The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-03-28
CLASSIFICATION OF MILITIA,

Of the General Assembly, we give it in full
below:
CLASSIFICATION OF MILITIA.
1. Be it enacted By the General Assembly
| of Virginia, That all volunteer companies
! which may be raised, organized, armed.
and equipped in conformity with law shall
be classified and known as the active militia
and all other militia shall be classified and
| known as the reserve militia, and shall not
be required to muster in time of peace.
ENROLMENT OF MILITIA.
2. The adIutant Of each regiment of mill
! tia, appointed as hereinafter prescribed,
shall be charged with the duty of enrolling
the militia in his regimental district, and
may appoint an assistant in each company
district, whose duty it shall be to make of
| and return to the adjutant complete list
of all persons in his company district, as
the same was established and laid off on LIST
Of January, 1860, liable to military duty,
listing white and colored militiamen sepa-
rately, with their respective ages, as far as
| he may be able to ascertain them, and for
this purpose he may resort to the regiStra-
| ton lists, poll and property book, or to any
| other means of obtaining the desired in
| formation.
8. From the returns so made to him, the
| adjutant shall make out a full and complete
| list Of all persons in his regimental district
liable to military duty, listing white and
colored. militiamen separately, with their
| respective ages, dividing said persons into
companies according to the returns made to
| him by his assistants in the several COM
pany districts, and shall return said list to
the commanding officer of his regiment,
and copy thereof to the Adjutant-G General
of the State.
4. ANY person who has been illegally en-
rolled may apply to the commandant of the
regiment in which he Is enrolled to have his
name struck from the lists, and such officer,
if satisfied by proper evidence that the per-
son so applying is illegally enrolled, may
strike his name from the list. Such officer
shall at once certify to the Adjutant-Gene-
raj that the name of such person has been
| stricken from the list, and the list returned
to the Adjutant-General shall be corrected
in accordance with such certificate.
| 5. In the month of May Of each year the
adjutant shall amend and correct the list
by striking therefrom the names of such
persons as may have been illegally enrolled
or may be no longer liable to military duty,
and adding thereto such persons as may not
have been previously enrolled or may have
| become liable to military duty since the
last enrolment; and he may require his
assistants i'm the several company districts
| to aid him in the performance of this duty.
He shall then make two fair copies of the
list as amended and corrected, and return
one to the commanding officer of the regi-
ment and the other to The adJutant general.
| No compensation shall be paid to the adju-
| tants or their assistants for the services re-
CURED by this act.
GENERAL ORGANIZATION OF THE MILITIA.
6. Divisions, brigades, regiments, and
battalions shall remain as established on the
first day Of January, 1861, except that
where a part Of a division or brigade dis
trict as then established is now within the
limits of the State Of West Virginia the
other part of said district may, by direction
Of the Governor, be attached to adjoining
division or brigade districts.
OFFICERS OF THE MILITIA.
| I. Division, brigade, and regimental Off
GERS appointed and commissioned under an
act passed March 2, 1866, shall forthwith re-
sumo duty under the commissions then is
sued to them, but all commissions hereto
| fore issued to company officers shall be
void. All officers not mentioned in this act
shall be elected or appointed, as provided
in the Code Of Virginia, edition Of 1860.
s. There shall be a major-general for each
division, brigadier-general for each brig
AIDE, and colonel, licutenant-colonel, and
major for each regiment. There shall be no
company officers unless the militia, or some
part thereof, is called into actual service,
and except in cases Of volunteer compa-
MES, as hereinafter provided.
8. The Governor shall nominate, and by
and with the advice and consent OF the Sen
ate shall appoint, all heterogeneous and
| acknowledgements but if no nomination
be made by him within thirty days after a
vacancy in such offices, occurring during q
session of the Legislature, or within thirty
days after the meeting Of the Legislature,
where the vacancy occurs in vacation, then
! the Legislature shall elect said officers by a
Joint vvte of both houses. But a majority
Of the members elected to each must concur
to make IN election. The Governor shall
have power to ill all vacancies in said offices,
which may happen during vacation, by
granting commissions, which shall expire
thirty days after the next meeting OF tire
] Legislature, or as soon as said offices are
filed by nomination and confirmation, as
provided in this section. Colonels, lieu
tenant-colonels, and majors, shall be APP
pointed and commissioned by the Governor.
Adjutants shall be appointed by the colonies
Of regiments.
10. The power ofappointing company off,
GERS other than officers of volunteer compa-
MES shall be vested in the Governor, except
as hereinafter provided; but he shall make no
sary to call the militia or some part thereof
into actual service. Whenever, in the
opinion OF the Governor, it is necessary to
call into actual service the militia or any
part thereof, he shall notify the command
ant of any regiments which, or any part
OF which, he proposes to call out, either
directly or through superior officers and
thereupon, il it is proposed to call out the
whole OF any regiment, the commandant of
the regiment shall appoint temporary off,
GERS, to consist of captain and two lieu.
tenants for each company thereof; but if it
is proposed to call out only part ofthe regi-
ment, the commanding officer, on being no.
titled thereof as aforesaid, may detail from
the regiment so many men as are desired,
or such companies as he may see fit, and
appoint in like manner temporary officers
to command the same.
II. Whenever it may be necessary to Or
der out the militia, or any part thereof,
under the provisions of chapter 20 OF the
Code edition OF 1861, the commandants Of
regiments may appoint temporary officers,
in the same manner as provided LII the fore
going section. ,
70. Whenever the militia, or any part
thereof, has been called out and mustered
I into actual service, the Governor may re-
move the temporary officers above provided
for, and may appoint and commission
others but all commissions issued under
this section shall be void as soon as such
militia are discharged from actual service.
/ Is. The temporary officers appointed un-
der the tenth and eleventh sections Of this
act shall perform all the utiesappertaining
i to their respective Offices, and shall be en-
T titled to the same respect and obedience,
and to receive the same pay and emolu-
ments as officers regularly commissioned ;
and any disrespect, disc obedience, or insub.