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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

]Dec. Ses. 1823.

to field officers as herein before prescribed, and a company or com-
panies is or shall hereafter be raised for the purpose of joining any of
them, it shall and may be lawful for the Governor and Council upon
the application of the commanding officer of the brigade to which said
regiment is attached, to issue commissions for officers of such com-
pany or companies which shall be attached to such regiment or regi-
ments, as the commanding officer of the division shall designate, and
returns thereof made as if it was a part of the same, until the regiment
for which said company or companies were originally raised, shall be
entitled to field officers as aforesaid.

Brigades &
Divisions.

8. And be it enacted, That the fifth, sixth and twenty-seventh regi-
ments of infantry, the filth regiment of cavalry, and the first regiment
of riflemen shall compose the third brigade; that the thirty-ninth, fifty-
first, and fifty-second regiments of infantry, the twelfth regiment of
cavalry and the second regiment of riflemen shall compose the four-
teenth brigade; and that the first and second regiments of artillery
shall compose the third division as aforesaid.

Companies
in a regiment.

9. And be it enacted, That each regiment of artillery and infantry
shall not exceed ten companies; that each regiment of riflemen shall
not exceed ten companies, and that each regiment of cavalry shall
not exceed four companies, exclusive of the usual field and staff offi-
cers.

Authority to
revise the di-
visions..

10. And be it enacted, That the major general, the brigadier gene-
rals, and the regimental field officers of said division, or a majority
of them, be, and are hereby authorised to revise the division of said
brigades herein made, and to alter the same whenever it shall become
necessary and proper; and any meeting to be held for this purpose
shall be called by the commanding officer of the division, when so
required by three or more of said officers; and such alterations as
may at any time be made, shall forthwith be published in division or-

Proviso.

ders: Provided, however, that the division herein before made, or any
which may hereafter be made, shall not impair the privileges of uni-
formed volunteer corps as herein after granted.

Annual en-
rollment of
companies.

11. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of each command-
ing officer of every company district, attended by one or more of his
officers, non-commissioned officers or privates, whom he may select,
to enroll between the tenth day of March and first day of April, in
each year, every able-bodied white male citizen between eighteen and
forty-five years of age, liable to do militia duty within his district;
and in all cases of doubt respecting the age of any person enrolled or
intended to be enrolled, the person whose age is questioned shall
prove the same to the satisfaction of the commanding officer afore-
said; and if any keeper of a tavern, boarding house, or master or mis-
tress of any dwelling house, shall refuse to give information of the
name or names of any person or persons residing with him or her, lia-
ble to militia duty, when applied to for that purpose by the command-
ing officer aforesaid, or shall give any false information upon such ap-
plication, every such person so offending shall forfeit the sum of ten
dollars for each offence which shall be recovered under the direction
of said commanding officer; and if any person liable to militia duty
upon the application to him personally by said commanding officer,
shall either refuse to give his name or not give his name truly, every
such person so offending shall forfeit ten dollars, to be recovered un-
der the direction of said officer; and if any officer, non-commissioned
officer or private, shall neglect or refuse to comply with any of the