ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

No. 78.

Washington, July 6, 1874.

The following Act of Congress is published for the information and government of all concerned:

AN ACT reorganizing the several staff corps of the Army.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Inspector General's Department shall consist of one colonel, two lieutenant colonels, and two majors, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of officers of said grades; and the Secretary of War may, in addition, detail officers of the line, not to exceed four, to act as assistant inspectors general: Provided, That officers of the line detailed as acting inspectors general shall have all the allowances of cavalry officers of their respective grades; and no new appointment shall be made in the Inspector General's Department until the number of inspectors general is reduced to five.

SEC. 2. That the Bureau of Military Justice shall hereafter consist of one Judge Advocate General, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of a brigadier general; and the said Judge Advocate General shall receive, revise, and have recorded the proceedings of all courts martial, courts of inquiry, and military commissions, and shall perform such other duties as have been heretofore performed by the Judge Advocate General of the Army. In the corps of judge advocates no appointment shall be made as vacancies occur until the number shall be reduced to four, which shall thereafter be the permanent number of the officers of that corps.

SEC. 3. That hereafter there shall be three assistant commissaries general of subsistance, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of lieutenant colonel, instead of the two now allowed by law of said grade in the Subsistence Department; that the number of commissaries of subsistence, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of a captain of cavalry, is hereby reduced to twelve, and no appointment to fill a vacancy in said grade shall be made until the number thereof shall be reduced to twelve, and the number thereafter shall remain fixed at twelve.

SEC. 4. That the Medical Department of the Army shall hereafter consist of one Surgeon General, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of a brigadier general; one assistant surgeon general, and one chief medical purveyor, each with the rank, pay, and emoluments of a colonel; and

SEC. 8. That so much of section six of an act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, as applies to the Ordnance, Subsistence, aud Medical Departments of the Army be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, That this section repealing said Section shall not apply to any of the grades of the Medical or Ordnance Departments which are omitted or abolished by the provisions of this act. Approved June 23, 1874.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

OFFICIAL:

THOMAS M. VINCENT,

Assistant Adjutant General.

Assistant Adjutant General.

roads, and for removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of troops in the field, being a deficiency for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, not including Pacific railroad accounts, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of the sum appropriated by any provision of this act shall be paid to any railroad company which has received a grant of land on the condition that its road should be a public highway for the transportation of the property and troops of the United States free from toll or other charge.

Barracks and quarters: For rent or hire of quarters for troops, and for officers on military duty; of store-houses for safe keeping of military stores; of offices; of grounds for camps and cantonments, and for temporary frontier stations; for construction and repair of temporary huts, of stables and other military buildings at established posts, and for repairs of buildings occupied by the Army, being a deficiency for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, ninety thousand dollars.

Signal Office: For expenses of the observation and report of storms by telegraph and signals; for the manufacture, purchase, or repair of meteorological and other necessary instruments; for telegraphing reports; for expenses of storm-signals, announcing probable approach and force of storms; for instrument shelters; for hire, furniture, and expenses of offices, maintained for public use, in cities or ports receiving reports; for river reports; for maps and bulletins, to be displayed in chambers of commerce and boards of trade rooms, and for distribution; for books and stationery; and for incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, being a deficiency for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, forty-five thousand dollars.

To pay Benn Pitman balance due him for transcribing phonographic notes of the testimony and proceedings of the court of inquiry into the operations of the Army under the command of Major General D. C. Buell, in Kentucky and Tennessee, during the winter and spring of eighteen hundred and sixty-two and eighteen hundred and sixty-three, nine hundred and ninety dollars and fifty cents.

For compensation of the two commissioners appointed from civil life on the military prison board, under the second section of "An Act to provide for the establishment of a military prison, and for its government," approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three,