Show mexican Ru Rural rales cs the corps corpa or of mexican was created in the timo time of president benito juarez the law which created the fixed the number ot of seven battalions of men each and a company to be located at mata moroa the pay of each of the rural police was fixed at per day each to furnish his horse borse and equi equipment pm on I 1 with no classification as to the character of the mount or the arms which each man was to bear As AB a result they were decidedly a body of 0 irregulars with some five per cent wd wearing aring the uniform of the cavalry of that day each battalion was divided into two companies one of seventy and the other of sixty five men their commanders and other officers held tho the same rating that they do today just as at the present time tho the were attached to the interior department but at tho the same alm time they were at the disposition of the department of war for service in campaigns |