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Military Election Notice

Military Election Notice

Whereas, the Colonel Commandant of each county of the Territory of Arkansas is required, by law, to divide his Regiment into Battalions and Companies, and to order an Election to be held in the respective townships of said county, for the purpose of electing the Field and Company Officers of said Regiment:

Therefore, I, CHRISTIAN BRUMBACK, Colonel Commandant of the Pulaski county Regiment, attached to the First Brigade of the Militia of the Territory of Arkansas do hereby make know to the said Regiment, that the said Regiment has been divided into Battalions and Companies as follows, to wit:

FIRST BATTALION

All that portion of the county of Pulaski, situation west or south of a line beginning at a point where the southern boundary line of Little Red River township strikes Conway county, thence east with said township line to its intersection with Hogan’s old road, thence with said road to the Arkansas River, thence down the south margin of said river to the mouth of Fourche creek, thence with said creek to its intersection with the Quapaw line, thence south with said line to the southern boundary of Pulaski county, shall belong to, constitute, and compose the First Battalion.

SECOND BATTALION

All that portion of the county of Pulaski, situate and lying north and east if the foregoing line, shall belong to, constitute, and compose the Second Battalion.

The FIRST BATTALION shall be divided into COMPANIES as follows, to wit:

All that portion of Pyeatt township situate north of the Arkansas river, and west of Hogan’s old road, leading from the Cross-roads to Crystal Hill, and south of the Arkansas river and west of Pyeatt’s old trace leading from Pyeatt’s on the Arkansas river, south to the country line, in the direction of the Warm Springs, and of one mile east of said line, shall belong to, constitute and compose, the First company of the First Battalion.

Saline township in said county, except such party thereof as shall, by the bounds aforesaid, be included in the foregoing Company, shall belong shall belong to, constitute and compose, the Second Company of the First Battalion.

All that portion of Big Rock Township situate south of the Arkansas river, bounded on the west by the 1st Company of 1st Battalion, on the north of the Arkansas river, on the east by Fourche creek, form the mouth thereof to its intersection with the Quapaw line, and thence south with said line to its intersection with the boundary line of 2nd Company of 1st Battalion, or the county line, shall belong to, constitute and compose, the Third Company of the First Battalion.

The SECOND BATTALION shall be divided into COMPANIES as follows, to wit:

Little Red River township shall belong to, constitute and compose, the First Company of the Second Battalion.

All that portion of Big Rock and Payette townships situate north of the Arkansas river, east of Hogan’s old road, and west or north of a line commencing at the Arkansas river, where the western boundary line of range ten west strikes said river, and thence north with said range line until it intersects the Military Road leading from Little Rock to Memphis, and thence parallel with , and in the direction of said road, and one mile south and east of the same, until the line strikes the county line, shall belong to, constitute and compose, the Second Company of the Second Battalion.

And all that portion of Big Rock township or Pulaski county, situate north of the Arkansas river and east of the western boundary line of range ten west, and south or east of said line, running parallel with the Military Road leading from Little Rock to Memphis, and all that part lying south of the Arkansas river and east of the Fouche creek and Quapaw line, as designated as the eastern boundary line of the 2d Company of the 1st Battalion, shall belong to, constitute and compose, the Third Company of the Second Battalion.

ELECTION OF OFFICERS.

Notice is hereby given, that for the purposes of choosing the Field and Company Officers for Said Regiment, an Election will be held, t the usual places o holding Elections for Civil Officers in the county of Pulaski, on Saturday, the 20th day of February next, for the election 0f the following Field and Company Officers, to wit:

For the 1st Battalion, one Lieutenant Colonel

For the 2nd do. one Major

For each Company, one Captain, one First Lieutenant, one Second Lieutenant.

The First Company of the First Battalion will hold their Election at the house of Thomas Massengill, in Pyeatt township-James Payette, Samuel Taylor, and William P. Thompson, Judges thereof.

The Second Company of the First Battalion will hold their Election at the house of Valentine Brazell, in Saline township- Benjamin Williams, Abner Harrell, and Allen Martin, Judges thereof.

The Third Company of the First Battalion and the Second and Third companies of the Second Battalion will hold their respective Elections at the courthouse in the town of Little Rock Bernard Smith, Nicholas Peay, and David Rorer Judges thereof.

The First Company of the Second Battalion will hold their Election at the house of John Magness in Little Red river township- John cook, John Magness, and James Walker, Judges thereof.

The polls of said Elections will open at 9 o’clock in the fore-noon, and close at 6 o’clock in the after-noon, of said day; and it is requested that the returns thereof be made to the Colonel Commandant without delay.

CHRISTAIN BRUMBACK,

Colonel Commandant Militia

Of Pulaski co. A. T.
Little Rock, Jan 25, 1830