The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1857-04-23

list of all persons liable 10 be enrolled Al
|, aforesaid. in their respective wards, town
ships or districts, ,saveand exceptmember
Of uniform volunteer companies. Town
ship, ward or district assessors aforesaid
shall annually, at the time of assessing
taxable property, make out a roll, or list
of all names Of persons enrolled as afore
said, and place it in the Auditors Office
of the proper county: and it shall be th'
duty Of such Auditor annually, on or be
! fore the first day of November, to return
an accurate copy Of such records of en-
rollment, to the Adjutant General of the
State. to be by him filed in his Office, anc
an abstract of the aggregate number o
persons SO returned, shall be forwarded
by the Adjutent General of the State, tc
the War Depa tment at Washington City
on or before the first day of January o
each year. And ifany assessor shall neg
lect, 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 .ayern keepers.
keepers OF boarding houses, persons hav'
ing boarders in their families and every
master and mistress ofany dwelling house
shall, upon the application of any assess.
or, give information of the names of all
persons residing or lodging in such house
liable to be enrolled, and all other proper
information concerning such persons as
such assessor may demand. If any per-
son of whom information is required by
any assessor, in order to enable him to
comply with the provisions of this act,
shall refuse to give such information, OF
shall give false information, he shall for
felt 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 asr
SCISSOR, or shall give false name or infop-
nation, shall forfeit and pay like sum;
such penalties to be recovered in any
court of competent jurisdiction, in the
name of the State of Ohio; and it is here
3by made the duty of the assessors to report
the names of all persons who may incur
any penalty in this section prescribed, to
the commandant of the brigade in which
they reside: all monyes collected under
the provisions of this act, shall be paid to
the county Treasurer and go to the mill
tary 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 man,
ner as they are compensated for making
the annual assessments of property
Sec. 6. That the militia thus enrolled
shall be subject 10 perform no actie militia
: ry duty save and except in case of war
invasion, or to prevent invasion, riot OIL
insurrection; in such case the Governor
and commander in chief is hereby author
e lied to order out, from time to time, fol
actual service, as many of the militia thu:
? enrolled, as necessity my require, and tc
provide for their organization in the man
ner hereinafter prescribed for the organi'
n cation Of volunteer militia; Provided, thai
: in all such cases, the enrolled volunteer
militia shall first be ordered into service
The militia while in actual service shall bC
!. governed by the military laws ofthe State
and therules and articles of war Of the Uni
ted States; and when any troop; are in thC
\ field for the purpose aforesaid h this Sec
! tion, the senior ranking Officer Of the
troops present shall take command: Pro
vided that no person shall be fliglble to q
!. command in the volunteer militia Of this
State, who is not a citizen pI the United
States and of this State.
: VOLUNTEER MILlT1A--oRf4N IMITATION.
Sec. 7. The the active militia of thi,
, State shall be composed ofts5lhnteer com,
: panies, raised by order oslhe comman
, dants olbrigade within tae limits Of til,
:, , several ade districts. The volunteer
! militia shaR, in all cases Of war, invasion
riot, or insufrechon, be tie first militar,
! force ordered into the6dd. Volunteei
companies shall consist bf men between
the ages Of 18 and As, Provided. Tha
> no minor shall be enrolled as a member o
=" any such volunteer company without the
consent of his parent tr guardian; ant
that all volunteer coEptnes, squadrons
i battalions, regiments, bfigades and diyis
e ions, now formed dfi9red according L
n law, shall be retained. Whenever accor
i ding to the provisloTs Of this act, forty
!, men shall be enrolled ds'members oi a vol
IS unteer company of apllery, infantry, ligh
! infantry or rife; or Whenever thirty men
d shall be enrolled as pembers of volun-
d teer company of cFalry, such persons
d my proceed to the eelection of company
+ officers in the mod{ prescribe by section
!, fifty (50) of this att No such company
y shall be increased 10 more than hundred
VI members, and whenever a company be
It comes reduced II less than twenty mem.
+ bers, it may be Attached to another com
: pany, or disbAH led by order Of the com
D mandapt Of hEigade:. Provided, That
!, SslssleslhlNczef twonly men shall be enrolled as
members ola lght artillery company they
: may proceed as s'provided in this act, to
the election IF company officers; when
two such igkt artillery companies are or
= ganizedi in aAy brigade, they may be form
6 ed into a baItakn, under the command
= lof a Major and sNch subordinate officers
as the commandant brigade shall direct
+ and whenever three such companies oI
= light artillery are organized in any brig,
!, ade, they may be formed into battalion
i under the command of Lieutenant Colo
4 l,nelanJ Major, with such other subordin.
ale officers as the commandant Of brigade
6alldireet: and when five such light ar.