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LAWS OF TIE UNITED STATES.
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AN ACT to provide for the organization Of :
4 regiment Of nounted volunteers for the De
fence of the frontier ofTeXas. aud TO autho-
rize the President to call into the Service
of the United States two additional regi-
ments OF volunteers.
| he az enacted 6y tie Senate and House OF
! Representatives. Of the United States OF -iIgte-
rtca an Congress. assembled, That the Presi-
dent of the United States be authorized
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one regiment Of Texas mounted volunteers to
be raised and organized by the State of Tex
As for the defence and protection OF the from
tier thereof, to continue in service, from the
time that the whole regiment shall be mus
tered into service, for the term of eighteen
months, unless sooner discharged by the Pres
ident. Said regiment shall be composed Of
one colonel, one lieutenant colonel one Insior,
: one adjutant with the rank of first lieutenant
one quartermaster and commissary with simi
lar rank, one surgeon and two assistant sur
geons, one sergeant major, one quartermaster
and comrnissary sergeant aud ten companies
each Of which shall be composed Of one
captain, one first lieutenant, one second leu
tenant, four sergeantS, four corporals, two
buglers, one tarier, aud seventy four prlvates.
Each of said officers below the rank Of major
-non-coInmissioned officers, musicians, farrier,
and priv ates-shall furnish and keep himself
supplied with a good serviceable horse and
horse equipments, for :he use and risk of
which, in addition to the pay and allowances
herein provided, he shall receive brty cents
day while in service with his horse: and if any
non-commissioned officer. musician, farrier or
private, shall, from carelessness Or neglect in
raplar biS hnrca unfit tnr on.i
shall fail to supply serviceablo horse within
the period of ten DAYS from he loss, such
soldier shall, from such time, until he shall
furnish him with a horse, be entitled only to
the pay Of private OF infantry.
SEC. 2. -And be 1t .turther enacted, That
the officers, commissioned officers, musi-
clans, farrier, and privates of said regiment,
shall, when mustered into the service of the
United States, be subject to the rules and ar
ticles of war. They shall be armed at the
expense Of the of the United States, the
President shall direct They shall be allow
Cd the same pay, ratIons, and allowances IN
kind, including clothing, and be sutJcct to Il o
same rules aud regulations as provided
Tor the regiments OF cavalry now IN the ser
vice, but no field officer shall receive forage
for greater number Of horses than he may
from time 10 time actually have in service
No pay or allowances shall DC due until said
regiment shall be received into the service
but each officer and man sh~ll then be cuti-
lied to one days pay and allowance for every
twent, miles he may have been requircl 10
travel from his residence TO the place of mus
ter
SEC. 3. Aad be AZ turther enacted, That,
for the purpose Of quelling disturbances in the
Territory Of Utah, for the protection Of sup
ply and emigrant trains, and the suppression
ot Indian hostilitics Oh the frontiers, the Pres
ident of the United Sta.es be, and he Is i re
by, authorized to call for and accept the
services of any number OF volunteers, not TO
exceed in all two regiments ofsseven hundr"d
and forty private each; the same, or any por
ton thereof, TO be organized into mounted re
glments or infantry, as the Preside may
deem proper TO serve for the term of cen
months from the time of their being !ed
into service, unless sooner discharged he
President. Said volunteers, if called fo and
received rs mounted men, shall be constituted
in the same manner as is provided in The first
section Of this bill for the Texas regimen Of
mounted volunteers, and shall receive the
same pay and allowances, shall be subject TO
the same rules and regulations As are pro}id
cd IN this bill for sad corps; ana II call for
and if received as infantry, they shall le plac-
ed on the same footing in every respect with
the infantry regiments now III the service
shall receive the same pay and allowances, and
be governed by the same rules and regula-
tons; and the said regiments, whether organ
ized rs mounted men infantry, shall be
subject to the rules and articles of war.
SEC. 4. And be al further .Geted 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 prescribed by law in the several
States or Territories to which said regiments
shall respectively belong, except the quarter
masters and commissaries who shall be detail
ed from their respective departments Of the
regular army of the United States.
SEC 5. And be IL further enacted, That
the pay of said volunteers shall not he due
until received into the service, but each fiji
Ger and man shall then be entitled to one
days pay for every twenty miles he may have
been required to travel from his residence to
the place Of muster.
Approved April 7, 1858.