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Military contributions, collection of, 404.
contributions in Mexico, accounts of, 424.
duties, exemption from, 167.

establishment, former laws respecting, 124.
of 1785, 78.

of 1787, 83.

of 1787 recognized, 87.

of 1789, 87.

of 1790, 87.

of 1790, increased, 90, 92, 104.

of 1790, limited, 87.

of 1795, 111.

of 1796, 114.

of 1796, increased, 119, 127.

of 1796, modified, 118.

of 1796, officers of, 115.

of 1796, reduced, 141.

of 1802, 141.

of 1802, completed, 211.

of 1802, increased, 150, 169, 200.

of 1812, 212.

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of 1861, increased, 473, 476, 487.

of 1861, limited, 472.

of 1861, organized, 480.

of 1862, 531.

of United States, act for regulating, 87.

statement of contingent expenses, 210.

force, additional, 216, 247.

additional, act to raise, 378.

hospitals, officers of, 130.

laws of United States, 85.

music, instruction in, 167.

peace establishment of United States, 141, 169, 266.

corps subject to rules of war, 267.
reduced, 306.

pension roll, 272.

secretary, pay and emoluments of, 374.

service, persons exempt from, 140.

services, provision for, 269.

storekeepers, 274.

quartermaster's department, number of, 510.

salary of, 429.

Military stores, embezzlement, waste, &c., of, 69.
superiors, penalty for resistance to, 64.
superiors, resistance to, 64.
trophies, preservation of, 436.

Militia, additional officers of, 257.
age of enrolment in, 96.

and volunteer corps, officered, how, 169.
annual appropriation for arming, 277.
arming and equipping, 205.

arms for, 126, 205, 277, 435.

call for, term of service may be specified, 531.
compelled to serve six months, 259.
corps, loan of artillery to, 124.

payment of, 334.

courts-martial for trial of, 109, 478.
detachment of, from several states, 169.
disabled in service of United States, 248.
discipline and field exercise for, 300.
districts, how designated, 154.
division and arrangement of, 97.
duties of adjutant-general of, 150.
duty, persons exempt from, 97, 126.
volunteers exempt from, 126.

enrolment of, 95, 151, 531.

equipments of, exempt from distress, 166.
establishment of uniform, 95.

formation of divisions, 98.

governed by rules and articles of war, 109.
in service, arms delivered to, 127.

may serve as cavalry, when, 91.

of District of Columbia, act for arming, 314.

arms for, 314.

organization of, 231.

officered by the States, 97.

officers, courts-martial composed of, when, 193.
officers of, 271.

officers take rank after those of regular army, 194.
organization of, in District of Columbia, 149, 151.
paid by paymasters of regular army, 256.
pay and allowance of, 354.

pay of, 95.

increased, 293.

regulated, 106.

when in service, 87.

power of President to call forth, 108, 94, 87.

when, 89.

returns of, by whom received, 99.

made annually, 151.

rules for governing, 75.

rules of discipline observed by, 99.
term of service of, 353, 477.

Militiamen appear armed, when, 96.
pensions for disabled, 114.
removal of, 154.

Militiamen, wounded or disabled, 100.

Miller, Brigadier-General, gold medal voted to, 268.
Minors, enlistment of, 261.

equipments of deceased, paid for, 406.

Misbehavior before the enemy, penalty for, 70, 184.
Misconduct of officers on duty, 161.

Misdemeanor, 288, 290, 291.

Missouri, claims in department of, 540.

payment of money expended in arming troops, &c., 535.
volunteers, horses lost by, 365.

Money and public property, how accounted for, 274.
arising from sales of arms, 127.

contracts requiring advance of, 129.

duty of officers receiving, 301.

for war and navy departments, how drawn, 310.
in lieu of arms, 236.

forage, 88, 145, 248.

pensions, 272.

rations, 88, 112.

penalty for embezzlement of, 182.

public, deposited in banks, 210.

penalty for misapplication, &c. of, 69.

received in advance, accounts of, 243.

receivers of public, render accounts, 208.

Monterey, officers and men under General Taylor at, 389.
Monthly returns, 66.

returns remitted to department of war, 178.

Music, military, instruction in, 167.

Musicians, courts of inquiry provide for, 167.

pay of, 93, 143.

two principal, to each regiment of artillery, 387.

Muskets, description of, 96.

Muster, certificates in regard to absentees at, 65.
legionary, in October, 158.

volunteer regiments, paid according to, 530.
Muster-rolls of militia, by whom signed, 260.
time of absence inserted in, 177.
Musters, commissary of, when to be removed, 65.
conduct of bystanders at, 161.

continuance of, limited, 159.

duties of commissary of, 65.

false, of those not soldiers, 65.

penalty for making, 65, 177.

legionary, 231.

of servants, 253.

penalty for false, 65, 177.

time and place of, by whom fixed, 158.

Mutiny, failing to endeavor to suppress, penalty for, 64.

penalty for exciting, 64, 175.

suppression of, 64.

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NAMES of contractors on articles furnished, 529.
Naval service, appropriation for, 460.

Navy department, establishment of, 129, 207, 297.
Navy, officers of army and, relative rank between, 517.
pensions to, 512.
retired, 528.

Neglect of horse, arms, &c., penalty for, 182.
Negroes, emigration of, 523.

in service of United States, pay of, 535.

may be employed for suppression of rebellion, 523.
mother, wife, and children of certain, made free, 535.
rendering military service, free, 535.

to be employed to labor for army, 534.

Newspapers and periodicals, appropriation for, 362.
Niagara, pay of military agent at, 143.

Non-commissioned officers and soldiers, furloughs to, 65.
officers and soldiers, imprisonment of, 81.

officers, appointment of, 160.

brevets to, 386.

discharge of, 64, 80.
misconduct of, 161.

&c., pay of, 236, 346.

penalty for delinquency, 163.

Notice given of musters, 159.

Nurses, extra pay to soldiers acting, 444.

female, 482.

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Oath administered by judge-advocate, 80, 187, 192.

on enlistment, 64, 87, 89, 93, 113, 117, 128, 147, 176, 240.
to cadets at West Point, 483.

form of, of officers of militia in District of Columbia, 155.
taken by members of court of inquiry, 82, 157, 192.

of allegiance to so-called Southern Confederacy, 521.
of enlistment, by whom administered, 455, 484.

of judge-advocate, 72, 79, 188, 192.

of courts of inquiry, 82.

of members of courts-martial, 72, 79, 187.

of office under Government of United States, 508.
of secretary of war and clerks, 86.

of witnesses before court-martial, 73, 80, 188.
of court of inquiry, 192.

Oaths, auditors empowered to administer, 282.
profane, penalty for using, 63, 175.
Offences committed two years before trial, 191.
not capital, courts-martial for, 187.

Offenders tried by field officer, 533.

Officer, cadet may be supernumerary, 225.

commissioned, cashiered for fraud, &c., 190.
duties of commanding, 66.

field or staff, entitled to pay, when, 240.

Officer or soldier accused of capital crime, 6×,

or soldier punished as a challenger, when, 67, 180,
reproachful speeches of, prohibited, 66.

Officers absent from duty over six months, 4×6.
accused of capital crime, 1×1.

added to corps of engineers, 224.
additional, appointed when needed, 373.
additional number of general, 242, 383.
and soldiers, behavior of, 184.

charged with crime, 1×9.

confinement of, limited, 1×9.

disabled, placed on pension list, 248.
discharged, allowance to, 240,
government of, 117, 145, 193.
oaths of, 87, 240,

of militia on pension roll, 272.

of revolution, pensions to, 2×4, 327, 330,
relief of, 323,

pay of 259.

rations for, 93.

to lie in their quarters, 1×3.

to repair to place of parade, 1×83,
appointed at President's discretion, 90,
appointed inspectors, &e., rank of, lob,
arrest of, 1, 327.

assigned to cavalry duty, pay, de, of, 325,

brevet, pay, de, of, 2×7.

cashiered for cowardice or fraud, 74, 1.

for using contemptuous words, &c., 175.

commanding, of different corps, 1×6.

penasty for delinquency. 163.
shall keep good order, 1×0,

to enforce good order, 57.

commissioned, appointed by President, 93.
rations for, 116,

redress of grievances of, 6×,

take rank, how, 9),

compensation for expenses incurred, 147.

court-martial for, 196,

desired to attend divine service, 63,

detached, rank of, 213.

to serve as aids, 135,

disbursing funds of, 449,

dismissal of, 79, NO.

duties of, at musters, 159,

effects of deceased, 192,

entities to pay only for service, 124, 1:2,
failing to make settlement, list of, 2×2.
field, app intment of, 122

trials of 73.

for volunteer forces, apps intment of, 472.
horses, év mmutation of forage for, at

incompetent dismissed from service, 32).
inters reiress of gricvatices of, ta%,

interested in je of provisionis, penalty of, 67,

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