1520 MILITIA. [ART. 65

tion, or refusal to give the information requested, to be recov-
ered with costs in the name of the State before any justice
of the peace in the county or city wherein such offender
resides. The officer making the enrolment shall, within ten
days, report to the adjutant general of the State all persons
who shall fail or neglect to give information as aforesaid.

1896, ch. 89, sec. 5.

5. The general staff of the militia shall consist of the adju-
tant general, with the rank of major general, whose salary shall
be two thousand dollars per annum, and the said sum is hereby
appropriated for that purpose annually, und the comptroller is
directed to draw his warrant on the treasuer, who is hereby
directed to pay the same in equal monthly instalments; and a
quartermaster general, a chief of ordnance, an inspector general,
a surgeon general and judge advocate general, all of whom shall
have the rank of brigadier general, shall be appointed by the
governor, and shall hold office until the appointment and quali-
fication of their successors, or until removed in pursuance of
the sentence of a court-martial; and the governor is hereby
empowered to appoint such number of aids, not exceeding ten,
with the rank of colonel, as may be necessary to the discharge
of his duties as commander-in-chief.

Ibid. sec. 6.

6. The duties of the adjutant general shall be as follows, to
wit: he shall issue, sign and transmit all general or special
orders of the commander-in-chief to the several military officers
through the proper channels, and shall keep a proper record
of the same; he shall enter on record a description of the
divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, squadrons, batteries,
companies and separate organizations which are or may here-
after be formed, and every alteration thereof, showing the name,
rank, number and date of commission or enlistment, office and
residence of each officer and member, and shall revise such
roster annually or as often as may be necessary; he shall make
out and issue all commissions and discharges directed by the
commander-in-chief; he shall prepare and provide the neces-
sary rosters, books of record, forms, blanks for commissions,
returns and other papers required under this article, and distri-
bute them to commanding officers entitled to receive the same,
on proper requisition therefor; he shall be charged with all
correspondence between the commander-in-chief and officials of
the several States and territories, the secretary of war, the