Chapter XVII. *to authorize an Increase of the Rank and File of the Army of the United States.* May 13, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *Number of privates in the existing regiments to be increased
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Chap. XVII.— An Act *to authorize an Increase of the Rank and File of the Army of the United States.* May 13, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *Number of privates in the existing regiments to be increased.Reduced when the exigencies requiring such increase shall cease. That the President of the United States be, and is hereby, authorized, by voluntary enlistment, to increase the number of privates in each or any of the companies of the existing regiments of dragoons, artillery, and infantry, to any number not exceeding one hundred, whenever, in his opinion, the exigencies of the public service may require the same, and to reduce the same to sixty-four, when the exigencies requiring the present increase shall cease: *Provided,* That said enlistmentsTime of enlistment. shall be for the term of five years, and no longer, unless sooner dis-banded by the President.
Approved, May 13, 1846.