MILITIA.

entitled to field officers as herein before prescribed, and a com-
pany or companies is or shall hereafter be raised for the purpose
of joining any of them, it shall and may be lawful for the
governor and council upon the application of the commanding
officer of the brigade to which said regiment is attached, to
issue commissions for officers of such company or companies
which shall be attached to such regiment or regiments, as
the commanding officer of the division shall designate, and
returns thereof made as if it was a part of the same, until the
regiment for which said company or companies were originally
raised, shall be entitled to field officers as aforesaid.
SEC. 8. And be it enacted. That the fifth, sixth and twenty-
seventh regiments of infantry, the fifth regiment of cavalry, and
the first regiment of riflemen shall compose the third brigade;
that the thirty-ninth, fifty-first, and fifty-second regiments of
infantry, the twelfth regiment of cavalry and the second re-
giment of riflemen shall compose the fourteenth brigade ; and
that the first and second regiments of artillery shall compose the
third division as aforesaid.
SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That each regiment of artillery
and infantry shall not exceed ten companies ; that each re-
giment of riflemen shall not exceed ten companies, and that
each regiment of cavalry shall not exceed four companies, ex-
clusive of the usual field and staff officers.
SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the major-general, the
brigadier-generals, and the regimental field officers of said di-
vision, or a majority of them, be, and are hereby authorized to
revise the division of said brigades herein made, and to alter the
same whenever it shall become necessary and proper ; and any
meeting to be held for this purpose shall be called by the com-
manding officer of the division, when so required by three or
more of said officers ; and such alterations as may at any time
be made, shall forthwith be published in division orders; Pro-
vided however, that the division herein before made, or any
which may hereafter be made, shall not impair the privileges of
uniformed volunteer corps as herein after granted.
SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
each commanding officer of every company district, attended by
one or more of his officers, non-commissioned officers or privates,
whom he may select, to enroll between the tenth day of March
and first day of April, in each year, every able-bodied white
male citizen between eighteen and forty-five years of age,
liable to do militia duty within his district; and in all cases of
doubt respecting the age of any person enrolled or intended to
be enrolled, the person whose age is questioned shall prove the
same to the satisfaction of the commanding officer aforesaid ;
and if any keeper of a tavern, boarding-house, or master or

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Brigades
and divi-
sions.

Companies
in a regi-
ment.

Authority
to revise
the divi-
sions.

Proviso.

' Annual en-
rollment of
companies1.