Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1840-05-07

CnaikeS provided that the militia so called |
into the service of the United States shall be |
deemed always to have travelled by the mos, |
usual orexpeditous routes.
Goth. That when any officer, (non.commis- |
Stoned offcer, artihcer, musician, or private |
Of the militia or of volunteers, who shall die |
In the service of the United St,tes, or when
returning to his place of residence after being
mustered out OF service, or at any time there
alter, In consequence of wounds received i'm |
service, and shall leave a widow, or, if no
widow, child or children under IG wears OIL
age, such widow, or if no widow. such child
or children, shall be entitled to receive halfl
the monthly pay to which the deceased was
entitsed at the time of his death, or at the
time OF his being mustered out of service,
ior and during the term of five years ; and in
case Oh the death or intermarrage of such
widow before the expiration Of five wears, the
half pay for the remainder of the time shall
gro to the child or children of said decedent
provided that the Secretary Of War shall a.
dept such forms Of evidence to subsrantiate
!ne application for such half ply, as the Pres
ldent OF the United States MAY prescribe.
sIth. That courts martial, Tor the trial of
oihcers, non-commissioned officers, artiGcers,
musicians or privates of the militia or volun-
teer corps, shall be composed OF militia off
GERS only.
| 9oth. That every officer, non-copmissoned
oiiicer, artlficer, musician, or private of the
militia, who shall fail to obey the orders of
the United States, in the case provided for
calling forth the Active force, or parts there
OF, Gin the 18th head,) shall be fined, and for
lett sum not exceeding three months
pay, nor less than half months pay,
according to the circumstances of the case,
as court-martlal may determine and that
every officer, non-commissioned officer, arti-
hcer, musician or private of the militia, who
shall fail to obey the orders of the President
OF the United States, in any ofthe cases cited
In the 18th and 10Th heads, shall forfeit a
sum not exceeding one years pay, and not
less than one months pay, to be determined
and adJudged according to the circumstances
OF the case, by a court-martial; and such Off
Ger shall. moreover, be liable to be cashiered
by sentence of court-martia, and be inca
pacltated from holding commission in the
militia Tor term of four years, at the discre-
/ ton oil the said court; and such non-commis-
stoned officers and privates shall be liable to
be imprisoned by the sentence of a court
martial, on failure of the payment of fines
adjudged against them, for one calendar
month, for every five dollars of such fine.
2eth. That all fines assessed as described
In the preceding head, shall be certified by
the officer ordering the court, or the revising
tal having approved of the same, to the
marshal of the district in which the deiin-
quent shall reside, or to one of his deputies,
ana take receipt from the said marshal or
| deputy, as the case may be, for the same
| which receipt and duplicate, of the certificate
furnished, he shall transmit for record to the
aiJutant general of the militia of the United
States; that the marshal. or his deputy, hav-
ing received the said certificate shall forth
with proceed to levy the said fine, with cost,
by distress and sale of the goods and chat
tells of the delinquent; which costs, and the
manner of proceeding with respect to the
sale OF the goods distrained, shall be agree
Bile to the laws Of the State in which the
same shall be, as in other cases of distress
and when any non-comnissioned officer or
private shall be adjudged to suffer imprson-
ment, there being no goods or chattels to be
found wherein to levy the said fines, the
marshal of the district or his deputy shall
commit such delinquent to jail during the
term for which he shall be so adjudrcd to
imprisonment, or until the fine shall be paid,
In the same manner as other persons condem-
ned to hne and imprisonment at the suit of
tine United States may be committed.
30th. That the marshals and their deputies
shall make return of the levy of fines, as
provided for in the foregoing head, to the adj
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sixty days, counting from the time that the
certificate of the assessment of the said fines
is placed in their hands; and they shall also
pay into the hands Of the said adutant gen
erai, within the above named limit of time,
all fines by them thus levied and collected.
deductlng therefrom five per centum as COM
| Pensatlon for their trouble and in case anv
OF the said marshals or their deputies shall /
fall to make the required return, or pay over
10 the adJutant general of the militia Of the !
United States the fines collected, within the
Time above specified, it shall be the duty of
tne said adJutant general to inform the Soi- |
citor OF the Treasury of the United States of
the same, who should be required to instruct
the district attorney of the United States to
| proceed against the said marshal or deputy
In the district court by attachment, for the
recovery of the same.
| 3ist- That the marshals and their deputies !
OF the several districts shall have the same
| powers In executing the laws of the United
States as sherilis and their deputies in the
several States have, by law, in executing the
laws OF the respective States.
32nd. That the money or moneys collected
by the assessment of fines referred to shall !
be applied to the payment of all necessary
expenses, as far as the same may be sufTi-
Client, for the repair Of arms, the preparation
and preservation of military munitions and
Tor every other necessary thing that may be
incident to the ealing forth, and TO the service
OF the militia, as provided for in the 18th
head.
33d. That the President shall appoint, by
and with the advice and consent of the
Senate of the United States one adiutant