The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-05-03

orgnized in the eighth section OF this act;
and all aforesaid persons who are not uni
formed and enrolled as aforesaid, shall be
considered as delinquent mllitiamen, and
subject TO a fine of FIFTY CENTS for
each year that such delinquent remains
ununiforned and unenrolled as aforesaid.
SECTION Z. That the officers, non-com-
missioned officers, musicians and privates
which were attached to the first and sec
ond regiments of Pennsylvania volunteers,
and also the officers non-commissioned
officers, musicians and privates of the e.
leventh regiment of infantry, the regiment
of voltiguers, the third regiment of dra-
goons, and all other soldiers enlisted in
this state in detached companies, who
were mustered into the service OF the Uni
ted States, and who actually served IN the
late war with Mexico and were honorably
discharged, shall be forever hereafter, eX-
empt from militia duty, and from perform
ing any other military duty whatsoever,
except in time of an invasion, insurrec ton,
or actual war.
SECTION 8. That it shall be the duty of
the county commissioners, in making out
the duplicate for the collection of state tax
es in each and every year, having received
the rolls of the captains and lists of the
assessors, and ascertained the delinquent
militia men within their respective coun-
ties, to add said fine of fifty cents, to the
amount of state tax of each aforesaid de-
linquent, to be collected with the same,
under the same authority, and in all res
poets as authorized in the case of collec-
tion of county rates and levies; and said
commissioners shall keep book in which
shall be entered the amount of fines of de-
lineuents ascertained as aforesaid, which,
after deducting exonerations, in accordance
with the eighth section of this act, shall be
a seperate military fund, the collector be-
ing allowed out of said fund the same per
cent. as for collecting other taxes, and any
books and stationery, as well as the time
of the commissioners necessarily occupied
in military business, to be paid out of said
fund.
SECTION 8. That in case there be any
person named in said warrant who could
not be found, or from whom it was i'm
practicable to collect said fine or fines, ii
shall be lawful for the county commission
ers to administer an oath to the collector
that he made diligent search and no person
could be found in his bounds, or that any
such fine ought not to be or could not be
collected, together with all legal certii-
Gates, which certificates shall be of service
as volunteer or commissioned officer for
any seven years before or any five years
after the passage of this act, or certificate
of a sworn surgeon of a regiment or to
practising physicians, under oath, tha
such persons are not capable of perform
ing military duty, the said commissioner;
shall give the said collector a credit order
which shall be an ample voucher for sale
collector in the settlement of his military
account with the county treasurer.
SECTION 10. That it shall be the duty
OF the county treasurer Immediately afte
the final settlement of the military accoun
of each collector, annually to pay over tc
the several assessors the amount due fo
services in compliance with the sixth sec
ton, anil to the commissioners in compli
ance with the eighth section of thi
act, TO the treasurer of each company uni
formed and organized as aforesaid, (which
treasurer every said company is hereby
authorized to elect.) upon the order of the
crptain or commanding officer of said com
pany, the sum of fifty dollars to eachcom
pany of not less than thirty men rank anC
file, and seventy FIVE dollars to each com
pany of not less than fifty rank and file
being to pay armorer and keep up armory
and TO pay music: 1t shall also be the du
ty OF the county treasurer to pay over t
the brigade Inspector any reasonable ex
penses incurred or paid by him in collect
ing military property in his brigade, and
IN the necessary transportation of arm
and accoutrements or military stores, o
which he shall furnish vouchers certifyin!
to their correctness, aud ten dollars fo
each company, fifteen dollars for each bat
talon, and twenty dollars for each regi
ment, he shall have organized within th
year, and the aforesaid sums allowed 70
the items aforesaid, shall be considered a
full compensation foT the services, o
brigade inspectors: Provided, That tn
amount to be paid to any brigade inspect
or in any one year shall not exceed on
hundred and fifty dollars: ind Provided
That should there be no organization i;
any brigade in any year, then and in tha
case he shall receive ten dollars per com
pany for inspecting the first five compa
nies, if there be five companies in his bri
gade, statement of which several expen
ses the county treasurer shall make ou
and transmit TO the state treasury, togeth
er with the balance of the military fund
which balance is hereby appropriated tt
the payment of the state debt: ProUided
That should the amount of military funC
collected as aforesaid in any county, b,