5. The regiment of light artillery consists of ten troops of 95 men each, including officers, which, including the 13 regimental officers, make an aggregate of 963.

6. The regiment of dragoons consists of eight troops of 121 each, which, including the regimental officers, make an aggregate of 981 men.

7. The artillery corps consists of 12 battalions, of 495 each. 8. Each regiment of infantry consists of 10 companies, of 106 men, making, with the regimental officers, a total of 1094 to each regiment.

$9. Each rifle regiment also contains 10 companies, of 106 men each.

Two regiments form a brigade, commanded by a brigadier general, to whom is attached an aid-de-camp and a brigade major. Two brigades form a division, commanded by a major general, with two aids-de-camp; and, when he commands an army, one adjutant general, one inspector general, one quarter master general, two assistant adjutant generals, two assistant inspector generals, one deputy quarter master general and four assistants, one topographical engineer and one assistant; beside a chief of each department, as many assistants may be allowed as there are brigades in each separate army.

In the above statement the general staff and the engineer corps are not included.

The general staff consists of 10. I. The general officers. brigadier-generals.

Eight major-generals, and 16

11. II. The quarter master general's department. The principal quarter master general and his clerks, 3 quarter master generals, 8 deputy and 32 assistant deputy quarter master generals, the principal and 16 other waggon masters, the principal forage master and 16 assistants, 4 conductors of artillery, the principal barrack-master and 60 deputies, the superintendant of artificers and 4 assistants, 2 master masons and 24 labourers, 2 master carpenters with 20 house and 5 ship carpenters, 2 master blacksmiths and 20 workmen, 2 master boat-builders and 16 workmen, 2 master armorers and 16 workmen, 2 master saddlers and 12 workmen, and 2 master harness-makers and 12 workmen.

It is the duty of this department to provide

1. For the quartering and transporting of troops.

2. For transporting all military stores, camp equipage, and artillery.

3. For opening and repairing roads, and constructing and re

pairing bridges, which may be necessary to the movement of the army, or of any detachment thereof.

4. To receive from the departments of purchase and of ordnance, all clothing, camp equipage, arms, ammunition, and ordnance; to transport the same to the place of destination, and there to make distribution 'thereof, agreeably to the direction given to the articles by the commissary general of purchases, and to the orders of the general commanding the district to which they are destined.

5. To provide all forage and fuel for the use of the troops, and have the same transported and issued.

6. To provide good and sufficient store houses, for provisions deposited under contract between individuals and the government, and to appoint store keepers for the custody of the said provisions, or other articles, the property of the public, which may be placed there; and to find means of transporting the same, when so required by the engagements of the govern

ment.

7. To make half yearly returns, to the secretary of war, of all horses and draft oxen, or horses and oxen on hire, in public service, showing their number, employment, and condition; and a similar return of all other articles, the property of the public, of which the department may be possessed.

8. To make and transmit to the secretary of war, monthly summary statements of the accounts of the department, and quarterly accounts thereof, agreeably to forms prescribed by the treasury department.

9. To make out and transmit to the war department, on or before the first day of December in each year, annual estimates of the forage, fuel, straw for bedding, articles of stationary, dragoon and artillery horses, oxen, waggons, and carts for transportation of baggage, &c. and of all other articles the furnishing of which appertains to the department.

12. III. The topographical department. Eight topographical engineers, and 8 assistant topographical engineers.

The duty of this department is to make such surveys, and exhibit such delineation of these, as the commanding general shall direct; to make plans of all military positions (which the army may occupy) and of their respective vicinities, indicating the various roads, rivers, creeks, ravines, hills, woods, and villages, to be found therein; to accompany all reconnoitring parties sent out to obtain intelligence of the movements of the enemy, or of his positions, &c.; to make sketches of their route, accompanied by written notices of every thing worthy of observation thereon; to keep a journal of every day's movement, when the army is in

march, noticing the varieties of ground, of buildings, of culture, and the distances and state of the roads between given points, throughout the march of the day; and lastly, to exhibit the relative positions of the contending armies, on fields of battle, and the dispositions made, whether for attack or defence.

13. IV. The adjutant general's and the inspector general's departments. One adjutant and inspector general, 8 adjutant generals, 16 assistant adjutant generals, 8 inspector generals, and 16 assistant inspector generals.

The duties of adjutant generals may be comprised under the following heads, viz.:

Distribution of orders:

Details of service:

Instruction of the troops in the manual exercise, and the evolutions and arrangement of them when brought into action; and

Direction of the military correspondence.

1. Distribution of orders. The general orders of the day having been received from the commanding general, the adjutant general or his assistant carries them to the office of distribution, where they are recorded in a book kept for that purpose, whence they are transcribed by the aids-de-camp of general officers, by majors of brigade, by the adjutants of all separate corps less than brigades, by a deputy or assistant deputy quartermaster general, by an hospital surgeon, or an hospital surgeon's mate, detailed for that duty by the senior surgeon, and some commissioned officer from each corps of engineers; and when so transcribed, they are carried to the corps to which these officers respectively belong, and there promulgated, under the orders of the officers commanding the corps, and become to them a rule of conduct.

2. Details of service. These are made agreeably to prescribed rules, and the usage of war.

3. Instruction of the troops. This is governed by circumstances, as to time, place, and frequency; of which the commanding general is the judge.

4. Military correspondence. Reports of services performed, and demands for courts of inquiry, or courts martial, are made to the adjutant general. All returns intended to exhibit the strength of corps, and accounting for the absent non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates; reports of the hospital and of the quartermaster's departments; and of ordnance and ordnance stores attached to the army; are also addressed to the adjutant general; out of which he forms a general return, which is transmitted monthly, for the information of the war depart

ment: those transmitted for the months of June and December, are accompanied with a list of the officers serving in any garrison or corps of the district or army so returned, specifying their names, rank, and places of station. Returns of ordnance and ordnance stores, are made agreeably to forms prescribed by the commissary general of ordnance.

The duties of inspector generals may be divided under the following heads, viz.:

Mustering and inspecting troops of the line, and militia detachments serving with them:

Selecting places of encampment, and posting guards:
Superintending the police of the camp and of the march :
Inspecting parades; and

Making half yearly confidential reports to the war department, of the state of the army, division, or detachment to which they belong.

$14. V. The ordnance department. The commissary general and the assistant commissary general of ordnance, 9 deputy and 16 assistant deputy commissaries, 3 master wheel-wrights, 3 master carriage-makers, 3 master blacksmiths, and 120 artificers, viz. 40 wheel-wrights, 40 carriage-makers, and 40 blacksmiths.

This department is charged with the making, in the laboratories of the United States, all gun-carriages, ammunition waggons, travelling forges, and every other apparatus for the artillery, and with the preparing all kinds of ammunition for garrison and field service. It is likewise charged with the inspection of powder, cannon, shot, and other ordnance stores, made under contract with the United States; with the distribution of ordnance; and with the preservation and safe keeping of all ord

nance stores.

§ 15. VI. The purchasing department. The commissary general, 10 deputy commissaries, 6 assistant commissaries, and 17 military store keepers.

The commissary general of this department and his deputies purchase, upon the orders and estimates of the war department, all ordnance, ordnance stores, laboratory utensils, artificers' tools, artillery carriages, ammunition waggons, timber and other materials for making and repairing these; artillery harness, ammunition, small arms, accoutrements, and equipments; clothing, dragoon saddles and bridles; tent poles, camp kettles, mess pans, bed-sacks, medicines, surgical instruments, hospital stores, and all other articles required for the public service of the army of the United States, excepting only, such as are directed to be purchased by the quarter master general's department. The ar

ticles so purchased, are delivered over, by the commissary general or by his deputies, to an officer of the quarter master general's department, for transportation to the places of their destination and use.

§ 16. VII. Paymaster's department. The paymaster of the army, 8 deputy paymaster generals, 3 assistant do., 30 district and 2 assistant paymasters.

17. VIII. The hospital department. The physician and surgeon general, the apothecary general and his assistants, 20 hospital surgeons and 2 mates to each, 20 stewards, 20 ward masters, 2 surgeons, and 31 surgeon's mates.

It is the duty of the physician and surgeon general to prescribe rules for the government of the hospitals of the army; to see these enforced; to appoint stewards and nurses; to call for and receive returns of medicines, surgical instruments, and hospital stores; to authorize and regulate the supply of regimental medicine chests; to make out general half yearly returns of these, and of the sick (in hospitals) to the war department, and yearly estimates of what may be wanted for the supply of the army. The apothecary general assists the physician and surgeon general in the discharge of the above mentioned duties, and receives and obeys his orders in relation thereto.

The apothecary general and his assistants receive and take charge of all hospital stores, medicines, surgical instruments, and dressings, bought by the commissary general of purchases or his deputies, and account to the superintendant general of military supplies for all expenditures of the same.-It is the further duty of the apothecary general and his assistants to pay (monthly) the wages of the stewards, ward masters, and nurses of the hospital, the accounts being duly certified by the senior surgeon present, and settled quarterly. They also compound and prepare all officinals, and put up and issue medicines, &c. in chests, or otherwise, conformably to the direction of the physician and surgeon general, or on the estimates and requisitions of the senior surgeons of hospitals, and of the regimental surgeons. Returns are made to the apothecary general's office, quarterly, by the deputy apothecaries, surgeons, and mates, or any one having charge of instruments, medicine, hospital stores, an hospital equipments of any description. The forms of these returns are regulated by the apothecary general, under the direction of the superintendant general of military supplies, to whom one copy of the returns is sent.

The senior hospital surgeon is ex officio the director of the medical staff in the army or district to which he is attached.He must reside at or near head-quarters, countersign all requi