JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

as executive officer, who shall be next in rank and in succes-
sion to command to the captain. The commander shall also
command the First Battalion; one lieutenant-commander to
act as navigator and ordnance officer, and to command the
Second Battalion, who shall be third in rank and in succes-
sion to command. To each division there shall be one lieu-
tenant to command the same, one lieutenant (junior grade)
and one ensign. The staff shall consist of a surgeon, pay-
master, chief engineer and chaplain, each with the rank of
lieutenant; an assistant surgeon, assistant paymaster and
assistant engineer, each with the rank of ensign, and one
ensign to act as aide, all of whom shall be appointed and com-
missioned by the Commander-in-chief on the nomination of the

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captain. The Commander-in-chief shall prescribe the number
and rank of all warrant and petty officers. Warrant officers
and petty officers not assigned to a division shall be appointed
and examined, and if found qualified, warranted by the cap-
tain or commanding officer; divisional petty officers shall be
appointed by the commanding officers of the respective
divisions, who shall certify the same to the captain or com-
manding officer; the captain or commanding officer shall
thereupon cause an examination of the officers so appointed
to be held, and if they shall be qualified, he shall issue war-

Warrant and
petty officers
not assigned,
etc.

rants accordingly. The rank given in this article to officers
of the Naval Brigade is naval rank. The relative rank of
officers in said brigade with officers in the United States Army
is as follows: Captain, with colonel; commander, with lieu-
tenant-colonel; lieutenant-commander, with major; lieuten-
ant, with captain; lieutenant (junior grade), with first lieu-
tenant; and ensigns, with second lieutenant. The relative
position of seamen, ordinary seamen and landsmen shall be
that of a private in the United States Army, and the relative
positions of petty officers in the said Naval Brigade with non-
commissioned officers in the United States Army shall be de-
termined by the Commander-in-chief.

Relative rank
of officers in
said Naval
Brigade.

12. The officers of the line of the brigade shall be elected
as follows: The brigadier-general by the ballots of the field
officers of the brigade; provided, that no person shall be eligi-
ble to the office of brigadier-general who shall not have served
as a commissioned officer during the war or five years in the
Army of the United States or in the National Guard; field
officers by the ballots of the company officers of the respective
regiments; captains and lieutenants of companies, the troop
of cavalry, the battery of artillery and the signal corps, by the
ballots of the enlisted men of the said respective organizations.

How officers of
the line of the
brigade shall
be elected.