Revised United States Army regulations of 1861, with an appendix containing the changed and laws affecting Army regulations and Articles of war to June 25, 1863:

RrE~VISED RtEGULATIONS
Extracts from Acts of Congress.
arrest: And provided, further, That the provisions of this section shall apply to all
persons now under arrest and awaiting trial.
SEc. 12. And be it further enacted, That whenever the name of any officer of the
army or marine corps now in the service, or who may hereafter be in the service,
of the United States, shall have been borne on the army register or naval register, as the case may be, forty-five years, or he shall be of the age of sixty-two
years, it shall be in the discretion of the President to retire him from active service and direct his name to be entered on the retired list of officers of the grade
to which he belonged at the time of such retirement; and the President is hereby
authorized to assign any officer retired under this section, or the act of August
third, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to any appropriate duty; and such officer
thus assigned sh-ll receive the full pay and emoluments of his grade while so
assigned and employed.
SEc. 16. And be itfurther enacted, That whenever any contractor for subsistence,
clothing, arms, ammunition, munitions of war, and tbr eve y description of supplies for the army or navy of the United States, shall be found guilty by courtmartial of fraud or wilful ne,glect of duty, he shall be punished by fine, imprisonment, or such other punishment as the court-martial shall adjudge; and any
person who shall contract to furnish supplies of any kind or description for the
army or navy he shall be deemed and taken as a part of the land or naval f1orces
of the United States, for which he shall contract to furnish said supplies, and be
subject to the rules and regulations for the government of the land and naval
forces of the United States.
SEc. 17. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be,
and hereby is, authorized and requested to dismiss and discharge from the military service, either in the army, navy, marine corps, or volunteer force, in the
United States service, any officer for any cause which, in his judgment, either
renders such officer unsuitable for, or whose dismission woulj promote, the public
service.
Approved July 17, 1862.
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Sesc. 5. And be it further enacted, That the President shall appoint, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate, at judge advocate general, 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 recoid bhall be kept of all proceedings had thereupon. And
no sentence of death or imprisonment iu the penitentiary shall be carried into
execution until the same shall have been approved by the President.
SFc. 6. And be itfurther enacted, That there may be appointed by the President,
by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for each armv 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.
SE.c. 7. And be itfturther enwttd, 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 offcnce, and order the punishment
that shall be inflicted; and b-hall also make a record of his proceedings, and submit the same to the brigade commander, who, upon the approval of the proceedings of such field officer, shall order the same to be executed: Provided, That the
punishment in such cases be limited to that authorized to) be inflicted by a regimental or garrison court-martial. And provided, further, That, in the event of
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