PREFACE. A COMPILATION of the constitutional and statutory laws now in force concerning the military establishment of the United States, arranged in the order of subjects, and interpreted and explained by the latest judicial and executive decisions, dicta, and opinions, in the form of notes, is herewith submitted. Much legislation affecting army officers in their relations to the civil service is inserted herein, and for the first time in a work intended principally for their use. See Chapters III., XXVII., XXVIII. A synoptical index to the Constitution is appended to Chapter I., the matter of which is not embraced in the general index to the volume. Omitting only the enacting clauses, the text is a literal transcript of the statutes at large as officially promulgated-the references by chapters being to the edition of Little & Brown. The citations of authorities and the inter-references are believed to be all that the military or other reader could desire. FARIBAULT, MINN., December 30, 1872. R. N. S. (v) ERRATA. PAGE 14. In fourth line of note 6, for vol. xi., read vol. ii. 18. In eleventh line of note 10 d, for vol. xi., read vol. ii. 66 66 59. In first line of note 7, reference should read Chap. viii., ¶ 225. 63. In last line of note 15, for "348-352," read 337-341. In last line but one of note 17, for 104, read 85; and for 353, read 342. 179. In note 12, clause i, for "their stations," read these stations. 66 181. Last line of note 13 k should read 27 c, instead of 287 c. 66 186. In fifth line of note 20, reference should be to ¶¶ 337-341. 66 250. Substitute "corps of engineers," for "engineer" in note 6 c. 66 282. In third paragraph, on this page, of note 8 a, for ¶ 78, read 79. 336. Insert no. 806, after nos. 783, 784, in last line but one of note 18. 219-226 Rank and Command, Army Corps, Divisions, and Brigades 227-230 231-238 239-245 GENERAL INDEX. |