The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-09
CHAPTER XCI.

Supplement to an act entitled san act
for he organization OF the national
guard of the state of New jersey" ap-
proved March ninth. one Thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine, and the
various amendments thereto.
/. Be 1t enacted by the Senate and
General Assembly of the State of New
Jersey, That there shall be established a
separate department. of the national
guard, TO be known and designated as the
medical department of the national guard.
of New Jersey: that all medical officers
of the national guard now holding
commissions, and all other persons
as medical officers of the said national
guard. shall constitute a medical
staff, and that the said medical
staff shall be under the direction aud
control of the said department.; that all
hospital ste wards now in the service OF
the national guard. and all persons who
may hereafter lie appointed hospital
stewards, shall be under the direction
aud control OF the said medical depart
ment; that 6here shall be regularly en-
listed, for a term of i've years, as prtvates
IN the national guard, twenty-four men,
each to be over eighteen years OF age. TO
serve as a part of Il hospital and ambu-
lance corps" and that the men shall
have all the rights and privileges of en-
listed men in the national guard and be
under the exclusive direction and control
of the said medical Department.; chat the
commander-fn-chief. on the recommends
ton of the surgeon general of the national
guard, shall appoiuu We medical inspec
TORS, each with the rank and emoluments
of lieutenant colonel, and that the said
medical inspectors shall be under the di-
rection and control of the said medical
department.
2. And be it enacted, That all medical
officers of the national guard shall nod
their commissions during good behavior
and be subject to the regulations of the
national guard service, the same as all
other commissioned officers.
8. And be It enacted, That the surgeon
general of the national guard, under the
direction of the commander. in-chief,
snail be charged with the administrative
duties of the medical department.: he
shall have general supervision and direc-
tion Of all matters appertaininR to his
department.; The selection and distribution
of all medical and hospital supplies, and
approve or ~disapprove of all acquisitions
for supplies from medical officers,
he shalt make. subject to the approval OF
the commander-ip-chief, such Regulations
for the government or tue medical departs
nent as he may conside" necessary. that
the s.quartermastes-aeneral shall act as
chief medical purveyer and storekeeper,
ana shall issue med zeal supplies only upon
requisi,lons from meii, al officers duly
approved bv the surgeon general; re shall
purchase ouly such medical supple. az
the surgeon-gsneral shall select. and mp
d. And be it enacted, That all csndi-
dat. s for appointment as medical officers
in the n .tioral gra d shall be examined
a. t,their abby 10 discharge in Il salts
factory manner all the duties of a sur
geon, and that the surgeon-general shall
have the onarRe mud regulation of such
exam nation, and that no ner: on shall be
comm .~ssIone,t n medical officer Of the Ba-
lionel gnnrd witbont UNDERGOING gu h I'm
examination: he morals, habits, physical
AID medic ]. qualifications aaA general
aptitude tor military service snail