Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-06-07


pany injured, for the injury sustained
in consequence thereof.
SEC. 5. This act to take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.
Ed. a. PARROTT,
Speaker pro TEN. of the House Of Rep
resentatives.
ROBERT c. KIRK,
President of the Senate.
Passed April II, 1861.
mo. Sc. AN ACT
To encourage and secure the safe keep
ing of the public arms in the hands Of
volunteer companies.
SECTION /. Be 1t enacted by the Gen
erat Assembly Of the State Of Ohio, That
each company of the Ohio volunteer
militia which has given Cor shall here
after give) bonds for public arms, and
otherwise complied with the laws and
regulations governing such companies
and the issue of public arms, shall, for
the care of said arms, and the rent of
armories required by law, be entitled to
receive annually five dollars for each
uniformed member of said company, un-
der the provisions and limitations herein.
after established.
Sec. 2. That the commaEdants of
companies shall, on or before the first
day of April of each year, furnish the
Adiutant General with the name and
member of said company, and report
each addition to said company within
one month after such new member is
uniformed.
SEC. 3. That the commandants Of
companies shall record and report in
their returns required by law, all at
tcndances at legal days of muster, all
unexcused absences, all arrearages in
respect TO statutory fines, all abuses of
the public arms, and all cases Of intem
perance when on duty, the same to be
embodied in the annual report of the
commandant Of brigade, and to be for
yarded on or before November 1st OF
each year to the Adjutant General
Said report shall specify all deaths and
emovals, and whether the interest Of
the state vii be subserved by the reten-
tion by said company of arms for the
coming year.
SEC. 4. That the Adiutant General
shall check off all names not found upon
his books, all deaths and removals, all
delinquents in respect of statutory fines,
all who have been twice absent without
excuse from legal musters: all reported as
intemperate on a day Of public duty,
and all who stand reported for abuse or
neglect of the public arms in their
charge, and the sum Of five dollars al
lowed by the first section shall not be
raid in respect to the names so checked
off.
Sec. 5. That the Adjutant General
shall certify to the Governor the amount
to which each company is entitled, and
upon such certificate, endorsed by the
Governor, the auditor of state shall
draw his warrant for the amount.
SEC. g. That the money so certified
shall be drawn by the commandants of
companies, or their authorized agents,
and be paid into the company treasury,
to be laid out in the care of arms, the
rent of rooms, and the other expenses to
which each company islegally subjected
Prorided, that where regimental organ
izations have been effected, said regi-
ment, its officers and treasurer, shall en-
Joy all the privileges and rights which
herein belong to single detached com.
pany.
Sec. {. That it shall be deemed a
misdemeanor, under the act of March Z
1885, defining grand larceny, for any
person knowingly to make false returns
and procure the money thereon.
SEC. s. That no payment shall be
made before November 1st of each year
and in case the number then reported by
the Adjutant General shall not exceed
the aggregate Of six thousand men by
more than forty men or one company
the total number so reported shall be
the number entitled to the benefits Of
this act, and shall be paid in the order
of their organization. As soon as prac.
ticable after the passage of this act, the
Adjutant General shall report to tbs
Commander-in-C Chief the number of ex
listing organized and uniformed com
panies of the volunteer militia, and theil
aggregate of officers and men, and the
new companies shall be constituted ot
infantry, cavalry, or artillery, as the
best interests of the service shall, in tbs
Judgment of the Commander in Chief
require. And upon the passage of this
act the Commander-in-C Chief shall ap.
portion through the state the companic:
10 make said aggregate of six thousand
men, substantially as follows, viz: Tt
counties having population of 100, ,OO(
inhabitants and upwards, not to exceed
two regiments of infantry, taking tht
minimum company standard of forty
men as basis; to counties having 6
population of 10000 inhabitants anc
less than 100000, not to exceed one
regiment Of infantry; to counties having
a population Of 10000 inhabitants, anc
less than $4,000, not to exceed battal
lion of FIVE companies Of infantry; tt
counties having population ii 10000
and less than 10000, not to exceed ;
battalion Of three companies; and Il