Litchfield enquirer., 1861-08-29

shall be nominated by the field and commission
 ed officers of such regiment or battalion. an
 whenever any vacancy shall exist in the office C
 field officers of any regiment or battalion, tn
 commander. chief shall issue an order to sue
 field officer, or to such other officer belonging tt
 the regiment or battalion in which such vacanc
 exists, as he may designate, directing such office i to assemble the field and commissioned officer
 of such regiment or battalion, at such time am place as he may appoint; ard when so assemble
 they shall proceed to nominate, by ballot, sucl
 officer as the order shall specify; and if any va cancy shall occur in the field officers of sait regiment or battalion in consequence of salt
 c!:"ice. such presiding officer shall proceed il tha same manner to fill such vacancy. and mak
 turn of the order with hls doings endorsed thereon. to the adutant general. In all case
 where meeting of officers is to be held for thu
 purpose aforesaid, a notice, specifying the tint legal notice, if addressed by mail to the persol to be notified, at least ten days previous to thu day of such meeting, by the person designated to preside at the same.
 SEC 21. All company commissioned and non commissioned officers shall be chosen by thei respective companies, the commanding office first causing notice to be given to those entitled to vote, that he is about to lend them to the choice of such officers: prouided, houerer, thai if any company after having been twice ordered out for the choice of commissioned officers shall, at the expiration of three days from the second time of their being so ordered out, be destitute of commissioned officers, either in whole or in part the commandant of the regi ment to which such company is attached may nominate to the commanding officer of the brig ade to which said reg iment belongs, suitable persons to fill all vacancies then existing among the commissioned officers of such company and if such nominations shall be approved by said commandant of brigade. the person So nominated and approved, may be commissioned by the commander-in-chief Said commandant of regiment shall also, at his discretion, grant warrants to each person who may be elected sergeant or corporal by any company under his command; and if>any company shall fail to elect all the warrant officers necessary for said company, according to the provisions of this act he may issue warrant to such member of such company as he may deem proper; and said con- mandant shall further have power to reduce to the ranks any non-commissioned officer attached to his reg giment, whom, on complaint made and due notice given, he shall find guilty of miscon- duct or neglect of duty.
 SEC. g. Whenever the commissioned officers of any brigade, regiment, battalion, or company shall fail to make choice of a brigadier-gene colonel, lieutenant colonel, or major, or of all such officers, the commander-in chief may fill the cancy or vacancies in such manner as he may deem proper, and he may grant commissions to any or all persons who may be duly elected or appointed to office in any brigade, regiment, or company; p'ouioeo1, that if the general as- semhly, to which the return of elections shall be made, shall disapprovc the same, the commission of commissions so granted shall become void after such dsapproval; and all officers commis- stoned in pursuance of this act shall take rank nominations.
 SEC. g. The commanding officer of any com pany. when so ordered. shall call out his company for the choice of captain or suhalterns, and may call cut his company for the choice of non-com. missoncl officers at any timo of the year.
 SEC 2:l. The return of commissioned officers elected in any company, shall be forthwith made to the adju,ant general. and d duplicate of the same to the commander of the regiment to which such company is attached ; and if within ten days after such election there shall be no ohjec- tion or reIllonstrancc, commissions may begrant- ed as aforesaid.
 SEC. 2. Every renonstrance against granting commissions to officers chosen during the recess of the general assembly, shall be referred to the maior-gencral, if of the grade of a general or field officer, and if under the grade of field officer to the brigadier-g general commanding the brigade in which the election was held, who, af- ter having first given notice to all persons in terested shall hear and decide in the matter of the said choice. and if found illegal, shall order a new election.
 SEC 26 The resignation of the ma or-generai shall be made to the general assembly; the re- signation of general and field officers shall be made to the comnlander-in-chief the resigna- tions of the commissioned officers of the several companies shall be made either to the major general or to the brigadier general commanding the brigade to which the officer belongs the resignations of all other officers shall be made to the officers from whom they shall have re- spectively received their commissions and war rants; and upon the acceptance of their reslg- nation, the officers making the same shall be discharged from their respective offices; prori- tied, that all the commissioned officers of any company shall not be discharged until one or more successors shall have been duly elected and commissioned.
 SEC. 27. All general officers and tEeir staff, the adjutant-general, the quartermaster- general. the commissary-general, and their assistants, the paymastergeneral and all field officers, adjutants, and quarter masters, shall do duty on horse back chaplains, paymasters, and surgeons, ser geant majors, may, on days of general review, appear on horseback; and all other officers shall do duty on foot, except the officers of the caval- ry ana horse artillery.
 SEC. 2e. There shall be two batteries of flying artillery. to consist of not less than ose hundred and thirty men each, and to be oficered as the commander-in- chief may direct. To every com of infan rifiQmpp there shall be one captain one first and one sec ond lieutenant, one first sergeant, four sergeants. eight corporals, not exceeding three musicians, and not less than sixty-four priyates, nor more than eighty-two.
 SEC 29. Non-commissioned officers shall be chosen from the members of the company to which they belong, or from persons not mem- bers of other military companies and the mu- sicians shall be appointed by the commandant of each company.
 SEC. 30. All generals, field and staff officers and the commissioned officers of the several companies, shall hold their respective commis sions for three years, unless sooner discharged and all non n-commissioned officers. musicians and priyates shall serve for five years unless sooner discharged, and all nOn-commissioned officers musicians and privates shall serve for five years unless sooner discharged; and all persons who shall have held a commission under this act and have performed the duties thereof for the term of three years, and every person who shall have done duty under this act as noncommis
 stoned officer, musician, or private, for the tern
 of five years, shall thereafter be exempt from mil
 itary ydutyexcept in the caseof warorinsurrection ] and shall also be exempt from the payment o l poll taxes and commutatiOn taxes for five year
 after they shall have been honorably discharged
 SEc. 3l. All the military companies in thi
 state heretofore organized, or existing under tn act entitled < An Act for forming and conduct