1822 - Edocs

ISe-.v- companies.
Parade ground.
Officers to appear.
Three hours ex-
ercise.
Roll callimr.
lleuirnsofstrenm.il
Regimental return
lirig-ade return
Any non-comTrii"
sioned officer, or
private, disobeying
order-.
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of each regiment, or a majority of them, authorized in
the brigadier general, may form new companies as the
population increases, or as the public interest may require.
The regimental parade ground shall be fixed by
the colonel ; that of the battalion by the lieutenant colonel
and major, and of the companies by their respective
captains—which place? shall be as central and convenient
to all as circumstances will admit.
S. Be it further enacted, That every officer non-commissioned
officer, musician and private, shall appear at
his respective muster field on the day appointed, and at
the hour designated ; the office? s in uniform, armed and
equipped, and the privates armed as directed by this act,
and not to leave the parade until permitted by the commanding
officer—and it is hereby made the duty of the
said commanding officers to exercise their respective
corps at least three hours of each regular muster day.
It shall be the duty of every captain to cause his roll to be
called at the meeting and at the dismissing of his company,
to note down all delinquencies and defaulters, and re
turn them to the judge advocate, who shall lay them be-
fore the succeeding court martial or court for the assessment
of fines. It shall be the duty of the several captainor
commandants of companies, on or before the first of
May in every year, to make return of the strength of the
company, number of rifles, muskets, bayonets and other
equipments required by law, to the adjutant of the regiment,
agreeable to such form as shall be prescribed by
this act ; and the adjutant shall within thirty days there-
after, from these returns, make out a return of the
strength of his regiment, agreeable to the form furnishc: 1
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by the adjutant general, and shall deliver one copy thereof
to the brigade inspector within said time, and one he
shall keep and preserve in his office. The brigade
inspector shall from these returns, on or before the first
of August in every year, make out a general return of the
strength of his brigade, and transmit a copy thereof to the
adjutant general, retaining one copy to be filed in his of-
fice.
9. Be it further enacted* That, if any non-commissioned
officer, musician or private, at any regimental, battalion
or companv muster, shall disobey the legal and proper
orders of their superior officers appointed, or other
wise act with disorder, or if any by-stander at any such
muster shall insult or otherwise molest any such officer,
non-commissioned officer, musician or private, whilst on
parade or employed on any other service authorized by
the laws of this Territory, the commanding officer of the
regiment, battalion, troop or comnany, as the case may be.
may order such person or persons to be put under guare!
for any time not exceeding three hours, and the said per
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