The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 9, July 1905 - April, 1906 Page: 230
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Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
The Regular Army.-The military committee on November 21
presented a detailed report on the organization of the regular army.
This force, which the consultation had limited to 1120 men, they
proposed to divide into two regiments-one of artillery and one of
infantry-of 560 men each. Each regiment was divided into two
battalions and each battalion into five companies of fifty-six men.
The field officers of the infantry were to be a colonel, a lieutenant
colonel, and a major; those of the artillery, a colonel, two lieuten-
ants colonel, and two majors. Artillery companies, likewise, were
to have three lieutenants instead of two. These additional officers
were considered necessary on account of the varied and important
work that would be required of the artillery.1 The council with
some amendments adopted this report in the form of an ordinance
on the 24th. Officers and privates were to be subject to the same
discipline and to receive the same pay as in the regular army of the
United States, and each private and non-commissioned officer was
promised a bounty of 640 acres of land. Later, as an incentive to
enlistment in the regular army, rather than with the volunteers,
an additional bounty of 160 acres of land and $24 in money was
offered the regulars; one-half of the money was to be paid when
the recruit reported at headquarters, and the balance on the first
.quarterly pay-day thereafter.2
On the same day that this ordinance was passed Governor Smith
sent to the council a message, urging it to make "the necessary
enactments calculated to authorize the commander-in-chief to issue
his proclamation, in order that volunteers and other troops .
may know to whom to report." Whatever the act may have been
which the governor considered necessary, the council was in no
hurry about passing it. On the 28th company officers were elected
for the regiment of infantry, and on December 1 it was agreed to
elect the artillery officers the following Monday. Before this was
done, however, the governor transmitted to the council a letter from
General Houston, complaining of that body's delay in helping him
'Their appointment appears to have caused some dissatisfaction, and in
his message of January 14 Lieutenant Governor Robinson, then acting
governor, advised their abolition. Nothing was done with his recom-
mendation.-Prooeedings of the General Council, 323.
2Proceedings of the General Council, 41, 47, 50, 150; Ordinances and
Decrees, 21-22, 87.230
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