The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
I. The governors of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin offer
to the President infantry troops for the approaching campaign as
follows:
Ohio 30,000
Indiana 20,000
Illinois 20,000
Iowa 10,000
Wisconsin 5,000
II. The term of service to be one hundred days, reckoning from the date
of muster into the service of the United States, unless sooner
discharged.
III. The troops to be mustered into the service of the United States by
regiments, when the regiments are rilled up, according to regulations,
to the minimum strength, the regiments to be organized according to the
regulations of the War Department. The whole number to be furnished
within twenty days from date of notice of the acceptance of this
proposition.
IV. The troops to be clothed, armed, equipped, subsisted, transported,
and paid as other United States infantry volunteers, and to serve in
fortifications, or wherever their services may be required, within or
without their respective States.
V. No bounty to be paid the troops, nor the service charged or credited
on any draft.
VI. The draft for three years' service to go on in any State or district
where the quota is not filled up; but if any officer or soldier in this
special service should be drafted he shall be credited for the service
rendered.
JOHN BROUGH,
_Governor of Ohio_.
O.P. MORTON,
_Governor of Indiana_.
RICHARD YATES,
_Governor of Illinois_.
WM. M. STONE,
_Governor of Iowa_.
JAMES T. LEWIS,
_Governor of Wisconsin_.