Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-10

eral II. B. Hewson, we have been
furnished with the following rela-
tive to the organization Of the mi
litia:
All able bodied male citizens,
who are subject to military duty"
will be included in the Assessors
enrolment. When the enrolment
thus made shall have been deposit
ed with the Adjutant General, all
those able-bodied ~citisens will be
organized into Companies and
Regiments As an expediency
in carrying out these provisions Of
the law, the Governor has decided
that the enrolment and organiza-
ton of the whites, and the enroll
ment and organization of the peo-
pie Of color, shall proceed separ-
ately.
Each Company shall consist of
not less than go, mol more than
lOl, persons liable to military
duty" AS a regiment must be
composed Of eight to ten Compa-
MES, raised in the same County,
these Companies must be designat-
ed by letters of the alphabet-go-
ing on consecutively, in the case
of a Regiment of eight Companies,
to Oh" and in the case of a Regi-
ment of ten Companies, to Ak"
Wherever the militia force Of a
county constitutes less than eight
Companies, but not less than four,
these Companies shall be formed
into a Battalion.
The foregoing embodies the
general conditions Of the organi.
cation. Subject to these cOndi-
tions, the law provides for the
formation Of Companies by volun-
teering-'by the voluntary en-.
listment of citizens, subject to
military duty, in any county or
counties, within such limits as the
Commander n-Chief shall pre-
scribe" While the acceptance OF
volunteer Companies will become
more convenient as a part Of the
general work of enrolment, the
acceptance of these Companies
cannot be declared officially until
the limits for volunteering shall
: have been defined by His Excel.
T. lency the COMMANDMENT Chief
and until, further, the liability o
the volunteers to service shall,
have been put in evidence by the
return to this Office of the Asses,
sor's enrolment.
f Volunteer companies are made
constituent parts of the genera.
= organization. They are subject tC
the commands Of the Rcgimental
Brigade, or Division Commanders
and of the COMMANDMENTS Chief
On the acceptance of a volunteer
company it may become a body
polite and corporate, and, under
whatever name it may assume
r may hold personal property to Q
. value not exceeding $4,000, and
may "adopt y.laws and regula
I tons relative to enlistment ant
equipment" But its corporal,
' right Of self government 10 subjec
| to these limitations: The finel
collected from its members mus
be applied to the uses of the com
pany the assessments levied on IT
D members must have first received
the sanction of t%wo-thirds of thosr
f members its choice of officers i
Il subject to be ignored at the pleas
4 ure of the Governor, by the con
u dition that all commissioned off
&c GERS shall be appointed; its exist
Ie ence as a distinct body may be dc
If stroyed by the Governor if it
muster.roll falls below the min
! mum number (60); and its exist
ence as a body polite and corpc
e rate may be annulled or modihe
10 at the pleasure of the Legislature
=. Volunteering in accordance wit
~ the law had better proceed in fuI
IS Their accord with the convenienc
to the work of general organic
er ton. Each Company should col
\. fine itself, if possible, to its ow
beat. Its muster.roll should b
e. copied Consecutively, name aitC
n name, into the sheets of the Al
D. SCISSORS enrolment. When til
II enrolment shall have proceede
too far for that purpose, the mul
terrell should identify the men b
er the numbers attached to I'll
In names Of tho sc men in the Assei
c. sor's enrolment. And the Asse
sor should establish the identit
still further by appending, in IL
+ column of remarks, the name
}; the Company to which each volul
al teer whose name shall be found O
=. his enrolment sheets, shall b
. long.
g DEATH OF Mr.. McSHANE.-Th
" gentleman, late road.master of Il