Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-05-10
Approved April 26, 1861.

its passage.
Approved April 26, 1861.
No. 2.--An Act to provide for raising six
special Regiments for immediate service
for protecting and defending the Con-
stitution and the Union.
1t is hereby enacted, &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 it
may appear necessary, four other Regi-
nents, each Regiment to consist of the
'Regimental officers, following; that is to
say: One Colenel, 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 Regiments to
consist of ten Companies, and of seven hun
dred and eighty Officers and men.
Sec. 9. In 'order to raise said Regi-
mcrts, the Governor is. authorized and di-
rected to establish such recruiting stations
and appoint such Recruiting Officers as he
shall think ft 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 requisitioR 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 ill
said Regiments, to be drafted for service
in said Regiments from the several towns
in thus State in proportion to their popu-
lation, bat 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
dian, if he has one, or who shall be less
than FIVE feet, four inches and one-half il
height, or who shall have any such phys
ical infrmity as to render him unfit foI
active service
Sec. 4. Such volunteers and DRAFTED
men or 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 o
two years from and after the first day o
June, A. d. 1861, unless sooner discharged
from service.
Sec. 5. Each officer, volunteer, ant
drafted man, or substitute, from the dat
Of his commission, or volunteering, o
being drafted or substituted, shall be sui
ject to the rules and articles provided 70
the government of the armies of the Unite
States, now in force or which may b
hereafter in force.
Sec. 6. The Governor shall provid
suitable and sufficient instruction in dri
and the military art generally for sue
men, as fast as they shall volunteer or
drafted or substituted as aforesaid, and Q
fast as o sufficient number shall be n
ceived as volunteers, or be drafted or sui
stituted as aforesaid, they shall be forme
into Companies, and Regiments under Il
direction Of the Governor, as provided
section one Of this act