ART. 65] STAFF AND MEDICAL DEPARTMENTS. 1489

sergeants shall belong respectively to the quartermaster department, the
subsistence department and the ordnance department.

1908, ch. 103, sec. 26. 1910, ch. 204, sec. 26 (p. 195).

25. The officers in these staff departments shall be appointed and
commissioned by the commander-in-chief at his discretion. The non-
commissioned officers provided' for in these departments shall be war-
ranted by the brigade commander.

1908, ch. 103, sec. 27.

26. The medical department shall consist of the officers necessary to
perform the duties pertaining to the medical department on the staffs
or brigades and divisions and at camps, depots, and other similar mili-
tary establishment, of the surgeons and assistant surgeons attached to
regiments, separate squadrons and battalions, troops, batteries and com-
panies, for the purpose of furnishing medical attendance of the medical
officers requisite for the organization of such ambulance companies and
field hospitals as may be authorized, and of the hospital corps. When
desired, a female nurse corps may be provided.

1908, ch. 103, sec. 28.

27. There shall be one commissioned officer with the rank of major,
who shall be authorized to perform the duties of engineer officer on the
staff of the brigade commander, and who shall be chief of this depart-
ment.

1908, ch. 103. sec. 29.

28. Upon the application of the commanding officer of a regiment
or battalion not part of a regiment, or the commanding officer of the
naval brigade, the governor may authorize the formation of the musi-
cians of such organization into a separate body, to be known as "Field
Music," to consist of the present enlisted musicians and such others as
may hereafter be enlisted in or transferred to it as musicians. In the
regiments and battalions composed of separate companies, field musi-
cians may be allowed on the basis of two to each company, to be enlisted
by the direction of the commanding officer of, and attached to the
headquarters of such regiment or battalion. When such regiment or
battalion is assembled for duty, the musicians allowed by section 18
of this article to the companies composing it shall be assigned to duty
as part of the field music. Tn all other regiments, battalions or troops
field music may be allowed on the basis of not more than four men for
each company or troop part of such organizations, and no musicians shall
be allowed to a company or troop part of such regiment. The com-
manding officer of an organization of which field music is a part may
appoint and warrant from its members one quartermaster sergeant, one
sergeant and one corporal.