Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 185?-1859, 1858-10-09


nant, one second lieutenant, four sergeants-
four corporals, two buglers, one farrier aud
seventy.four privates. Each of said officers
below the rank Of aen'eommiSsioued
officers, muscions, falrier and priysteS---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 herein provided, he shall
receive forty cents day while in service with
his horse and if any non-commiSsioned Off.
ce-, musician, farrier or private shall from
carelessness or neglect, iDjure, or render his
hore unfit for service, and shall fail to supply
a serviceable horse within the period Of ten
days from the loss, such soldier shall, from
such time until he shall furnish himself with
horse, be entitled only to the pay Of a private
Of infantry.
Sec 2. AadhI further enacted, That the
officers, noncommissioned olie ers, musicians,
farrier, and privates Of said regiment shall,
when mustered into the service Of the United
States, be subject to the rules aud articles Of
war They shall be armed at the expense Of
the United States, as the President shall di- =
rect. They shall be allowed tho same pay,
rations, and allowances in kind, including clo-
thing, and be subject to the same rules and
regulations as are provided for the regiments
Of cavalry now in the service, but no field eff
Ger shall receive forage for greater number
Of horses than he may from time actually have
in service. No pOy or allowances ahall be-
due until said regiment shall be received int0'
the service, but each officer and man shall
then be entitled to one days pay and allow
ance for every twenty miles he may have been
required to travel from his residence to the
place Of muster.
SEC 8. And be II further enacted, That, for
the purpose of quelling disturbances in the
Territory Of Utah, for the protection Of supply
and emigrant trains, and the suppression Of
Indian hostilities on the frontiers, the Prrsi.
dent of the United States be and he is hereby
authorized TO call for and accept the services
Of any number Of volunteers not to exceed
in all two regiments, Of seven hundred aud
forty privates each; the same, or any portion
thereof, to be organized into mounted regi
ments or infantry as the President may
deem proper, to serve for the term Of eigh-
teen months from the time oftheir being receiv.
cd into service, unless sooner discharged by
the President Said volunteers, IL called for
and received as mounted men, shall be con.
stituted in the same manner as is provided for
in the first section Of the same bill for the
Texas regiment Of mounted volunteers, aud
shall receivable same pay aud allowances,
shall be subject to the saulc rules and regula'
tions as are provided in this bill for said
corps; and If called for end if received M
infantry, they shall be placed on the Same
footing in every respect with the infantry
regiments now in the service, shall receive tue
same pay and allowances, and be governed by
the same rules and reguationt; aud the sad
regiments, whether organized as mounted men
or infantry, shall be subject to the rules and
articles Of war. tel
Sec. 4, and be Il further enacted, That tho
volunteers provided for by this act shall not
be accepted in bodies of less than one regi.
ment, whose officers shall be appointed in tho
manner prescribed by lawn the several States
or territories to which said regiments shall
respectively belong, except the quartermasters
and commissaries, who shall be detailed from
their respective departments Of the regular
army Of the United States
Sec. 5. And belt 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 re-
quircd 10 travel from bis residence to. the
place OF muster.
APPROVED April I. 1858