The moment the flag is lowered his functions cease and the captains and soldiers' duties commence.

They point out the order of the camp, and every cart as it arrives moves to its appointed place.

This business usually occupies about the same time as raising camp in the morning, for everything moves with the regularity of clockwork.
The captains and other chiefs have agreed on rules to govern the expedition, such as, that no buffaloes are to be run on Sunday, no party is to lag behind or to go before, no one may run a buffalo without a general order, etc.

The punishment for breaking the laws are for a first offence: the offender had his saddle and bridle cut up: for the second, to have the coat taken off his back and cut up: for the third, the offender was flogged.

Any theft was punished by the offender being three times proclaimed "THIEF," in the middle of the camp.
On the 21st of June, after the priest had performed mass, for many were Roman Catholics, the flag was unfurled at about six or seven o'clock and the picturesque line was formed over the prairie, extending some five or six miles towards the southwest.