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Dec Ses 1817.
-----must be a-
dopted
Officers to arm
and accoutre
themselves.
Members must
uniform or be
dismissed.
Companies
must have 48
men, cavalry
30 men.
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or they shall be fined, not exceeding one hundred dollars, in the dis-
cretion of such court martial as the case may require.
36. And be it enacted, That all volunteer and district companies
that may hereafter be uniformed, shall adopt the uniform of the bri-
gades to be established under this act; and the brigadier generals,
the field and stall' officers, the company district officers, and all the
uniformed volunteer and district companies, who have at present a
different uniform, shall within four years adopt the uniform of the
brigades which shall be established under this act; and if any officer
shall neglect or refuse to uniform agreeably to the provisions of
this section, he shall be cashiered, or fined not exceeding' fifty dol-
lars, and a further sum of fifty dollars for the like neglect for every
succeeding parade, in the discretion of such court martial as the
case may require; and the commanding officer of any such compa-
ny shall forthwith erase from his muster roll the name of each mem-
ber who shall neglect or refuse to adopt said uniform, within the
time herein specified, and hand his name over to the command-
ing officer of the regimental district in which he resides, to be en-
rolled, under a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars, to be imposed
by such court martial as the case may require.
37. And be it enacted, That each general, field or staff officer, or
district company officer, holding a commission, and not uniformed,
who shall not within three months after the passage of this act; and
each general, field or staff officer, or district company officer, who
may hereafter be appointed under this act, and accepting the same,
who shall not within twenty days after such acceptance, arm, accou-
tre, and provide himself with the uniform of the brigade established
under this act; if a company officer, he shall be cashiered or fined
not exceeding twenty dollars, in the discretion of such court mar-
tial as the case may require, for such neglect, and a further sum of
not exceeding twenty dollars for the like neglect for every succeed-
ing parade, and if a general, field, or staff officer, he shall be cash-
iered, or fined not exceeding fifty dollars, in the discretion of such
court martial as the case may require, for such neglect, and a fur-
ther sum of not exceeding fifty dollars for the like neglect, for every
succeeding parade.
33. And be it enacted, That no person shall be allowed to conti-
nue a member of an uniformed volunteer company who does not
uniform himself on or before the first day of May next, or within
thirty days after he becomes a member of the said company; and the
commanding officer of such company shall erase the name of each
person from the muster roll of his company, who does not comply
'with the provisions of this section, and report him forthwith to the
commanding officer of the regimental district where he resides, un-
der a penalty, for neglect or refusal, not exceeding twenty dollars,
to be imposed in the discretion of such court martial as the case
may require.
39. And be it enacted, That no uniformed volunteer artillery, in-
fantry, or rifle company, shall continue, which has not at least for-
ty eight men completely uniformed and equipt; and no uniformed
volunteer cavalry company shall continue which has not at least
thirty men completely uniformed and equipt; and if, from the re-
turns, or other good authority, the commanding officer of cither of
the said brigades, shall at any time suspect that any company in
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