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The Negro Soldier Bill, which has just passed the Lower Tease, is as fol lows: “That the President be and he is hereby, sytogized to enroll,arm, equip and receive into the land and naval ser vice of the United States such number of volunteers of African decent as he may deem equal to suppress the present re bellion,for such term of service as he may prescribe, not exceeding five veara; the said volunteers to be organized accor ding to the regulation of the branch of service into which they may be enlisted ; to receive the same rations, clothing and equipment as the volunteers, and a monthly pay not to exceed that of the volunteers; to be officered by white or black persons appointed and commission ed by the President, and to be govern ed by the rules and articles of war, and such other rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the President: Provi ded, That nothing contained in the rules or articles of war shall be so construed as to authorize or permit any officer of Afri can descent, to be appointed to rank or exercise military or naval authority over white officers, soldiers, or men in the military or naval service of the United States; nor shall any greater pay than ten dollars per month with their usual allotment of clothing and rations be al lowed or paid to privates or laborers of African descent who are or may be in the military or naval service of the Uni ted States. Provided further, That the aluves of loyal citizens in the State ex empt by the President’s Proclamation of Jan, 1st, 1863, shall not be received into the armed service of the United States; nor shall there be recruting offices open ed in either of the States of Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, or Tennessee, without the consent of the Governors of said State having been first obtained.” Garabaldi, according to reports from Turin, is once more in the political world. He has accepted the presidency of the Roman Committee of Action, and, in re ply to the offer made to him, he advises the Romans to “listen once more to bia contacts, and to place confidence only in, themselves.” “The latest advices from our fleat before Galveston are to the effect that the ter rifle work of recapturing that place and the steamer Harriet Lane, which is in the harbor, has been begun by our war vessels and that there is a strong prob ability that if the city did not surrender it in by this time pretty well leveled to the ground.
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Crown Point Register
Crown Point, Indiana, US
Thu, Jan 29, 1863
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Miykael S.
