The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-04-11
BY AUTHORITY.
LAws or rnE uNITrp srATEs.


sryIee Of the United States two additional regiments OF
volunteers,
BE eaaoed cq he Ssae and House Of Representatives. Of the
Ltai Saes Of daoa Congress assembled, That the Pres
dent the United States be authorized to receive into
the service Of the United States regiment OF Texas
mounted volunteers, 10 be raised and organized by the
State OF Texas for the defence and protection Of the IRON
tier thereof 10 continue in service from the time tha
the whole regiment shall be mustered into service
for the term of eighteen months, unless sooner dls
charged by the President said regiment snail pe
composed of colonel, one heutelantcoionei, one
major one adutant with the rank OF nrst neutehaht,
one ouartermaster and commissary with similar rank
one surgeon and assistant surgeons, one sergeant
major one quarermaster and comnssary sergeant and
ten conpsnes-each of which shall be composed OF
one captain one first lieutenant one second leuten
ant four sergcants four coporals two bugers one far
er and seventy -four pvates Each OF said officers below
the rank of majornon commissioned ohcers, musicians,
frrier and privatss furnish and keep himself sup
piled with good serviceabe horse and horse equipments
for the use and risk of which, in addition to the pay and
allowances herein provided he shall receive forty cents
day while in service with his horse and IT any non
Commissioned officer musician arrier private shall
from careessness neglect injnre render his horse
unfit for service, and shall fail to supply seryiceabe
horse within the period Of ten days from the loss such
soldier shall from such time, until he shall furnish him
self with horse, be entitled only to the pay of private
of infantry
SEC O. And lx further enacted, That the officers,
commissioned officers musicians arrier and privates OF
said regiment shall when mustered into the service of
the United States be subject to the rules and articles
of war They shall be armed at the expense of the
United States, as the President shall direct They
shall be allowed the pay, rations and allow
aces in kind including clothing, and be subject TO the
same rules and regulations provided for the reg
ents Of cavalry in the service but no field officer
shall receive forage for greater number OF horses than
bc may from time to time actually have in service No
nav or allowances shall be due until said regiment shall
be received into the service, but each officer and man
shall then be entitled to days and allowance for
every twenty miles lac may have been required to travel
from, hia o
Spc s. And be further enacted, That for the purpose
Of ouelling disturbances in the Territory of Utah. for
the protection OF supply and emigrant trans and the
suppression Of Indian hostites the frontiers, the
President Of the United States be, and he is hereby
thorzed to call for and accept the services any number
of volunteers not to exceed in all two regiments OF seven
hundred and forty pvates each the same or any por-
ton thereof to be organized into mounted regiments in
antry President may deem proper to for the
term Of eighteen months from the time Of their being
ceved into service unless discharged by the Presi
dent Said volunteers, II called for and received as
mounted men, shall be constituted in the same manner
as is provided in the first section OF this bill for the
Texas regiment of mounted volunteers, and shall
receive the pay and allowances, shall be sub
iect to the same rules and regulations provi
lied in this bill for said corps and If called for, and
if received as infantry they shall be placed the same
footing in every respect with the infantry regiments now
in the service shall receive the pay and allowances
aud lie governed by the rules and regulations and
the said regiments whether organized as mounted men
or infantry shall be subject to the rules and articles OF
SEC H. Ind De further enacted, That the volunteers
provided for by this act shall not be accepted in bodies
of less than regiment whose officers shall be appointed
in the prescribed by law IN the several States or
Territories to which said regiments shall respectively be-
lonu except tho qlarternasters and comnssares Sho
shall be detailed from thsr respective departments Of the
ocular army of the United States. ,s~<
$40 q 4ad1s Jg,sr That the pay Of said
volunteers shall not ~ until received into the service
but eaeb officer s sud man shall then be entitled to
pay for every twenty miles he may have been re-
qued to travel from his residence to the place Of mus
ter. VT
Approved April 1858.
AN ACT to acquire certain lands needed for the Wash
ington Aqueduct in the District Of Columbia
Whereas it is represented that the works of the Washing
ton Aaueduct in the District of Columbia, delay
cd in conseq uence Of the proprietors refusal in
cases. sell lands required for its construction at rea
sonabe prices and because in other cases. the title to
the said land is imperfect, Is vested in minors or
persons compos mentis, or In a femme covert or
ont of the District of Columbia and whereas it liz
necessary the making OF the said aqueduct, reser
vors, dams, ponds feeders, and other works, that
provision should be made for condennng quantity Of
land for the purpose therefore
Be enacted By he Senate and House Of Representatives Of
The Tinted States of Aberfca in Congress assembled That
it shall and may be lawful for the United States its
approved agent to agree with the Of any land in
the District of Columbia through which said aqueduct is
intended the purchase and occupation
thereof; and in Of disagreement, in case the
owner thereof shall be femme covert under age,
conpos ont of tile District Of Columbia, applica
ton Judge OF the circuit court Of said District the
said Judge shall issue his warrant under his hand to the
nashal of the said District to jury of eighteen
inhabitants OF said District related to the parties
in any manner interested to meet the land to be
valued day to he expressed in the warrant, not less
than ten nor than twenty days thereafter notice
of the time and place Of said meeting being first gen
to the owners Of such land TO their legal repres. mt
atives in person if that be practicable and if not by
publication in some Washington city newspaper daily
for two weeks and the marshal upon receiving the said
warrant shall forthwith summon the said jury. and,
when met shall administer oath affirmation to
every urynan who shall appear being not less than
twelve in number that he will faithfully justly and inn
partially value the land and all damages the owner
thereof shall sustain by cutting the uqueduct through
such land the partial temporary appropriation use,
or occupation Of such land according to the best Of his
skill and judgment and that In such valuation he win
not spare any person for favor affection, any
person grieve for malice hatred, i'll will and the in
austion thereupon taken shall be signed by the marshal
and -hs of the said jury, and returned by the
shall to the circuit court for the District OF Columbia and
znless good be shown against the said nquisition
1t shall be affirmed by the court Mt its first term after said
return and recorded but IT, from any cause, inqui-
stion shall be returned to such court within month
after the commencement of the next ensuing term,
be necessary direct another inquston to be taken,
such valuation the jury hereby directed to describe and
ascertain the bounds OF the land by them valued and the
quality and duration Of the interest and estate in the
coft