Year: 1861

exigencies of this State or Of the General


Government demand the same.


Sec. Z. For and during said times of en-
campment duty, and for all active service


under the orders of the Governor, said troops


shall receive pay and subsistence ot the rates


allowed by the laws and regulations of the


United States to the same character of arms


For the use of each horse furni shed as provi-


ded in section five ~ the sum of 30 cents pei


day shall be allowed.


Sec s. The Governor is hereby author.


lied and required to make, by his proper


staff Officers, all necessary regulations for


preparing training and instructing said troops


providing for their subsistence while in camp,
or in active service, distributing arms and


ammunition, and otherwise perfecting their
organization and efficiency. Also to provide
for the safe keeping, at all times, ofsuch arms
and equipments as shall be furnished by the
State, and for their restoration to the proper
repositories, when said troops shall be dis
banded.


Sec 9. The Governor is hereby authorized
and required to use for the public defense
any or all of the troops hereby provided,
when such action shall be necessary, under
the Constitution and laws Of this State.


Sec. 10. All persons enrolled under the
provisions Of this act shall, before being &C.
cepted, be severaly sworn to obey all lawful
orders of their superior officers, to maintain
the Constitution and laws of the United States
and of the State of Iowa, and to tender their
services to the United States if demanded by
the proper authority, and with the consent
of the Governor of this State, according to
their organization by companies and regi-
ments, provided that any number of the
Mounted Rihemen Companies may, upon the
demand of the Governor or President of the
United States, through the Governor of this
State for the tender of services, decline such
services upon the delivery up of all arms, am
.nunition and equipments in his possession,
belonging to the State, and said number of
said company shall thereupon be honorably
discharged.


Sec. II. 1t shall be the duty of the Gov
ernor to fill all acquisitions made by the Uni
ted States upon this State from the Infantry
herein provided, as far as practicable; and
should the number Of Regiments or Compa-
nies above mentioned, be, from any cause re
duced, or should they be mustered into the
service Of the United States, the Governor is
hereby authorized and empowered to raise
and equip such additional number of troops
cs he may deem expedient and necessary, in
manner and form as prescribed in this act,
until the number shall be equal to the whole
n uni Der of troops in this act above provided.


Sec. -. The officers Of said companies
and regiments shall be elected and appointed
in the manner prescribed for the appoint
merit and election of off GERS of the same grade
in an act entitled an act to amend the militia
law of the State of Iowa, passed at the pres
ent session Of the General assembly.


Sec. 1s. The payment of the forces raised
under this act shall be monthly, by the Pay
masters Of the Regiments through the Pay
master General, out of what is known as the
War and Defense Fund, provided by an act
ofthe General Assembly passed at the pres
ent session.


Sec. IA. Upon demand Of the Governor
upon the officers and men of any company
now organized, and having arms in their
possession belonging to the State. or of any
organized under the laws of this
session of the General Assembly, who shall
receive arms, equipments and munitions Of
war from the State, they shall deliver up all
such arms, equipments and munitions of war
and thereupon the bond given for such arms
equipments and munitions of war shall be
cancelled.


Sec. Is. This act, the General Assembly
deeming it of immmediate Importance, shall
take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the Daily Iowa State Journal,
and Daily Iowa State Register, published in