The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-06-16

mo. 97 AN ACT
For the further Organization and Disci-
pline Of the Militia and Volunteer
Militia.
Section /. Be it enacted by the Cen
eral Assembly of the State Of Ohio,
That sections four and FIVE Of the act
entitled "an act to organize and disci-
pline the militia and volunteer militia,
passed March 28, 1857, providing for
the enrolment by township assessors
of those subject to do military duty,
and payment therefor, be and the same
is hereby repealed.
Section 2. That beside the blank
forms now required of the adiutant
general, there shall be issued from time
to time, under the authority Of the
commander-in-c chief, such general regu-
lations concerning the organization and
government of the militia, as will bet
ter promote the discipline and order
thereof and supply such practical de-
tails as are needed to make that organi-
cation systematic and complete.
Section 3. That the commander-in-
chief may, if he shall deem the same
advisable, order a camp of instruction
to be held once a year, for four days,
during the period of legal encampments,
at which time the officers of the volun-
teer militia shall be drilled in the school
of the soldier and the details of their
command.
Section 4. That the proceeds Of sales
Of useless arms and equipments bereaf-
ter received, shall be applied to the al
teration and repair Of such collected
arms as are of old pattern, but worth
alteration and repair; and if there be
any balance, the same shall be applied
to the purchase Of camp equipage, pro-
portioned to the number of arms in use
by the State.
Section 3. That all arms in posses
sion of volunteer companies shall be
kept in armories, aud shall not he taken
therefrom except for military purposes
Section g. That in all cases where
no elections have been held for generals
Of division or brigade or vacancies shall
hereafter arise, through failure to elect,
the counties forming such division orI
brigade territory shall be attached to
other divisions or brigades, by order of
tbs commander-in-c chief, until the di-
visions shall be so reduced and defined
as to correspond with the nine constitu-
tioual judicial districts, and the num-
Der of brigades to that Of the judicial
sub districts provided, that no such abb
sorption shall lessen the present num-
Der of brigades in Hamilton county,
nor affect the command of officers who
have been already commissioned
Section T. That the adjutant general
shall keep the records, volumes and pa
pors Of that department in an Office at
the state house, which he shall hold in
common with the quarter-master gener-
al, and he shall be allowed for the cleri-
cal labor of that Office, the sum of four
hundred dollars annually, to be paid
semi-annually, as the salary Of the ad-
ljutant general is now paid He shall
make annual report of all matters COM
ing within his department, which report
shall be submitted to the governor be-
fore each meeting Of the general assem-
/ bly,; he shall also, so far as practicable,
inspect, and in the absence of the COM
mander-in-chief, review at brigade en-
campmeuts, make report thereof, and
keep accurate accounts Of the actual ex-
peuses therein incurred, which shall be
paid from the contingent fund appro-
priated to his Office, but without further
compensation for such service.
Section 8. The commander-in-c chief
shall cause two thousand copies Of the
acts concerning public arms and the or
ganization Of the militia, with an index
thereto, and all needed forms and blanks,
to be printed in pamphlet form and dis
tributed, under the direction Of the ad-
jutant general, Of which number one
fourth shall be bound with substantial
cover, for exchange with other States,
and for the use Of general officers and
commandants Of regiments, battallions
and companies, and the remaining three
fourths shall be bound with paper only.
Section 8. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after iss pas
sage,
WILLIAM B. WOODS,
| Speaker Of the House Of Representatives.
MARTIN WELKER,
II President Of the Senate