The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1846-05-29
e0fessional Adrertisements.

- 49, s1ss INN = 30 p A@AAD EOh On
il eaeh House Of Congress. We have,
hoasse no room for details. The 6rsiIe~
SUI Is, the passage By the House OF the
| folte ing important Bill, by very large
naioflsy "a 10 IA. The nays are a. fol-
lows John @. Adams, Ashum, Crauston,
CugeI, Belano, Giadings, Grinnell, ilud
son, D. r king, Root, Severance, SiTollm,
i sIilaan I'D Vance.
ii.passed the House Of Rep>
res aslFes, IS as follows:
80 ltkoIize the President Of the
lapdeF eerisIn copiingels~
- theTetA nanied, to accepf 1.-THE services
81 volunteers, and for other purposes.
WngREhs, hy lie act 81 The Republic Of
Mckee state of war exists between thai
j GoyeTamcnt aud the United Statess there
fore
Be Il enacted by hse Stndfe and House
/ Of Ripressnfotices IF he United States Of
Amariea, q Congress Assembled, That, fer
The purpose of enabling the Government Of
the United Safes 70 prosecute said war TO
speedy and successful Termination, The Pres
sidcnt be. and Is hereby authorized to en-
Iploy the militia, naval and military forces
OF the Iniied States, aud to call for and ac-
lrePt the services Of any number Of volun-
! teeFs, not exceeding 80, 900, who may offer
!, Their services Is cavalry, artillery, infantry
or rihemon, % serve six or twelve months
: after they hall have arrived at the place Of
rendezvous, or ID end the war unless sooner
discharged. That the sum of Sl0,OO0,GO0
be, and The same is hereby appropriated out
. appropriated, for the purpose Of carrying
the provisions Of ibis act into effect.
SEc. That the. militia, when called
7 into sel Of the United States by virtue
! of this d sny other act, may, If in the opin-
: lou Of the President Of the United States
b the public interest requires il, he compelled
2 to serve fora Term not exceeding six months
$ after theirarrival Al the place Of rendezvous,
\ in any one year, unless sooner discharged.
( SEC. 3. That The said volunteers shall
9 furnish their own Clothes and, il cavalry,
: their own horses; AID, when mustered into
). service, shall Be armed and equipped al the
. expense Of The Government
SIC. That said volunteers when called
n into actual service, aud while remaining
T therein, shall be subject TO the rules and
$, articles Of war, and shall be IN all respects,
1t except as % clothing and pay, placed on Tie
2 same footing With similar corps Of the u
- Arny; and, IN leo Of clothing, every
3 ron commissioned officer and private ia any
S cosnpaBY who may thus offer himself, shall
g te entitled, when called into actual service,
E to receive in money q sum equal to the cost
9 Eof clothing Or a Hon-commissioned officer
e a private Gas the case may beg in the regu.
u lar troops Of the United States.
Ell SEC. 5. That the said volunteers so offer.
g ing their services shall be accepted by the
ne President in companies, battalions, squad.
y Fons and regiments, whose officers shall be
III appointed in the manner prescribed by law
es in the several states and territories TO which
rs such companies, hattalions, squadrons and
regiments shall respectively belong.
Ut SEc. That the President OF the United
K States be, and he is hereby authorized 10
~ organize companies so rendering their ser.
n vices into baItalliOhs OF souadrons; hattal-
- lions and squadrons into regiments; regis
ments into brigades, and brigades into diviS
ias sions, as soon as the number Of volunteers
ps, shall render such organization, in his judg<
m. ment, expedieni; and shall, by and with the
Oh advice of the Senate, appoint the generals
,es Of brigade and division, and the general
sre staff, as now authorized by law; Prooided,
ose however, that major generals and brigadisE
no generals shall have the appointment Of their
vss aids de-camps, and the President shall, il
necessary, appor6on the Staff field and gen.
for eral officers among the respective States and
&c. re- Territories from which the volunteers shall
ch. tender their serVices, as he may deem pro
APP per.
md SEC. Z. That the volunteers who may b.
a. ForaiuoH mt 1f h. Hate
our States by virtue of the provisions of Thu
ur- act, who may be wounded orDtherwise dis
ec abled in service, shall be entitled TO all TIT
int benefit which may be conferred on person
nor wounded in the service of the United States
} be SEC. 8. That the President Of the Unite,
States be, and he is hereby authorized forth
Of with to complete all the public armed YES
and sells now authorized by law, and to puTchas
the or ctprter, arm, and equip, and man sucl
n as merchant vessels, st for the public, and i
n to such numbers as he may deem necessary fc
iun- the protection of the seaboard, lake coas
Give and the general defence Of the couRtry.
an1 SEC. 8. That whenever the militia {
not volunteers are called and received into th
ire service Of the United States. under tho pr
Inc visions Of this act, they shall have the org
nil. nizgtion Of the army Of the United State
and and shall have the same pay and allowance
except as follows, to.wii: Privates Of iRfa
sn try. artillery. and rihemen shall receive Il
Con dollars per month, and privates Of yolunte
rs Of mounted corps twenty dollars per month !
TO their services and the use and risk Of Che
m !, horses.
bring THE ZoLLvERElN.- The following IS IN
men. the N. Y. Journal of Cammeree.
! ne. The great Gormsn Union Of Custom
tore. -. - - a 81 q. .