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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journals of the Continental Congress --APPENDIX
Promotion shall be regimental, to the rank of Captain inclusively. [Agreed.] 2d. From that of Captain, to that of Brigadiers [Colonels] inclusively, to be in the Line of the State. [Agreed.] 3d. From the rank of Brigadiers [Colonels], promotion to be in the Line of the Army at large.
Adjutants andQuarter Masters of Regiments to be nominated by the Field Officers, out of the Subalterns, and to be presented to the Commander in Chief, or the Commander in a seperateAgreed department, for approbation, and being approved of,to be by him commissioned according shall receive from him a Warrant agreeable to such nomination.
Paymasters of a Regiment, to be chosen by the Officers of the Regiment, out of the Captains or Subalterns, and tobe commissioned be appointed by Warrants as above: The Paymasters toAgreed have the Charge of the Clothing, and to distribute the same. The Officers are to risk their pay in his hand.
Brigade Major to be appointed as heretofore by the Commander in Chief, or the Commander in a seperate department, out ofAgreed the Captains in the Brigade, to which he shall be appointed.
Brigade Quarter Master to be appointed by the Quarter Master General, out of the Captains or Subalterns in the Brigade, toAgreed which he shall be appointed.
Aid de Camps, Two to be allowed to each Major Generaland Three to each Lieutenant General (if any such Officers should be appointed by Congress) to be appointed by themrespectively, inAgreed future, out of the Captains or Subalterns.Each new appointed Aid de Camp to receive Twenty Five Dollars per Month, as such.
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The pay of the above named Staff Officers, as such, to be as follows: Adjutant and regimental Quarter Master, Thirteen Dollars pr month; regimental Paymaster, Twenty Dollars pr month; BrigadeAgreed Major, twenty four Dollars pr month; Brigade Quarter Master, fifteen Dollars per month; Aid de Camps twenty four Dollars per month. They shall severally draw their Rations according to their rank in the Line only; and when promoted above the ranks in the Line, out of which they are respectively appointable, their Staff appointments shall thereupon be made. The present Aid de Camps and Brigade Majors to receive their present pay and rations.
Aid de Camps, Brigade Majors and Quarter Masters heretofore appointed from the Line, shall hold their present Ranks, and be admissible into the Line inthat Rank, or, at the election, mayAgreed be admissible into the Line again in the same Rank they held when taken from the Line. Provided that no Aid, Brigade Major, or Quarter Master, shall have the command of any Officers who commanded him, while in the Line.
Adjutant General. Whenever this Officer shall be appointed from the Line, he may continue to hold his rank and commissionAgreed in the Line.
Committee agreed to recommend it to Congress to take away all Rank from theCivil Staff.
Committee agreed to recommend to Congress the speedy establishment of some mode to commissionate Officers who may be regularly advanced, or promoted, in consequence of a vacancyQue:? happening; and for appointing other Officers to fill up the vacancy occasioned by such advancement or promotion; and to recommend to Congress, to empower the Commander in Chief, or the General, commanding in a seperate Department, to fill up the Commissions of Officers so advanced, or promoted; and further to recommend to Congress that the vacancies occasioned by such promotion, or advancement, be filled up by some worthy Cadets, if there are any such from the State, raising the Regiment.
Took into Consideration, and agreed to the General's proposition for employing in the next Campaign about 400 Indians of the Six Nations, Cherokees and Creeks.
Agreed to dismiss the Regimental Chaplains, and to constitute Brigade Chaplains with the unanimous concurrence of the Brigadiers.
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Resolved, That where supernumerary Lieutenants are continued under this arrangement of the Battalions, who are to do the duty of Ensigns, that they shall be entituled to hold their rank andAgreed to receive the payand rations such rank entituled them to receive.
Resolved that no more full Colonels be appointed in the Infantry, but where any such office shall become vacant, that the Battalion be commanded by a Lieutenant colonel (Commandant) whoAgreedshall be entituled to the same rank, pay and rations of a Colonel as tho he had been commissioned a full Colonel, and such Battalion shall have two Field Officers only viz: a Lt. Colo. Comt, and a Major, and also an additional Captain.
and to rise from that Rank to that of a Brigadier General.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, without date, in the writing of Francis Dana, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 21, folio 157. The last line is in the writing of William Duer. It is indorsed: "New arrangement of the American Army. Order of promotion." Its substance is embodied in the resolves printed under May 27, 1778, p. 542ante.]
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