CHAP.XI.] CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. - CONFEDERATE.

Oak, Karnes, and Bee; one company from the counties of El Paso and Presidio, one company may be raised in any section of the State the governor may direct; and provided that the unorganized counties shall furnish men with the counties to which they are attached for judicial purposes and every county named in this section shall have the privilege to furnish its proportion of men in preference to all other application; and when any company cannot be furnished with the requisite number of men from the counties named in this act, then the deficiency may be supplied from the nearest adjoining counties not named in this act.

SEC. 4. Said troops shall be stationed in detachments of not less than twenty-five men. When the requisite number of men shall have entered this service, and shall take their stations on the outside settlements of the frontier as nearly as practicable in a direct line from a point on Red River to a point on the Rio Grande River, and thence down said river to its mouth, to be selected by the commanding officer; and the commanding officer shall select the posts at the directions of the governor, in accordance with this act; and such stations shall be, if practicable, about twenty-five miles distant from each other, or so near each other that scouts shall pass over the ground between any two stations once every day. And, further, that the companies, or parts of companies, shall be stationed on that part of the frontier in which they have been enrolled, and that the posts on Red River shall be supplied with additional force of not less than twenty-five men; and the company designated in the third section of this act, to be raised in any part of the State, shall be in readiness to report to any part of the line the governor or commanding officer may think necessary.

SEC. 5. That the governor is required, immediately after the passage of this act, to commission competent persons, one for every company and district, as set forth in this act, to enroll the number of men for a company, and when at least sixty-four men shall have been enrolled, they shall organize by holding elections for company officers, and the captain elected shall return a muster roll, and make such other reports as may be required by the governor to the adjutant-general's department and shall, as soon as ordered by the governor, repair to the frontier and perform duty on the plan laid down in this act until otherwise directed by the governor or superior officers.

SEC. 6. The governor shall have power to appoint the field officers, as well as all other disbursing officers, pertaining to said regiment.

SEC. 7. The troops raised under and by virtue of this act shall be subject to the Rules and Regulations of the Confederate States Army, but shall always be subject to the authorities of the State of Texas for frontier service, and shall not be removed beyond the limits of the State of Texas, and that it shall be the duty of the governor to inclose a copy of this act to the Secretary of War and to each of our Representatives in Congress, urging the acceptance of said regiment in the service of the Confederate States as in lie of one of the regiments now upon said frontier, and as the most effective and economical mode of frontier protection.

SEC. 8. That no portion of said troops shall become a charge against the State until organized as required by the fifth section of this act and placed under orders.

SEC. 9. That an act to provide for the protection of the frontier of the State of Texas, passed February 7, 1861, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, from and after the 1st day of March next.

SEC. 10. The governor shall have power to disband said regiment