recommendation of the board to be appointed by the Secretary of War, which board shall consist of not less than five officers, as follows: One general officer, one ordnance officer, and three officers of the line, one to be taken from the cavalry, one from the infantry, and one from the artillery: And provided further, That the system when so adopted, shall be the only one to be used by the Ordnance Department in the manufacture of muskets and carbines for the military service; and no royalty shall be paid by the Government of the United States for the use of said patent to any of its officers or employees, or for any patent in which said officers or employees may be directly or indirectly interested. * * June 10, 1872 (17-380).-Orders sale of the Rome, Champlain, North Carolina, Mount Vernon, and Apalachicola arsenals. March 3, 1873 (17-543).—Provides for experiments and tests of two Gatling guns of large caliber for flank defenses of fortifications, recommended for trial; also of any other systems for utilizing and improving the cast-iron guns now in service. Act of June 16, 1874 (18 Stats., 72). AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for other purposes. Provided, That no part of this sum shall be expended at said armories [national] in the perfection of patentable inventions in the manufacture of arms by officers of the Army otherwise compensated for their services to the United States. June 22, 1874 (18–200).—Authorizes sale of obsolete ammunition, balls, and surplus of pig lead. Act of June 23, 1874 (18 Stats., 244). AN ACT reorganizing the several staff corps of the Army. SEC. 5. That the Ordnance Department shall consist of one Chief of Ordnance, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of a brigadier-general; three colonels, four lieutenant-colonels, ten majors, twenty captains, sixteen first lieutenants; and all vacancies which may hereafter exist in the grade of first lieutenant in said department shall be filled by transfer from the line of the Army: Provided, That no appointment or promotion in said department shall hereafter be made until the officer or person so appointed or promoted shall have passed a satisfactory examination before a board of ordnance officers senior to himself. SEC. 6. That no officer now in service shall be reduced in rank or mustered out by reason of any provision of law herein made reducing the number of officers in any department or corps of the staff. SEC. 7. That as vacancies shall occur in any of the grades of the Ordnance departments, no appointments shall be made to fill the same until the numbers in such grade shall be reduced to the numbers which are fixed for permanent appointments by the provisions of this act, and thereafter the number of permanent officers in said grades shall continue to conform to said reduced numbers, and all other grades in said Ordnance departments than those authorized by the provisions of this act shall cease to exist as soon as the same shall become vacant by death, resignation, or otherwise; and no appointment or promotion shall hereafter be made to fill any vacancy which may occur therein. SEC. 8. That so much of section six of an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, as applies to the Ordnance departments of the Army be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, That this section repealing said section shall not apply to any of the grades of the Ordnance departments which are omitted or abolished by the provisions of this act. March 3, 1875 (18-375).-Report to be made how many of the arsenals east of the Mississippi River can be sold without injury to the service; an officer of ordnance to be detailed as member of a board to conduct experiments in testing iron and steel. March 3, 1875 (18-452).-None of the money appropriated by this act for the ordnance service shall be expended for the construction or repair of buildings. No money to be expended hereafter at national armories in the perfection of patentable inventions, by officers of the Army, in the manufacture of arms. March 3, 1875 (18-510).-Authorizes sale of the Detroit Arsenal. April 11, 1876 (19-32).-Authorizes sale of arsenal at Stonington, Conn. June 20, 1876 (19–59).—Authorizes sale of all obsolete and condemned projectiles for heavy ordnance. July 3, 1876 (19-214).—Superseded arms to be issued to Territories and border States for protection of citizens; amended by joint resolution of March 3, 1877 (19-410), by adding "not to exceed 50 ball cartridges for each arm." August 15, 1876 (19-206).-State of Kansas to be credited for certain ordnance stores charged to it, but used by Government officials and never turned over to the State. May 16, 1878 (20-61).—Quota of States not to be diminished by the provision of joint resolution of July 3, 1876 (19-214). June 7, 1878 (20-252).-Additional arms to be issued to Territories for protection of their citizens. REVISED STATUTES, 2ND EDITION, 1878. SEC. 1094. The Army of the United States shall consist of— SEC. 1109. There shall be an ordnance sergeant for each military post, whose duty it shall be to take care of the ordnance, arms, ammunition, and other military stores at such post, under the direction of the commanding officer, and according to regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War. SEC. 1110. Ordnance sergeants shall be selected by the Secretary of War from the sergeants of the line who shall have served faithfully for eight years, including four years in the grade of noncommissioned officer, and shall be assigned to their stations by him. SEC. 1159. The Ordnance Department of the Army shall consist of one Chief of Ordnance, with the rank of brigadier-general, three colonels, four lieutenant-colonels, ten majors, twenty captains, sixteen first lieutenants, ten second lieutenants, and thirteen ordnance storekeepers. The ordnance storekeeper at Springfield Armory shall have the rank of major of cavalry; all other ordnance storekeepers shall have the rank of captain of cavalry. SEC. 1160. No officer of the Army shall be commissioned as an ordnance officer until he shall have been examined and approved by a board of not less than three ordnance officers, senior to him in rank. If an officer of the Army fail on such examination he shall be suspended. from appointment for one year, when he may be reexamined before a like board. In case of failure on such reexamination, he shall not be commissioned as an ordnance officer. SEC. 1161. Any number, not exceeding six, of the ordnance storekeepers may be authorized to act as paymasters at armories and arsenals. SEC. 1162. The Chief of Ordnance may enlist as many sergeants of ordnance, corporals of ordnance, and first and second class privates of ordnance as the Secretary of War may direct. Master armorers, master carriage makers, and master blacksmiths shall be designated and mustered as sergeants; armorers, carriage makers, and blacksmiths shall be designated and mustered as corporals; artificers shall be designated and mustered as privates of the first class, and laborers as privates of the second class. SEC. 1163. The Chief of Ordnance, subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, shall organize and detail to regiments, corps, or garrisons such numbers of ordnance enlisted men, furnished with proper tools, carriages, and apparatus, as may be necessary, and shall make regulations for their government. SEC. 1164. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Ordnance to furnish estimates, and, under the direction of the Secretary of War, to make contracts and purchases for procuring the necessary supplies of ordnance and ordnance stores for the use of the armies of the United States; to direct the inspection and proving the same, and to direct the construction of all cannon and carriages, ammunition wagons, traveling forges, artificers' wagons, and of every implement and apparatus for ordnance, and the preparation of all kinds of ammunition and ordnance stores constructed or prepared for said service. SEC. 1165. The Chief of Ordnance, under the direction of the Secretary of Wai, may establish depots of ordnance and ordnance stores in such parts of the United States, and in such numbers, as may be deemed necessary. SEC. 1166. The Chief of Ordnance, or the senior officer of the corps for any district, shall execute all orders of the Secretary of War, and, in time of war, the orders of any general or field officer commanding an army, garrison, or detachment for the supply of all ordnance and ordnance stores for garrison, field, or siege service. SEC. 1167. The Chief of Ordnance shall, half yearly, or oftener if so directed, make a report to the Secretary of War of all the officers, artificers, and laborers in his department of the service, and of all ordnance and ordnance stores under his control. Every officer of the Ordnance Department, every ordnance storekeeper, every post ordnance sergeant, each keeper of magazines, arsenals, and armories, every assistant and deputy of such, and all other officers, agent, or persons who shall have received or may be entrusted with any stores or supplies, shall quarterly, or oftener, if so directed, and in such manner and on such forms as may be directed or prescribed by the Chief of Ordnance, make true and correct returns to the Chief of Ordnance of all ordnance arms, ordnance stores, and all other supplies and property of every kind received by or entrusted to them and each of them, or which may in any manner come into their and each of their possession or charge. The Chief of Ordnance, subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, is hereby authorized and directed to draw up and enforce in his department a system of rules and regulations for the government of the Ordnance Department, and of all persons in said department, and for the safe-keeping and preservation of all ordnance property of every kind, and to direct and prescribe the time, number, and forms of all returns and reports, and to enforce compliance therewith. SEC. 1191. all storekeepers shall, before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, give good and sufficient bonds to the United States, in such sums as the Secretary of War may direct, faithfully to account for all public moneys and property which they may receive. The President may at any time increase the sums so prescribed. appointed by selection from the corps to which they belong. SEC. 1194. Until otherwise directed by law there shall be no new appointments and no promotions in the departments. Ordnance SEC. 1207. When any lieutenant of the Ordnance Corps has served fourteen years' continuous service as lieutenant, he shall be promoted to the rank of captain, on passing the examination provided by the preceding section, but such promotion shall not authorize an appointment to fill any vacancy when such appointment would increase the whole number of officers in the corps beyond the number fixed by law; nor shall any officer be promoted before officers of the same grade who rank him in his corps. SEC. 1208. When promotions in the Ordnance Department of the Army are allowed by law, no officer of the corps below the rank of field officer shall be promoted to a higher grade until he shall have been examined and approved by a board of not less than three ordnance officers senior to him in rank. If an ordnance officer fail on such examination, he shall be suspended from promotion for one year, when he shall be reexamined before a like board. In case of failure on such reexamination, he shall be dismissed from the service. SEC. 1220. Every officer commanding a regiment, corps, garrison, or detachment shall make, once every two months, or oftener if so directed, a report to the Chief of Ordnance, stating all damages to arms, equipments, and implements belonging to his command, noting those occasioned by negligence or abuse, and naming the officer or soldier by whose negligence or abuse the said damages were occasioned. SEC. 1241. The President may cause to be sold any military stores which, upon proper inspection and survey, appear to be damaged or unsuitable for the public service. Such inspection or survey shall be made by officers designated by the Secretary of War, and the sales shall be made under the regulations prescribed by him. SEC. 1279. The principal assistant in the Ordnance Bureau shall receive a compensation, including pay and emoluments, not exceeding that of a major of ordnance. SEC. 1280. The monthly pay of the following enlisted men of the Army shall, during their first term of enlistment, be as follows, with the contingent additions thereto hereinafter provided: Ordnance sergeants of posts, thirty-four dollars. * * ordnance, thirty-four dollars. * ordnance, seventeen dollars. * Section 1281 adds $1 per month for each of the third, fourth, and fifth year of first enlistment, and section 1282 fixes pay of men reenlisting at rate of third year of first term. SEC. 1293. Sergeants and corporals of ordnance shall be entitled to receive one ration and a half daily. Other enlisted men shall be entitled to receive one ration daily. SEC. 1297. No allowance of clothing shall be made to sergeants of ordnance. SEC. 1304. In case of deficiency of any articles of military supplies or of damage to such supplies, the value of the deficient articles or that of the damage to be charged against the officer responsible, unless he can show that the deficiency or damage was not occasioned by any fault on his part. SEC. 1662. At each arsenal there shall be established a national armory, in which there shall be employed one superintendent, who shall be an officer of the Ordnance Department, to be designated by the President; one master armorer, who shall be appointed by the President, and as many workmen as the Secretary of War may from time to time deem necessary. SEC. 1663. The ordnance officer in charge of any national armory shall receive no compensation other than his regular pay as an officer of the corps; the master armorers shall receive fifteen hundred dollars per annum each; the inspectors and clerks each eight hundred dollars per annum, except the clerks of the armory at Springfield, Massachusetts, who may receive, at the discretion of the Secretary of War, twelve hundred dollars per annum. SEC. 1664. The several compensations fixed by the preceding section for master armorers and inspectors shall be paid quarter yearly. All military storekeepers and paymasters shall give bond and security for |