The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-04-22
division in the order in which they are
mentioned in section second.
STATE AUDITOR TO MOTIF COUNTY

shall, by order of the COMMANDMENT
chief, issue his order to all of the coun-
ty Auditors of the several counties, re-
curing them to instruct the assessors Of
the several townships to perform all the
duties required of them by this act, which
order shall be given in one or more news
papers, published in each brigade or
county, and if there be &c newspaper
published in each county, then to be pub
lished in any adjoining county, belonging
to the same division, and to be paid for
as other public printing of a like nature.
MILITIA.
SEC. 5. That it shall be the duty of
the township officers of the several town
ships, and the assessors of the several
wards of the several cities, to prepare a
list of all persons liable to be enrolled
as aforesaid, in their respective wards,
townships or districts, save and except
members of uniform volunteer compa-
MES. Township, ward or district asses
sors aforesaid, shall annually, at the
time of assessing taxable property, make
out a roll, or list, of all names of per-
sons enrolled as aforesaid, and place it
in the Auditors Office of the proper
county: and it shall be the duty of such
Auditor annually, on or before the first
day of November, to return an accurate
copy of such records of enrolment to
the Adjutant General of the State, to
be by him filed in his office, and an alb
stract of the aggregate number of per-
sons so returned, shall be forwarded by
the Adjutant General of the State, to
the War Department at Washington
City, on or before the first day of Janu-
airy each year. And if any assessor
shall neglect, or from any cause omit to
perform his duties, the other assessors,
or either of them, of the city, town or
ward, shall perform such duties. All
tavern keepers, keepers of boarding
houses, persons having boarders in their
families and every master and mistress
of any dwelling house shall, upon the
application of any assessor, give infor-
nation concerning such persons as such
assessor may demand. If any person of
whom information is required by any
assessor, in order to enable him to COM
ply with the provisions of this act, shall
refuse to give such information, or shall
! give false information, he shall forfeit
and pay not more than ten dollars for
each offence. Any person who shall. re-
fuse to give his own name and proper
information, when applied to by any as
SCISSOR, or shall give a false lame or in
formation, shall forfeit aud pay a like
sum ; such penalties to be recovered in
any court of competent jurisdiction, in
the name of the State of Ohio; aud it
is hereby made the duty of the assess,
ors to report the names of all persons
who may incur any penalty in this Sec
tion prescribed, to the commandant of
the brigade in which they reside; all
moneys collected under the provisions of
this act, shall be paid to the county
treasurer, and go to the military fund
of said county. The assessors shall be
compensated for their services in making
the enrolment required by this article
at the same rate, and in like manner as
they are compensated for making the
annual assessments of property.
Sec. 6. That the militia thus enrolled,
shall be subject to perform 10 active
military duty save and except in case Of
war, invasion, or to prevent invasion, ri
OF or instruction in such case the Gov
ernor and commander in-chief is hereby
authorized to order out, from time to
time, for actual service, as many Of the
militia thus enrolled, as necessity may
require, and to provide for their organi-
zatien Ia the manner hereinafter pre-
scribed for the organization of volunteer
MALTA; Provided that in all such cases,
the enrolled volunteer militia shall first
be ordered into service. The miliiia
r,I,1o -, coE-ol eo,r.o cIo1l ho roro,, !
by the military laws of the State, and
the rules and articles Of war Of the Uni
ted States; and when any troops are in
the feled for the purpose aforesaid in
this section, the senior ranking officer
of the troops present, shall take com
mand. Provided that no person shall
be entitled to q command in the voluu-
teeri militia of this State, who is not
a citizen of the United States and of this
State.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Sec. 7. That the active militia of this
State shall be composed Of volunteer
companies, raised by order of the com
mandant of brigade within the limits of
the several brigade districts. The vol
unteer militia shall, in all cases of war,
invasion, riot, or insurrection, be the
first military force ordered into the field.
Volunteer companies shall consist of
men between the ages of Is and 45;
Provided, That no minor shall be en-
rolled as a member of any such volun-
teer company, without the consent of his
parent or guardian; and that all volun-
teer companies, squadrons, battalions,
regiments, brigades aud divisions, now
formed differed according to law, shall
be retained. Whenever, according to
the provisions of this act, forty men
shall be enrolled as members of a vol
unteer company or artillery, infantry,
light infantry, or rife; or whenever
thirty men shall be enrolled as members
of volunteet company of cavalry, such
persons may proceed to the election of
company officers in the mode precribed
by section fifty seven on of this act.
No such company shall be increased to
more than q hundred members, and
whenever a company becomes reduced to
less than twenty memb ers, it may be
attached to another company, or dis
banded by order of the commandant of
brigade; Provided, That whenever twen-
ty men shall be enrolled as members
of a light artillery company, they may
proceed as provided in this act, to the
election of company officers; when two
such light artillery companies are organ
lied in any brigade, they may be formed
a battalion, under the command of
a Mayor, and such subordinate officers
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