American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-06-01

ten days previous thereto if for the cleo
tion of officers but in case of invasion,
insurreetion, riot, or an unforeseen or sud
den occasion, verbal, written or printed
notice, however short, shall be Legal
When a company is paraded, the com
manding officer may verbally notify the
men to appear at n future day, not exceed
ing thirty days from the time Of such pa
rade. which shall be sufficient notice as
respects the persons present; and all COM
manders of companies shall, on parade,
read division, brigade, or regimental Or
ders, and notify the soldiers of their sew
eral commands to appear as by such or
ders required, which notice shall be a
sufficient warning.
Section 6S. When company is with
out commissioned officers the commander
of the regiment or battalion to which it
belongs, or the officer detailed by him to
discipline the same, shall, in writing, order
any on-commissioned officers or privates
TO notify the persons liable to do duty in
such company, to appear for duty requir-
ed by law, at the time and place mention
ed in such order, and if non-commls-
stoned officer or private refuses or neg
lects so to notify, he shall forfeit and pay
not more than one hundred dollars, one
half for the use of the inforrner, and one
half for the use Of the military fund of
the brigade.
Section So Clerks of companies shall
record in the orderly book company or
ders and notifications, but such record
shall not be necessary to the recovery Of
penalty.
DIsCIPLINEs, PARADES, INSPECTION AND
CAMP DUTY.
Section 20. The system of discipline
and field exercise ordered to be observed
by the army Of the United States in the
ditferentcorps or such other system as may
hereafter be directed for the militia by
laws of the United States, shall be observ-
ed by the militia of this Commonwealth
Section II. The commander of every
regiment, battalion and detached company
may annually order out the commissioned
and non-comnissionedo officers under his
command for elementary drill two separate
DAYS, between the middle of May and the
middle of July, at such place as he deems
most convenient; AMI if the place of any
such officer in a company is vacant, the
commander thereof shall detail from the
privates under his command a sufficient
number to make up the deficiency; every
person unnecessarily negIecting to attend
at the time and place appointed for such
drill, shall forfeit to the use Of the brigade
fund three dollars.
Section n The commander-in-c
may prescribe the time, place and man
ner of assembling the troops, for the pur-
pose declared in this section, and each
commander of division shall upon Motif
cation from the onlmander-in-chief, or
der an eneampment Of his division by
brigades or regiments. The orders for
encampment by brigade shall be promul-
gated in the brigade thirty days before
the time appointed for the encampment.
The orders for encampment by regiment
shall be promulgated in the regiment
twenty days before such time.
Section rs. Each encampment may last
three days; the troops shall be inspected,
reviewed, and thoroughly exercised as
companies, battalions, or brigades, in the
whole routine of camp and field duty
Every officer, on-commissioned officer
'Ed private, held by law to do military
duty, and unnecessarily neglecting to APP
pear at the time and place appointed for
encampment, shall forfeit, commissioned
officers ten dollars, and non commissioned
officers and privates FIVE dollars per day
to the use of the brigade fund.
Section "A. Each company roll-call shall
be made during the term Of encampment,
under the supervision and in presence of a
regimental or commissioned staff officer
to be designated by the commanding off
Ger Of the regiment or battalion to which
the C mpany is attached.
Section IS. Every commanding officer,
when on duty, may ascertain and fix ne
cessary bounds and limits to his parade,
not including road. so as tc seriously
obstruct passing, within which no specta-
tor shall enter without leave from such
commanding officer; whoever intrudes or
attempts to intrude within the limits OF
the parade after being forbidden, and
whoever ressts a sentry who attempts to
put him or keep him out of such limits,
NAV be arrested and confined under guard
during the time of parade or a shorter
time, at the discretion Of the commanding
officer.
Section 76 No officer or soldier shall
be holden to perform military duty except
in case of invasion, insurrection, riot, OF
tumult, made or threatened, or in obedi-
ence to the orders of the commander-in-
chief on a day appointed for genaral OF
State election in the place OF his resi-
dsnce and no officer parading his COM
pany or ordering it to parade contrary to
the provisions of this section shall, besides
being liable to court martial, forfeit not
more than three hundred dollars for the
use of the brigade.
Section II. Nothing herein contained
shall be construed t. prevent any compa-
ny from meeting for the purpose Of drill,
funeral, or other escort, or a voluntrry
service, nor to impair the obligation aris-
ing under constitutional articles of agree
ment adopted by the company, so far as
regards the members who have signed the