State engineer iind surveyor, and State treasurer, or a majority of them,' to " accept the services, and to cause to be mustered into the service of the State," the volunteers named, " in addition to the present military organization of the State, and as a part of the militia thereof" It further provided for pay and allowances, the same as then prevailed in the United States service, to the force to be raised, and that the men should be " liable at all times to be turned over to the service of the United States, on the order of the Governor, as a part of the militia of the State, upon the requisition of the President of the United States."

The first formal identification of Westchester County with the two years' volunteers, and the only one in the county in the shape of a body of men accredited thereto, came from the village of Port Chester, in the shape of Company B, Seventeenth Infantry, known as the '' Westchester Chasseurs."

The interest that attaches to this company, as being the first to volunteer, in a body, for the credit of the town, makes its personalty worthy of special notice. The following is a copy of the muster-roll, with remarks on the military history of the company and its oflicers :

Captain, N«lson B. Bartram ; First Lieutenant, John Vickers ; Second Lieutenant, Charles Hilbert ; First Sergeant, James Fox ; Sergeants, Tliomas Beal, Louis Neetliing and August Dittnian ; Corporals, William Crothere, John Beal, Joseph Beal and Robert Magee ; Drummers, Stephen Floots and William Fairbanks ; Privates, Aug. Adams, Charles H. Burns, John Burns, William Baker, Ardemus Barnes, Edward Bowen, George Buckley, Edward Bradley, Darius Butterfield, Frederick Cross, Amasa Conover, James Cunningham, Richard Conkling, John P. Denipsey, Thomas Donohue, Silas Downes, James Dooley, John G.