Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1837-12-11
LAWS OF WEIR MONT.
MILITIA ACT,--concuded.
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CHAPTER XIV


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CHAPTER XIV.
Earnings apd Orders.
SEC. l. Whenever the commanding officer of any
pany shall call his company together, is required by
this act shall be ordered do by his superior Off
GER he shall issue his orders therefor to of
the commissioned officers if there be any, and if not
more OF the prvaes belonging to his company,
directing him them to notify and warn the said compa-
ny to appear such time and place shall be appoint
ed and every such person persons who shall receive
such orders, shall give notice Of the time and place APP
pointed for assembling said company, to each and every
person. he they shall be ordered to warn, either by
verbal information, or by leaving written or printed mott
Gcaon thereof at the usual place of abode OF the per-
son to be notified and warned And all notices for train
ngs shall be least four days previous to the time APP
pointed therefor but in of invasion, instruction or
other emergency, the time specified in the orders shall
be deemed legal. And whenever any company shall be
paraded, the commanding officer of such company is
hereby authorized to notify the paraded to appear
future day. not exceeding thirty days from the
time of such notification and such notice shall be legal
as it respects the present.
SEC. g. Whenever it shall be required that any order
shall be served any officer, commissioned officer,
musician or private in the militia of this state and no
mode of service of the shall be prescribed by law,
the officer required to make service thereof shall serve
the same by reading in the hearing of the person be
affected by such order, or by leaving true and aested
copy of the at the usual place Of abode of such
person.
Sec 8. All warnings for musers and officers drills
shall be at least four days previous the time appointed
sad muSerS drills and all the cleo
ton of commissioned officers shall be served at least ten
days previous to the time appointed for said election and
the warnings in this section provided shall be in the man.
ner prescribed in the first section of this chapter
CHAPTER XIV.
miscellaneous.
Sec |. When in of actual or threatened INVASION
instruction other public danger emergency, the
militia any part thereof, shall be ordered out de-
tached if any person who shall be ordered detached
in obedience 10 such order, being duly notified thereof
and ordered to march from the place orendezvous shall
neglect refuse to obey such order shall not within
twenty-our hours after he shall have been notified
aforesaid, pay fine of fifty dollars to the commanding
officer of the company to which he belongs, procure
able bodied man in his stead such person shall be
considered as soldier in such detachment and be dealt
with accordingly. And when detachment is made, the
officers, non-commssioned officers and prvaes, being
able of body shall be detached from the rosters rolls
which shall be kept for that purpose and any person
who by abscondng, after being detached aforesaid
by deserving from such detachment shall attempt evade
the punishment provided by law for desertion, be shall
pay fine Of fifty dollars, to be sued for, and recovered
by the captain commanding officer of the company to
which such person belongs, at any time within twelve
months after the discharge of such detachment. And
when any regiment or company shall not be organized
the officer issuing the order for such detachment shall by
himself other officer under him, proceed to make
and complete the detachment from any part of the mill
tia Of such unoTganized corps.
Sec. g. When the militia, any part thereof Of any
town, shall be ordered to march for the immediate de-
fence of this state each officer and soldier shall provide
and take with him three days provisions unless otherwise
ordered. And the seecmen of such town shall cause
carriages to attend them with further supplies of provs
ions and camp utensils until notice shall be given them
to desist, by the officer commanding the militia thus de-
tached and the seectmen shall prefer their accounts o
such supplies to the auditor oaccouns against this state
for allowance. And when the selectmen of any town
district from which detachment shall be ordered, shall
be notified by officer duly authorized thereto and shall
neglect refuse to furnish such supplies and utensils
the town district to which such seectmen belong, shal
pay fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, to be
for and recovered by any person who shall prosecute 70
the same moiety to the prosecutor, and the other t.
the of the state, before any court proper to try the
same. And the officer to whom such camp utensils shall
be delivered, shall be accountable for the same, unles
broken or lost by unavoidable accident.
Sec. g. If any officer, commissioned officer pri
vate of the militia shall be killed die of his wounds
received in the service of the state, his widow child
children shall be entitled to similar relief and under thu
same regulations and restrictions is provided by law
such for the relief of widows and orphans Of per
killed dying of wounds received in the service
the United States And if any officer, commission
ed officer private of the militia, shall be wounded o
otherwise disabled in the Of this state he shall
entitled to similar relief and under the regulation
and restrictions provided by law for the eefof pei
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