The adjutants of artillery and infantry, (12,) and all the regimental quartermasters, (15,) being taken from the subalterns, and accounted for in their several regiments as belonging to companies, are excluded as regimental staff officers from the columns "Total commissioned officers" and "Aggregate" of their respective regiments.

The number of

§ By the act of June 17, 1850, section 2, the President is authorized, whenever the exigencies of the service require it, to increase to seventy-four the number of privates in any company "serving at the several military posts on the western frontier, and at remote and distant stations." privates in a company is not, therefore, fixed, but may vary between the minimum given in the table and "seventy-four," at the discretion of the President. Under the act referred to, the President has directed that the number of privates be carried up to seventy-four in the several companies serving at the military posts in Texas, New Mexico, California, and Oregon, as well as those stationed at Forts Snelling and Ripley, on the Upper Mississippi; Forts Kearny and Laramie, on the Oregon route; Fort Dodge, on the Des Moines river; Fort Atkinson, at the crossing of the Arkansas, on the Santa Fe route; the post at the crossing of the Washita, near Wild Horse creek; and the new posts to be established by the fifth regiment of infantry from this last post in the direction of Dona Ana, New Mexico.

One company designated and serving as light artillery," and allowed, in consequence thereof, "sixty-four," instead of forty-two privates. See act of June 17, 1850, section 1st.