The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-05-03
safe keeping, and annually inspect the

each regiment, and major or commanding
! officer of each battalion, not attached to-
any regiment, on or before the first day OF
August in each and every year to transmit
to the adiutant general certificate, certl-
/ fying the number of companies IN his COM
mand, and their title, and number of men,
| bers in each company, which certificates,
together with those of captains of compa-
nies not attached to any battalion or regi-
ment, shall form data for the said adJu-
tant generals report of the strength OF the
military force of the state.
SECTION IS. That all the uniform COM
panies that shall be organized on or before
the first Monday of June, ls49, shall
meet at their usual place OF meeting on
said first Monday of June, and on the first
Monday of June in every five years there
after, an election shall be held In each COM
pany for one brigadier general, and one
! brigade inspector for each brigade; also
! for such field officers as the battalion or
regiment to which each company may be
attached shall be entitled to; the captain
or commanding officer of each company
shall superintend said election, and take
to his assistance one or more members.
who shall be severally sworn or affirmed
to conduct said election fairly and Impair
tally, and make true and correct return
| thereof, and when the said election shall
| have been closed and the votes counted,
the said superintendent and his assistants
shall make out duplicate returns of the
same, to be signed by them, stating the
number of votes, given for each person
for the different offices voted for, for the
battalion or regiment, as well as the briga-
dier general and brigade Inspector; one of
said returns the said superintendent In
each company shall cause to be filed with
the papers of the company, and the other
he shall within ten days thereafter deliv
er or cause to be delivered to the brigade
| inspector then in commission, who shall
open and cast up the same and shall make
out one general return of the election of
each officer having the highest number OF
votes, and having certified and signed the
same, shall forthwith transmit the same to
the secretary of the commonwealth; and
the said brigade inspector shall immediate
lly cause a written certificate and notice to
be given to each said persons of his cleo
| ton, and the returns of the election from
each company received by said brigade
inspector shall be filed and preserved in
his Office, and subject to the inspection of
any person interested who may wish to
IeXamine the same.
i SECTION IA. That the first Monday of
July then next ensuing, and the first Mon
day in July in every five years thereafter,
shall be the time of election of major gen.
eral of each division In this commonwealth,
and all the commissioned officers of COM
panies, battalions, regiments and brigades,
within the bounds of each division, who
: shall meet at the county seat in each bri-
r gade, which said county seat is hereby de-
t clared to be the place of holding said cleo
tions, shall be entitled to vote for Major
r general, and that the brigade inspector who
shall have been elected on the first Mon
day of June as aforesaid shall superintend
s said election, assisted by the brigadier gen.
: eral or other senior officer present, and
after counting the votes, duplicate returns
7 of said election shall be made out and
signed by the said brigade inspector and
assistant, stating the number of votes Civ
en- for major general; and the said brigade
L inspector shall file one of said returns In
his office and transmit the other to the sec
I, retary of the commonwealth, whose duty
=, it shall be having received the returns OF
: all the brigade inspectors, to count and cast
D up the returns of each division, and trans
: nit major generals commission to the
: person having the highest number of votes
in each division.
$ SECTION l5. That on the third Monday
1 of August, 1849, and on the same day eve
ry five years thereafter, an election shall
be held within the bounds of each organ
: lied company for the election of company
: officers, and the captain shall appoint two
e officers or members of the company to
7 hold said election who shall be severally
$ sworn or affirmed to conduct said election
fairly and impartially and to make true
and correct return thereof, and when the
: said election shall have closed, duplicate
returns thereof shall be made out and sign
; ed by said members, one of which shall
be filed with the papers of the company
/ and the other they shall cause, within ten
days thereafter, to be delivered to the bri-
: gade Inspector, who shall make out one
: general return for each battalion or regi-
: ment of the officers elected in the several
/ companies thereof, which he shall certify
: and transmit to the secretary of the COM
I, monwealth, upon which commissions shall
D issue to the several officers elected, and as
!, often as any vacancy occurs in any of the
L aforesaid offices, by death, resignation, or
otherwise an election shall be held to sup
ply the vacancy, which shall be conduct
ed and returned in all respects as directed
for conducting the original election of such
officers, upon ten days notice from the