Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-08-28
Laws on the subject Of EnrOli-
mcnt and DrnftiUg.
I Extracts from the Constitution and Laws Of the
United States.
ooNsrlrurIoNAL pRovlsIoNs.

CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS.
Clauses 16 and II of Section $ Of the
First Article of the Constitution provides
as follows
Congress shall have power to provide
for calling forth the militia to execute
the laws Of the Union, suppress nsurrec'
,ions and repel invasions. /
To provide for organizing, armlng and
disciplining the militia, and for govern
ing such part Of them as may be employ
ed in the service of the United States, re-
serving to the States respectively the ap-
pointmcnt OF officers and the authority of
training the militia according to the dis
cipline prescribed by Congress.
ENROLMENT OF THE MILITIA AND NOTICE
TO CITIZENS.
The Act of Congress of May 8, 1892, |
Section |, provides for the enrolling of
the militia and notice to citizens as iol- |
lows
Each and every free able-bodied white
male citizen of the e,pective States, res
idents therein, who is or shall be Of the
age Of eighteen years, and under the age
of forty.hve years, (except as hereinat-
ter excepted, J shall severaIly and respec-
lively be enrolled in the militia by the
captain or commanding officer OF the
company within whose bounds such citi-
zen Shall reside and that within twelve
months after the passing OF this act
| And it shall at all times hereafter Oe the
duty of such captain or commanding olii
Ger of company to enroll every such cit
zcn. as aforesaid, and also those who
shall from time to ting, arrive at thc age
Of eighteen years, except as before excep-
ted, shall come to reside within his
bounds; and shall, without delay, notify
such citizen of the said ,nrollment, by
proper commissioned officer Of the com
pany, by whom such notice may be
proved.
PENSIONS.
The same Act, Section 0, makes the
following provisions concerning pen
sions :
If any person, whether officer or sol
, der belonging to the militia Of any STATE,
and called into the service OF the United
l States, be wounded or disabled while in
actual service, he shall be taken care Of
, and provided for at the public expense.
PRESIDENT TO CALL OUT THE MILITIA.
Sections 9, 8, and 5 of the Act of
February 90, l795, provides as follows ::
Section 2. Whenever the laws OF the
; United States shall be opposed, or the
execution thereof oJstructed in any State
: by combinations too powerful to be sup
: pressed by the ordinary course OF judicial
:, proceedings, or by the powe's vested in
The Marshall in this act, it shall be lawful
for the President Of the United States to
call forth the militia of such State, or any
other State or States as may be neces
sary to suppress such combinations, and
to cause the laws to be duly executed !;
and the use of the militia so to be called
forth may be continued If necessary, I'M
til the expiration of thirty days new law
nine months) after the commencement oi
the then next session of Congress.
NOTICE TO INSURGENTS.
5 Section 3. Whenever it may be nee
@ cssarv, in the judgement Of the President.
- to use the military foice hereby directed
e to be called forth, the President shall,
h forthwith. by proclamation, command
. such insurgents to disperso and retire
peacebly to their respective abodes within
a limited time.
TIME OF SERVICE.
Section 4. The militia employed in
the service of the United States shall be
> subject to the same rules and articles OF
war as the tloops Of the United States
And no officer, non-commissioned Officer
, or private of the militia shall be compel.
!, ed to serve more than three months (ncw
! law nine months after his arrival at the
place of rendezvous, in any one year; nor
= more than in due rotation with every 9th.
er able bodied man of the same rank in
the battalion to which he belongs.
PENALTIES.
t Section D. Eve officer, non-com.
d missiohed officer or private of the militia
= who shall iaiI to obey the orders of thu
\. Presiden of the United States, in any o
. the cases before recitcd, shall forfeit sun
10 not exceeding one years pay, and not les
|, than one months pay, to be determine'
70 and adiudged by court martial. AnC
l. such officer shall, moreover, be liable t.
It be cashieled by sentence OF court mar
It tial, anG be ncapacitatcd from holding (
10 commission in the militia for term no
If exceeding twelve months, at the diScre
:. tion OF the said court martial. And sucl
. non commissioned officers and priva,e'
- shall be liable to be imprisoned by like
sentence, on failure of payment of tn,
fines adiudged against them, for one cal
endar month for every five dollars of sucl
9 fine.
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