Nebraska advertiser., 1862-09-27
AN ACT
Supplementary to an act entitled an Ac
to organize the Nebraska Volunteers
Approved January 23d. 1855

teen and forty-fve, shall, on the frs
Monday of April, A. ID. 1862, meet al
the county seat of their respective coun.
ties, at one O'Clock, P. M. of said day
and organize by the election of a Presi.
dent and Secretary, and when so orga-
nlzed shall proceed to enroll their names
and form themselves into companies Of
not less than thirty-fVe, nor more than
slxty-four persons. including officers and
privates.
SEC. 2. When such persons shall so
have enrolled their name and formed
themselves into such companies, each
company shall proceed to elect one Cap
tain, Two Lieutenants, to be denominated
first and second L~ieutenants, respective
ly, four sergeants and four corporals,
each election to be by ballot, and imme-
dlately after such elections shall have been
he'd the Secretary of the meeting shall
transmit to the Adjutant General of the
Territory complete returns of such cleo
ton, with the names of the members of
each company, signed by the President,
and attested by the Secretary, and the
Adjutant General shall Immediately
transmit to the Governor of the Terri
tory the names of the Captains and
Li~eutenants so elected, and the Governor
shall thereupon commission such officers.
SEC. 3. When all the returns shall
have been received, the Governor shall
proceed to form such companies into a
regiment, or regiments, of not less than
five companies each, and shall appoint
and commission one Colonel, one Lleute-
nent-C Colonel, ana one Major, which three
officers shall constitute the field officers
of each regiment, and shall hold their
Offices, respectively, until the first Tues
day of April, 1863, when each regiment
shall proceed, by the commissioned off,
GERS of companies therein, to elect such
officers, who shall hold their Offices for
the term of four years, and until their
successors shall be elected and commits
stoned.
SEC. A. Such field officers shall appoint
such other officers for the regiment as
may be recognized by the military system
of the United States, each Of which shall
hold his Office for the same term as the
officers who may appoint them.
SEC. 5. Volunteer companies may be
formed within any portion of this Terri
tory, of not less than thirty in number,
which companies, when formed, shall be
differed as provided in section two of
this Act, and shall be commissioned by
the Governor of the Territory.
Sec. 6. Each volunteer company shall,
when formed, proceed 10 uniform them
selves IN any manner a majority of each
company may determine, and they may
either arm and equip themselves, or may
receive their arms and equipments from
the Governor Of the Territory, as they
may determine. Provided, That when
ever any company shall receive their
equipments from the Territory they shall
receipt for the same, and such arms shall
be held as the properly of the Territory.
SEC. 2. Such volunteer companies shall
meet for drill at least once in each month.
and shall also meet at all general drill
meetings of the military organization of
this Territory, and all such companies or
members thereof, after having so per-
formed military service for the term of
seven years shall forever thereafter, in
time of peace, be exempt from the per-
Torrance of military duty in this Terri
tory.
SEC. s.. The Captain of such company
shall see to it that all persons residing
within their respective counties shall en-
roll their names In some company, either
of the volunteer or regular militia and
after such companies shall have formed,
any person coming within the provisions
of this act, and wilfully failing and neg
Letting to so enroll himself or themselves
shall for each week they shall so fail be
fined in any sum not less than one dollar
and not more than five dollars, to be re-
covered in any Justices Court, in the
usual manner for the collection of debts,
of the proper county, on the information
of any person, and the fine so collected
shall be applied to the school funds of the
county in the same n as other lines
going in the same fund.
SEC. 9. Any member of any company
either volunteer or regular militia, who
shall willfully fail and neglect to appear
for drill at such times and places as may
be appointed under and in accordance
with the provisions of this act, shall for
every such failure be fined in any sum
not exceeding one dollar for each day
they shall so willfully fail or neglect to
appear.
Sec. 10. All clergymen in regular
standing in the different religious demon
~inations in this Territory, all post masters,
county clerks, county treasurers, justices
of the peace, sherifs and constables, and
all persons not Of sound mind, and those
who are physically disabled, are hereby
exempted from the provisions of this act.
Sec. ii. The fines under the 9Th Sec
ton of this act may be collected in any
manner provided by any general militia
law as shall be adopted by such company
or regiment for such purposes, and shall
be applied to the payment of any neces-
sary expenses of such company or regi-
ment, and shall be placed in the hands of
the captain of the company or adJutant
of the regiment, and they shall be liable
to be court martialed for a mIsapplication
of the funds so raised, either by expend-
ing them for his own benefit, or other
wise not ordered by a vote of the COM