Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-06-06
ROBERT 9. KIRK,
.. President Of the Senate
Passed April IL, 1861.

No sc AN ACT
To Encourage and Secure the Safe keep
ing of the Public Arms in the hands of
Volunteer Companies. .
SECTION l. BE II enacted By tie Gen
erol ASSenJy Of Tie State of Ohio, That
each company of the Ohio volunteer militia
which has given, or shall hereafter give,
bonds for public arms, and othe wise com
piled with the laws and regulations govern
ing such companies and the issue of public
arms, shall, for the care OF said arms, and the
rent Of ofarmories required by law, be entitled
to receive annually five dollars for each uni
formed member OF said company, under the
provisions and limitations hereinafter estab-
lshed. ...a .. d..
SEC. 2. That the commandant of compa-
nics shall, on or before th first day of April
of each year, furnish the Adjutant-Gencral
with the name aud post ilico address of each
uniformed member of said company, and re-
port each addition to said company within
one month after such new member is uni
| formed ....r... .. ...... ....#
SEC, 8. That the commandants of compa-
nies shall record and report in their returns
required by law all attcndances at legal days
OF muster, all uncXcuscd absenteeS, all ar
rcarages in respect to statutory lines, al
abuses of the public arms, aud all cases o
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embodied in the annual report OF the com
mandant OF brigade, and to be forwarded on
| or before November | Of each year to the
| Adiutant- General. Said report sail specify
all deaths and removals, and whether the in
tercst of the State will be subscrvcd by the
retention by said company of arms for the
coming year.
check OF all names not found upon his books
all deaths and removals, all del mqucnts il
respects of statuary fines, all WHO have bcel
twice absent without excuse from legal mus
tiers, all reported as incorporate on day OF
pablo duty, and all who stand reported iu
abuse and neglect of the public arms in thei
charge, and the sum of Eve dollais allowed by
the first section shall not be paid in respect
to the names so checked Oft.
i SEC. ). That the Adjutant- General shall
| certify to 10 the Governor the amount to
which each company is entitled, and upon
sucn certificate indorscd by the Governor
the Auditor OF State shall draw his warran
for the amount,
! SFC. 6. That the money so certified shall
be drawn hy tha commandants of companies.
or their authorized agents; and be pad mn
the company treasury, TO be laii out III th'
Gaze of arms, the rent of rooms and the 9th,
er expenses to which each company is legal.
subjected Provided, That where regiment
nj organizations have been effected, sal reg
inent, its officers and treasurers, shall emo!
all the privileges and rights which herein
belong to a single detached company,
SEQ. 7. That it shall be deemed miSde
meanor, under the act OF March I, 1850, de
fning grand larceny, tor any person know
/ ingly to make false returns and procure tn,
money thereon,
= Src. &. That no payment shall be mad
, bel ore November lst of each year, and II
case the number then reported by the Adju
, tant- G eneral shall not exceed tho aggregate
{ of six thousand mon by more than forty men
} or one company the total number so report
, ed shall be the number enti tlod TO the bene
, fits OF this act, and shah be paid in the orde
} of their organization. As soou as praetea
BILE after the passage of this act, the Adlutan
: General shah report to the COMMANDMENTS