Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-05
board of the national guard as herein-

board Of the national guard as herein
after prescribed.
Section SO. For the purpose of securing
competent medical practitioners to con-
quot the physical examination of applica-
lions for enlistment and to render medi-
cal service to any organization called out
by the governor to suppress instruction,
not, |or resistance to the laws, the gov
ernor of the state is authorized to issue
commissions as first lieutenants of the
medlcal reserve corps to such contract
surgeons as shall be favorably recon-
mended by the senior officer of the medi-
cal corps, not to exceed one for each
company or other organization SO Situ-
ated that the services of an officer of the
medical corps cannot be effectively avail
able. Such officers are not members of
the national guard nor entitled to retire.
lnent, but the commissions SO given shall
confer upon the holders all the authority,
rights and privileges of commissioned
oihcers of like grade in the medical corps
of the national guard, except promotions,
but only when engaged in active duty as
examining surgeon of recruits or in rem
derinS services to any command to which
they may be attached in time of insur-
rectlon, riot, or resistance to the laws.
They Shall have rank in said corps ac-
cordinS to the date of their commissions
therein, and when employed on active
duty shall rank next below all officers of
like grade in the national guard; pro-
Vided, that contract surgeons now in the
military service who receive the favorable
reconme ndatiOn of the company COM
mander at the station where such con-
tract surgeon resides and of the senior
officer of the medical corps, shall be
given preference III appointment over ali
other applicants; and provided further,
that any officer of the medical reserve
corps who fails to perform his duty as
herein prescribed shall forfeit his COM
mission and not be eligible TO re-appoint-
ment
Officers of the medical reserve corps
when called into or engaged in active
duty shall be subject to the laws, regu-
lations, and orders for the government
of the national guard; and for conducting
the physical examination of applicants
for enlistment shall be entitled to such
compensation as the governor in regu-
latlons may prescribe, and for all other
services to the pay and allowances of first
leutenants of the medical corps.
Section 80. The hospital corps shall con-
sist OF the sergeants first class sergeants,
corporals privates first class and pri-
Yates, required for service with the sew
eral organizations of the national guard
ambulance company, or field hospital;
and such non-cOmmissoned officers and
priVates shall be of the same grades and
numbers as are authorized or prescribed
for service with the corresponding organ
ZatlonS of the regular army or as au-
thorized or prescribed by the orders of
the war department, or laws and regula-
tons of the United States for the gov
eminent of the organized militia.
Enlistments in the hospital corps and
the appointment of non-commissioned
officers therein shall be as prescribed in
regulations by the governor.
Section 40 The governor is hereby au-
thOrlzed to organize u coast artillery
corps which shall belong to the line of
the national guard and which shall con-
Sist of such number of companies as the
governor may determine. The number OF
field officers and serSeant-majorS of coast
artillery shall be in approximately the
same proportion to the number of COM
panies as. obtains in the coast artillery
corps of the regular army, and the num-
Der of master electricians, engineers,
electrician sergeants first and second
class, master gunners, firelnen and other
by the. governor; but the minimum
strength in the different grades for IL
coast artillery company of the national
guard shall be as prescribed by the or
derS of the war department and the laws
and regulations of the United States.
The commander-in-chief has the power to
transfer to the coast artillery corps. I'M
der such regulations as he may prescribe,
such existing organizations OF such Off
GERS and men thereof as he may deem for
the best interest of the service.
Section Al. The commander-in-chief
may authorize the employment of cooks
TO the number fixed in this chapter in
organizations in which there are vacan-
cies in enlisted cooks when such organ
iZatiOns are on duty under his orders or
are called upon in aid of the civil author
tiles. The COMMUNICATIVE chief may au
thoriZe the employ ment and prescribe the
number of cooks for all headquarters and
organizations for which the enlistment OF
cooks is not authorized by this chapter.
Cooks during such employment shall be
subject to the laws and regulations for
the government of the national guard
and shall receive the same pay as en-
listed cooks.
Section A.. The organizations forming
the naval reserve at this date, such
others as may be organized hereafter and
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may be appointed or commissioned there
in, shall constitute the naval reserve of
this state. In time of peace the naval
reserve shall consist of not more than one
ships company of not more than seven
divisions. the total strength of which
shall not exceed three hundred officers
and men, but in time of war. invasion,
instruction, or imminent danger thereof,
the governor snail have power to increase
this force to double the authorized peace
strength and organize it as the eXigencies
that in time of peace the total strength
of the active militia shall not exceed the
limits prescribed in section thirty-one.
Section A. The COMMENSURATE. chief i
the preceding section as he may deem
proper; and when in his Judgment the
efficiency of the naval reserve will be in
creased thereby, or whenever public in
terest may demand it, he may alter, re-
organize, or disband any or all of the
organizations therein: and he shall have
power at any Tune 10 change llle oISdIl-
iZation of the naval reserve so as to con-
form to any organization, system of drill
or instruction which may be adopted for
the navy of the United States, and to
increase and decrease for that purpose
the number of officers, warrant officers.
chief petty officers, petty officers and
enlisted men and to change their grades,
titles, and designations.
The system of administration. drill and
instruction of the naval reserve shall
conform, as nearly as practicable, to that
of the navy of the United States; and
the discipline and government thereof
when not otherwise prescribed shall be
according to the laws and regulations
now or hereafter governing the national
guard. No part of the naval reserve shall
be attached to any organization of the
national guard except when especially
ordered by the governor, in which case
the senior officer present shall command
the whole unless the commander-in-chief
shall direct otherwise.
Section Al. The commanding officer of a
ships company shall rank as lieutenant
commander except where the ships COM
pany consists of less than three divisions
and when the rank of the commanding
officer shall be lieutenant There shall be
allowed on the staff of the commanding
officer of the ships company one lieu
tenant junior grade who shall act as eX-
ecutive officer. one assistant paymaster
and one assistant surgeon each of the
rank of lieutenant junior grade: but
whenever the commanding officer of the
ships company shall rank as lieutenant