The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-05-15

on discovering any failure to return any
issue of arms, or any part thereof, to the
Governor on demand, or that any arms
have been damaged beyond the injury re-
sulting from necessary use, or that any de-
fciency exists as to the number of such
arms, then he shall charge the value of
such missing arms, or damage, to the proper
county and the amount thus found due
shall be assessed as part of the county levy, /
and collected in such county as ordinary |
taxes are collected, and shall be paid into
the State Treasury, as a separate fund, to
be applied by the Governor to the purchase
of other arms.
Unless otherwise especially ordered, all
elections SHALL be held at the armory, or
other ordinary place of meeting OF each
company. No person who has been more
than three months member of the legion,
shall be permitted to vote unless he appears
at the polls in the proper uniform OF his
corps.
There may be raised from each company,
by voluntary engagement of its members,
two musicians and for each battalion
band of not more than ten musicians,
which several bands, when the regiment
assemblies, shall be consolidated into regl-
mental band, under command OF the adJu-
tant. The colonel may appoint leader,
drum major, and principal musicians
Councils Of administration may make reas-
enable appropriations from the company
battalion, and regimental funds, for the
payment of such members Of the band, and
| for hiring other music when necessary.
| Companies of cavalry and artillery may
| be organ ized in like manner with infantry
| companies, and may be attached to any por-
ton of the infantry force, or otherwise or
| ganized, as may be most expedient But in
| the first distribution of arms and the organ
ization of cavalry regiments, preference
! shall be given to companies in the counties
of the First, Second, Third, and Fourth
Congressional Districts.
Every company, battalion, or regiment,
unless the Governor shall prescribe uni
form, shall adopt uniform for itself, which
shall be subject to the approval of the Gov
ernor, and no uniform which is not thus ap-
proved shall be worn when on duty, unless
the Governor shall otherwise direct
Whenever any portion of the militia shall
| be called into the service of the State by
the Governor in time of war, invasion, in
surrection, or public danger, they shall be
entitled to pay at the same rates, in every
respect, as the corresponding grades may at
the time be entitled to in the United States
Army.
The Legion shall be considered as compos
ed essentially of light troops, and the system
of instruction in the tactics prescribed for
such troops in the United States army shall
be at all times followed. All other systems
are forbidden, and all officers who fail TO
qualify themselves, within a reasonable
time, for the duties of instructor of his COM
mand. shall be dismissed by sentence of a
court martial, for incapacity. Officers drills
} and schools of instruction are provided for.
Companies shall parade not less than four
times a year, and shall hold not less than
twelve company drills per annum. Battal-
! ions and regiments, whose companies, or a
considerable portion of them, are in the
same county, may have not less than three
battalion drills year. Brigade and divis-
ion commanders may order encampments
not to exceed three days in each year, for
the same troops, when approved by the Gov
ernor.
A constitution and bylaws may be
, adopted by companies, battalions and regi-
ments, subject to the approval of the Gov
/ ernor, which shall be obligatory on their
} own members and fines assessed under the
t same may be collected before a justice OIL
the peace.
:, General provision is made for the manner
of conducting encampments for the APP
3 pointment of Councils of Administration tC
= adjust accounts and allow claims for the
organization of courts martial, and prescrib-
ing the manner of holding the same; reg
/ ulating designations, dismissals and dis
, charges and defining the duties of civil of
t ficers and the militia when troops are called
l out by city authority.
D No person shall be member of two COM
panies at the same time.
j The adjutant general is required to furn-
= ish every military company, when commits
Lie NIT Of oa'e
e Infantry Tactics and the other systems Of
0 tactics for light or other troops in the
5 United States army; also the army regula-
D tions and copies of the militia law. The
Y rules and regulations for the government o.
r the United states army, as far as applicable
shall apply to the government of the active
: militia. The discipline, and the position o.
= companies, regiments and brigades in re-
r view, on parade, in line of march, or in
= line of battle, shall be determined and gov.
n erned by the rules governing troops of the
s United States army.
5 No person shall be appointed adjutan
Il general or quartermaster general, unless ht
'f9 has received regular military education
J, or has had experience as military Officer
e sufficient to qualify him for the position.
), in distributing arms, companies formed
= in those portions of the State in danger o
d invasion shall be preferred to companies
Il formed in other portions of the State.
;, No commissioned officer shall hold hil
Office for longer period than four years.
e The commander-in-chief shall annually
!, on the first of January, report to the Treas
! urer of State the amount of the military
fund drawn on his warrant the amount ex-
: pended, and the items of expenditure. The
: colonies of regiments and Captains of com
Il panies shall make like reports to the Coun-
n ty Treasurer, who shall make report to the
= Treasurer of State.
e Ten thousand copies of this act, together
d with the rules and articles of war, and Sc
: much of the general army regulations as
d may be directed by the Governor, are to be-
e published in pamphlet form, and distributed
y to the counties when the laws are dstri,
y buted.