Litchfield enquirer., 1864-09-15

4he adjutant general of the names of all the members of their companies, with' the towns to which they belong; and they shall also make return in like manner of all new mem bers of their companies within one month of of their joining such company.
 SEs 13 Each company of active militia shall be exercised in target practice at one of the spring parades required by law, under the direction of the commanding officer of such company. And at the annual encampments of brigades or regiments, the commanding officer of the brigade or regiment may order any company or companies in his command, P if he deem it expedient, to be exercised in tar get practice upon one day of such encamp-- ment. And tie active militia shall consist Of not more than sixty companies, instead o1 ninety, the number heretofore prescrlbeu-
 SEc IA. The commanding ot11cer or each company shall have power to nominate to the eommandant of the regiment non -commlsslon- ed officers for his company, when the same have not been heretofore appointed, or when ever vacancies shall occur; and the command ant of the regiment if he shall approve the same, shall issue warrants for their appoint ment, and the commandant of the regiment shall have power to reduce to tbe ranks any non commissioned officer attached to his re- giment, whom, from his personal knowledge or on complaint made and due notice given, he shall find incompetent, or guilty of m!scon duct or neglect of duty.
 SEQ. 15. The communication tax upon each person enrolled in tho militia. except minors and members of the active militia, and such persons as are legally exempt by reason of their complying aitL laws heretofore existing in this State, shall be two dollars, which shall be made out and inserted in the rate bill upon each person enrolled in the militia. except as aforesaid, and shall be collected and paid over tn ha frn, ,f, l1,a ot the manner prescribed in the sixth section in the act 10 which this is in addition; and the additionai'tax upon the persons exempt from enrolment. between the ages of twenty one and tnrty-fve years, mentioned in the fourth section of he act in addition to an act relating to the militia. approved December 24ih. 1862. and not members of the active militia, sEall Lc two dollars, which shall be inserted in tl.e rate bill. made out and collec- ted fh the manner provided by said fourth section of last named act, which taxes shall be paid into tEc State treasury in the same manner as communication taxes
 SEC l6. The f!tieih, fifty first ffty-second and sixty sixth sacions of an act entitled 'An Actrelating to ':e Militia" approved July 10th 1862, and such parts of said act, and the act in addition thereto, approved December 24th, 1862, IS inconsistent with the pro- visions of this act. are hereby repealed; but the recovery of any fine, forfeiture, penalty or debt, incurred by reason of the violation of any of the provisions of said acts, or the collection and enforcement or other tax pro- vided by said acts, shall not be affected by this act; and nothing in this act contained shall be construed to prevent the collection and enforcement of the conmutation and oth- CT taxes provided in said acts and the com pensation for armory rent shall be paid for the current year, as provided by the sixty third section of said act of July 10th, 1862.
 Approved, July 9th, 1864