Year: 1862

An Act relating to the Militia.

 Be It enacted by the Senate and House of Rea resemtatives in General Assembly convened:

 CHAPTER I.

 SEC l. Every able bodied white male citize resident within this State of the age of eightee years and under the age of forty-fve years el cepting persons exempted by the following set tions of this act. lunatics. common drunkards vagabonds, paupers, and persons convicted c any infamous crimes, shall be enrolled in tn militia persons so convicted after enrollmen shall be disenrolled and in all cases of doub respecting the age of person enrolled, the bur den of proof shall be on him.

 | SEC. 2, It shall be the duty of the selectmel of the several towns to enroll the names of al able-bodied white male citizens subject to mill tary duty between the ages of eighteen and for ty five years, residing in their respective town alphabetically in book to be kept for that pur pose at the town clerks office between the tentl day of September and the first day of Decembe in each year. to make certified report to tn, Adjutant- General ofthe number of persons who's, names shall have been registered as aforesaid and also to make cetifed return of the mum Der of persons to be taxed under the provisions of this act and the Adjutant General shall re turn the same to the State Treasurer. And the Commander-in- Chief shall on or before the nineteenth day of July 1862 issue his order di rected to the board of selectmen on each towr 1 requiring an enrolment to be made 8nd comple ted and report made to the Adjutant-G General within thirty days from the date of said order and said enrolment shall be in lieu of any other enrollm ent for the present year. And if the se lectmen of any town shall refuse or neglect to perform the duty required by this act, the Con- mander in Chief shall cause the same to be done as soon as may be; and the person or persons so performing such service shall be entitled to recover of said town reasonable compensation therefor; and said selectmen for such refusal or neglect shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hun dred dollars to be recovered by action of debt in the name of the Treasurer of this State. SEC 3. All parents, guardians tavern-keep- CTS or persons who keep boarders or who have men in their employment upon being required by any one of the selectmen of the town in which they reside, or by any person ,appointed by the CommaDder-in- Chief, to make the enroll ment shall give true account of their sons or wards or of the men boarding with them or in their employment, together with their names and ages, if knowing; and any person neglecting or refusing so to do, shall forfeit the sum of | twenty dollars to the town, to be recovered by action of debt in the name of the treasurer of the town; and every person supposed to be liable to enrolment who shall refuse to give in formation or who shall give false information to any such selectmen, or to the person appoin ted by the Commander in Chief as saforesaid. re pecting his name, age or liability to enrolment shall in like manner forfeit and pay the sum ot twenty-fv dollars

 SEC. 4 All white male citizens between the ages of eighteen and forty five years shall be enrolled by the selectmen as able-bodied, who haV cbv D.lin would incapacitate them for the performance of military duty, such as mental imbecllity great deformity of body or limb, permanent lameness or loss of an eye; and all other per 1 son. between the ages aforesaid, claiming OK emption from enrolment in the militia, In con sequence of bodily disability, shall procure or or before the the first day of December in eacl year, (and the present year the sixteenth day o August,) a certificate to that effect from the sur geon or surgeon mate of the regiment of ac tive militia within the limits of which such per son resides, or from the Surgeon General stating specifically in what such disability consists; and any seectment who shall exempt any person as aforesaid, without such certificate shall pay a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hun dred dollars, to be recovered in an action on this statute, one half for the use of him who shall sue for and recover the same, and the remaining

 

 men reside. And the Surgeon General shall moreover have power, if necessary to appoint not more than three experienced surgeons in | each county, who may grant certificates of eX emption as aforesaid; and each person author ized to grant certificates of exemption as afore said and each person authorized to grant cer tifcates of exemption shall be entitled to re ceive from every applicant the sum twenty five cents, and no more, whether such certificate shall or shall not be issued.

 SEC D. In addition to the persons exempted by the laws of the United States, the persons hereinafter mentioned shall also be exempted from enrolment in the militia ministers of the gospel. of every denomination licensed phy sicians and surgeons while they continue ir practice; judges and clerks of the supreme. su perior. city, police and probate courts, and towr clerks and regis. CTS: members of the Senate and House of Representatives, and all officers of the General Assembly during their term O office; the State treasurer, secretary, comptrol Ter librarian and commissioner of the schoo fund, while in ofice with their respective clerks and assistants; the superintendent of common schools; sherlffs and their deputies officer, and attendants of the American asylum for the deaf and dumb of the State and county prisons of the reform school of the retreat for the in same, and public hospitals keepers of lgh houses; conductors and engine drivers O railroad trains conditioned that it shall be tho duty of the selectmen of the towns in which sucl persons reside at the time of making the rat, bill for the collection of the annual town tax to insert in such ratebll for every able. bodied man of the aforesaid exempts between the age of twenty one and forty five years, not member of the active militia, an additional tax of on, dollar upon each and every person as aforesaid which tax shall be collected at the same tim, and in the same manner as is provided by lav or the collection of town taxes, and when S, collected shall be paid into the town treasury. l SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the se'ectmel of each town at time of making the rate bil for the collection of the annual town tax, to in sert in such rate-bill an additional tax of on dollar upon each person enrolled in the militia as aforesaid, except minors and such members!o the active militia and such persons as are legal exempt by reason of their compliance with tn provisions oiany laws heretofore existing in thl otate, Which.taxs shall be in communication of mil ltary daty and shall be collected at the same tim ana Tn the same manner as is by law provided fo tne coheetlon oi town taxes, and when so collecte shall be paid into the town treasury and shall be the duty of the treasurers of the respec tive towns to pay to the treasurerof the Stat on or before the. twentieth day of Febuary i each year, the amount of taxes due from a :, persons liable to pay taxes under the provision of act as ascertained and determined by tn returns of the Adjutant General to the Stat treasurer; and the treasurer of the State sha have the same power to enforce the payment ( the communication tax provided by this act h as he by law now has for the payment of Stat taxes.

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