The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-04-17
FOURTH'S COURTS
Col. Smith Makes Details
in Accordance With
New State Law.
BAND REGULARLY ESTABLISHED
Men Transferred From Com
panies to It's Roll The
Orders.
BAND REGULARLY ESTABLISHED


These orders were issued last night by
Colonel Smith for the Fourth Regiment
General orders No. 8.
1.-THE Regimental Court Martial APP
pointed in General Orders No. IA. October
IL, 1899, from these headquarters, is here
by dissolved.
PA delinquency court is hereby APP
pointed. Detail for the court, Lieutenant
Colonel Joseph H. Brensinger.
''3-Major Henry Lohmann, Jr., is here
by appointed Summary Court for the regi-
ment.
.4-Commandants Of companies will dis
solve their respective court martial and
will appoint a lieutenant as summary
court of their respective companies.
'5-Instructions giving the jurisdiction,
powers, procedure, etc, of the above
courts will be issued in a circular.
''6-The following extract from the laws
governing the National Guard of New
Jersey are published for the information
and guidance of all concerned
I'm each company of infantry there
shall be one captain, one first lieutenant,
one second lieutenant, one first sergeant,
one quartermaster sergeant, one commits
sary sergeant, four sergeants, eight cor
porals and sixty-six privates. The mini
mum strength of a company shall be 50
enlisted men,
1.-THE commanding officers of companies,
batteries and troops shall appoint from
the sergeants elected by the companies,
batteries and troops, the first sergeant,
the quartermaster sergeant and the COM
missary sergeant, and shall have the
power to return them to the rank of SER
geants and appoint others in their place
from among the sergeants; provided,
that all sergeants elected by companies
or troops shall have previously qualified
as marksmen under orders for rifle prac-
tice. but the division commander may
waive this requirement in any particlar
case.
.sVII-In conformity with the above,
company commandants will appoint Sub
iect to the above provision a quarter
master-sergeant and a commissary-ser
geant. and as vacancies occur they will
appoint their first sergeants The APP
pointment of these non-commissioned Off
GERS and their return to the rank of ser
geants will be done by company orders
without reference to higher authority.
separate warrants as first sergeant,
ouartermaster sergeant and com1nissary
sergeant will not be given
: .sVTII.-The captain of every company
shah. on or before the first day of May
in each year, deliver to the assessor,
board Of assessors, or other taxing Off
Ger or officers of any city, town, borough,
township, or other municipality and to
.c- in or of
the members of such company reside a
written statement under oath, of the
names and residences of all the members
of such company residing in any such
city, town, Borough, township, eounuty
or other municipality; the certificate of
any commissioned officer under his hand
shall he sufficient to entitle him to the
exemption allowed by this act.
.sReport will be made to these head
quarters in writing when the above has
been complied with.
General orders No. s.
"I.-By authority of an act of the
Legislature approved March 20. 1900, as
published in General Orders No. 2. c. s.,
Adjutant Generals office. Trenton, N. J.,
March 26, 1900. band is hereby organized
in this regiment and will consist of one
chief musician, two principal musicians,
twenty-four field musicians and twenty
five band musicians.
.sII.-gThe following appointments are
hereby announced Salem r. Davis to be
chief musician, John BrownIee and Joseph
r. Bechler to be principal musicians.
iii The following musicians are here
BY transferred from the several COM
panies to the band From Co. Az Richard
+. TuIly, Louis W schorr; from Co b,
William 6. Davis. George a. Bernard;