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whole force whenever either of said division or any part of
either of them shall be on parade or service as required by law.
No commissioned officer, non-commissioned officer, private or
musician so on parade or service shall be liable to be summoned
and detained by the sheriff or any other civil functionary as one
of the posse comitatus.

769*. The officer commanding the force on service shall com-
municate immediately to the Governor and commander in chief
full information respecting said insurrection or opposition to the
laws, the fact of his being called into service as aforesaid, and
the measures adopted by him to suppress or prevent the same,
and the said commanding officer is hereby required and author-
ized to use and employ to the best advantage the force under
his command until the orders of the commander in chief be
known, unless sooner dismissed by the Board of Police in writing
under their hands and official seal, setting forth that the services
of the force so called out by that board are no longer required.

770*. If the said commanding officers or either of them shall
refuse to give such information as is required of them by this
and the two last preceding sections, or shall refuse or neglect to
order out the volunteers or district militia under their respective
commands, or such part thereof as they may be required to
order out, or when so called out shall refuse or neglect to dis-
charge the duties required of them in pursuance of this and the
two last preceding sections, they shall be liable to be cashiered
and also fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, in the discre-
tion of such court martial as the case may require; and in case
any other officer of either of said divisions shall refuse or neglect
to obey the orders of his superior officer acting under this or
the two last preceding sections, such other officer shall be liable
to be cashiered and also fined: if a brigadier general or division
staff officer, not exceeding eight hundred dollars; if a regimental
field officer or brigade staff officer, not exceeding six hundred
dollars; if the commanding officer of a company or regimental
staff officer, not exceeding four hundred dollars; and if other
company commissioned officers, not exceeding two hundred
dollars, in the discretion of such court martial as the case may
require; and if any non-commissioned officer, private or musi-
cian shall refuse or neglect to obey his commanding officer-
acting under this and the two last preceding sections, he shall
be fined not exceeding the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars,
said penalty to be imposed by such courts martial as the case

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