The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-06

PUBLIC ACTS
An act to roorganize the Militia OF the State


( Sec. 6. Art. H. Notice OF parades and
rendezvous shall be given as follows: LIST, OF
/ division, by division commander by pub.
LEGATION III two or more newspapers, pub
hShcd in his district at least two months
next preceding such parade ID, Of Il brigade
by brigade commander, in at least one news
paper published i'll each Of the counties com
prising his brigade, at least one month next
preceding such parade 3D., of q regimental
or battalion, by regimental or battalion
commander, by written or printed notice
I thereof, at least twenty DAYS next preceding
parade 4th, of Il company, by company com
mander, written or printed notice on each
officer, non-cOmmissioned officer, musician
and private of said company at least ten
days next preceding such parade; 5th, but
III all times of public danger or disturbance,
the above notices may be dispensed with,
and the troops called into immediate service,
by the proper authority.
Art. 70. Every commander Of company
shall make a return, upou honor, of every
delinquency aud neglect of duty of his sub
alternS or non-commSsioned officers, either
IN not attending on parade, or III not eXecu-
ting OF returning an order to them directed,
or not obeylng the orders of their command
ing officers.
This return shall be made to the officer
commanding the battalion or regiment to
which the company belongs within ten days
after each company parade.
Sec. :. Art. 76. All able-bodicd white
male citizens, between the ages OF eighteen
ana forty-!iye years, resident in this State,
and not exempt from serving in the militia
by the laws eff the United States or of this
State, are and shall be subject to military
duty.
Art. =. In addition to the persons now
exempt by the laws of the United States
the following persons shall be exempt from
military duty: LIST, members OF the LcgIS-
laturc. during the term for which they were
elected, add the officers thereof, during its
meetings, and fourteen days before and after
such meeting; the Secretary of State, Audi
tor of Public Accounts, and Treasurer of the
State, and their deputies and erks; the
State Reporter, the Attorney General and
district attorneys; the judges and clerk of
the high court of errors and appeals the
Judges and clerks of the circuit court the
Judges and clerks of the probate courts,
members of the board of county police,
county treaSurerS, collectors and assessors,
SherlttS, coroners, justices of the peace and
keepers of public jails, licensed ferries and
toll bridges, millers, personally following
that. employment, ministers of the gospel,
regularly licensed according to the rules of
their sect and having permanent charge Of
4 congregation; teachers and students III
all colleges, academies and common schools;
practlclng physicians, and officers who have
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in that of any of the United States, for the
term of five years, and who shall produce
evidence of the acceptance of their resgua-
ton OF other honorable discharge, and all
officers and soldiers who served in the army
of the United States i'll the war with Mexico
and received and honorable discharge; but
no such officer or person shall be exempt
from service in time of war, instruction or
invasion.
Art IS. 1t shall be the duty of each
assessor of taxes in this State annually, at
the time of assessing the State taxes, to
enter in q column of his assessment roll
per cdpjtd' tax of fifty cents on each white
male citizen between the ages of eighteen
and forty-tive years, liable to military duty ;
and in another column of his assessment
roll he shall enter also "Der capita" tax of
fifty cents on each white male citizen be
tween eighteen and sixty years of age, eX-
empted from military duty, called the mill
tary fund which tax, subject to exceptions
mentioned in this and the succeeding arti-
Giles of this act. shall be collected as other
taxes, by the sheriff, and paid into the State
Treasury, and when so paid, shall be placed
by the Treasurer, on his books, to the credit
Of the military fund.
Art 40 1t shall be the duty of the as
SCISSOR to make out separate roll, to be
called the Military Roll" of all persons
taxed as aforesaid: those liable to do mill
tary duty to be placed in one column, and
those exempted by this act in another
column of said roll, and to certify and de
liver the same TO the clerk of the probate
court, as he is now required by law to certify
and return his assessment roll for State
taxes; and exceptions to the same may be
made and heard and the same corrected as
provided for in case of assessment roll, and,
when so corrected, three copies thereof shall
be made by the probate clerk, one OF which
shall be transmitted to the adiutant general,
on or before the first Monday in November
following, one copy to the colonel of the
proper regiment, and one copy he shall re-
tain as public record in his office; and all
persons whose names remain upon the first
column of said military roll after the same
shall be so corrected, shall be deemed duly
enrolled as persons subject to military duty,
and the said copy, so retained as a record
shall be due notice to all persons of their en-
rollment
Art. so. Any person named in said roll
NAV be released from the payment of the
| military tax, on making affidavit in writing
! at the time the same is required to be paid
| that he has within the twelve months prece
/ ding been also duly enrolled by the captain
of his company, or of some duly authorized
volunteer company, and has also, within the
said twelve months, actually appeared OF
parade, fully armed and equipped as required
by law, and performed six days military ser
vice, or been duly released therefrom by the
Judgment ola legally constituted eOurt-mar
tial, which affidavit may be made before thu
tax collector; and all such affidavits shall
be filed with the clerk of the probate court
and by him preserved in his Office
Art. 81. The said rolls, tran.mitted az
aforesaid to the adjutant general, shall b,
evidence OF the due enrolment of the mill
tia of the county, and the military strength
thereof, and be held by him, and preserved
as other military rolls of regiments
Art. g. The Military Fund" shall be ap
prop1iated to defray the necessary expense