Year: 1862

| SEC. 33. The quartermaster- general shall fur nish, subject to the order of the commander-in- chief, all necessary arms, ammunitions and equipments suited to the particular companies or corps belonging to each reg iment, required for company, field or camp duty, and all camp equipage necessary for regimental or brigade encampments, at the expense of the state; and 1t shall be the duty of the comptroller to draw his warrant on the treasurer for the amount ex- pended by the acknowledgements in the pur- | chase of such necessary arms, ammunition, equiments, and camp equipage. The command ing officer of each company shall be responsible for the safe keeping and return of all arms and equipments committed to his charge, and shall execute such bonds as the quartermaster- gene ral shall require, from time to time; and no company shall be so furnished until bonds for the safe keeping and return of all arms and equipments shall be executed and approved by the quartermaster-genera!, nor until suitable armory shall be selected for their deposit. Such armory shall be under the charge and control of the commanding officer of the company occu- pying the same and such commanding officer shall cause all arms and equipments, received from time to time, for the use of his company, to be deposited therein. The commanding off cer of each company shall appoint suitable person to take charge of the armory, and of all arms, equipments, and other property of the state deposited therein, and to discharge all such duties connected herewith, as shall be from time to time, prescribed by the quartermaster-gen ral and the quartermaster-genera shall from time to time, make such orders and regulations as he may deem proper for the observance of all officers having charge of any armory or gun. house in which arms of the state shall be depos- ited and any person who shall wifully injure such armory or gun honse. or it's fixtures, any gun, sword, or pistol, or other property of the state therein deposited, shall be subject to fine of not more than fifty dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than three months, or both, at the discretion of the court.

 SEC 34. It shall be the duty of the brigade inspectors of the respective brigades, annually, in the month of October or November, to care fully inspect the armories and gun houses of the companies belonging to their brigades, and also the rooms occupied by regimental bands; and, 1 on or before the first day of December, to make q full report to the quartermaster general of the condition of the same, and of the number of arms and equipments of the state, deposited ID ! such armories and gun houses and such brig ade inspectors shall be allowed five cents per mile for all necessary travel in the performance of such duties and in case either of the brig ade-inspectors, by reason of sickness or other cause, shall fail to comply with the provisions of this section, it shall be the duty of the brigader general of the brigade to which such officer is attached, to appoint some other suitable persons to perform said duty, who shall be entitled to the same compensation therefor as is provided for brigade inspectors

 1 SEC. 35. Whenever colors shall be wanting in , any regiment, they shall be furnished by the quarter master general, with the appreciation of the commander-in, chief, upon application being made for that purpose by the commander of the regiment.

 | SEC. 36. Every general, field, line and staff officer, and every non commissioned officer, mu- sician and private of any company, and every member of regimental band, shall furnish him. self with a complete uniform, which shall be such as the commander-in-chief shall prescribe !; and all uniforms, arms, and equipments, and in struments, owned and used by any officer, musi elan UT private, or by any legally organized mil itary company, shall not be liable to attachment or to be taken on execution for any debts con- tracted by such oficeS musician, private, con- pany or band.

 SEC. 37. The arms and equipments of the several corps of cavalry light artillery, infantry, light infantry and rihemen, shall conform in all respects to those used by similar corps in the army of the United States, or shall be such as may be furnished from the state arsenal.

 l SEC. 3S. Every officer, musician, and private in the militia, whose duty it is to serve on horse back, shall provide for him self good and sufi- cient horse, at least fourteen and half hands | high !; and every such horse used on parade by the owner, or by his son. ward or apprentice, shall be liable to taxation.