The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-07
Home GUARDS
GOVERNED BY
STRICT RULES
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more than five per cent. of each COM
pany may leave the city during any
one week.
Officers in the Home Guard must
hold the same rank corresponding to,
and must have the qualifications r@
quired in the national army. The
administrative and tactical require
ments are those of the national
army.
The field officers of each military
district are to constitute the exam1n-
ing board FOR examination Of those
seeking commissions.
Provision is made for lance cor
,porals that enlisted men may have
an opportunity of showing their ca
pability for commissioned office
No more men eligible for military
service in the National Guard or the
United States army may be taken into
the Home Guard. The law upon this
point Is clearly defined as follows:
"All male citizens, resident of the state
who have or shall have declared their
intention to become citizens of the
United States, between the ages OF IL
and 60, of good moral character and
physical capacity to perform con-
stabulary duty within this state are
Guard.
"But no such person shall be en-
listed in the Home Guard who might
enlist in any organization of the Ma
tional Guard in the town where he
resides or any town adjoining said
town, while such organization is below
strength required by the war depart
ment at the time being"
! he Home Cl19r
may be obtained only for these i'm
portant reasons: Non-residence; dis
ability, for the benefit of the service
| in accordance with the sentence of q
court martial or dishonorable dis
| charge.
| Each man Is to be held strictly &C.
countable for his uniform and arms
under the direction of company Of
ficers and inspectors at Hartford, and
must pay from his service money any
damage done to his uniform or equip
ment. He will not honorably be re.
leased from service until such pay.
ment is made.
| The service-for-lif feature of the
law passed by the legislature and nov
printed for the first time is found un'
der Section 10 which reads:
/ A RESERVE.
every person who Shall have serv.
| the prescribed period of enlistment
! e years) in the Home Guard shall
after the expiration of said period OF
| enlistment, be thereby entitled to al
honorable discharge, exempting hin
from military duty thereafter. excep'
in case of war, invasion, rebellion
i riot, or reasonable apprehension
thereof"
i Remuneration for the guard, wheI
called into active service by the Mill
i tary Emergency Board. is as follows
For each days service for manoeu
vres field exercises or target practic'
not exceeding Is days in each year.
4 commissioned officers to be paid tn
same rate as similar officers in tn
| United States army; first, compan,
and mess sergeants, So per day; ser
i geants, $3.50: corporals, $2.25; en-
i listed men, 81; bandmen, 81. Afte
4 Is days the same pay as In the Unite
States army.
i Fines for non-attendace. Absenc
from parades or encampments, IS pc
day; absence from roll call, 81; 70
8 unsoIdierly conduct, fines of not NOR
] than $40 to- be collected by actor
similar to that of the civil courts.
4 Adjutant Henry c. Stevenson, of tn
Fourth regiment today announce
these recommendations for the non
commissioned staff of the regiment
IRegimental Sergeant-Major Martin F
Heffernan, 24S Washington avenue
, Regimenta1 @. M. Sergeant Henri
CunHffe, So Madison avenue; Colo
Sergeants Vincent S. Whitney, lot
Stratford avenue. and George o. Boz