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And the officer before whom the oath or affirmation
was made shall furnish a certificate to the party making
the oath as follows :
This is to certify that A. B., commissioned as with-
in, on this ......... day of .......... A. D., personally
appeared and made the oath (or affirmation) as re-
quired by the laws of this state and a law of the
United States, to qualify him to discharge the duties
of his office, before me.

Certificate.

35. Every officer, non-commissioned officer, or pri-
vate holden by law to do military duty in any com-
pany of the national guard, unnecessarily neglecting to
appear at any law parade, shall forfeit and pay the
sum of two dollars, to be collected as fines hereinbefore
are provided to be collected.

Forfeitures.

36. The militia, when called into actual service,
shall be allowed the same pay and rations as the
regular troops of the United States; and the rations
when commuted shall be fixed by the regulations of
the United States army in force at the time.

Pay and
rations.

37. The organization now existing of the military
into divisions, brigades, batteries, regiments, battalions,
squadrons and companies, is hereby continued, and the
commissions now held by the officers thereof shall

Organization,
&c., continued.

continue in full force and effect; provided, that upon
examination as above prescribed, they can pass a satis-
factory examination, but the same may be revoked as
hereinbefore provided.

Proviso.
Examination

38. The military year shall commence on the first
day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.

Military year.

39. The military fund, as it is received from time
to time into the treasury, is hereby appropriated to
carry into effect the provisions of this article, and a
further sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dol-
lars per annum, is hereby also appropriated for the
said purpose, and no expenditures or contracts for
expenditures shall be made for any military pur-
poses whatever exceeding the appropriations provided
by act of the general assembly.

In force and approved March 30, 1868.

Military fund.
Appropriations.