of infantry; term of enlistment; re-enlistments. 1748. Porto Rico regiment of infantry; designation; composition. Sec. 1749. Porto Rico regiment of infantry; field officers; detail from officers of Army. 1750. Porto Rico regiment of infantry; captains and lieutenants formerly appointed to be re-commissioned. 1751. Porto Rico regiment of infantry; second lieutenants; appointment of citizens of Porto Rico. 1752. Porto Rico regiment of infantry; promotions to grade of first lieutenant and captain; rank, pay and allowances and rights of officers; retirement. 1753. Porto Rico regiment of infantry; service out of island. 1754. Indian scouts. 1755. Indian scouts; employment continued. 1756. Lieutenant-General; vacancy not to be filled, and office to cease. 1757. Aids of major and brigadier generals. 1758. Organization into brigades and divisions. STAFF CORPS AND DEPARTMENTS 1759. General Staff Corps established. 1760. Duties of General Staff Corps. 1761. Composition of General Staff Corps. 1762. Composition of General Staff Corps. 1763. Duties of Chief of Staff; acts authorizing aids-de-camp and military secretaries not to apply. 1764. Former Adjutant-General's Department. 1765. Former Assistant Adjutants-General required to perform duties of Assistant Inspectors-General. 1766. Officers of former Adjutant-Gen eral's Department and of Record and Pension Office consolidated as Military Secretary's Department and Military Secretary's Office of War Department; appointments, promotions, details. rank, and titles of officers; supervision of Chief of Staff. 1767. Existing officers and total number of officers of Army not affected by act. 1768. Vacancies in former office of Assistant Chief of Record and Pension Office; change of titles of said office and of former office of Assistant Adjutant-General, Sec. 1769. Military Secretary's Department to be known as Adjutant-General's Department, and Military Secretary's Office of War Department, as Adjutant-General's Office; titles of officers of Department. 1770. Adjutant-General's Department; promotion to fill vacancy in grade of lieutenant-colonel. 1771. Inspector-General's Department. 1772. Inspector-General's Department; detail of officers of the line to act as Assistant InspectorsGeneral. 1773. Inspector-General's Department; number of officers. 1774. Inspector-General's Department; expert accountant. 1775. Judge-Advocate-General's Depart eral. 1778. Duties of judge-advocates. 1779. Quartermaster Corps established by consolidation of Quartermaster's Subsistence, and Pay Departments; rank and titles of officers, filling vacancies, etc.; noncommissioned officers and pay clerks; restrictions of details to fill vacancies; performance of duties by regimental, etc., quartermasters and commissaries; Chief of Corps, appointment, rank, etc.; supervision by Chief of Staff. 1780. Quartermaster Corps ; certain civilian employés and all enlisted men of the line detailed on extra duty to be replaced by enlisted men of the corps; composition of enlisted force; enlistment of civilian employés; continued employment of excepted civilians. 1781. Existing officers not affected by act. 1782. Quartermaster Corps; performance of duties by regimental, etc., quartermasters and commissaries, or other officers of Army. 1783. Quartermaster Corps; pay clerks; no further appointments. 1784. Composition of former Quartermaster's Department. 1785. Former Quartermaster's Department; employment of veterinarians. Sec. 1786. Former Quartermaster's Department increased; additional offi cers. 1787. Former Quartermaster's Department; post quartermaster-sergeants. 1788. Former Quartermaster's Department; post quartermaster-sergeants; increase in number. 1789. Duties of former Quartermaster's Department. 1790. Quartermasters to perform commissary's duty. 1791. Supplies to naval and marine detachments. 1792. Transportation for National Museum, or for other civil or naval departments. 1793. Composition of former Subsistence Department. 1794. Former Subsistence Department; commissary-sergeants. 1795. Duties of former Subsistence De partment. 1796. Rations to naval detachments. 1797. Composition of former Pay Department. 1798. Former Pay Department; paymasters' clerks. 1799. Former Pay Department; paymasters' clerks' pay, etc., and right of retirement. 1800. Former Pay Department; paymasters' clerks subject to articles of war. 1801. Duties of former Paymaster-General. 1802. Duties of former Paymaster-General as to accounts of paymasters, and assignment of paymasters' clerks to duty in office of Paymaster-General. 1803. Duties of former deputy paymasters-general. 1804. Duties of former paymasters. 1805. Right of command of officers of former Pay Department. 1806. Medical Department. 1807. Composition of Medical Corps. 1808. Medical Corps; promotions and appointments to fill vacancies in grades. 1809. Medical Corps; examination for appointment. 1810. Medical Corps; examination for promotion; retirement for physical disability or other disqualification. 1811. Medical Corps; examination for promotion; suspension from promotion of major found disquali 1812. Medical Corps; appointment of contract surgeons. 1813. Medical Corps; authority of contract surgeon in charge of hospital. 1814. Medical Department; officers in former department not affected by act except as provided. 1815. Medical Department; rank and precedence of officers of former Department. 1816. Medical Reserve Corps; appointment, authority, etc., and rank of officers; contract surgeons eligible. 1817. Medical Reserve Corps; service of officers on active duty; discharge from corps; applications for appointment in Medical Corps; forfeiture of commission on refusal of active duty. 1818. Medical Reserve Corps; officers on active duty subject to army regulations; rights as to pay and allowances, retirement, and pension; appointment in time of war of medical officers of volunteers. 1819. Hospital Corps; composition; services. 1820. Hospital Corps; number of hospital stewards. 1821. Hospital Corps; pay and allowances and rank of hospital stewards. 1822. Hospital Corps; examination for appointment as hospital stew ard. 1823. Hospital Corps; enlistment of privates; transfer of enlisted men in Army; duties of privates. 1824. Hospital Corps; pay and allowances of privates. 1825. Hospital Corps; detail of privates as acting hospital stewards; pay; examination for appointment as hospital stewards. 1826. Hospital Corps; number of hospital stewards. 1827. Hospital Corps; additional number of hospital stewards. 1828. Hospital Corps; additional number of hospital stewards. 1829. Hospital Corps; composition and organization; rank and pay of sergeants, corporals, and privates; detachments. 1830. Matrons. 1841. Corps of Engineers increased; additional officers; payment of officers connected with river and harbor improvements from appropriations therefor; details of assistant engineers in employ of Engineer Bureau of War Department; vacancies in grade of second lieutenant to be filled by promotion of cadets of Military Academy, and by appointments from civil life; qualifications and examinations of civilians for appointment. 1842. Composition of enlisted force of Corps of Engineers. 1843. Corps of Engineers; detail of officers for enlisted force. 1844. Corps of Engineers; duties of enlisted men. 1845. Corps of Engineers; regulations of supplies. 1846. Corps of Engineers; disbursements of moneys applicable to works under construction. 1847. Corps of Engineers; limits of duty. 1848. Composition of Ordnance Department. COMP.ST.'13-46. Sec. 1849. Ordnance Department; details of officers from Army at large. 1850. Ordnance Department; rank of officers serving by detail. 1851. Ordnance-sergeants; number and duty. 1852. Ordnance-sergeants; how selected. 1853. Ordnance Department; enlisted force. 1854. Ordnance Department; detail of enlisted men. 1855. Ordnance Department; supplies. 1856. Ordnance Department; depots. 1857. Ordnance Department; orders for supplies. 1858. Ordnance Department; reports by Chief of Ordnance; returns of ordnance stores, supplies, etc. 1859. Semiannual returns of ordnance property. 1860. Composition of Signal Corps. 1861. Signal Corps; designation of privates. 1862. Signal Corps; additional force for service in Philippine Islands and Alaska. 1863. Signal Corps; additional officers. 1864. Signal Corps; detail of officer as chief of telegraph and cipher bureau of Executive Office. 1865. Signal Corps; increase of enlisted force. 1866. Signal Corps; enlisted men may be mounted. 1867. Signal Corps; duties of Chief Signal Officer. 1868. Chaplains; appointment; number; qualifications; assignment to regiments, etc.; transportation to be furnished. 1869. Chaplains; addition to number, of one for Corps of Engineers. 1870. Chaplains; additions to number, for artillery. 1871. Chaplains; qualifications. 1872. Chaplains; examination for ap pointment. 1873. Rank, etc., of chaplains. 1874. Chaplains; promotion and rank, pay, and allowances. 1875. Chaplains; official designation. 1876. Chaplains; effect of act as to existing chaplains. 1877. Chaplains; duties as school-teach ers. 1878. Chaplains; duties as clergymen. 1879. Chaplains; monthly reports. 1880. Chaplains; facilities to. 1881. Chiefs of corps and departments, how selected. (721) |