vices and make a corresponding report to the Governor, who shall issue commissions accordingly. SEC. 2. Be it l ttrlher ordained a11d dec1·eed, &c., 'l'hat the commanding oflicer of a detachment, company, battallion or regiment, as aforesaid, shall, and it is hereby made his duty, upon his reporting to the Governor or to the Com- mander-in-Chief of the Army of 'fexa.s, to accompany said report with a muster-roll of his command, and he shall cer- tify the snme; and it shall be the duty of the Commander-in- Chief of the Army to forward the same to the Governor of Texas, after haYing caused to be taken and filed in his office, cr,pies of the same. SEC. :i. Be it further ordained and decreed, &c., Thal the "Volunteer Auxilliary Corps," as aforesaid, shall be or- ganized as follows:-Each platoon shall contain not less than twenty-eight men, rank and file; each company two platoons or fifty men, rank and file; each battalion five companies, or two hundred and eighty men, rank and file; each regiment two ~attalions, or five hundred and sixty men, rank and file: that each platoon may be officered by one First Lieutenant; each company, one Captain, one First Lieutenant and one Second Lieutenant; each battalion one :M:ajor, and each regi- ment one Colonel, one Lieutenant-Colonel, and one Major; and all volunteer officers 8hall take rank in their respective grades, according to the date of their commissions; and where there are several officers in any one grade of the same date of appointment, seniority of rank shall be determini:d by drawing numbers, which shall be done by order of the Com- mander-in-Chief of the Army. SEC. 4. Be it further o-rdai11ed and decreed, &c., Thnt· each volunteer. who shall volunteer his services and is ac- cepted by the Governn:ient, agreeably to the provisions of this Ordinance, shall receive the same pay, rations and clothing which was allowed by the laws of the United States, during their last w11r with Great Britain. SEC. 5. Be it further ordained and decreed, &c., That all v'olnneers who shall enter the service agreeably to the provisions of this decree, shall be entitled to one mile square, or i;ix hundred and forty acres of land, to be selected out of the public domain of Texas; and all vol- unteers who shall become disabled in the service of Texas, and who shall be discharged therefor, before the
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