The Oxford intelligencer., 1861-01-30

To organize Engineers, Ordinance, Quar-
tter-Master Commissary, Medical ana ray
depmtments, and to appoint the ofncefs
thereof and designate their rank.
To organize the Regiments into Brigades,
and to assign the Brigadiers TO their com
mands.
To determine how the Cavalry and ArtiL
lery Companies shall be disposed OF, and II
they deem it necessary, to order the election
of field officers for said corps: Propided,
That the MajorlGeneral when in actual SER
vice may at any time alter the disposition Of
troops as he may deem fit
: To order the time and mode of electing all
officers to be chosen by the Volunteers and
making returns thereof
And to have entire control over all the
arms and military property of the State, un-
til otherwise ordered by the Convention or
by the State Legislature after the Convention
shall have finally adjourned.
SIC. 7. That the officers enlisted under
this ordinance when in actual service or when
on drill by order Of the Major-General, shall
receive the same compensation as is now
provided and allowed by the law to the of
iicers of the United States Army; privates
and non-comnlissioned officers shall be al
lowed sixteen dollars per month, together
with clothing and rations, as now allowed in
the said army; but before the Volunteers
arc called into actual service, except on drill
as aforesaid, no officer or private shall re-
ceiye any compensation, except that now
allowed by the law to Volunteers ProVided,
The members of the Military Board except
the Governor, be allowed four dollars per
day, when actually engaged in the duties of
said Board.
SEC. 8. That in ease any vacancy shall
occur in any Office below that of Brigadier-
General, the vacancy shall be supplied as the
Office was originally filed. Any vacancy in
the Office of Brigadicr-Gencral shall be filed
by the appointment of the Major-General.
And a vacancy in the Office of Major-General
shall be filed by the appointment of the
Governor, the appointment Of each being sub
ject to the approval of the State Senate.
SEC. 0. That all Volunteers enlisted under
this ordinance shall be allowed such exemp-
tions and compensation as are now allowed
by law to the Volunteers in the manner now
prescribed, and also be exempt from poll tax,
and shall be entitled to their discharge when
friendly relations shall be established by trea-
ty or otherwise between the State of Missis-
sippi, or any Confedcracy of which she is a
member and the non-scceding States of tho
late Federal Union: Procided, That said
Volunteers shall not be required to serve
more than one year after being called into
actual service. -.e .3l .a r.
SEC. 10. That all such officers and privates
as may be disabled whilst in actual service,
before the formation Of Southern Confed-
eracy, be entitled to one years pay after
their discharge from the service, and the
widows of those who may be killed in the
service shall also receive the sum Of
dollars for one year-the compensation that
their husbands would be entitled to if living.
Sec. III. That all parts of the Constitution,
all acts and all laws in conflict with this or
dinance, and so much of the Constitution as
may limit the right o! any Volunteers from
eleetng their own field officers in any man
ner prescribed by the Legislature, be and the
same are hereby abrogated aud annulled.
SIC. IL. That this ordinance shall take
effect and be in force from and after its pas
sage, and continue in operation until changed,
altered or amended by this Convention, or
the State Legislature after this Convention
shall have finally adjourned.