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BILL OF DRESS OF THE
Non-Commissioned Staff Officers having a frog at- tached to cross belt, and Company Sergeants having a frog attached to waist belt, for carrying the same.
NUMERALS AND LETTERS.
All letters on the uniform shall be of the old English style, and all numerals according to the subjoined pat- tern 12.
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TWELFTH REGIMENT.
CHASSEUR UNIFORM.
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Commissioned Officers as per General Regulations.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES .- CHASSEUR JACKET.
(Paragraph 1381 General Regulations.)
All Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates shall wear a chasseur jacket, single-breasted, of dark-blue indigo and wool-dyed cloth, with a plait behind, with skirt extending seven inches from the top to the hip ; with two slashes in the skirt, one over cach hip ; an opening in the skirt behind ; one row of large State buttons on the breast, placed at equal distances apart ; two at the waist, on the back ; a stand-up collar, to rise no higher than to permit the chin to turn freely over it : to hook in front at the bottom ; to slope up and backward at an angle of 30 degrees on each side. The cuff shall be two and one-half inches deep on cach scam, and on the inside of the sleeve to the point of an inverted V : with two smaller buttons on the outer seam of the cuff, the lower one inch from the end of the sleeve. The collar and body of the jacket to be edged with a white cord piping, extending on the upper edge of the cuff, representing an inverted V ; one pocket on the left in- side of the breast, and a small pocket in the seam on the right side ; a loop over the left hip two and three-quar- tur inches long. one and one-half inches wide at the base, and one inch wide at top, with a button and hole at upper end, trimmed to correspond with jacket. The lining of the jacket shall be dark-colored silesia, and the skirt black farmer's satin.
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CHASSEUR TROWSERS.
(Paragraph 1401 General Regulations.)
Light indigo-blue kersey, with six plaits at the waist in front and four behind, with an ornamental trimming of white cord around each pocket, extending four inches below the bottom of the pocket ; very full hips, and tapering from the knee to the foot.
FATIGUE CAP.
Mazarine-blue cloth top, dark-blue cloth band trimmed with white braid, as per regimental pattern.
For Commissioned Officers same as above, except gold-embroidered bugle in front, inclosing regimental number in three-quarters of an inch silver numerals.
EPAULETTES.
For Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates, same as full dress.
Commissioned Officers will wear shoulder-straps as prescribed by General Regulations, State of New York.
LEGGINGS.
Russet leather, as per regimental pattern.
BELTS AND PLATES.
Waist belt of patent leather, one and one-half inches wide, to be fastened with waist plate (oval), two and three-quarter inches long by one and five-eighth inches wide, with company letter, five-eighths of an inch high, of white metal, in centre.
CARTRIDGE-BON, BAYONET.SHEATH, AND CAP-POUCH.
Regimental patterns.
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GREAT COAT.
(Paragraph 1494 General Regulations.)
The great coat for all Non-Commissioned Officers. Musicians, and Privates shall be of sky-blue indigo ker- sey, extending four inches below the knee : cut off at the waist ; single-breasted, with six large State buttons behind, the two lower ones on the fly ; one pocket in the plait behind, and one pocket in the inside left breast ; cape 18 inchies deep ; five small buttons in front ; the sleeves without cuffs, lined with brown linen, or heavy silesia ; the body of the coat lined with twilled red flan- nel ; canvas through breast and collar.
CONTRACT PRICES OF UNIFORM AND EQUIP- MENTS.
Dress coat (white trimmings) $18 00
Blue kersey trowsers. 7 50
Chevrons : First Sergeants 6 00
Co. Quarter-Master Sergeants. . 6 00
Sergeants
5 00
Corporals.
4 00
Dress hat (complete) 5 00
White webb belts. 1 00
Breast and waist plates
1 15
Cartridge-box, with ornament. (new) 2 00
Bayonet-scabbard. (new). 75
Frog for bayonet-scabbard 25
Cap-pouch .. 50
Frog for Non-Commissioned Officers' swords, 50
Alteration of cartridge-box. 35
Alteration of bayonet-scabbard 25
EXTRACTS
FROM THE
MILITARY CODE
OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK.
AN ACT to provide for the enrollment of the Militia. the organization and discipline of the National Guard of the State of New Yorie, and for the public defense. Passed April 23, 1862, by a two-thirds vote.
The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :
OF THE PERSONS SUBJECT TO MILITARY DUTY.
$ 1. All able-bodied white male citizens, and persons of foreign birth who shall have declared. on oath, their intention to become citizens under and in pursuance of tto laws thereof. between the agen- of eighteen and forty- I've years, residing in this State, and not exempted by the laws of the United States, shall be subject to military duty, excepting :
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1. All persons in the army or navy and volunteer force of the United States, and all ministers of the gospel.
2. Persons who have been or hereafter shall be regu- larly and honorably discharged from the army or navy of the United States, in consequence of the performance of military duty, in pursuance of any law of this State, and such firemen as are now exempted by law.
3. The commissioned officers who shall have served as such in the militia of this State, or in any one of the United States, for the space of seven years ; but no officer shall be so exempt unless by his resignation after snch term of service duly accepted. or in some other lawful manner he shall have been honorably discharged.
4. Every non-commissioned officer, musician, and pri- vate, of every uniform company or troop raised, or here- after to be raised, who has or shall hereafter uniform - himself according to the provisions of any law of this State, and who shall have performed service in such company or troop for the space of seven years from the time of his enrollment therein, shall be exempt from military duty, except in case of war, insurrection, or in- vasion. (As amended by chup. 125 of 1863, § 1, and by chap. 612 of 1865.)
$ 2. If any member of such company or troop, who shall have been regularly nniformed and equipped, shall. upon his removal ont of the beat of such company or troop, or upon the disbandment thereof, enlist into any other uniform company or troop. and uniform and equip himself therefor, and serve in the same, whenever the whole time of his service in such companies or troops, computed together. shall amount to seven years, he shall be exempt from military daty in like manner as if he had served for the whole period in the company or troop in which he was first enrolled.
$ 3. Idiots. hunsties paupers. habitual drunkards, and persons convicted of infantons crimes, shall not be sub- ject to military duty.
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OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
OF THE ENROLLMENT OF PERSONS SUBJECT TO MILITARY DUTY.
$ 4. Under the direction and superintendence of the commander-in-chief, all persons liable to military duty within this State, who are not already members of the organized militia thereof, shall, immediately upon the passage of this act, and from time to time thereafter, as the commander-in-chief shall deem necessary, but as often as once in every two years, be enrolled by the cap- tain or commandant of the company district within whose bounds such person shall reside ; or if there be no such captain or commandant, then by an officer to be detailed by the commanding officer of the regiment in which such company district is situated, or to be ap- pointed by the commander-in-chief. Such enrollment shall distinctly specify the names and residences of the persons enrolled, and shall also divide the same into two classes, the persons between the ages of eighteen and thirty years to constitute one class. and the persons be- tween the ages of thirty and forty-five years to constitute the other class. Four copies of such enrollment shall be prepared by the officer making the same. one of which, after the same shall have been corrected as here- inafter provided. shall be retained by him, another shall be filed in the office of the town or city clerk in which such company district is situated, if there be such office, another shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county where such district is situated, and the fourth shall be filed in the adjutant-general's office. The officer making such enrollment may, with the approval of the commander-in-chief, appoint one or more of his non-com- missioned officers. or other proper persons, to assist in making said enrollment and copying said rolls. The persons making such enrollment shall be compensated at the rate of one dollar and fifty cents per day for every day necessarily spent in making and copying the same : the number of days to be certified by the commandant of the regiment, and not to exceed ten, and the amount
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of such compensation to be paid by the comptroller upon prodnetion of such certificate, together with the cer- tificates of the town clerk, county clerk, and adjutant- general, that such rolls have been duly filed in their offices. Such rolls shall be so filed .on or before the first day of July in each year in which such enrollment shall be made. The officer or person making such enroll- ment shall, at the time of making the same, serve upon cach person enrolled a notice, by delivering the same to him personally, or by leaving it with some person of suitable age and discretion at his place of residence, that he is enrolled as liable to military duty, and that if he claims that he is for any reason exempt from military duty, he must, on or before the fifteenth day of August then next ensuing, file a written statement of such ex- emption, verified by affidavit, in the office of the town or city clerk, to be designated in said notice. Blank no- tices for such purpose shall be provided to such enroll- ing officer by the adjutant-general. (As amended by chap. 425 of 1863, § 2.)
$ 5. For the purpose of preparing such enrollment, the assessors in cach city, village, town, or ward of this State, shall allow captains or commandants of compa- nies, or other officers appointed for that purpose, as above provided, at all proper times to examine their as- sessment rolls and to take copies thereof ; and the clerks of all towns and cities shall in like manner, at all proper times, allow the said commandant or other officer to ex- amine and copy the poll lists on file in their offices.
$ 6. All tavern keepers, keepers of boarding houses, persons having boarders in their families, and any mas- ter and mistress of any dwelling honse, shall, upon the application of any officer authorized to make such en- rollment. give information of the names of all persons residing or lodging in such house, liable to be enrolled, and all other proper information concerning such per- sous as such officer may demand.
$ 7. If any person of whom information is required by any such officer, in order to enable him to comply
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with the provisions of this act, shall refuse to give such information, or shall give false information, lic shall for- feit and pay ten dollars for cach item of information de- manded of him by any such officer and falsely stated, and the like sum for each individual name that may be refused, concealed, or falsely stated ; and every person who shall refuse to give his own name and proper infor- mation, when applied to by any such officer, or shall give a false name or information, shall forfeit and pay a like sum ; such penalties to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction, in the name of the people of the State of New York ; and it is hereby made the duty of such officer to report the names of all persons who may incur any penalty in this section prescribed, to the commandant of the regimental district in which they reside.
§ 8. Whenever an enrollment shall be made, as pro- vided in this act, the county clerk of cach county shall cause to be published, once a week, for four weeks pre- vious to the first day of August, in a newspaper pub- lished in such county, a notice that such rolls have been completed and filed as aforesaid, which notice shall also specify that any person who claims that he is, for any reason, exempt from military duty, shall, on or before the fifteenth day of August then next ensuing, file a writ- ten statement of such exemption, verified by affidavit, in the office of said town or city clerk, or of the county clerk, if there be no such town or city clerk ; and the publication of such notice shall be a sufficient notice of such enrollment of all persons named therein. Such roll shall be made in the form prescribed by the commander- in-chief, and the adjutant-general shall furnish to all com- mandants of companies suitable blanks and instructions therefor. ( As amended by $ 1, chap. 809 of 1566.)
× 9. Such commandant shall not include in said en- rollment the names of ony officers nor members of the miformed militia of this State, nor of the officers or mem- bers of any fire company ; and the foreman of every fire company in any city, village, or town of this State, shall,
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· before the fifteenth day of May in each year, file in the office of the town or city clerk, a list containing the names of all persons belonging to their respective com- panies, which list shall show the town or ward in which each member of such company resides.
§ 10. All persons claiming exemptions shall file a written statement of the same, verified by affidavit, in the office of the town or city clerk, or of the county clerk, in case there be no such town or city clerk, on or before the fifteenth day of August, in default of whicht such person shall lose the benefit of such exemption, except such as are especially exempt by act of congress.
§ 11. The captain, commandant, or other officer mak- ing such enrollment, shall thereupon, if such person be exempt, according to law, mark the word " exempt " op- posite the name of each person presenting such exemp- tion. If such exemption be permanent, the name of such person shall not be included in any subsequent enroll- ment. If any person shall swear falsely in such affida- vit, he shall be guilty of perjury.
$ 12. The persons thus enrolled shall form the reserve militia of the State of New York ; those between the ages of eighteen and thirty years shall constitute the re- serve of the first class and those between the ages of thirty and forty five years shall constitute the reserve of the second class.
$ 13. The reserve militia of the first and second classes, except such as shall volunteer or be drafted as members of the national guard, as hereinafter provided, shall assemble in their several company districts, armed and equipped as provided by law, for parade and inspec- tion, on the first Monday in September in each year, at such hour and place as the captain or commandant shall designate in orders, to be posted in three public places in said company district for ten days and shall be under the orders of the captain or commandant of such dis- triet ; and such captain or commandant shall make a register of all such as shall attend at such parade armed and equipped as aforesaid, to which shall be annexed a
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list of delinquents, containing the names of all such per- sons as are on the said enrollment, not marked " exempt" thereon, and who did not attend at such parade, and shall file a copy of the same, on or before the first day of October next following the time of such parade, in the office of the adjutant-general and of the county elerk, and shall also file a list of such delinquents with the board of supervisors and with the county treasurer, on or before the said first day of October. (As amended by § 1, chap. 809 of 1866.)
§ 14. All persons duly enrolled, as aforesaid, who shall neglect to attend said parade, shall be subject to a fine of one dollar, which shall be collected by the collector or receiver of taxes of the town or city in which the company district is situated ; and the super- visors of the several counties, at their annual meetings, are authorized and directed to annex a list of the several delinquents, with the fines set opposite their respective names, to the assessment rolls of the several towns and wards. and the warrants for the collection of the same shall dircet the collectors and receivers of taxes to col- lect the amount from every person appearing by the said assessment roll liable to pay the same, in the same man- ner as taxes are collected, the same to be paid to the county treasurer ; and when the name of any person be- tween the ages of eighteen and twenty-one rears shall appear on the said roll, liable to pay said fine, the said warrant shall direct the collector to collect the same of the father, master, or guardian with whom such person shall reside. or out of any property such minor may have in the city, village, town, or ward, and such collector shall proceed and execute such warrant ; and no proper- is now exempt from execution shall be exempt from the payment of such fines. (.Is amended by § 1, chop. 809 of
$ 15. The county treasurer of each county shall. on or 1. fore the fifteenth day of March in each year, pay to the comptroller, upon his order, the sum of one dollar for cach person named on said list of delinquents ; and in
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case he shall not, on the presentation of such draft, have received all or any of the money directed by this act to be collected and paid to him, he is hereby authorized and directed to borrow an amount sufficient to pay said draft upon the credit of the county, and the sum borrow- ed shall be a county charge, to be assessed by the board of supervisors of said county, at their next annual meet- ing, upon the taxable property of said county, and col- lected as other county assessments shall be assessed and collected ; and it shall be the duty of the county treasur- ers of the several counties, and the commanding officers of the several regiments, to report and certify under oath to the board of supervisors, at their annual meet- ings, the deficiencies arising from the non-collection of military fines within their respective counties and regi- mental districts. (As amended by & 1, chap. 809 of 1866.)
§ 16. The provisions of article first, title three, chap- ter thirteen, of part first of the Revised Statutes, shall apply to this act so far as the same are applicable.
$ 17. The bond required to be executed by the col- lector, receiver of taxes, and county treasurer shall apply to any moneys required to be collected for military pur- poses by this act.
§ 18. Any deficiency arising from the non-collection of said fines shall be a county charge, and shall be rais- ed as aforesaid by the supervisors of said county by taxation on the real and personal estates therein in the manner now provided by law.
$ 19. If any collector or receiver of taxes, county treasurer, town, county, or city clerk. or supervisor, or any other civit or military officer, charged with any duty under the provisions of this act, shall refuse or neglect to perform any of the duties required of him by this act. he shall forfeit and pay the sum of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars for cach and every odense to be recovered in the name of the people of the State of New York, and if any of such officers shall willfully negleet or refuse to perform such duties as are hereby required, he shall be deemed guilty
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of a misdemeanor, and it shall be the duty of the district attorney of any county within which such delinquent offender resides, upon the complaint of the commanding officer of the regiment, to prosecute the same. Any penalty incurred and paid or collected under this section shall be paid into the treasury of the county and belong to the military fund of such regiment.
OF THE GENERAL ORGANIZATION OF THE MILITIA, AND THE ORGANIZATION OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Of Organization.
$ 20. The commander-in-chief of the militia of this State shall organize and arrange the same, and the dis- tricts therefor, into divisions, brigades, regiments, bat- talions, squadrons, troops, batteries, and companies, and cause the same to be numbered as nearly in conformity to the laws of the United States as local circumstances and the public convenience may permit, and may alter, divide, annex, or consolidate the same and the districts thereof, and dismiss supernumerary officers, who were made snch by an excess of officers of equal grade being thrown into any division, brigade, regimental, or company district. The present divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, troops, squadrons, batteries, and companies, and the districts thereof, shall remain as now established by law, subject to the power of the com. mander-in-chief, to alter, divide, annex, or consolidate the same as above set forth. Regimental districts, except in cities, shall conform, as nearly as convenient, to thic assembly districts of this State.
§ 21. The organized militia of the State shall be known as the " National Guard of the State of New York," and shall consist of eight divisions, and such number of brigades, regiments companies, and battalions and such batteries, troops, or squadrons, as the command- er-in-chief shall determine and designate. Provided, that 6
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the aggregate organized force of the national guard, in time of peace, to be fully armed, equipped, and uniform- ed, shall not exceed the number of fifty thousand non- commissioned officers and privates ; but the commander- in-chief shall have power in cases of war or insurrection, or imminent danger thereof, to make further drafts of the militia, and to form new regiments, battalions, bat- teries, and troops, and to organize the same, as the exi- gencies of the service shall require. (As amended by § 1,. chap. 809 of 1866.)
$ 22. The national guard shall include the present uniformed militia of this State, and such volunteers as shall enroll themselves therein in the several districts of this State, and such persons as may be drafted therein, as hereinafter provided, and shall be organized, and shall serve as engineers, artillery, light artillery, cavalry, infantry, and rifles, as the commander-in-chief shall direct.
$ 23. The commander-in-chief is hereby authorized and empowered, so soon as may be convenient after the passage of this act, to appoint and commission the bri- gade, regimental, and company officers, in the first in- stance, necessary to complete the organization of all military districts hereafter to be created. and to fill all vacancies necessary for the complete organization of all military districts now created in this State, but not suf ficiently organized for an election. All officers super- seded by such appointment shall become supernumerary officers.
$ 24. The commandant of cach regimental district, for the purpose of organization, is hereby authorized and required to appoint the non-commissioned officers requir- ed by law for cach company in his district, and to issue to such non-commissioned officers the proper warrants of their appointment, until the organization of such regi- ment shall be complete.
§ 25. The organization of the national guard shall conform to the provisions of the laws of the United States, and their system of discipline and exercise shall conform as nearly as may be to that of the army of the
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United States, as it now is, or may thereafter be pre- scribed hy congress.
$ 26. Company officers shall use their best efforts to obtain sufficient volunteers to raise their respective com- panies to the number of, at least, sixty four non-commis- sioned officers and privates, which number is hereby fixed as the minimum, and one hundred as the maximum of such company organization. (As amended by § 1, chap. 809 of 1866.)
$ 27. In case of any company of the national guard shall not, on or before the first day of October next, by voluntary enlistments, reach the number of sixty-four privates, or in case such company shall at any time fall below such number, or in case a sufficient number of persons shall not volunteer to organize new companies in the unorganized company districts, it shall be lawful for the commander-in-chief to order a sufficient number of persons, and also fifty per cent. in addition, to be drafted from the reserve militia of the first class, in the manner hereinafter provided, to raise such companies to, and maintain the same at, such number. The persons so drafted shall thereupon be enrolled as members of said company, and, unless they shall furnish substitutes, as hereinafter provided, shall be subject to the duties here- in mentioned, and in case of non-performance of such duties, shall be subject to the pains and penalties here- in mentioned : and such persons, or their substitutes, shall be entitled to all the privileges and exemptions conferred under any of the terms of this act. (As amend- ed by chap. 612 of the Laws of 1865.)
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