The Somerset reporter., 1909-04-08

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board constituted under this section
shall be sufficient ground for finding by
such board that the officer ordered to
appear be SO discharged.
Section Ga. An officer who shall have
been absent without leave for period
of six months shall upon the recommen-
dalton Of his immediate commanding Of
fcer be dismissed from the service by
order of the commander-in-chief.
Section 65 No officer shall be re-
moved from Office without his consent
except by sentence of a general court
martial or as provided in this chapter.
Section 66. Recruits enlisting in the
active militia must be able-bodied men,
free from disease, of good character and
temperate habits, between the ages of
eighteen and forty-five years, except
that men may be enlisted as musicians
If more than sixteen years of age; and
in time of peace no person who is not
citizen of the United States and of this
state or who has not made legal dec
laration of his intention to become
citizen or who cannot speak, read, and
write the English language or who does
not reside within town where an or
ganzation of the active militia Is sta
toned, or within radius OF twelve
miles shall be enlisted in the active
militia; provided that the character and
the standard of the physical examination
required for enlistment in the national
guard shall be a prescribed In the regu-
lations Of the war department and the
laws of the United states for the gov,
eminent of the organized militia and
provided that no person under the age OF
twentY-one years having parents or
guardian entitled to his custody shall
be enlisted or mustered into the active
militia of the state without the written
consent of such parent or guardian
No person not of the age specihed
above. no insane or intoxicated person
service of the United States or OF this
or any other state, and no person VINO
has been convicted of felony snail be
enlisted in the active militia
Hereafter all enlistments in the active
militia shall be for a term of not less
than three years, and no person shall
again be enlisted whose service during
the last enlistment in the active militia
was not honest and faithful, or VINO mas
been dishonorably discharged or dis
charged without honor from any mill
tary or naval organization Of the state
or of the United States. unless he pro-
duees the written consent to such en-.
listment of the commanding oncer OF
the organization in which he last served
or from which he was ,dishonorably DIS
charged or discharged without honor
and unless such enlistment be approved
by the adjutant general
Men who have been discharged by
reason of disarmament may be enlisted
and shall then receive credit for the
period served at the time Of disband-
nent; and a man discharged for physi-
cal disability shall if such disability
cease and he again enlists, receive creqlt
for the period served PRIOR TO such ols-
charge.
Chief and principal musicians. musi-
clans and privates of the hospital corps
may be enlisted as such.
Section 67 When a soldier re-enlists
within sixty days from the expiration
of his last preceding enlistment, his SER
vices shah be considered as continuous
and the re-enhstment shall he dated as
of the day following such expiration;
and when the term of service OF any en-.
listed man expires during a period of
furlough and while he is serving IN the
military or naval forces of the United
States, should he re-enlist in the active
militia within sixty days of his muster
out of the service of the United States,
his service shall be considered as con-
tinuous, and shall in like manner com
mence on the day following such ex-
piration, and the re-enlstnent shall be
dated as of the day following such ex-
piration,
No man of forty-fve years Of age or
over shall be re-enlisted unless ne mas
served the full period OF his last proceed
ing enlistment, has the permission OF
the commanding officer OF the organlza,
tion in which he desires TO enlist, ana
of the adiutant general and has passed
the physical examination prescribed by
regulations. nor shall any such man be
again re-enltsted.
Section 6S Every person who en-
lists or re-enllStS snail sign anu mani
oath to an enlistment paper which shall
contain an oath of allegiance to the
state and the United States, and be In
such form as may be prescribed in the
regulations issued under this chapter;
Such oath, shall be taken and subscribed
to before a commissioned officer OF the
active militia, and all such commls-
stoned officers are hereby authorized Ia
administer such oaths and when desig-
mated by the commanding officer or the
company or other organize ton or by
other proper military superior. to make
and complete valid enlistments in the
active militia. 4 person making raise
oath as TO any statement contained IN
such enlistment paper shall upon con-
viction be deemed guilty OF perjury.
Section GO. The commander-in-ch chief
shall have the power 10 make and cause
to be made such transfers of officers ana
enlisted men within a regiment. corps,
or separate organization, between ieel-
ments. corps or separate organizations.
and between the line and the hospital
corps, as may be for the best Interests
Of the service, and to provide resula-
lions therefor
Section 70. General, post, regimcntal
and battalion commissioned staff Of
1cers. and uon-commissioned officers Of
companies and hands. shall be appoint
ed, promoted. reduced and warranted in
accordance with, and their duties defined
by the regulations under this chapter,