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17. There shall be formed for each battalion at least one com-
pany of riflemen or light infantry; and to each brigade at least
one company of artillery and four troops of horse.

18. Every citizen of this State who shall since the fifth day of
April in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, have served
seven years in a uniform volunteer company, or who shall here-
after serve seven years in such company, shall after that time be
exempted from militia duty except during war or insurrection.

19. Any uniform volunteer company may attach itself to any
regiment it may choose whose regimental district is in whole
or in part within the county in which such company may be
formed; Provided, application therefor, signed by not less than a
majority of the members of such company, be made to the adju-
tant general.

20. The adjutant general, immediately upon receiving such
application, shall communicate the fact to the commanding
officer of the regiment to which the company applying shall ask
to be attached, who shall thereupon enrol said company in his
regiment and give notice thereof to the captain of the company.

21. Every uniform company after it shall have been enrolled
in a regiment other than that in whoso regimental district it may
be formed, and notice thereof shall have been given to the captain
thereof, shall be subject in all respects to the exclusive orders of
the commanding officer of the regiment in which it has been
enrolled.

22. Every citizen above the age of eighteen years shall have
the right to join a uniforrn volunteer company, whether the same
be formed within or of the regimental or company district
in which he may reside.

23. No uniform volunteer company shall be required to consist
of more than thirty-two members, and the commander of every
regiment, extra battalion or squadron of uniform militia, or of a
regiment to which a company of uniformed volunteers may be
attached, shall annually in the month of June, transmit by mail
to the adjutant general's office a return of the number of men in
every uniform militia company under his command, to be therein
recorded, and if it shall appear by any return so made that any
company has not the requisite number of men, the adjutant