Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-05-21
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,

IN the gear one thousand eight handred and
Si1ty-thgee.
An Act to Auth OrlZe the Formation of In e
State Guard.
BE 1t enacted by the senate and house of rem
resentatives, in general court assembled.
and by the authority of the same, as follows !:
Sect. l. The citizens in the several cities
and towns above the age of forty five wears
may form volunteer companies for military
service to be called the state guard, and NAV
uniform, and arm and equip themselves as a
majority of the same may respectively pre-
scribe.
Sect. 2. Each company of infantry or
rlfiemen shall consist of one captain, one first
lieutenant, one second lieutenant, one first
sargeant one quartermaSter sergeant, four
sergeants, eight corporals, two musicians, one
wagner, clerk who shall be one of the SER
geants, and not less than sixty-four nor more
than eighty-two privates
Sect. 3. Each battery of artillery shall
consist OF one captain, one first lieutenant, one
second lieutenant, one first sergeant, one
quarter-master sergeant, four Sergrants, eight
corporals, two musicians, two artiicers, one
WAGNER, aud one hundred and twenty two
pIiyates.
Sect. 4. To each company there shall be
Sect. D. The officers shall be chosen COM
missioned and qualified and the now commits
stoned officers appointed and qualified, in the
same manner, and have the same rank, as is
provided in the laws concerning the militia
for similar officers.
Sect. 6. Each company may make by
laws, rules and regulations providing for its
government, fixing the times CT parade, for
drlll, company discipline and maneuvcr, and
the manner of calling ont and notifying its
members therefor, and establishing fines for
hoh-auendance OF members and for their def
clehcyo1 uniform, arms and equipments there
ati winch lines shall be collected and dispoS-
ed OF tor the benefit of the company as its
members may determine.
sect. Z. The commanding officers of each
company shall make an annual return TO tho
adJutant general, of his company, on or be-
fore the first day of November, reportnp
therein the number of men enrolled the num-
Der present and doing duty at its last parade.
the date OF its equipment and efficiency, with
such suggestions as he deems proper, relating
to the corps to which it belongs.
Sect. s. The ommander-in-chiefinav or.
der out the state guard to suppress insusrrec-
ton, repel invasion by the public enemies of
the United States, and to garrison the defen-
ces of the sea coast.
Sect. 8. When one or more companies
serve together as a separate detachment, the
senior officers present shall command until the
commandments chief assigns an officer of suit
able rank, to that duty.
Sect. 10. The guard may be ordered to
AID the civil authority in suppressing tumut,
rot, mob or body of men acting together with
intent to commit felony or to offer violence
TO persons or property, or by force and vio-
lence to break or to resist the laws Of the COM
monweath or of the United States, by the
same authority and in the same manner, as is
provided by law, for calling out the militia
for similar duty.
Sect. IL. The guard shall not be required
to serve beyond the limits of the common
wealth.
Sect. II. When ordered out for duty by
the communicative chief, or by the civil au-
81 he guard p rS se9n ten each mem
thirty cents for each days service.
Sect. ID. The adjutaut general shall fur
nish the several companies with the blank
forms of rolls and returns, now required to be
furnished to the companies OF militia, with
such alterations as will make them conform
to the organization and service of the guard.
Sect. Il. Each company may choose a
board of trustees, of not less than five nor
more than nine persons, who shall be MEM
bers Of said company. majority of said
trustees shall constitute quorum and vacan-
cies happening in the board shall be filled in
such manner as the members of the company
direct.
Sect. Is. The trustees of any such compa-
ny may purchase, receive, hold, and manage
real estate to the value of ten thousand dol
lars, and may hold personal estate to the same
value for such company; and may also hold
any gift, bequest or donation, made to such
company, and manage the same by invest
ment or otherwise for the benefit of such
company.
Sect l6 Each company formed under the
provisions of this act, on application of the
commander thereof to the adjutant general,
and producing satisfactory evidence that
suitable armory or place of deposit is provd-
ed, may be furnished, as loan, under such
regulation as he may prescribe, with such APP
propriate arms and equipments as shall be de-
termined by the commcnderin-chief.
Sect II. This act shall take effect upon its
passage.
Approved, April 81, 1868.
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