GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 54. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, August 10, 1861. 
The following acts of Congress are published for the information of 
the army: 
[Public—No. 22.] 
AN ACT to provide for the suppression of rebellion against, and resistance to, the 
laws of the United States, and to amend the act entitled “An act to provide 
for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union,” &c., passed Feb- 
ruary twenty-eight, seventeen hundred and ninety-five. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever, by reason of 
unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages of persons, or 
rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States, 
it shall become impracticable, in the judgment of the President of the 
United States, to enforce, by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, 
the laws of the United States within any State or Territory of the 
United States, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States 
to call forth the militia of any or all the States of the Union, and to 
employ such parts of the land and naval forces of the United States as 
lie may deem necessary, to enforce the faithful execution of the laws of 
the United States, or to suppress such rebellion in whatever State or 
Territory thereof the laws of the United States may be forcibly opposed, 
or the execution thereof forcibly obstructed. 
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever in the judgment .of 
the President it may be necessary to use the military force hereby 
directed to be employed and called forth by him, the President shall 
forthwith, by proclamation, command such insurgents to disperse and 
retire peaceably to their respective abodes, within a limited time. 
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the militia so called into the 
service of the United States shall be subject to the same rules and 
articles of war as the troops of the United States, and be continued in 
the service of the United States until discharged by proclamation of 
the President: Provided, That such continuance in service shall not 
extend beyond sixty days after the commencement of the next regular 2 
session of Congress, unless Congress shall expressly provide by law 
therefor: And provided further, That the militia so called into the 
service of the United States shall, during their time of service, be 
entitled to the same pay, rations and allowances for clothing as are 
or may be established by law for the Army of the United States. 
Sec. 4. And he it further enacted, That every officer, non-commis- 
sioned officer, or private of the militia, who shall fail to obey the orders 
of the President of the United States in any of the cases before recited, 
shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one year’s pay, and not less than one 
month’s pay, to be determined and adjudged by a court-martial; and 
such officer shall be liable to be cashiered by a sentence of court-martial, 
and be incapacitated from holding a commission in the militia, for a 
term not exceeding twelve months, at the discretion of the court; and 
such non-commissioned officer and private shall be liable to imprison- 
ment by a like sentence, on failure of payment of the fines adjudged 
against them for one calendar month, for eveiy twenty-five dollars of 
such fine. 
Sec. 5. And he it further enacted, That courts-martial for the trial of 
militia shall be composed of militia officers only. 
Sec. 6. And he it further enacted, That all fines to be assessed as 
aforesaid shall be certified by the presiding officer of the court-martial, 
and shall be collected and paid over according to the provisions and in 
the manner prescribed by the seventh and eighth sections of the act of 
February twenty-eight, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, to which 
this is an amendment. 
Sec. 7. And he it further enacted, That the marshals of the several 
districts of the United States and their deputies shall have the same 
powers in executing the laws of the United States as sheriffs and their 
deputies in the several States have, by law, in executing the laws of 
the respective States. 
Sec. 8.‘ And he it further enacted, That sections two, three, and four 
of the act entitled “An act to provide for calling forth the militia to 
execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel in- 
vasions, and to repeal the act now in force for those purposes,” approved 
February twenty-eight, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, and so much 
of the residue of said act and of all other acts as conflict with this act 
are hereby repealed. 
Approved July 20. 1861. 3 
AN ACT providing for the better organization of the military establishment. 
[Public—No. 38.] 
| Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be, and ho 
is hereby, authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent 
of the Senate, an officer in the War Department, to be called the 
Assistant Secretary of War, whose salary shall be three thousand 
dollars per annum, payable in the same manner as that of the Secretary 
of War, who shall perform all such duties in the office of the Secretary 
of War, belonging to that department, as shall be prescribed by the 
Secretary of War, or as may be required by law. 
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he is 
hereby, authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of 
the Senate, in addition to the number authorized by existing laws and 
in accordance with existing regulations, five assistant inspector gen- 
erals, with the rank and pay of majors of cavalry, ten surgeons and 
twenty assistant surgeons, to have the pay, rank, and allowances, and 
perform the duties of similar officers in the present military establish- 
ment. That hereafter the Adjutant General’s department shall consist 
of the following officers, namely: One adjutant general, with the rank, 
pay, and emoluments of a brigadier general; one assistant adjutant 
general, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of a colonel of cavalry; 
two assistant adjutant generals, with the rank, pay, and emoluments 
each of a lieutenant colonel of cavalry; four assistant adjutant generals, 
with the rank, pay, and emoluments each of a major of cavalry; and 
twelve assistant adjutant generals, with the rank, pay, and emoluments 
each of a captain of cavalry; and that there shall be added to the 
Subsistence department four commissaries of subsistence, each with 
the rank, pay, and emoluments of a major of cavalry; and eight com- 
missaries of subsistence, with the rank, pay, and emoluments each of 
a captain of cavalry, and to be taken from the line of the army, either 
of the volunteers or regular army. 
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be added to each 
of the corps of engineers and topographical engineers three first and 
three second lieutenants, to be promoted thereto in accordance with the 
existing laws and regulations. And there shall be added to the Quarter- 
master’s department one colonel, two lieutenant colonels, four majors, 4 
and twenty captains, with the rank, pay, and allowances of officers of 
cavalry; and whenever any army captain of the Quartermaster’s 
department shall have served fourteen years’ continuous service he 
shall be promoted to the rank of major; and that there shall he added 
to the Quartermaster’s department as many master wagoners, with the 
rank, pay, and allowances of ‘sergeants of cavalry, and as many 
wagoners, with the pay and allowances of corporals of cavalry, as the 
military service, in the judgment of the President, may render necessary. 
And there shall be added to the Ordnance department of the United 
States army, as now organized, one Chief of Ordnance, with the rank, 
pay, and emoluments of the quartermaster general of the army; one 
colonel, one lieutenant colonel, and six second lieutenants; the field 
officers to be appointed by selection from the officers of the army, and 
the second lieutenants from the graduates of the United States Military 
Academy, by transfers from the engineers, or the topographical en- 
gineers, or the artillery. 
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be added to the 
corps of engineers three companies of engineer soldiers, to be com- 
manded by appropriate officers of said corps, to have the same pay and 
rations, clothing, and other allowances, and be entitled to the same 
benefits, in every respect, as the company created by the act for the 
organization of a company of sappers and miners and pontoniers, 
approved May sixteen, eighteen hundred and forty-six. The said three 
companies shall be subject to the rules and articles of war; shall be 
recruited in the same manner and with the same limitation; shall be 
instructed in and perform the same duties, and be liable to serve in the 
same way, and shall have their vehicles, pontons, tools, implements, 
arms, and other supplies, regulated in the same manner as the existing 
engineer company; and each of the four companies of engineer soldiers 
shall hereafter be composed of ten sergeants, ten corporals, two musi- 
cians, sixty-four privates of the first class, or artificers, and sixty-four 
privates of the second class, in all one hundred and fifty men each. 
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That there be added to the medical 
staff of the army a corps of medical cadets, whose duty it shall be to 
act as dressers in the general hospitals and as ambulance attendants in 
the field, under the direction and control of the medical officers alone. 
They shall have the same rank and pay as the military cadets at West 
Point. Their number shall be regulated by the exigencies of service, 5 
at no time to exceed fifty. It shall be composed of young men o f 
liberal education, students ot medicine, between the ages of eighteen 
and twenty-three, who have been reading medicine for two years, and 
have attended at least one course of lectures in a medical college. 
They shall enlist for one year, and be subject to the rules and articles 
of war. On the fifteenth day of the last month of their service the 
near approach of their discharge shall be reported to the surgeon 
general, in order, if desired, that they may be relieved by another 
detail of applicants. 
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That in general or permanent 
hospitals female nurses may be substituted for soldiers, when, in the 
opinion of the surgeon general or medical officer in charge, it is 
expedient to do so, the number of female nurses to be indicated by the 
surgeon general or surgeon in charge of the hospital. The nurses so 
employed to receive forty cents a day and one ration in kind, or by 
commutation, in lieu of all emoluments except transportation in kind. ' 
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That one chaplain shall be allowed 
to each regiment of the army, to be selected and appointed as the 
President may direct: Provided, That none but regularly ordained 
ministers of some Christian denomination shall be eligible to selection 
or appointment. 
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That no cadet who has been or 
shall hereafter be reported as deficient, either in conduct or studies, 
and recommended to be discharged from the academy, shall be returned 
or reappointed, or appointed to any place in the army before his class 
shall have left the academy and received their commissions, unless 
upon the recommendation of the academic board of the academy: Pro- 
vided, That all cadets now in the service, or hereafter entering the 
Military Academy at West Point, shall be called on to take and 
scribe the following oath: “I, A. B., do solemnly swear that I will 
support the Constitution of the United States, and bear true allegiance 
to the national government; that I will maintain and defend the 
sovereignty of the United States paramount to any and all allegiance, 
sovereignty, or fealty I may owe to any State, county, or country 
whatsoever; and that I will at all times obey the legal orders of my 
superior officers and the rules and articles governing the armies of the 
United States.” And any cadet or candidate for admission who shall 
refuse to take this oath shall be dismissed from the service. 6 
SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the three months’ extra pay 
allowed by the twenty-ninth section of the act of the fifth of July, 
eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, for re-enlistments under certain 
conditions, the bounty granted by the third section of the act of the 
seventeenth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, for enlistments at 
remote and distant stations, and the premium now paid for bringing 
accepted recruits to the rendezvous, be, and they are hereby, abolished. 
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That hereafter two dollars per 
month shall be retained out of the monthly pay of each enlisted man in 
the regular army until the expiration of his term of service, instead of 
one dollar per month, as authorized by existing laws. 
f Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That in all cases of enlistment 
; and re-enlistment in the military service of the United States, the pre- 
scribed oath of allegiance may be administered by any commissioned 
\>fficer of the army. 
Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That the two regiments of dragoons, 
the regiment of mounted riflemen, and the two regiments of cavalry, 
shall hereafter be known and recognized as the first, second, third, 
fourth, and fifth regiments of cavalry, respectively; the officers thereof 
to retain their present relative rank, and to be promoted as of one arm 
of service, according to existing law and established usage and regu- 
lation. 
Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That the army ration shall be in- 
creased as follows, viz: Twenty-two ounces of bread or flour, or one 
pound of hard bread, instead of the present issue; fresh beef shall be 
issued as often as the commanding officer of any detachment or regi- 
ment shall require it, when practicable, in place of salt meat; beans 
and rice or hominy shall be issued in the same ration in the propor- 
tions now provided in the regulation, and one pound of potatoes per 
man shall be issued at least three times a week, if practicable; and 
when these articles cannot be issued in these proportions, an equiva- 
lent in value shall be issued in some other proper food, and a 
ration of tea may be substituted for a ration of coffee upon the requisi- 
tion of the proper officer: Provided, That after the present insurrection 
shall cease, the ration shall be as provided by law and regulations on 
the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. 
Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That there may be allowed in 
hospitals, to be provided under such rules as the surgeon general of 7 
the army, with the approval of the Secretary of War, may prescribe, 
such quantities of fresh or preserved fruits, milk or butter, and of eggs, 
as may be necessary for the proper diet of the sick. 
Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That any commissioned officer of 
the army, or of the marine corps, who shall have served as such for 
forty consecutive years, may, upon his own application to the President 
of the United States, be placed upon the list of retired officers, with 
the pay and emoluments allowed by this act. 
Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That if any commissioned officer 
of the army, or of the marine corps, shall have become, or shall here- 
after become, incapable of performing the duties of his office, he shall 
be placed upon the retired list and withdrawn from active service and 
command, and from the line of promotion, with the following pay and 
emoluments, namely: the pay proper of the highest rank held by him 
at the time of his retirement, whether by staff or regimental commission, 
and four rations per day, and without any other pay, emoluments, or 
allowances; and the next officer in rank shall be promoted to the place 
of the retired officer, according to the established rales of the service. 
And the same rale of promotion shall be applied successively to the 
vacancies consequent upon the retirement of an officer: Provided, That 
should the brevet lieutenant general be retired under this act, it shall 
be without reduction in his current pay, subsistence, or allowances: 
And provided further, That there shall not be on the retired list at any 
one time more than seven per centum of the whole number of officers 
of the army, as fixed by law. 
Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That, in order to cany out the 
provisions of this act, the Secretary of War or Secretary of the Navy, 
as the case may be, under the direction and approval of the President 
of the United States, shall, from time to time, as occasion may require, 
assemble a board of not more than nine nor less than five commissioned 
officers, two-fifths of whom shall be of the medical staff; the board, 
except those taken from the medical staff, to be composed, as far as may 
be, of his seniors in rank, to determine the facts as to the nature and 
occasion of the disability of such officers as appear disabled to perform 
such military service, such board being hereby invested with the 
powers of a court of inquiry and court-martial, and their decision shall 
be subject to like revision as that of such courts by the President of 
the United States. The board, whenever it finds an officer incapacitated 8 
for active service, will report whether, in its judgment, the said in- 
capacity result from long and faithful service, from wounds or injury 
received in the line of duty, from sickness or exposure therein, or from 
any other incident of service. If so, and the President approve such 
judgment, the disabled officer shall thereupon be placed upon the list 
of retired officers, according to the provisions of this act. If otherwise, 
and if the President concur in opinion with the board, the officer shall 
be retired as above, either with his pay proper alone or with his service 
rations alone, at the discretion of the President, or he shall be wholly 
retired from the service, with one year’s pay and allowances; and in 
this last case his name shall be thenceforward omitted from the Army 
Register, or Navy Register, as the case may be: Provided always, 
That the members of the board shall in every case be sworn to an 
lxonest and impartial discharge of their duties, and that no officer of 
the army shall be retired either partially or wholly from the service 
without having had a fair and full hearing before the board, if, upon 
due summons, he shall demand it. 
Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That the officers partially retired 
shall be entitled to wear the uniform of their respective grades, shall 
continue to be borne upon the Army Register or Navy Register, as the 
case may be, and shall be subject to the rules and articles of war, and 
to trial by general court-martial for any breach of the said articles. 
Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That so much of the sixth section 
of the act of August twenty-three, eighteen hundred and forty-two, as 
allows additional or double rations to the commandant of each perma- 
nent or fixed post garrisoned with troops, be, and the same is hereby, 
repealed. 
Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That officers of the army, when 
absent from their appropriate duties for a period exceeding six months, 
either with or without leave, shall not receive the allowances authorized 
by the existing laws for servants, forage, transportation of baggage, 
fuel, and quarters, either in kind or in commutation. 
Sec. 21. And be it further enacted, That any officer of the navy who 
has been forty years in the service of the United States may, upon his 
own application to the President of the United States, be placed upon 
the list of retired officers of the navy, and shall receive the pay and 
emoluments allowed by this act. 
Sec. 22. And be it further enacted, That if any officer of the navy 9 
shall have become, or shall hereafter become, incapable of performing 
the duties of his office, he shall be placed upon the retired list and 
withdrawn from active service and command and from the line of 
promotion, with the following pay and emoluments, namely: 
Captains in the navy, thirteen hundred dollars; 
Commanders in the navy, eleven hundred dollars; 
Lieutenants in the navy, one thousand dollars; 
Surgeons ranking with captains, thirteen hundred dollars; 
Surgeons ranking with commanders, eleven hundred dollars; 
Surgeons ranking with lieutenants, one thousand dollars; 
Paymasters ranking with captains, thirteen hundred dollars; 
Paymasters ranking with commanders, eleven hundred dollars; 
Paymasters ranking with lieutenants, one thousand dollars; 
Chief engineers, one thousand dollars; 
First assistant engineers, seven hundred dollars; 
Second assistant engineers, five hundred dollars; 
Third assistant engineers, four hundred dollars; 
Masters, four hundred dollars; 
Passed midshipmen, three hundred and fifty dollars; and with four 
rations per day to each of the above-named officers of the navy, to be 
commuted at thirty cents each ration, and without any other pay or 
allowances. Captains, commanders, and lieutenants now on the retired 
list of the navy shall receive the same compensation and no greater 
than is allowed to retired officers of the same rank by the provisions 
of this act. The next officer in rank shall be promoted to the place of 
the retired officer, according to the established rules of the service. 
And the same rule of promotion shall be applied successively to the 
vacancies consequent upon the retirement of an officer. 
Sec. 23. And be it further enacted, That whenever any officer of the 
navy, on being ordered to perform the duties appropriate to his com- 
mission, shall report himself unable to comply with such order, or 
whenever, in the judgment of the President of the United States, an 
officer of the navy shall be in any way incapacitated from performing 
the duties of his office, the President, at his discretion, shall direct the 
Secretary of the Navy to refer the case of such officer to a board of not 
more than nine, and not less than five, commissioned officers, two- 
fifths of whom shall be members of the medical bureau of the navy; 
the board, except those taken from the medical bureau, to be com- 10 
posed, if possible, (as far as may be,) of his seniors in rank. The 
determination of the board in each case shall, with a record of its pro- 
ceedings, be transmitted to the Secretary of the Navy, to be laid before 
the President for his approval or disapproval, and orders in the case. 
The board, whenever it finds an officer incapacitated for active service, 
will report whether, in its judgment, the incapacity result from long 
and faithful service, from wounds or injury received in the line of 
duty, from sickness or exposure therein, or from any other incident of 
service. If so, and the President approve of such judgment, the 
disabled officer shall thereupon be placed upon the list of retired 
officers, according to the provisions of this act; but if such disability 
or incompetency proceeded from other causes, and the President concur 
in opinion with the board, the officer may be retired upon furlough pay, 
or he shall be wholly retired from the service, with one year’s pay, at 
the discretion of the President: and in this last case his name shall be 
wholly omitted from the Navy .Register. The members of the board 
shall, in every case, be sworn to an honest and impartial discharge of 
their duties, and no officer of the navy shall be retired, either partially 
or wholly, from the service, without having had a fair and full hearing 
before the board, if he shall demand it. 
Sec. 24. And be it further enacted, That the retired officers shall be 
entitled to wear the uniform of their respective grades, shall continue 
to be borne upon the Navy Register, shall be subject to the rules and 
articles governing the navy, and to trial by general court-martial. 
Sec. 25. And be it further enacted, That retired officers of the army, 
navy, and marine corps, may be assigned to such duties as the Presi- 
dent may deem them capable of performing, and such as the exigencies 
of the public service may require. 
Approved August 3, 1861. 
[Public—No. 42.] 
AN ACT supplementary to an act entitled “An act to increase the present military 
establishment of the United States,” approved July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred 
and sixty-one. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for the 11 
President of the United States, during the existing insurrection and 
rebellion, upon the recommendation of the lieutenant general command- 
ing the army of the United States, or of any major general of the regular 
army of the United States commanding forces of the United States in 
the field, to appoint such number of aides-de-camp, in addition to those 
now authorized by law, as the exigencies of the service may, in the 
opinion of the President, require; such aides-de-camp to bear respect- 
ively the rank and authority of captains, majors, lieutenant colonels, 
or colonels of the regular army as the President may direct, and to 
receive the same pay and allowances as are provided by existing laws 
for officers of cavalry of corresponding rank. The President shall 
cause all aides-de-camp appointed under this act to be discharged when- 
ever they shall cease to be employed in active service, and he may 
reduce the number so employed whenever he may deem it expedient so 
to do. Any officers of the regular army appointed aides-de-camp under 
this act, and detached or assigned to duty for service as such, shall 
upon their discharge resume their positions in the regular army, and 
shall be entitled to the same rank and promotion as if they had con- 
tinued to serve in their own regiments or corps. 
Approved August 5, 1861. 
[Public—No. 49.] 
AN ACT making appropriations for fortifications, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and is hereby, 
appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro- 
priated, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars for contingencies of 
fortifications, to be used and applied under the direction of the Secretary 
of War. 
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any commissioned officer of 
the army, navy, or marine corps, who, having tendered his resignation, 
shall, prior to due notice of the acceptance of the same by the proper 
authority, and, without leave, quit his post or proper duties with the 
intent to remain permanently absent therefrom, shall be registered as a 
deserter, and punished as such. 
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That flogging as a punishment n 
the army is hereby abolished. 12 
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That for removing stables and 
other obstructions from the grounds around the Washington Infirmary, 
used as an army hospital, and grading said grounds to secure proper 
drainage of the same, the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same 
is hereby, appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the sur- 
geon general of the United States army. 
Approved August 5, 1861. 
[Public—No. 52. ] 
AN ACT to promote the efficiency of the engineer and topographical engineer 
corps, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be added to 
each of the corps of engineers and topographical engineers, by regular 
promotion of their present officers, two lieutenant colonels and four 
majors. 
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be added to the 
corps of topographical engineers one company of soldiers, to be com- 
manded by appropriate officers of said corps, to have the same pay and 
rations, clothing, and other allowances, and to be entitled to the same 
benefits in every respect as the company created by the act for the or- 
ganization of a company of sappers and miners and pontoniers, approved 
May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six. The said company 
shall be subject to the rules and articles of war, and shall have the 
same organization as the companies of engineer soldiers attached to the 
corps of engineers. 
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That vacancies hereafter occurring 
among the commissioned officers of the volunteer regiments shall be 
filled by the governors of the States respectively in the same manner 
as original appointments. And so much of the tenth section of the act 
approved July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, as is 
inconsistent herewith, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. 
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United 
States is hereby authorized to appoint two additional inspectors general 
for the United States army; said inspectors general to have the same 
rank and receive the same pay and allowances as now provided by law 
for inspectors general. 13 
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That so much of the first section of 
the act approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, as au- 
thorizes the appointment of civilians to superintend the national 
armories be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and that the superin- 
tendents of these armories shall be appointed hereafter from officers of 
the Ordnance department. 
Approved August 6, 1861. 
AN ACT to authorize an increase in the corps of engineers and topographical engi- 
neers. 
[Public—No. 53.] 
Be it enacted by the Seriate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be added to 
each of the corps of engineers and topographical engineers, by regular 
promotion of their present officers, two lieutenant colonels and four 
majors. 
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be added to the 
corps of topographical engineers one company of soldiers, to be com. 
manded by appropriate officers of said corps, to have the same pay and 
rations, clothing, and other allowances, and to be entitled to the same 
benefits in every respect as the company created by the act for the 
organization of a company of sappers and minors and pontoniers, ap- 
proved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six. The said com- 
pany shall be subject to the rules and articles of war, and shall have 
the same organization as the companies of engineer soldiers attached 
to the corps of engineers. 
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United 
States is hereby authorized to appoint two additional inspectors general 
of the United States army, to have the same rank and receive the same 
pay and allowances as now provided by law for inspectors general. 
Approved August 6, 1861. 
[Public—No. 58.] 
AN ACT to increase the pay of the privates in the regular army and in the volun- 
teers in the service of the United States, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the pay of the privates 14 
in the regular army and volunteers in the service of the United States 
be thirteen dollars per month for three years from and after the passage 
of this act, and until otherwise fixed by law. 
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the act cn. 
titled “An act for the relief of the Ohio and other volunteers,” approved 
July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, be, and the same 
are hereby, extended to all volunteers mustered into the sendee of the 
United States, whether for one, two, or three years, or for and during 
the war. 
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the acts, proclamations> 
and orders of the President of the United States after the 4th of March, 
eighteen hundred and sixty-one, respecting the army and navy of the 
United States, and calling out or relating to the militia or volunteers 
from the States, are hereby approved and in all respects legalized and 
made valid, to the same intent and with the same effect as if they had 
been issued and done under the previous express authority and 
direction of the Congress of the United States. 
Approved August 6, 1861. 
AN ACT for the relief of the Ohio and other volunteer*. 
[Private—No. 3.] 
Whereas the War Department has decided that the term of service 
of the ninety days’ volunteers, called out under the act of seventeen 
hundred and ninety-five, commenced only on the day when they were 
actually sworn into the service of the United States; and whereas the 
troops now in service of the United States from the State of Ohio were 
not sworn into said service until some days after their organization 
and acceptance as companies by the governor of said State, and that 
for such period, under existing laws, no payment can be made: There- 
fore— 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper disbursing 
officer compute and pay to the said volunteers compensation from the 
day of their organization and acceptance as companies by the governor 
of the State of Ohio, as aforesaid, until the expiration of their term 
of service. 15 
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That where the militia of other 
States are situated similarly with those of Ohio, the War Department 
pay them according to the provisions of the foregoing section. 
Approved July 24, 1861. 
order: 
L. THOMAS, 
Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.