Officers of a sepa rate battalion Volunteers. of himself provided with a serviceable horse, such volunteer shall serve on foot. For horses killed in action, volunteers shall be allowed compensation according to their appraised value at the date of muster into service. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the field and staff officers of a separate battalion of volunteers shall be one lieutenant-colonel or major, one adjutant with the rank of lieutenant, one sergeant major, one quartermaster sergeant, and a chief bugler or principal musician, Additional second according to corps; and that each company shall be entitled to an additional second lieutenant; and that the President may limit the President may privates in any volunteer company, according to his discretion, at from sixty-four to one hundred. Heutenant to each company. vates. whom appointed for Additional officers, SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That when volunteers or militia and when and by are called into the service of the Confederate States in such numbers the Quartermaster, that the officers of the quartermaster, commissary and medical departMedical Departments, which may be authorized by law for the regular service, are Commissary and ments. not sufficient to provide for the supplying, quartering, transporting, and furnishing them with the requisite medical attendance, it shall be lawful for the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Congress, as many additional officers of said departments as the service may require, not exceeding one commissary and one quartermaster for each brigade, with the rank of major, and one assistant quartermaster with the rank of captain, one assistant commissary with the rank of Bond and security captain, one surgeon and one assistant surgeon for each regiment; the said quartermasters and commissaries, assistant quartermasters and commissaries, to give bonds with good sureties for the faithful perPay and emolu- formance of their duties; the said officers to be allowed the same pay and emoluments as shall be allowed to officers of the same grade in the regular service, and to be subject to the rules and articles of war, and to continue in service only so long as their services may be required in connection with the militia or volunteers. required. ments. How long to continue in service. President may pur sels, etc., fit for or SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he chase and equip ves- is hereby authorized to purchase or charter, arm, equip and man such easily converted into merchant vessels and steamships or boats as may be found fit or easily converted into armed vessels, and in such number as he may deem necessary for the protection of the seaboard and the general defence of the country. armed vessels. APPROVED March 6, 1861. March 6, 1861. be registered. CHAP. XXVII.-An Act to provide for the Registration of Vessels owned in whole or in part by citizens of the Confederate States. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That What vessels may all vessels, wherever built, one-fourth or more of which shall be owned by a citizen or citizens of the Confederate States, and commanded by a citizen thereof, shall be registered as a vessel of the Confederacy at the custom-houses thereof: Provided, That a majority in interest of the owners shall consent to such registration, and such vessels be not registered elsewhere. APPROVED March 6, 1861. CHAP. XXVIII,-An Act to establish and organize a Bureau in connection with the Department of the Treasury, to be known as the Lighthouse Bureau. The Congress of the Confederate States [of America] do enact, That there shall be established in connection with the Department of the Treasury a bureau, to be known as the Lighthouse Bureau. The chief officer of such bureau shall be a captain or commander of the navy, detailed for this service by order of the President of the Confederate States, who shall receive as his compensation the same pay allowed to officers of the same rank in the navy. There shall be appointed also a chief clerk, with a salary of twelve hundred dollars, and an accounting clerk, with a salary of one thousand dollars. Matters under the control and direction Bureau. SEC. 2. All lighthouses, light vessels, buoys, and other aids to navigation, all the officers connected therewith, and all matters connected of the Lighthouse with the construction, repair, illumination, inspection and government thereof, and all duties appertaining to the administration of lighthouse affairs, shall be under the direction and control of the Lighthouse Bureau hereby established, subject at all times to the superintendence of the Secretary of the Treasury. Chief of bureau to divide sea-coast into SEC. 3. The chief of the bureau shall, as soon as possible, divide the sea-coasts of the Confederate States into districts not exceeding districts. five in number, as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem expedient, and over each of these districts the President shall appoint an inspec-sector for each tor, to be selected from the lieutenants in the navy, who shall discharge all the duties of inspection, survey or otherwise which may be required of him by the chief of the bureau. For these services the inspectors shall receive only their regular pay in the navy. His duties, and pay. Detail of officers of the engineer corps to etc. SEC. 4. The President of the Confederate States may from time to time, at the request of the Secretary of the Treasury, detail one or superintend construcmore of the officers of the engineer corps of the army, to be employed tion of lighthouses, under the direction of the Lighthouse Bureau, in superintending the construction or repair of light houses or other necessary structures in connection with the lighthouse establishment, or other similar duty assigned by the Lighthouse Bureau in connection therewith. Other duties. Report by chief of the bureau to Secre SEC. 5. The chief of the bureau shall, at least once every year, make a full report to the Secretary of the Treasury, giving a full state- tary of the Treasury. ment of the operations of the lighthouse establishment. He shall also from time to time give such information to the Secretary of the Treasury as he may require in reference to his bureau. SEC. 6. All laws and parts of laws contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. APPROVED March 6, 1861. Laws repealed. CHAP. XXIX.-An Act for the establishment and organization of the Army of the Confederate March 6, 1861. posed. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That Military establishfrom and after the passage of this act the military establishment of the ment; of what comConfederate States shall be composed of one corps of engineers, one corps of artillery, six regiments of infantry, one regiment of cavalry, and of the staff departments already established by law. SEC. 2. The corps of engineers shall consist of one colonel, four Corps of Engineers. majors, five captains, and one company of sappers, miners, and pontoniers, which shall consist of ten sergeants or master workmen, ten corporals or overseers, two musicians, and thirty-nine privates of the first class, or artificers, and thirty-nine privates of the second class, or laborers, making in all one hundred. Officers of company of sappers, miners, and pontoniers. Their duties. the Engineer corps. SEC. 3. The said company shall be officered by one captain of the corps of engineers, and as many lieutenants, to be selected by the President from the line of the army, as he may deem necessary for the service, and shall be instructed in and perform all the duties of sappers, miners, and pontoniers, and shall, moreover, under the orders of the chief engineer, be liable to serve by detachments in overseeing and aiding laborers upon fortifications or other works under the engineer department, and in supervising finished fortifications, as fort-keepers, preventing injury and making repairs. Duties of Colonel of SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the colonel of the engineer corps, subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, to prescribe the number, quantity, form, dimensions, etc., of the necessary vehicles, arms, pontons, tools, implements, and other supplies for the service of the said company as a body of sappers, miners, and pontoniers. Corps of Artillery. Regiments of Intantry. Regiment of Cavalry. Brigadier Generals and their aids-de SEC. 5. The corps of artillery, which shall also be charged with ordnance duties, shall consist of one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, ten majors, and forty companies of artillerists and artificers; and each company shall consist of one captain, two first lieutenants, one second lieutenant, four sergeants, four corporals, two musicians, and seventy privates. There shall also be one adjutant, to be selected by the colonel from the first lieutenants, and one sergeant-major, to be selected from the enlisted men of the corps. The President may equip as light batteries, of six pieces each, such of these companies as he may deem expedient, not exceeding four in time of peace. SEC. 6. Each regiment of infantry shall consist of one colonel, one heutenant colonel, one major, and ten companies; each company shall consist of one captain, one first lieutenant, two second lieutenants, four sergeants, four corporals, two musicians and ninety privates; and to each regiment there shall be attached one adjutant, to be selected from the lieutenants, and one sergeant-major, to be selected from the enlisted men of the regiment. SEC. 7. The regiment of cavalry shall consist of one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, one major, and fen companies, each of which shall consist of one captain, one first lieutenant, two second lieutenants, four sergeants, four corporals, one farrier, one blacksmith, two musicians, and sixty privates. There shall also be one adjutant and one sergeantmajor, to be selected as aforesaid. SEC. 8. There shall be four brigadier generals, who shall be assigned. camp; their duties. to such commands and duties as the President may specially direct, and shall be entitled to one aid-de-camp each, to be selected from the subalterns of the line of the army, who, in addition to their duties as aidsde-camp, may perform the duties of assistants adjutant general. President to appoint all officers of the army. SEC. 9. All officers of the army shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Congress, and the rank and of the rank and file. file shall be enlisted for a term not less than three nor more than five years, under such regulations as may be established. Term of enlistment Examination of of acers. How vacancies filled. Promotion. SEC. 10. No officer shall be appointed in the army until he shall have passed an examination satisfactory to the President, and in such manner as he may prescribe, as to his character and fitness for the service. The President, however, shall have power to postpone this examination for one year after appointment, if in his judgment necessary for the public interest. SEC. 11. All vacancies in established regiments and corps, to and including the rank of colonel, shall be filled by promotion according to seniority, except in case of disability or other incompetency. Promotions to and including the rank of colonel shall be made regimentally in the infantry and cavalry, in the staff departments, and in the engineers to be selected from and artillery, according to co: ps. Appointments to the rank of brigadier Brigadier Generale general, after the army is organized, shall be made by selection from the Army. the army. SEC. 12. The President of the Confederate States is hereby author- Appointment ized to appoint to the lowest grade of subaltern officers such meritorious subaltern officers. non-commissioned officers as may, upon the recommend tion of their colonels and company officers, be brought before an army board, specially convened, for the purpose, and found qualified for the duties of commissioned officers, and to attach them to regiments or corps, as supernumerary officers, if there be no vacancies: Provided, There shall not be more than one so attached to any one company at the same time. Proviso. of @cneral; SEC. 13. The pay of a brigadier general shall be three hundred and Pay of Brigadier one dollars per month The aid-de-camp of a brigadier general, in addition to his pay as lieutenant, shall receive thirty-five dollars per month. Artillery. SEC 14. The monthly pay of the officers of the corps of engineers Pay of officers of shall be as follows: of the colonel, two hundred and ten dollars; of a the Engineer Corps. major, one hundred and sixty-two dollars; of a captain, one hundred and forty dollars; lieutenants serving with the company of sappers and miners shall receive the pay of cavalry officers of the same grade. SEC. 15. The monthly pay of the colonel of the corps of artillery Pay of officers of shall be two hundred and ten dollars; of a lieutenant colonel, one hundred and eighty-five dollars; of a major, one hundred and fifty dollars, and when serving on ordnance duty, one hundred and sixtytwo dollars; of a captain, one hundred and thirty dollars; of a first lieutenant, ninety dollars; of a second lieutenant, eighty dollars; and the adjutant shall receive, in addition to his pay as lieutenant, ten dollars per month. Officers of artillery serving in the light artillery, or performing ordnance duty, shall receive the same pay as officers of cavalry of the same grade. Pay of officers of SEC. 16. The monthly pay of the officers of the infantry shall be as follows: of a colonel, one hundred and ninety-five dollars; of a lieu- Infantry. tenant colonel, one hundred and seventy dollars; of a major, one hundred and fifty dollars; of a captain, one hundred and thirty dollars; of a first lieutenant, ninety dollars; of a second lieutenant, eighty dollars; the adjutant, in addition to his pay as lieutenent, ten dollars. Pay of officers of SEC. 17. The monthly pay of the officers of the cavalry shall be as follows: of a colonel, two hundred and ten dollars; of a lieutenant Cavalry. colonel, one hundred and eighty-five dollars; a major, one hundred and sixty-two dollars; captain, one hundred and forty dollars; a first lieutenant, one hundred dollars; a second lieutenant, ninety dollars; the adjutant, ten dollars per month, in addition to his pay as lieu tenant. the General Staff Pay of Surgeon General. Pay of Surgeons SEC. 18. The pay of the officers of the general staff, except those Pay of officers of of the medical department, shall be the same as that of officers of cavalry of the same grade. The surgeon general shall receive an annual salary of three thousand dollars, which shall be in full of all pay and allowances, except fuel and quarters. The monthly pay of a surgeon, of ten years' service in that grade, shall be two hundred dollars; and Asst Surgeous surgeon of less than ten years' service in that grade, one hundred and sixty two dollars: an assistant surgeon of ten years' service in that grade, one hundred and fifty dollars; an assistant surgeon of five year's service in that grade, one hundred and thirty dollars; and an assistant surgeon of less than five years' service, one hundred and ten dollars. SEC. 19. There shall be allowed in addition to the pay hereinbefore Addi lonal pay of States officers who resign. commissioned of provided, to every commissioned officer except the surgeon general, oers, and of United nine dollars per month for every five years' service; and to the officers have resigned or may of the army of the United States, who have resigned or may resign to be received into the service of the Confederate States, this additional pay shall be allowed from the date of their entrance into the former service. There shall also be an additional monthly allowance to every general officer commanding in chief a separate army actually in the field, [of] one hundred dollars. to be in full of all al Allowance of forage, how fixed and furnished. SEC. 20. The pay of officers, as hereinbefore established, shall be The pay of officers in full of all allowances, except forage, fuel, quarters, and travelling exlowances, except penses while travelling under orders. The allowance of forage, fuel forage, fuel, etc. and quarters shall be fixed by regulations and shall be furnished in fuel, and quarters; kind, except when officers are serving at stations without troops where public quarters cannot be had, in which case there may be allowed, in lieu of forage, eight dollars per month for each horse to which they may be entitled, provided they are actually kept in service and mustered; and quarters may be commuted at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of War, and fuel at the market price delivered. An officer when travelling under orders shall be allowed mileage at the rate of ten cents per mile. May be commuted. Mileage allowed of @cers. Forage allowed of acers of the army in time of war; SEC. 21. In time of war, officers of the army shall be entitled to draw forage for horses, according to grade, as follows: A brigadier general, four; the adjutant and inspector general, quartermaster general, commissary general, and the colonels of engineers, artillery, infantry and cavalry, three each; all lieutenant colonels and majors, and captains of the general staff, engineer corps, light artillery and cavalry, three each; lieutenants serving in the corps of engineers, lieutenants of light artillery and of cavalry, two each. In time of peace: general time of peace. and field officers, three; officers below the rank of field officers, in the general staff, corps of engineers, light artillery and cavalry, two; provided in all cases that the horses are actually kept in service and mustered. No enlisted man in the service of the Confederate States shall be employed as a servant by any officer of the army. No enlisted man to be employed as a servant. Pay of enlisted SEC. 22. The monthly pay of the enlisted men of the army of the Confederate States shall be as follows: That of a sergeant or master workman of the engineer corps, thirty-four dollars; that of a corporal or overseer, twenty dollars; privates of the first class, or artificers, seventeen dollars; and privates of the second class, or laborers, and musicians, thirteen dollars. The sergeant major of cavalry, twentyone dollars; first sergeants, twenty dollars; sergeants, seventeen dollars; corporals, farriers and blacksmiths, thirteen dollars; musicians, thirteen dollars; and privates, twelve dollars. Sergeants major of artillery and infantry, twenty-one dollars; first sergeants, twenty dollars each; sergeants, seventeen dollars; corporals and artificers, thirteen dollars; musicians, twelve dollars; and privates, eleven dollars each. The non-commissioned officers, artificers, musicians and privates serving in light batteries, shall receive the same pay as those of cavalry. SEC. 23. The President shall be authorized to enlist as many master President autho- armorers, master carriage-makers, master blacksmiths, armorers, cararmorers, and others, riage-makers, blacksmiths, artificers and laborers, for ordnance service, for ordnance service. as he may deem necessary, not exceeding in all one hundred men, eized to enlist master Their pay. Bations. who shall be attached to the corps of artillery. The pay of a master armorer, master carriage-maker, master blacksmith, shall be thirty-four dollars per month; armorers, carriage-makers and blacksmiths, twenty dollars per month; artificers, seventeen dollars, and laborers, thirteen dollars per month. SEC. 24. Each enlisted man of the army of the Confederate States |