Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-12-13
Commanding officer of the

And the officer to whom the same is directed
and delivered shall execute the same, and
pay the amount collected into the State
Treasury, under such rules and regulations
as the commander-in-chiefs shall prescribe.
Sec. IS. All field, staff and company
commissioned officers shall, for disobe-
dience of orders, unofiicer-like con-
duct, while on duty or during any
day appointed for military exercise or
parade, or neglect of any duty imposed by
or under this act, or as officers of the militia
be subject to arrest and trial by court-mar-
tial according to the rules and regulations
of the army of the United States, and the
same forms shall be adopted and oaths adj
ministered as therein prescribed and such
court-martial may sentence the accused, if
found guilty, to pay fine not exceeding
one hundred dollars, or to be reprimanded
in orders, or to be cashiered or to be cash
tered with inability to hold any military
office in the State and any sentence i'm
posing a fine shall be deemed judgment,
and the amount of the fine shall be collect
ed by execution, signed by the president of
the court martial, substantially in the FORM
as near as the nature of the case will admit,
hereinbefore prescribed; and the officer to
whom the same is directed and delivered
shall execute the same, and shall pay the
Sec. 10. Courts of inquiry, to consist of
three members, may be ordered by the com
mander-in-chief and shall be conducted ac-
cording to the forms prescribed by the rules
and regulations of the army of the United
States.
Sec. 20. Courts-maltial shall consist of
not more than seven members, nor less than
FIVE; and if for the trial of any officer of the
rank of captain, or below shall be ordered
by the general of the brigade to which he
belongs; and if above the rank of captain,
by the commander-in-chief; and the iudg-
ment Of court-martial shall be submitted for
approval to the officer ordering the same,
and if approved he shall so certify, and in
case the sentence be a fine, shall return the
same to the president of the court-martial
for him to issue.
See 81. The same power to summon wit
nesseS before any cOurt-martial, or court of
inquiry, and bring them before the same,
shall be vested IN the president thereof, as
is vested in the courts of law having Grim
inal jurisdiction, and all subp@nas and 9th
or processes to procure the attendance of
witnesses shall be signed by the president of
said court martial.
Sec. %. There shall be in each year, in
the month of June, one day designated by
d,
for drill and inspection, at such place with
in the limits of said company, as the COM
manding Off ser shall direct, and the first
sergeant of each company shall give notice
Of the time and place of parade of such
company, by posting up the order for that
purpose two weeks previous at four public
places within the limits of the company
which shall be sufficient notice to every
member to appear at such time and place
under the penalties herein provided.
See 90 There shall be annually, be-
tween the twentieth day of August and the
twenty-iifth day of September in each year,
parade of each regiment for drill, disci-
pline, inspection and review, at such place
within the limits of'sueh regiment as the
commanding officer thereof shall designate,
and at such time as the commanding officer
of the brigade shall direct which parade
shall continue three days and shall not ex-
coed five days. And the commander-in-chief
shall be authorized to order additional par
| AIDES each year by company, regiment, brig
ade or division, as he may deem advisable,
not exceeding three days in each year, ut
such time and place as he may direct, and
under such rules and regulations as he may
prescribe. And notice of such regimental
parade, and of all special parades ordered
I by the commander-in-ehief, shall be given
at such time and in such manner, as the
commandments may prescribe.
Sec. 81. The commander-in-chief, or in
| his absence the Acknowledgements Cor in
the absence of both, the adjutant and in
spector- general may in case of riot, rebel
lion or instruction, within this State, or in
/ case of invasion, or imminent danger there
of, call out the organized militia, or such
regiments or other organized bodies thereof
as he shall deem necessary for the public
safety, and is authorized to order such force
into camp, or caIpps, for instruction and
drill and until discharged by order Of the
commander-in-chief, the militia so called
into aetice service, shall be subject to the
order of the commander-in-ehief,a and shall
be governed by the same rules and regula
tons as are prescribed for the army of th'
United States. And the c0mmander-in-chie
may order the same into camp for instruc
ton and drill, whenever, in his judgment
the interests of the State shall require it
= And in case of riot, rebellion or insurrec