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W. II. SiioRER, 1st Lieutenant, od artillery. 



A. Doui5LEDAY, 2d Lieutenant 1st artillery. 



L. N. Morris, Captain 3(1 infantry. 



J. C. M'Ferran, Brevet 2(1 Lieuterant 3d infimtry. 



E. A. Hitchcock, Lieutenant Colonel 3d infantry. 



M. M. Payne, Lieutenant Colonel, 4tli artillery. 



Jl. M'Kavert, Captain Hth infantry. 



.1. V. BoMFORD, Captain 8tli infantry. 



Iv. P. Maclay, 2d Lieutenant bth infantry. 



T. L. Ciiadbourn, 2d Lieutenant Sth infantry. 



Henry M. Judah, Brevet 2(1 Lieutenant Sth infantry 



George Lincoln, 1st Lieutenant Sth infantry. 



.J. Selden, 1st Lieutenant Sth infantry. 



A. L. SiiEPPARD, Ist Lieutenant Sth infantry. 



ADBEJ^DUM. 



In order to put the question of the complete separation of the quarter- 

 master's department from the line, heyond a doubt, so far as their eonuuis- 

 sions in that department are valid, reference must be had to the iith section 

 of the act of July 0, iSoS, which is in the following words : " And he it fur- 

 " iher enacted, That the President of the United Mates be, and he is hertl)y 

 " authorized by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to add to 

 " the quartermasters department, not exceeding two assistant quartennas- 

 " ter's general, with the rank of Colonel ; two deputy quartermaster's 

 *'■ general with the rank of I^ieutenant Colonel, and eight assistant quarter- 

 " masters with the rank of Captain; that the assistant quartermasters now 

 "in service, shall have the same rank as is provided by this act for those 

 " hereby authorized ; and that the pay and emoluments of the officers of 

 "the quartermaster's department, shall be the same as are allowed to offi- 

 " (;ers of similar rank in the regiments of dragoons; Provided, That all ap- 

 " pointments in the quartermaster's department shall be made from the 

 " army, and when oflicers taken for such appointments hold rank in the 

 " line, they shall thereupon relinquish said rank and be separated from the 

 "line of the army ; and that promotion hi said department shall take place 

 " as in regiments and corps." 



This section was qualified, so far as relates to Captains, \)j the third 

 clause of the sup])lementary act of July 7, ISoS, in the following words : 

 " That so much of said act as requires assistant quartermasters to be sepa- 

 " rated from the line, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed." 



By this clause in the supplementary act. Captains who may be appointed 

 in the quartermaster's department, under the authority of the 9th section 

 of the act of July 5, 1S3S, are permitted to retain their previous commis- 

 sions in the line, but the supplementary act does not extend the same privi- 

 lege to the other officers (the Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels,^ appointed 

 uniler tlie same section of the act of July O, and therefore, this being in full 

 force with respect to them, they are re(iuired to be taken from the army, 

 and if taken from the line of the army, (thus distinguishing the line from 

 the stair corps and departments,) they are required to " relinquisii" tb.e 

 "rank" in, and be '■' separated frcm the line of the army.'" Be the line, 



