The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-12-15


OFFICE, Woodstock. Dee 4th, 1865. ! |
General order No. 9.
The orders of the Governor and
COMMANDMENTS Chief now in force,
prescribing rules and regulations for
the correction of the enrolment of the
militia and the government of the or
ganized AIilitia, are hereby modified,
as follows:
l. The selection Of the several
towns and the commencement
of the several cities in this State, on
if in any city there shall be no com
mon councll-men, the aldermen of
such city, shall,on the first day IF Aprd
III each year, carefully examine and
correct the record of the enrolment of
the militia Of their respective towns
and cities, observing, i'll the perform
ance of such duty, the instructions
contained in sectins two to thirteen,
inclusive, of General Order No of the
Governor Of Vermont, dated March %,
1865, and shall, Immediately thereaf-
ter, and on or before the tenth day of
April, III cath year, transmit to the
Adjutant aud Inspector General full
and perfect return of all corrections
and additions, made by them, as re-
CURED by section fourteen of said Gen
eral Order No. s.
So much of existing orders, as pro-
yides that corrections of the enrols
ment, as aforesaid, shall be made and
returned by the said selectmen aud
common -council-inen on the first day
of january, July and October in each
year, is hereby rescnded
2. The commanding officer of each
company Of the organized militia OF
this State shall, within ten days after
the first Tuesday of June in each year,
make return, in duplicate, of all
changes III his command since the last
return, with statement of the
strength OF his command at the date
OF the return, III conformity with the
requirements of section sixty OF Geu-
eral Order No. of the Governor oil
Vermont, dated March %, 1865 -one
copy of which return he shall trans
mt to the Adlutamt and Inspector
Gener H., and the other copy he shall
transmit to the commanding officer of
the regiment to wlGch such company
is attached
SO much of existing orders, as di-
reefs that snch returns shall be made
and transmitted by company com
) manders on the first day OF january
{ July and October IN each year is here
by rescinded And the existing orders
requiring regimental, brigade and di-
vision commanders to makean trans.
NIT returns of alterations of Their res
pective commands, are hereby SO mod
, flied rs to conform to the above re-
quirement III respect to company com
manders.
3. Sections seventy-lour and one
. hundred and tweuty-siX of said Gen,
j eral Order No s are hereby so modi
fed, us to provide that the "Retum o
Public Property thereby required tC
be made aud transmitted by re .iment
. al qnartermasters and by commanding
+ officers of companies, shall hereafter
be SO made and forwarded within ten
: days after the first Tuesday of June il
each year; and all regulations hereto
fore issued, providing that such re
j turns shall be made at other times
( than the times herein specified, ar,
! hereby rescinded.
4. The duties imposed, by existin.
orders, upon surgeons and assistan
surgeons of regiments, of making re
L turns of exemptions allowed and o
= money received and of services per
!. formed, and upon commanding offic
+ ers of companies, of making return
7 of non-commissloned officers. from
time to time, and of making return
OF dehnquents annually, on the frs
G day OF january III each year, and O
forwarding to these headquarters tn
enlistment contracts of recruits joined
are not hereby affected, but such or
ders are continued ia full force.
BY order of dis Excellency,
PAUL DILLINGHAM;,
If Goccraor md Communicative CHIEF,
: PETER r. WASHBURN,
/. 1djHtam and Inspector General.