Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-12-13
STATE OF vERiioNf.
ApJ'r & INSPECTOR GEMS 0FFIoE, /
Woodstock, Dec 4th, 1868. J
General Order No. 2.

General Order No. T.
The order of the Governor and Com
mander-in Chief, now in force, prescrib-
ing rules and regulations for the correc-
ton of the enrolment of the militia and
the government of the organized militia,
are hereby modified, as follows
|. The seleetmen of the several towns
and the commot-council- men of the sew
eral cities in this State, or, if in any city
there shall be no common council men, the
aldermen of such city, SHALL on the first
dan of April in each year, carefully ex-
anime aud correct the record of the enrol
ment of the militia of their respective
towns and cities, Observing in the perfor-
nance of such duty the instruction con-
tanned in sections two to thirteen, inciu-
siye, of General Order No. of the Gov
enor of Vermont dated March %, 1860.
and shall, Immediately thereafter. and on
or before the tenth day of April, IN each
year, transmit to the Adjutant and In
spector General full and perfect return
of all corrections and additions, made by
them, as required by section fourteen Of
said General Order No s.
So much of existing orders, as provides
that corrections of the enrolment, as al
oresaid, shall be made and returned by
the said selectmen and common council
men on the first day of January, July
and October in each year, is hereby re-
cinded.
2. The commanding officer of each com.
pany of the organized militia of this
State shall, within ten days after the first
Tuesday of June in each year, make re-
turn, in duplicate, of all changes in his
command since the last with a
statement of the strength of his command
at the date of the return, in conformity
with the requirements of section sixty Of
General Order No. 8 of the Governor Of
Vermont, dated March %. lS65,-onc
copy of which return he shall transmit to
the Adjutant and Inspector General, and
the other copy he shall transmit to the
commanding officer of the regiment to
which such company is attached.
So much of existing orders, as directs
that such returns shall be made and trans.
mittcd by company commanders on the
first day of January, July and October in
each year, is hereby rescinded. And the
existing orders, requiring regimental,
brigade and division commanders to make
md trapemit rotnrps If altarationa Of
their respective commands. are hereby so
modified as to conform to the above re-.
quiroments in respect to company com,
manders.
g. Sections seventy four and one hun
bred and twonty.six of said~ General Or
der No. 8 are hereby so modified as to
provide that the Return of Public Prop
erty" thereby required to be made and
transmitted by regimental quartermasiers
and by commanding officers of companies
shall hereafter be so made and forwarded
within ten days after the first Tuesday of
June in each year; and all regulations
heretofore issued, providing that such re-
turns shall be made at other times, than
the times herein specified, are hereby re-
scinded.
A. The duties imposed, by existing or
ders, upon surgeons and assistant surgeons
of regiments, of making returns of exemp.
tons allowed and of money received aud
services performed, aud upon commanding
officers of companies of making returns Of
non commissioned officers, from time to
time, and of making returns of delinquent,
annually, on the first day of January in
each year and of forwarding to these
headquarters the enlistment contracts Of
recruits joined, are not hereby affected, but
such orders are continued in full force.
By order of His Excellency,
PAUL DILLINGHAM;,
Governor and Commander IN Chief
PETER L. WAsHBURN,
A@utant and Inspector General.