The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1837-12-26
Laws OF VeERRa omit.
Gan Act regulating and governing the Militia
of this State;
CHAPTER I.
EnroLnenES and EremptS.

The State of Vermont as j0tLo,cS:
SECTION |. Each and every able bodied white
male citizen Of this State, or ofany other of the
United States residing within this State, who
is or shall be of the age of eighteen years, and
under the age of forty five years, excepting as is
hereinafter excepted, shall severaly and respec-
lively be subject to military duty agrecably to the
acquisitions of this act, and shall be enrolled in
ihe militia of this State, by the captain or com.
handing officer of the company within whose
bounds such citizen shall reside And it shall
be at all times hereafter the duty of the command
ing officer of such company, to enrol every such
citizen as aforesaid and also those who shall from
time to time arrive at the age of eighteen years,
or being of the age OF eighteen years and under
the age of forty-fve years and not hereinafter
excepted shall come to reside within his bounds.
And in all cases of doubt respecting the age of
any person enrolled or intended to be enrolled,
the party questioned shall prove his age to the
satisfaction OF the com handing officer Of The
company within whose bounds he may re-
side. And any legal notice warning to
the citizen enrolled as aforesaid, to attend a
company, battalion, or regimental muster or
training, shall be legal notice Of his enrolment.
SEC. g All such exempted from military
duty Ivy the laws Of the United Statcs ministers
ofthe gospel, all persons who have heretofore
been commissioned i'll the militia Of this State,
who have been honorably discharged, and all
persons who now hold commissions OF may here
after be commissioned in the militia ofthis State,
and shall have done duty as commissioned Of
iiCer under The for the term of at least five
years, and small have been honordbIy discharged,
members of fire companies to the number of
twenty to each engine, in times of peace only, so
long as they shall continue members OK SAID fire
company faculties and students of colleges and
academies, justices Of the supreme and county
courts, Judges and registers Of probate, county
""rl,s <'"ri0s md ~hnriffs' lor"'"s, hie', h"n",
c0msahl"s, and those OF the religious dcnomina-
ton Of qnakrrs, practising physicians and sur
geomS, stated SCHOOL mnstcrs, icriy-mcn and mil
lers, shall be exempt from Inary duty.
SEC. 3. Ifany person subject to military duty,
shall be coracienously sCrupuous Of hearing
arms, and shall certify the under oath or
affirmation, before souc justice ofthe peace, and
lodge said certificate with the quarter master or
one Of the quarter master sergeAnts of the regi-
nlcnt within the limits of which said person
sides, he shall, thereafter, he exempt from mill
tary duty. so long as he shall annually, on or be-
fore the first day of June, pay the sum of two
dollars to the treasurer ofthe town in which such
person resides, for the use of common schools in
said town.
CHAPTER II.
Organization.
SEC l. Ii shall be the duty of The Governor,
as commander in chief of the militia in this
State. forthwith to appoint a board of officers
consisting of Not more than five nor less than
three, whose duty it shall be to organize the
militia of this State into divisions brigades, regi
a.
turn of their doiugs to the commander in chief
on or before the first day of May next; which
return shall be printed in an appendix to tthis
act and distributed among the militia of this
State The president of said board of of
ficers shall have power to assemble the brigadier
generals and such other officers as he may think
proper at such time and place he may deem
eXpedent, to enable said board to perform the
duties OF their appointment. Tt shall further be
the duty of said board of officers to designate
and publish in the appendix aforesaid, the uni
form OF the officers, non commissioned officers,
musicians and 'privates of the several corps Of
the militia of this State; and the uniform de-
sgnated shall be, and hereby is, established as
the uniform of the militia of this State.
Sec. 2. Each division shall consist of not
more than four or less than two brigades; each
brigade shall consist of not less than two nol
more than four regiments; each regiment shall
consist, as nearly as practicable, of one thousand
men, and shall be divided into eight battalion
companies, one company of rflemen, one com
pany of light infantry, one company of artillery
and one band of music and no more. Each bat
TALON company shall consist, nearly prac
tcable, of one hundred men; each company OF
rIt1emen and light infantry of not exceeding ono
hundred men; each company of artillery of moi
exceeding one hundred men =; and each band
OF music shall consist ofnot exceeding fourteen
men.
SEC. 3. The regiments shall be numbered il
regular numerical progression from one to the
maximum number of reg iments in this State the
orlgades shall be numbered in regular numerical
progression from to the maximum number o
nrIgades in the division and the divisions shall
ce numbered in regular numerical progression
rom one to the maximum number of divisions il
this State.
DEC. 4. In case the militia shall be called in
70 actual service, either of this State or of thu
United States, the Governor may and hereby il
"utnor'zed to organize paymaster's department
aIla direct the appointment of such officers there
III, as IN his opinion, the exgency of the servic
may require.
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Officers.
SEc. L. The Governor shall be captainsgen
eral and commander-in- chief of the milNp G