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quota under the laws of congress, $150 in addition to other bounties and pay already provided for, to be paid in three instalments, at the beginning and end of the first year, and at the end of the term of service either to him, or in case of his demise, to his heirs. For the purpose of raising a fund for this use, a tax was levied of one mill on the dollar upon all the tax able property of the state. 36 At the same time, how ever, an act was passed appropriating $100,000 as a fund out of which to pay five dollars a month addi tional compensation to the volunteers already in the


service. 37


On the day the first bill was signed Governor Gibbs issued a proclamation that a requisition had been made by the department commander for a regiment of infantry in addition to the volunteers then in the service of the United States, who were "to aid in the enforcement of the laws, suppress insurrection and in vasion, and to chastise hostile Indians" in the mili tary district of Oregon. Ten companies were called for, to be known as the 1st Infantry Oregon Volun teers, each company to consist of eighty- two privates maximum or sixty-four minimum, besides a full corps of regimental and staff officers. The governor in his proclamation made an earnest appeal to county offi cers to avoid a draft by vigorously prosecuting the business of procuring volunteers. Lieutenants com missions were immediately issued to men in the sev eral counties as recruiting officers, 33 conditional upon their raising their companies within a prescribed time, when they would be promoted to the rank of captain. 35

86 Or. Laws, 1866, 98-110.

57 Id., 104-8; Rhine.hart s Oregon Cavalry, MS., 15.

!8 A. J. Borland, Grant county; E. Palmer, Yamhill; Charles Lafollet, Polk; J. M. Gale, Clatsop; W. J. Shipley, Benton; W. S. Powell, Multno- mah; C. P. Crandall, Marion; F. 0. McCown, Clackamas; T. Humphreys, Jackson, were commissioned 2d lieutenants.

* Polk county raised $1,200 extra bounty rather than fail, and completed

her enlistment, first of all. Josephine county raised $2,500, and Clackamaa offered similar inducements. Portland Oregonian, Nov. 30, 1864, Feb. 14,

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