R.

RAILROAD, extension of, by order of President, repealed, 542.
lines, President may take possession of, 492.

Railroads seized for use of United States, damages assessed, 492.
Rangers, additional companies of, 233, 242.

appropriation for raising company of, 233.
dragoons established instead, 329.
organization of, 211, 325, 451.

pay of, 211.

Rank and compensation of teamsters, 384.

and file of army, increase of, repealed, 397.
and pay of staff, 245.

brevet, 234, 235.

commissioned officers take, how, 99.
of adjutant-general, 308, 383, 481.
and assistants, 481.

of assistant apothecaries, 254.
inspector-generals, 480.

surgeon-general, 502.

of brigadier-generals of volunteers, 468.

of certain officers of quartermaster's department, 481.
of chief of ordnance, 481.

of commandant of cadets at West Point, 455

of commissaries, 321, 481.

of subsistence, 481.

of commissary-general, 286.

of ordnance, 226, 250.

of deputy commissaries of ordnance, 250.
inspector-general, 137.
quartermaster-general, 136.

of detached officers, 213.

of division-inspector, 257.

quartermaster, 257.

of hospital stewards, 444.

of inspectors-general, 308, 489.

of inspector of fortifications, 138.

of judge-advocate, 532.

of judge-advocate-general, 532.

of major-generals of volunteers, 468.

of master-wagoners and wagoners, 481.
of medical cadets, 482.

of medical inspectors, 502.

of medical inspector-general, 502.

of members of courts-martial, 72, 79.

of officers appointed inspectors, 136.
of militia and regular army, 194.
of pay department, 385.

of regular forces, 75.

taken from line to staff, 343.

of paymaster-general, 402.

of quartermaster-general, 217.

of quartermasters, 308, 344.
of brigade, 257.

of signal officer, 459.

Volunteers wounded in Mexican war, 368.

Votes of members of courts-martial, 72, 80, 188.
Vouchers for disbursements, 256.

W.

WABASH, relief of officers and soldiers who served on, 221.
Wagon-masters abolished, 285.

additional pay to, 283.

appointment of, 246.

bounty land granted to, 439.
duties of, 219.

employment of, 344.
pay of, 219, 283, 469.
re-established, 344.

Waiters, officers', 253.

pay and subsistence of, 235.
soldiers taken as, 276.

War, additional article of, 496.

War and navy departments, exceptions in regard to purchases, 460, 462.
articles of, levies governed by, 91.

between United States and Mexico, prosecution of, 367.

declaration of, between Great Britain and United States, 230.
department, accountant of, 101.

additional accountant appointed, 278.

alterations in, 101.

establishment of, 85, 129, 297.

regulation of, 207.

duties of chief clerk of department of, 86.

secretary of, 85, 86.

increase of military force in case of, 131.

oath of secretary of, and clerks, 86.

original rules and articles of, 63.

secretary of, subject to President's instructions, 86.

troops governed by articles of, 79, 83, 87, 89, 113, 117, 145, 193, 239,
309, 436, 452.

Warrant of distress against delinquents, 301.
Warrants charged to appropriations, 208.

treated as personal chattels, 453.

Washington, appropriation for defence of, 495.
Waste and spoil prohibited, 71.

of ammunition, &c., penalty for, 182.

Watchword, law in regard to, 70.

punishment for making known, 184.

Watertown arsenal, pay of military storekeeper at, 403.
Western military asylum, 449.

appropriation for, 430.

sale of, 458.

site for, 424.

West Point, oath administered to cadets at, 483.
pay of master of sword at, 431.

professors, teachers, and cadets, 431.

term for cadets at, increased, 348.

Whipping abolished, 228.

Widows and children of deceased officers and soldiers, pay to, 334.

evidence necessary to entitle to pension, 367.
half pay and pensions to, 350.

having married, pensions to, 340.

&c., of deceased soldiers, allowance to, 250.

of officers and soldiers of revolution, pensions of, 395.
of revolutionary soldiers, provision for, 390.
pensions to, 419.

Wilkinson, General, 122.

Witness, punishment for refusing to testify, 258.
Witnesses, before court-martial, 72, 80, 189.

deposition of, taken as evidence, 80.

Indians competent, 388.

oath of, 82.

oath of, before court-martial, 73.

on trials not capital, 80.

Women, rations to, 144.

Wool, Brevet Major-General John E., thanks of Congress and sword voted
to, 435.

Words, contemptuous, punishment for, 175.

Workmen in armories, services exempted from, 140.

Worth, General, sword voted to, 389.

Wounded or disabled militiamen, 100.

Wounds, compensation for, 212, 239.

disability by, &c., compensation, 202.
pensions for, 320, 500.

received during revolutionary war, 195.

THE END.

598

INDEX.

Beges of art of September 29. 1789, 89.
Bepers of board fie examinative of officers, 470.

of clerks made anmlly to Congress, 302.
of examination of military academy, 459.

of light-house establishment of United States, 419.
of superintendent of artifeers, 23

Bepers blk of prisoners, 81.

of caiúnel dì tritance. B4

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Rock Island, arsenal at, 311.

Rocky Mountains, mileage to or from stations east or west, 526.
Rules and articles for government of armies of United States, 174.

of war, 63.

1806, established. 170.

1776, repealed, 195.

inmates of soldiers' home subject to, 457.
militia subject to, 477.

mitigation of punishments authorized by, 77.
officers governed by, 113.

officers to subscribé to, 63, 174.

to be read once in six months, 194.

to be read once in two months, 75.

to be read to recruits on enlistment, 64.

troops governed by, 79, 83, 87, 113, 117, 145, 193, 239,

309, 436, 452, 467, 472, 477, 48, 531.

and regulations for military asylum, 417.

&c., officers retained to subscribe to, 63.

Safeguards, 1×5.

within United States, during rebellion, penalty for foreing, 495.
Salaries of armorers, &c., 559,

of officers, act providing for, 335.

Salary, no additional, to officers on lighthouse board, 426.

of assistant secretary of war, 480,

of paymaster's clerk, 397.

of storekeepers of ordnance department, 429.

Sale of distrained goods, 119,

of military sites, 44%.

of useless military sites repealed, 455.

Sales of unserviceable arms, &c., by whom made, 314.
or transfers of property of rebels, 521.

Sappers and miners, 224,

Sappers miners, and pontoniers, organization of, 369.

Scandalous behavior, *1.

Schedule of articles to be sold by sutlers, 496,

Scott, Major-General, appointed brevet lieutenant-general, 441.
gold medal voted to, 267.

thanks of Congress and gold medal voted to, 398,

Scrip, bounty land or to soldiers in Mexican war, 3×1.
Seaboard of United States defence of, 247.

Second artificer, pay of, B.

Second Hente tant, pay of, 145.

heutenants ensigns and cornets den minsted, 154.

Seconds, &c deemed principals to duels, when, 179.

Secretary, military, commanding general may apjunt, 374.
of commander in chief 2,8

of treasury to pay conta do for arming traps, 472.
of war and clerks, oath of, 86,

assistant, salary 4 4×0,
compensation 1, 12)