Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-06-14
the militia of Ohio, enlisted under the
requisition of the President Of the
TTnited States

rat Assembly Of the State of Ohio, That
the companies of militia volunteers
raised in this state under any requisition
of the President Of the United States,
shall have the same company and regi-
mental organization as the army of the
United States,. and when so organized
shall Immediately proceed to elect their
regimental officers, except the regimen
tai adjutant and quartermaster, who
shall be appointed by the colonel, and
the regimental surgeons, who shall be
appointed as hereinafter required.
SEC. 2. The regiments shall be or
gganized into brigades and divisions, un-
der the directions of the governor, who
is hereby authorized to appoint from the
citizens of this state the major general
or generals, and to appoint from the
general officers in commission in the
militia of this state the brigadiers gene
raj to command such divisions and brig
ades respectively, also to appoint all sur
geons and assistant surgeons to the reg
iments.
SEC. 8. Immediately on the passage
of this act the governor shall appoint
medical board, to consist of not less than
three skillful surgeons, and no person
shall receive the appointment of surgeon
or assistant surgeon unless he shall have
been examined and approved by said
board.
Sec. 4. The governor shall further
be authorized to appoint such numbers
OF aids-de-camp as in his judgment may
be necessary to enable him to discharge
his duties as Communicating chief. He
shall also have authority to appoint
such assistant adjutants general and as
sistant quartermasters general as may be
necessary in his judgment; said officers
to rank as lieutepants colonels
Sec. 5. The militia accepted by the
governor, and all officers thereof, and
staff officers in actual service, shall be
entitled to the pay and emoluments of
the same grades of rank in the United
States army, from the time of the accep-
tance of troops by the state, and from
the time of the election and appointments
Of ofic ers of the line, or the calling into
actual service and necessary for the de-
Tense Of the state and accepted by the
governor.
Sec. 6. This act shall be in force
from and after is passage, and sections
two and three of an act entitled "An act
relating to the militia of Ohio, mustered
into the service of the United States un-
der any requisition of the President
thel eof,' passed April II, 1861, are
hereby repealed.
P. HITCHCOCK,
Speaker pro TEN. of the House of Repre-
sentatiyes.
JAMES MONROE,
President pro tenn. Of the Senate.
Passed April %, 1861.
mo. GIL AN ACT
Making appropriations of general reve-
nue. for the year 1861.
SECTION I. Be 1t enacted by the Cen
eral assembly Of the State of Ohio, That
the following sums in addition to former
appropriations, be and the same are
hereby appropriated out of any money
in the state treasury belonging to the
general revenue, to be paid out accord
ing to existing laws, namely:
For the payment of the salary of the
governor, auditor, secretary and treas
urer of sta.e, attorney general, comp
troller Of treasury, commissioner of
common schools, commissioner of sta
tisties, librarian, and secretary of the
governor, thirteen thousand six hun
dred dollars
For the payment of lieutenant gov
ernor, members of the general assembly,
their clerks and assistant clerks, ser
geants- alarms and assistant sergeant
alarms, and messengers, twenty five
thousand dollars.
For payment of publishing the daily
proceedings Of the general assembly in
the Ohio State Journal and Ohio States
man, seven hundred dollars.
For payment of the salaries of the
Judges of the Supreme court, courts Of
common pleas and superior courts,
eighty-two thousand nine hundred dol
lars
For payment of the salaries of the
clerks in the Office of the auditor Of
state, seven thousand FIVE hundred dol
lars
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clerk in the Office of commissioner Of
common schools, seven hundred dollars.
For payment of the salaries of clerks
in the Office of the treasurer of state,
three thousand five hundred dollars
For payment Of the salaries of clerks
in the office of secretary of state, two
thousand dollars.
For payment of the salaries Of clerks
in the office of comptroller of the treas
ury, three thousand four hundred dol
lars.
For the payment of the salary of the
clerk of the attorney general, six hun
dred dollars.
For the contingent fund of the gov
ernor, four thousand dollars.
For the contingent fund Of the aud
itor of state, one thousand five hundred
dollars.
For the contingent fund of the treas
urer of state, three thousand dollars.
For the contingent fund of the secre-
tary of state, five hundred dollars.
For the contingent fund of theattorney
general, eight hundred dollars.
For the contingent fund of the state
librarian, including the binding of the
Ohio documents ordered to be bound
and filed, FIVE hundred dollars.
For the contingent fund Of the COM
missioner of common schools, five hun
dred dollars.
For the contingent fund of the comp
troller of the treasury, three hundred
dollars.
To pay expenses and fees of counsel
appearing for the state in the suits now
pending, or which may be brought in
the courts of the United States, respect
ING the collection of taxes assessed
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