B.-PART 3.-PEACE ESTABLISHMENT.

Abstract statement of the organization of the general staff of the army, and of the number of general officers provided by the act of March 3, 1815, and as amended by the supplemental act "for organizing the general staff," of April 24, 1816, and as subsequently altered, reduced, and amended, inclusive of this date.

† Number unlimited by the act of March 3, 1835.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, March 8, 1838.

R. JONES, Adjutant General.

1. Certain officers of the general staff, who held rank by brevet, designated by an asterisk, (*) were required by law to be taken from the line, without
prejudice to their rank and promotion in their respective regiments. Staff officers of the brevet rank of colonel, deputy quartermasters general of the brevet rank
of major, and assistant deputy quartermasters gencral with the brevet rank of captain, were taken from the line, or not, at the option of the President.

2. All the officers of the adjutant and inspector general's departments, except the adjutant and inspector general of the army, during the war and after the
peace, inclusive of the act of March 2, 1821, to reduce the peace establishment, held rank in the army in virtue of commissions by brevet.

3. Of the eight adjutants general and eight inspectors general of division, being colonels in the staff by brevet, all except three, at the close of the late war,
were taken from, and held rank in, their respective regiments; and the thirty-two assistant adjutants general and assistant inspectors general, with the brevet
of major, were by law required to retain their commissions in the line, as were also the four assistant topographical engineers-[Vide fourth section of the act of
3d March, 1813, "for the better organization of the general staff;" and the ninth section of the act of April 24, 1816, "for organizing the general staff."]
4. In addition to the medical, pay, and quartermaster's departments, of the general staff, (exhibited in statement B, parts second and third,) each regiment,
prior to the reduction of 1821, was provided by law with one surgeon, two surgeon's mates, one paymaster, and one quartermaster; the appointments of the
two last being made from the subalterns of the regiment.

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CAPTAINS AND SUBALTERNS.

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