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398 commandant of any regiment, squadron, or battalion shall accept the resignation of any regimental, squadron, or battalion staff-officer: Provided, also, That the brigadier-general may accept the resignation of his staff-officers; and in all cases when a resignation is accepted, the cause of such resignation shall be indorsed by the officer accepting the same, on the back of the commission so resigned; but the command of such officer shall not cease until the officer accepting such resignation shall have indorsed his acceptance.

. 18. To each brigade there shall be one brigade-major - to serve as brigade inspector - two aides-de-camp, one brigade quarter-master, one brigade engineer, one brigade judge advocate, one brigade surgeon, and one brigade chaplain, which brigade staff shall be appointed by the commander-in-chief. To each regiment or battalion of artillery, rifle, light infantry, or infantry, there may be one chaplain, one adjutant, one quarter-master, one surgeon, one surgeon's mate, one sergeant major, one quartermaster-sergeant, one drum-major, and one fife-major, to be appointed by the commandant of such regiment or battalion. To each regiment or battalion of cavalry there shall be one adjutant, one quarter-master, one paymaster, one surgeon, one surgeon's mate, one quartermaster-sergeant, one sergeant-major, and two regimental or squadron buglers, which shall be appointed by the commandant of such regiment or squadron.

. 19. The staff-officers herein enumerated shall rank as follows, namely, the quartermaster-general and adjutant-general as brigadier-generals; the paymaster-general, engineer in chief, judge advocate general, and aides-de-camp to the commander-in-chief, as colonels; the aides-de-camp to brigadier-generals, chaplains, and surgeons, as captains; company ensign, adjutants, quarter-masters, paymasters, surgeon's mates of regiments, battalions, and squadrons, as lieutenants; and all other regimental or squadron staff, as non-commissioned officers.

. 20. The uniform of the respective officers herein mentioned shall be the same as the uniform of the officers in the United States army.

. 21. Each company shall muster as often as twice in each year, independent of the general muster.