Chapter XXXIII. *to provide for the Organization of the Volunteer Forces, brought into the Service of the United States, into Brigades and Divisions, and for the Appointment of the necessary Number of General Officers to command the same.* June 26, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
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Chap. XXXIII.— An Act *to provide for the Organization of the Volunteer Forces, brought into the Service of the United States, into Brigades and Divisions, and for the Appointment of the necessary Number of General Officers to command the same.* June 26, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *That the President The President to organize them into brigades and divisions.of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to organize into brigades and divisions such of the volunteer forces as have been, or may be, called into the service of the United States, under the act approved May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, entitled “An 1846, ch. 16.Act providing for the Prosecution of the existing War between the United States and the Republic of Mexico;” and that he be, and Appointment of major and brigadier generals, as may be necessary.Discharge on conclusion of peace, or reduction of volunteers.hereby is, authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, such number of major-generals and brigadier-generals as the organization of such volunteer forces into brigades and divisions may render necessary: *Provided,That* the brigadier-generals and major-generals so appointed shall be discharged from service by the President of the United States, when the war with Mexico shall be terminated by a definitive treaty of peace, duly concluded and ratified; or, in case the brigades or divisions of volunteers at any time in the service shall be reduced in number, the brigadier-generals and major-generals herein provided for shall be discharged, in proportion to the reduction in the number of the brigades and divisions: *And provided further,* That Strength of each brigade and division.each brigade of volunteers shall consist of not less than three regiments, and each division shall consist of not less than two brigades.
Approved, June 26, 1846.