, 1858-12-03
into the service Of the United States two

into the service of the United States two |
additional Regiments Of Volunteers.
BE it endetcd ty The Senate and House Of
Representatives. Of The United States Of
Am9ioa in Congress assembled, That the
President of the United States be author
lied to receive into the service Of the Uni
ted States one regiment Of Texas mounted
to be raised and organized by
the State Of Texas for the defence and pro-
lection of the frontier thereof, 10 continue
in service from the time that the whole
regiment shall be mustered into service, for
the term of eighteen months, unless sooner
discharged by the President. Said regi-
ment shall be composed of one colonel, one
leu,enant-colonel, one major, one adjutant
with the rank of first lieutenant, one quar-
termaster and commissary with similar
rank, one surgeon and two assistant sur
gcons, one sergeant-major, one quarter
mister and commissary sergeant, and ten
companies-each of which shall be com
posed of one captain, one first lieutenant,
one second lietenant, four sergeants, four
corporals, tive buglers, one farrer, and sew
enty-four privates Each Of said officers
below the rank of MISREPRESENTATION
ed officers, musicians, farrier, and privates
shall furnish and keep himself supplied
with good serviceable horse and horse
equipments, for the use and risk Of which,
in addition to the pay and allowances here
in provided, he shall receive forty cents a
day while in service with bis horse; and if
any non-commissioned officer, musician, far
rier, or private shall, from carelessness or
neglect, injure, or render bis horse unfit for
service, and shall fail to supply servicea-
BILE horse within the period of ten days
from the loss, such soldier shall, from such
time until he shall furnish himself with q
horse, be entitled only to the pay Of pri-
vate of infantry.
SEC 2. and be it further enacted, That
the officers, non-commissoned officers, mu.
sicians, farrier, and privates of said regi-
ment SHALL when mustered into the service
of the United States, be subject to the
articles of war They shall be armed at
the expense of the United States, as the
President shall direct. They shall be al.
lowed the same pay, rations, and allow
ances in kind, including clothing, and be
subject to the same rules and regulations
as are provided for the regiments of cav
airy now in the service, bot no field officer
shall receive forage for greater number
of horses than be may from time to time
actually have in service. No pay or allow
ances shall be due until said regiment shall
be received into the service, but each officer
and man shall then be entitled 10 one days
pay and allowance for every twenty miles
he may have been required to travel from
his residence to the place Of muster.
SEC. 8. And be IL further enacted, That,
for the purpose of quelling disturbances in
the Territory Of Utah, for the protection
Of supply and emigrant trains, and the sup
preston Of Indian hostilities on the from
tiers, the President Of the United States
be and he is hereby authorized to call fol
and accept the services Of any number o.
volunteers, not to exceed in all two regi
ments, Of seven hundred and forty privatet
each; the same, or any portion thereof, tc
be organized into mounted regiments or in.
fantry, as the President may deem proper
to serve for the term of eighteen months
from the time Of their being received into
service, unless sooner discharged by the
President. Said volunteers, if called fol
and received into service, unless sooner dis
charged by the President. Said volunteers
if called for and received as mounted men
shall be constituted in the same manner al
is provided in the first section of this bill
for the Texas regiment Of mounted volun
tcers, and shall receive the same pay anC
allowances, shall be subject to the same
rules and regulations as are provided in thi'
bill for said corps; and if called for, and /
received as infantry, they shall be placed
on the same footing in every respect with
the infantry regiments now in the service
shall receive the same pay and allowances
and be governed by the same rules and
regulations; and the said regiments, wheth-
er organized as mounted men or infantry
shall be subject to the rules and articles o.
war.
SEC. A. And be IL fa,Fher endcted, That
the volunteers provided for by this act
shall not be accepted in bodies of less than
one regiment, whose officers shall be np
pointed in the manner prescribed by law in
the several States or territories to which
said regiments shall respectively belong,
except the quarter-masters and commissa-
ries, who shall be detailed from their re-
spectve departments of tue regular army
of the United States.
Sec. 5. And be 1t further enacted, That
the pay of said volunteers shall not be due
until received into the service, but each
officer and man shall then be entitled to one
days pay for every twenty miles he may
have been required 10 travel from his resi-
deuce to the place of muster
Approved April I, 1858.
AN ACT to acquire certain Lands needed
for the Washington Aqueduct, in the
District of Columbia.
Whereas it is represented that the works
of the Washington aqueduct, in the Dis
trict of Columbia, are delayed in conse-