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staff officers of the brigade, or the field and staff officers of said
regiment.

29. A majority of the members of every volunteer company
may make all regulations and by-laws for their rule and govern-
ment, and may alter and change the same at pleasure, and may
impose fines, and appropriate and dispose of the same when col-
lected, as they may see proper.

30. A majority of the field and staff officers of each volunteer
regiment may make all minor by-laws for the rule and govern-
ment of the regiment not inconsistent with the rights and
privileges of command.

31. The commanding officer of every uniformed volunteer
company that shall volunteer its services to the State for one
year, shall furnish a list of the members of his company to the
commandant of his battalion, squadron or regimental district in
which it is formed, and they shall be exempt from militia duty
for four years thereafter.

32. Whenever the Governor shall issue his proclamation, a
draft of one-fifth of the whole number of the militia and volun-
teer force of the State shall be made to serve in case of need for
the term of three months within the year then next ensuing,
and of the militia and volunteers who shall be draughted, there
shall be at least one company furnished or taken from each bat-
talion of artillery, one company from each battalion of infantry
or riflemen, and one company from each regiment of cavalry.

33. The Governor shall order a company to be draughted from
each regiment of artillery and cavalry, and each battalion of
infantry and riflemen; which draught shall be made by lot from
the whole number of persons comprising said battalions and
regiments respectively, who are twenty-one years of age or up-
wards, and liable to do militia duty, but excluding therefrom
such persons as may have been draughted to perform a tour of
duty in any year not exceeding four years antecedent thereto,
and such persons as may have volunteered to perform a tour of
duty in the year for which said draught is to be made, or who
may have so volunteered in any year not exceeding four years
antecedent thereto, and whose offer shall have been accepted;
but if a uniform company from any of said regiments or bat-
talions shall volunteer to serve a tour of duty, and the Governor