Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-12-13

on. duty. conduct himself in an orderly
manner, and Weld due obedience to the
orders OF said commanding officer.
Prorided, nerertheless, That officers
ATTENDING courts martial shall not be re- |
quired TO appear with arms. |
CHAPTER IX.-Rules and AGtactes
Sec. /. The following shall be the rules
and articles by which the militia OF this
state shall be governed, when not in actu-
al service. BE-"
Article 1. Every commissioned officer
who shall be guilty of unmilitary con-
duct, negligent of duty, or disobedience of
orders, or who shall, when on duty, ap-
pear, or behave in an unofficer-like man.
ner, or who shall, willfully Cypress or in
lure any under his command, or who
shall. at any time, set on foot, or join in
any combination 10 resist or evade the
lawful orders ofany commissioned officer,
shall be liable to be tried by court mar
tial
Art. 2. Every officer to be tried by
court martial, shall be put in arrest, so as
to be suspended from the exercise Of his
Office, and shall have a copy ofthe charg
es exhibited against him, and notice of he
time and place appointed for his trial =
which copy and notice shall BE- given ten
days, at least, before his trial is COM
menced.
Art. 3. In case any officer, non-com-
missioned office, musician or private, for
the trial of whom court martial is ap-
pointed, shall neglect to appear and make
defence before any court martial, or If ap-
pearing, shall afterwards with draw in
contempt of the court; or being arraign-
ed before a court martial, shall, from OBJ
stinacv or deliberation, stand mute, or an
swer foreign to the purpose, the court
NAV proceed to TRIAL and Judgment as if
he had regularly pleaded not guilty.
Art. If any officer, after having
been put 10 arrest, shall presume to exer-
else any military command, until he be
discharged from arrest, he shall be liable
to be tried by court martial, and if con.
victed, he shall be removed from office.
Art. 5. No Officer shall BE- tried by a
court martial for any Offence, which shall
have been committed more than one veal
previous to the time when a complains
shall have been made in writing, thereof
unless he, by reason of abSentlng himself
or some other manifest impediment, shall
not have been amenable to justice within
that period.
Art. 6. No officer shall be permitted
to resign while under arrest
Art, 7. No general or field officer shal
be disc harged except by the commander
in-chief, or other commissioned officer
except by the brigadier-general or office
commanding the brigade 10 which he be
longs, on the request Of such officer If
writing, or by the sentence of cour
martial, or by actual removal, or by Il
months absence from the district of hi
command, or by the corps TO which be
belongs being disbandeG, or by being con
victed Of any Infamous crime.
Art. 8. No officer shall consider him
, self as exempt from the duties of his sta
ton, except when under arrest, until h.
! shall! have been discharged by one of tn
S methods or causes pointed out in the pre-
l ceding article.
= AT. 9. No general officer shall ap
prove Of the esignation of any officer
? until such officer shall have lodged in hi
i hands all such militia laws, orderly book
2 and other books, as he shall have bee
: furnished with by government whlc
books and laws shall be delivered, b.
i said general officer, to the next succeed
e ing officers, who shall be commissions
! in the place of him who shall have re
> signed.
= Art 10. That the commanding officer
J. Of every company OF militia II this stat
,. shall annually in the month Of June ma k
a a return OF all the officers, non-commi:
e stoned officers, musicians ard privates be
e longing TO their respective companies t
n The regimental court martial, and in sue
n return shall designate those who ar
equipped and those who are not equippe
= according to law, with complete retur
e of all the arms and equi pmenls belonging
e to them.
n Art II. That al any rPgimental or bal
n talon muster, the companies shall torr
IF in regiment or battalion, according to tn
d seniority Of rank of their captains, and tn
e companies of artillery, light infantry an
n riAemen, as the commanding officer pres
T. ent shall direct.
j. Art. IL. Any officer negiecting or re
fusing to make a draft or detachment
when ordered in pursuance of the dutie
d of this act, shall be arrested and liable t.
l. be tried by court martial, aud the off
= Ger next in command shall be ordered t.
/ make the detachment.
d Art. Is. Whenever different corps shaD
d parade, join or do duty together, the sen
n ior officer of equal grade present, shaI
e command, without regard to corps.
J. Art. Ia. Amy non-commissioned off
> Ger or private who shall, while unde
i arms, or when on duty, behave himseI
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