MILITIA.

that he has carefully examined such person, and that he is in
the opinion of said surgeon or physician, incapable of perform-
ing militia duty, by reason of some bodily infirmity; and the
commanding officer of the regiment as aforesaid, shall forthwith

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in writing [*] said person for such a period of time as in his
opinion the certificate of said surgeon or physician will jus-
tify.

(grant a
furlough
to)

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That each commanding officer of
the third and fourteenth brigades, is hereby required to order a
meeting of the colonels, lieutenant-colonels and majors of the
district regiments within his brigade, previous to the first of
March next, at some convenient place, who, or a majority of
them, shall revise and fix the bounds of his regimental dis-
tricts ; and each commanding officer as aforesaid, shall as soon
thereafter as may be, make a return in writing of stich arrange-
ment of bounds, to the commanding officer of the division, to
be by him recorded ; and the commanding officer of each regi-
mental district within said brigades, is hereby required to order
a meeting of the regimental, field and company officers within

Meetings to
revise the
districts.

his district, previous to the fifth of March next, at some conve-
nient place, who, or a majority of them, shall revise and fix the
bounds of the several company districts as herein before direct-
ed, and the company districts of each regiment laid off as artil-
lery company districts as directed by this act, shall be forthwith
communicated in writing by the commanding officer of said
regiment to the commanding officer of the second regiment of
artillery, for the purpose of organizing said regiment according
to law ; and the commanding officer of said regiment shall also
forthwith make returns thereof in writing to the commanding
officer of his brigade, to be by him recorded ; and the said seve-
ral districts in each brigade and regiment as aforesaid, shall be
altered or arranged in like manner by said officers, under the
same penalties whenever they or a majority of them shall deem
it necessary, for the greater convenience of those liable to militia
duty, and returns made thereof as in this section heretofore
directed; Provided, that the field and company officers of said
second regiment of artillery, shall assist at any future arrange-
ment of bounds after the first as herein directed ; and if the
commanding officer of said second regiment of artillery shall
consider himself aggrieved by the division and allotment of the
company districts, as herein before provided, and shall make
complaint thereof to the commanding officer of the division, it
shall be the duty of the said commanding officer of the division
to institute a board of field officers, consisting of five, taken in-
discriminately from the several regiments of the division, which
board shall have full power to adjust the subjects of complaint
in a manner most conformable in their opinion to the design of

Board of
appeal.