The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-05-05
.EPnsL1c-No. 81

PUBLIC-NO. u.
AN ACT to provide for the organiza
ton Of a regiment of mounted volun-
teers for the defence of the frontier of
Texas, aud to authorize the President
to call into the service of the United
States two additional regiments of
volunteers.
Be 1t enacted 6y The Senate and House
of Representatives Of The United States
of Amcyica iu Congress assembled That
the President of the United States be
authorized to receive into the service of
the United States one regiment of Tex
as mounted volunteers, to be raised and
organized by the State of Texas for the
defence aud protection of the frontier
thereof, to continue in service, from the
time that the whole regiment shall be
mustered into service, for the term Of
eighteen months, unless sooner discharg
ed by the President. Said regiment
shall be composed of one colonel, one
Lieutenant colonel, one major, one adju,
tant with the rank of first lieutenant,
one quartermaster and commissary with
similar rank, one surgeon aud two assis-
tant surgeons, one sergeant major, one
quartermaster and commissary sergeant,
aud ten companies; each of which shall
be composed of Que captain, one first
lieutenant, one second lieutenaut, four
sergeants, four corporals, two buglers,
one f%arrier, and seyenty-four privates.-
Each of said officers below the rank of
major-nonscommissioned officers, mu-
sicians, %farrier, and privates-sha furn-
ISL and keep himself supplied with q
good serviceable horse and horse equip
ments, for the use aud risk of which, IN
addition to the pay and allowances here
in provided, he shall receive forty cents
a day while in service with his horse I;
and if any non-eommissioDed officer, mu-
siciap, ~farrier, or private shall, from
carelessness or neglect, injure, or render
| his horse unfit for service, ana shall fail
to supply a serviceable horse within the
period of ten days from the loss, such
soldier shall, from such time until be
shall furnish himself with a horse, be
entitled only to the pay Of a private of
infantry.
SEC. 2. And be 10 further enacted,
That the officers, non-commissioned of
fcers, musicians, %farrier, and 9rivates 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
same pay, rations, aud allowances in
kind, including clothing, and be subject
to the same rules aud regulations as are
provided for the regiments of cavalry
now in the service, but no field officer
shall receive forage for a greater number
of horses than he may from time to time
actually have in service. No pay or al
5lowances shall be due until said regi-
meat shall be received into the service,
but each officer and man shall then be
entitled to 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. 5. Ind be IL further enacted,
That, for the purpose of quelling dis
turbauces in the Territory of Utah, for
the protection of supply and emigrant
trains, and the suppression CT Indian
hostilities on the frontiers, the Presi
dent of the United States be and he is
hereby authorized to call for and accept
the services of any number of %volun-
teeTs, not to exceed in all two regiments,
of seven hundred and forty privates
each the same, or any portion thereof,
to be organized Tito mounted regiments
or infantry, as the President may deem
proper, to serve for the term of eighteen
months from the time of their being re-
ceived iuto service, unless sooner dis
charged by the President. Said volun-
teers, ifcaIled for and received as mount
ed 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 same pay aud allowances, shall be
subject to The same rules and regulations
as are provided in this bill for said corps
and if called for, and if received as iii
fantry they shall be placed on the san Q
footing in every respect with the infan-
try regiments now in the service, shall
receive the same pay and allowances,
and be governed by the same rules aud
regulations aud the said regiments
whether organized as mounted men OF
infantry, shall be subject TO the rules
and articles of war.
SEQ. A. And be IL further enacted
That the volunteers provided for by this
act shall not be accepted in bodies OF
less than one regiment, whose officers
shall be appointed IN the manner pre-.
scribed by law in the several State:
or Territories to which said regiments
shall respectively belong, except the
quartmasters and commissaries who shall
be detailed from their respective depart.
ments of the regular army ofthe United
States.
SEC. 5. And be dt further enacted
That the pay of said volunteers shall
not be due until received into tie ser.
vice, but each officer and man shall ther
be entitled to one days pay for every
twenty miles he may have been required
to travel from his residence to the plact
of muster.
Approved, April 7, 1858.