The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1846-12-04

The regiment will consist Of
p Colonel,
Lieutenant Colonel,
e Major,
u Adjutant, "a Lieutenant Of one of
: the companies, but not in addi-
p tion)
:. z + / Sergeant Major,
Quarter Master Sergeant,
e 3 Principal Musicians, and
10 Companies, each of which to consist Of
l Captain,
l First Lieutenant,
2 Second Lieutenants,
4 Sergeants,
A Corporate,
2 Musicians, and
80 Prvates.
Should the number Of prVates, on being
mustered, not fall below sixty -four effective
men in company, it will be received.
Vicksburg is designated as the place OF
rendezvous for the several companies, as
fast as they shall be organized, and where
they may be further organized into a regi-
ment. The regiment will be inspected and
mustered into service by an officer or officers
Of the United States army, who will, in every
case, be instructed 10 receive no man who
is in years apparently over forty five or IN.
der eighteen, or who is not Of physical
strength and vigor. To this end the inspec.
tor will ha,accompanied by medical officer
of IL and the volunteer will be subs
mite 20 his examination. 1t is respectfully
suggested that public notice of these require.
ments will prevent much disappointment to
the jealous and patriotic citizens of your
State who may be disposed 10 volunteer.
BY the enclosed copy Of an Act authoriz.
ing the President to call for volunteers, it
will be perceived that all the field and com
paBy officers with volunteers taken into the
service of the United States are to be ap.
pointed and commissioned, or such as have
been appointed and commissioned in accord
ance with the laws of the State whence they
are taken; and would suggest the extreme
importance to the public service, that the
officers for the above regiment be judicious-
ly selected.
It may be proper to remark, that the law
provides for the clothing Tin money and
subsistence of the non-commissioned offs
GERS, musicians and privates of volunteers
who are received into the service of the
United States.
In respect to clothing the law requires
that the volunteers shall furnish their own
clothing, for which purpose it allows 10
each nom Commissioned officer, musician and
private three dollars and fifty cents per
month, during the time he shall be in the
service Of TIE United States In order that
the volunteers who shall be mustered into
service under this reqnisition, may be ena-
bed 10 provide themselves with good and
sufficient clothing, ths Communication allowed
for six months (twenty one dollars) will be
advanced to each non-commissionedo officer,
musician and private, after being mustered
into service, but only with the express con-
dition that the volunteer has already fur,
Missed himself with six months clothing
this fact to be certified 10 the paymaster by
the Captain of the company, or that the a
mount thus advanced shall be applied under
the supervision of his Captain to the object
contemplated by law. In this latter case,
the advanced Communication for clothing will
be paid on the Captains certificate that he
is satisfied il will be so applied.
In respect to subsistence before arriving
at the place of rendezvous, and for travelling
home from the place Of discharge, the allow
ance is fifty cents forevery twenty miles dis
lance.
The President requests that you viii be
as prompt as possible in the arrangement of
this whole matter, in order that the vOlun-