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company officers for only one battalion of artillery were chosen.
Before hearing of this action General Houston wrote again to the
governo., insisting that a complete corps of officers must be elected
at once, if any success were to be expected in enlisting the regular
army. Upon receipt of this letter the council proceeded to the
election of company officers for the remaining battalion of artillery
(December 11). The commander-in-chief was then provided with
a list of all his officers and a copy of all proceedings of the council
that related to the army. The council, however, was not yet through
with the general. Another letter to Governor Smith on December
17 called attention to the fact that no appropriation had been
made to cover the expenses of the recruiting service. A few of-
ficers had been ordered on this service, he said, but he had done it
solely on his own responsibility. This obstacle was removed by
the council on the 21st, when an ordinance was passed, appropriat-
ing $40,000 for recruiting purposes. Another ordinance (Decem-
ber 26), empowering all commissioned officers to administer the
oath of enlistment completed the enactments for the organization
of the regular army.'
In the meantime, the council had early taken up the organization
of the corps of rangers, which was to form a sort of adjunct to
the regular army. The consultation had authorized the enlistment
of three companies, aggregating 150 men, but the ordinance pro-
posed by the military committee, November 21, raised the number
to 168, in order that the companies might conform in size to those
of the regular army. The rangers' term of service was fixed at one
year and their pay at $1.25 a day. They were to furnish their own
rations, horses and equipment, and were required to be "always
ready armed and supplied with one hundred rounds of powder and
and David B. Macomb lieutenants colonel, and W. B. Travis and "T. F.
L. Barrett" (this undoubtedly should be T. F. L. Parrott) majors. Of
the infantry Philip A. Sublett was elected colonel, Henry Millard lieu-
tenant colonel, and William Oldham major. Travis declined his appoint-
ment in the artillery, on the ground that he believed he could be more
useful in some other branch of the army, and F. W. Johnson was elected
in his place. Sublett did not accept the colonelcy of infantry, and Ed-
ward Burleson fell heir to that place.
xProceedings of the General Council, 121, 124, 141, 148, 151, 181, 185,
191, 210; Ordinances and Decrees, 96, 99. For Houston's letters see Yoa-
kum, II 449, 453.
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