The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-29
LAWS OF VERMONT.
rassct at the Special Session, April. 1876 I
For Publication in all the Newspapers.

Ms eIlt Set sion OF lne Ltgls' 'atufN.
1t is Hereby enacted by he General As
yem6y of the State Of Vermont as 70 iows
SEC. l. The Auditor Of Accounts is here
By direct d to draw orders on the Treasurer
of the State for the sum OF five dollars, III
. favor Of the publishers Of such newspaper:
in this State, as shall Isert and publish in
their respective papers, as soon as may be,
the laws passed at the present session. Of the
Legislature. wt .rr1rT
SEQ. 9 This act shall take effect from its
passage. .,. .'0I' ~.'...
Approved Aprir26,, 1861.
No. 2--An Act to provide for raising SIX
D y special Regiments for immediate service
!. for protecting and defending the Con-
stitution and Union.
Il Is hercby evacted. &c;
SEC. |. The Governor is hereby au-
thorized and required to raise, organize
and muster into the service Of this State
without delay, two Regiments of soldiers; ;
and at such time as in his discretion 1t
may appear necessary four other Regl
ments, each Regiment to consist Of the
Regimental Officers following that is to
say: One Colonel, one Lieutenant Colonel,
one Major, one Surgeon, Surgeons mate,
and Chaplain with such Staff Officers as
are provided for by the Laws of the
United States; for each Company one
Captain. one First Lieutenant, and one
Second Lieutenant; each OF said Regl-
ments TO consist Of ten Companies, and Of
seven hundred and eighty Officers and
men.
Sec. >. In order to raise said Regi-
ments, the Governor is authorized and dl-
rected to establish such recruiting stations,
and appoint such Recruiting Officers as he
shall think fit, for the recruiting Of able
bodied volunteers for said Regiments, and
in case the two Regiments to be mustered
into service without delay shall not be
filed within six days next after any fur
ther rcqusition shall be made on this
State by the President Of the United
States for military aid, and before the
tenth day Of June A. D. 1861, he shall
cause sufficient number Of the citizens
of this State, able to do military duty, to
fill said Regiments. to be drafted for serv-
ice in said Regiments from the several
towns in this State in proportion to their
population but such draft shall be so made
as to make the number of each town,
both volunteers and drafted men, as nearly
equal as practicable in proportion to the
population of the various towns, and in
case the four Regiments provided for in the
discretion Of the Governor shall not be
filled in fifteen days after the issuing of an
order therefor, the same shall be filed by
draft as aforesaid.
Sec 3. No person shall be received as
volunteer, pursuant to this Act, whose age
shall be less than twenty-one years, eX-
cept by the written consent of his Guar
lian. if he has one, or who shall be less
than fvc feet. four inches and one-half in
height, or who shall have any such
physical ntir7nity as to render him unfit
for active service.
Sec. Such volunteers and drafted
men OF such suitable substitute as shall
be furnished by them, shall be required
to serve this State, and the United States,
when duly called for, for the period Of
Two years from and after the first day of
June, A. D. 1861. unless sooner discharg-
ed from service.
Sec. 5. Each officer, volunteer and
drafted man, or substitute, from the date
of his commission, or volunteering, or
being drafted or substituted, shall be
subject to the rules and articles provided
for the government of the armies Of the
United States, now in force or which may
he hereafter in force.
SEC. 6. The Governor shall provide
suitable and sufficient instruction in drill
and the military art generally torsuch men,
as fast as they shall volunteer or be drafted
or substituted. as aforesaid, and as fast
as asufficient number shall be received
as volunteers or be drafted or substi-
tuted as aforesaid, they shall be formed
into Companies, and Regiments under the
direction of the Governor, as provided in
section one of this act
SEC T. As fast as such Companies
shall be 50 raised, and formed, the same
shall be duly uniformed, armed and equip