Chapter XXII. *to provide for raising a Regiment of mounted Riflemen, and for establishing military Stations on the Route to Oregon.* May 19, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *That there shall be raised one regiment of mounted r
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Chap. XXII.— An Act *to provide for raising a Regiment of mounted Riflemen, and for establishing military Stations on the Route to Oregon.* May 19, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *That there shall be raised one regiment of mounted riflemen, to be composed and organizedRegiment of mounted rifle-men raised.Organization. as follows, to wit: One colonel, one lieutenant-colonel, one major, one quartermaster-sergeant, and two chief buglers, one adjutant, who shall be a lieutenant, one sergeant-major, one chief musician, and ten companies; each company shall consist of one captain, one first lieutenant, one second lieutenant, (exclusive of the adjutant lieutenant,) four sergeants, four corporals, two buglers, one farrier, one blacksmith, and sixty-four privates.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the officers, non-commissionedPay and emoluments. officers, musicians, and privates, shall be entitled to the same pay and emoluments as are allowed to dragoons, and that the farrier and blacksmith shall receive the same pay and allowances as are allowed to an artificer of artillery. 14 TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 23. 1846. Sec. 3. To be subject to the rules and articles of war, and recruited in the same manner as other troops of U.
S.Provisions for wounds and dis-abilities, and for widows and children, &c. *And be it further enacted,* That the said regiment of rifle-men shall be subject to the rules and articles of war, and shall be recruited in the same manner as other troops in the service of the United States, and with the same conditions and limitations; and the officers, noncommissioned officers, musicians, privates, blacksmiths, and farriers, shall be entitled to the same provisions for wounds and disabilities, and the same provisions for widows and children, and the same allowances and benefits, in every respect, as are allowed to other troops composing the army of the United States.
Sec. 4. Extra compensation when on fatigue duty. *And be it further enacted,* That the noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates of said regiment, when employed in constructing fortifications, making surveys, cutting roads, or performing other labor, shall be allowed fifteen cents per day each, with a commutation in money for the extra spirit ration, as provided by the 1819, ch. 45.act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and nine-teen, entitled “An Act to regulate the Pay of the Army when on Fatigue Duty.
” Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the sum of seventy-six Appropriation.thousand five hundred dollars, for mounting and equipping said regiment, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 6. Appropriation for military stations on route to Oregon. *And be it further enacted,* That a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, to defray the expenses of each military station or defence which the President may deem necessary on the line of communication with Oregon, and a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars for making compensation to the Indian tribes which may own or possess the ground on which the said station may be erected, and for each station.
Approved, May 19, 1846.