Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-29
An Act to Organize and Discipline the
Militia Of the state OF Iowa.
CHAPTER ~

M1l1tA0 Oh the STATE OF Iowa.
CHAPTER "a.
SECTION l. Be it enacted 6y the Gen.
erdt assembly Of the State of IOaUd, That
the entire militia of the State are here
by required to organize into companies
or Infantry, Cavalry or Artillery.
az. Assessors in each civil township
are hereby required to take and return
to the Clerk OF the Board of Supervisors
OF their respective counties, at the time
of taking the annual assessment, a cor
duty, and also to post up in at least two
public places in their respective town
ships, written or printed lists containing
the names of all persons subject to mill
tary duty, and returned as aforesaid.
.S3. The Board OF Supervisors of each
county are hereby required, at every
regular meeting thereof, to act as u
Board of Review on said lists, and may
order the addition thereto of the names
of any persons subject to military duty
and not found on the lists, and may also
order the name of any person improper
ly enrolled to be stricken from the lists.
The Clerk of said Board shall keep a
book in his office to be called the Militia
Register, in which he shall record, by
townships, in alphabetical order, the
name and age of every person subject to
military duty, and he shall annually,
and within ten days after the June
meeting of said Board, certify to the
office OF the Adjutant General of the
State, three copies OF said list; and any
Clerk neglectlng or refusing to make
the returns TO the office of the Adjutant
General, as provided in this Section,
shall forfeit and pay fine of not less
than twenty-five nor more than one
hundred dollars, to be recovered before
any Court having jurisdiction, for the
benefit of the school fund.
"a. 1t is hereby made the duty of the
Governor to cause the militia OF the
State to be organized into companies,
and he is hereby vested with fully pow
er and authority to make all necessary
orders, rules and regulations for the first
enrolment of the militia, and carrying
out the provisions of this Act.
S5. The companies organized under
the provisions or Chapter II of the Acts
of the Extra Session of the Ninth Gen
eral Assembly, approved September1 18th,
1862, are hereby continued, and cOnsti-
tuted company organizations, and are
authorized to retain their arms and ac-
coutrements, subject to such orders as
the Governor may from time to time is
sue: Provided, Such companies shall
execute such bond as is required by Sec
ton of this Act.
as. Each company organized as pro-
vided in the last Section, and each COM
pany to be organized under this Act,
shall be composed of not less than forty
men.
u. The Governor shall be the Com
mander-in-C hiefof the militia. He may
order and direct companies to form into
Battalions or Regiments. The order for
Chis purpose shall designate the compa-
MES and the number or companies to he
formed into any such Battalion or Regi-
ment, and fix the time and place for the
election of officers, including, if Bat
TALON, one Major, one Battalion Quar-
termaster, and one Battalion Adjutant.
The company officers shall be one Cap
tain, one First Lieutenant, one Second
Lieutenant, four Sergeants and four
be elected by the members OF the COM
pany. The Regimental officers shall be
one Colonel, one Lieutenant Colonel,
and one Major, and such staff officers as
are necessary, to conform, as near as
may be, with the Volunteer Regiments
in the United States service. All Regi-
mental officers shall be elected by the
members of the companies composing
the Regiment. The returns of any cleo
ton, company or regimental, shall be
made to the Office of the Adjutant Cen
eral within ten days after said election.
Company and Regimental officers shall
be commissioned by the Governor, ex-
cept Sergeants and Corporals, who shall
receive warrants of rank from the Com
manders of their respective Regiments.
Is. Companies shall meet for drill
and discipline two days in each year;
the first meeting to be the first tuesday
III June, at 10 O'Clock, A. NJ, at such
place as the company commander shall
Sc tit. The other meeting to be held at
such time and place as the commander
of the company may designate. And
when arms, ammunition or military
stores have been delivered to any COM
pany, as provided in this Act, the said
companies shall meet at such other
times and places as may be agreed upon
by majority of said company, for drill
and public property in their hands.
29. Arms, ammunition, munitions of
war and military stores belonging to the
State, shall be distributed under the di-
rection of the Quartermaster General,
or Acting Quartermaster General, to the
commanders of companies, battalions,
regiments or batteries, and when so dis
tributed shall be and remain under the
charge of such commander.
Provided, That when arms, ammuni-
ton, munitions or military stores, are
delivered to any such commander, he
shall make and deliver to the Quarter
master General a good and sufficient
bond with sureties, to be approved by
the Quartermaster conditioned for the
proper use and return when required by
the Quartermaster General, or other
proper officers, of all such arms, ammu-
milton, or military stores, in good order,
Wear, use and unavoidable loss except
ed.
mander-in- Chief of the militia in case