The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-06-12
It Is Expected the Troops
Will Greatly Improve
When Three Year Enlist
ment Is In Force
DROPPING men FROM ROLL
CoLoNELs OF THE FIVE REGI-
MENTs AND SENIOR OFFICER
OF NAVAL RESERVE TO HAVE
CHARGE OF ARMORIEs
Special to ..rhe Jersey city News. .

Especial to .sThe Jersey City News.'9
TRENTON, June IL, 19O6.-The
State Military Bill, which was approved
by Governor Stokes on May 16, has been
put in pamphlet FORM. and copies Of it
are being distributed to the officers of the
guard. 1t contains many interesting fea-
lures. Probably the most important to
provision in paragraph 70, which makes
the maximum strength of each of the
companies 107 officers and enlisted men.
Another feature-one that is pleasing to
the company commandments as well as
to the higher officials in the various regi-
ments-is the three instead of five year
term of enlistment, which should tend to
increase and improve the membership
in the various commands. Company COM
mandants, under the new bill, are en-
powered to have dropped from the roll
names of mem who are engaged in such
employment as will prevent them from
properly attending to the duties requir-
ed of them as guardsmen.
The three-year term Of enlistment has
already had good effect in the regi-
ments. Many men have enlisted under
the three-year term who would not have
done So if they were compelled to serve
the longer period of service. In this
way the company commandants viii
their respective commands up to the
mark, ant, by having power to drop
from theo Id roll men who are unable
to attend to military duty. will find it
much easier to make a respectable show
ing at the inspections conducted by the
state and regular army officers.
The companies, as they will be made
up under the provisions of the new law,
will be comprised of one captain, one
first lieutenant, one second lieutenant,
one first sergeant or one quartermaster
sergeant, four sergeants, eight corporals,
two cooks, one artifcer and eighty
seven privates. oFrmerly the strength
of company was three commissioner
officers and eighty-one enlisted men.
The minimum strength was fifty, as it
will & lso be under the provisions of the
new law. No man who has been dishon-
orably discharged from any military or
ganization of this state, except thos<
who have been discharged for Se nom
payment of a. fine and have subsequent
ly paid the same, will be eligible for en-
listment, and men who have been dis
charged by reason of disbandment oi
for hpysical disability, if re-ennsted,
shall receive credit for the period of
service served prior to their discharge,
Every man who enlists or re-enlists will
have to pass a physical examination be-
fore being mustered into the service.
Paragraph 103, relating to dropping
from the roll,''. which will be of interest
to the men of the various commands,
read sas follows
An enlisted man who shall remove
his residence from the State or to such
distance from the armory of the organi-
cation OF enter into such employ as in
the judgment of his company's troop,
battery signal and telegraph corps, or
a naval reserve commander, will render
it impracticable for him to perform his
dutieS properly, or who, after du dill
gence, cannot be found, or who sh. IL be
convicted of a felony, may be dropped
from the roll by order of the command
ing officer of his division. An enlisted
man dropped from the roll by reason of
his removal or character of employment,
LID iUS LdheH up at any tiIut upon ulN
return to the State or change in his EN-.
ployment, in his former organization or
in any yother organizations, upon the ap-
proval of the commandant of the organi-
zation to which he formerly belonged,
and thus taken up shall receive credit
for the time served before having been
dropped
Paragraph ia of the law provides
that the colonels Of the five regiments
and the senior officer of the naval reserve
be added to the state military board,
which board will have full charge Of
armories and shall issue from time to
time regulations for the control and use
thereof, and also will prepare and sub
NIT such rules to the commander-iIl-ch
as they may deem wise for the better