Sec. 2. Militia, how organized.And be it further enacted, That the militia, when so called into service, shall be organized in the mode prescribed by law for volunteers.
Sec. 3. President may accept 100,000 infantry for nine months.And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized, in addition to the volunteer forces which he is now authorized by law to raise, to accept the services of any number of volunteers, not exceeding one hundred thousand, as infantry, for a period of nine months, unless sooner discharged. Advance pay and bounty.And every soldier who shall enlist under the provisions of this section shall receive his first month's pay, and also twenty-five dollars as bounty, upon the mustering of his company or regiment into the service of the United States. And all provisions of law relating to volunteers enlisted in the service of the United States for three years, or during the war, except in relation to bounty, shall be, and the same are, extended to, and are hereby declared to embrace, the volunteers to be raised under the provisions of this section.
Sec. 4. Volunteers for twelve months may be accepted to fill up regiments.And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of filling up the regiments of infantry now in the United States service, the President be, and he hereby is, authorized to accept the services of volunteers in such numbers as may be presented for that purpose, for twelve months, if not sooner discharged. And such volunteers, when mustered into the service, shall be in all respects upon a footing with similar troops in the United States service, except as to service bounty, which shall be fifty dollars, one half of which to be paid upon their joining their regiments, and the other half at the expiration of their enlistment.
Sec. 5. Judge advocate general.And be it further enacted, That the President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a judge advocate general, Rank, pay, &c.with the rank, pay, and emoluments of a colonel of cavalry, to whose office shall be returned, for revision, the records and proceedings of all courts-martial and military commissions, and where a record shall be kept of all proceedings had thereupon. Sentence. 1863, ch. 75, § 21.
Post, p. 735.And no sentence of death, or imprisonment in the penitentiary, shall be carried into execution until the same shall have been approved by the President.
Sec. 6. Judge advocate for each army in the field.
Rank, pay, &c.And be it further enacted, That there may be appolated by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for each army in the field, a judge advocate, with the rank, pay, and emoluments, each, of a major of cavalry, who shall perform the duties of judge advocate for the army to which they respectively belong, under the direction of the judge advocate general.
Sec. 7. Field officer substituted for regimental or garrison court-martial.And be it further enacted, That hereafter all offenders in the army charged with offences now punishable by a regimental or garrison court-martial, shall be brought before a field officer of his regiment, who shall be detailed for that purpose, and who shall hear and determine the offence, and order the punishment that shall be inflicted; and shall also make a record of his proceedings, and submit the same to the brigade commander, who, upon the approval of the prneeedings of such field officer, shall order the same to be executed: Limit to punishment.Provided, That the punishment in such cases be limited to that authorized to be inflicted by a regimental or garrison court-martial: Proviso.And provided, further, That, in the event of there being no brigade commander, the proceedings as aforesaid shall be submitted for approval to the commanding officer of the post.
Sec. 8. Certain battalion adjutants and quartermasters of cavalry to be mustered out of the service.And be it further enacted, That all officers who have been mustered into the service of the United States as battalion adjutants and quartermasters of cavalry under the orders of the War Department, exceeding the number authorized by law, shall be paid as such for the time they were actually employed in the service of the United States, and that all such officers now in service, exceeding the number as aforesaid, shall be immediately mustered out of the service of the United State.
Sec. 9. President may organize army corp at his discretion.And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to establish and organize army corps according to his discretion.
