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Duties and pow- as they may deem equitable and proper for the families, or fr persons resident in their respective counties, heretofore in degree dependent upon such volunteers as have been enrolel and mustered into service from their several counties, under orders from the governor of the commonwealth, during the er istence of the present exigencies of the general governmen the claims or suggestions for such relief to be made in writing setting forth the facts of the case, with such proofs and verti cations as the board may require, and to be filed in the office as vouchers for any payments which may be made thereon: payments for relief to be made by orders drawn in the usua form, with an indorsement on the back of each, “issued by the board of relief," which indorsement shall be signed by one c the associate judges, and all the vouchers and the orders issued thereon shall be duly audited by the county auditors or other proper authorities, and published in the annual statement of the public expenditures of said counties; if it shall be found requ site by the commissioners of any county within this commonwealth, they are hereby authorized and empowered to make a temporary loan, or loans, at a rate of interest not exceeding seven per centum per annum, to carry into effect the measures of relief provided by this act: Provided, That all arrangements made by the several counties of this commonwealth for the support of the families of the volunteers mustered into service, are hereby legalized and declared to be in full force, until the provisions of this section are carried into effect by the severa counties of this commonwealth. Authorized to make temporary loans. Proviso. Tax authorized. Limitation. SECTION 15. That it shall be lawful for the proper authorities of any county within this commonwealth, to assess and ery tax for the payment of such appropriations as may have been or may hereafter be made by such authorities, for the re lief of volunteers or of their families, or both, which volunteers shall have been or may be received into the service of this state or of the United States, in the present exigency of the coun try: Provided, That such assessment shall not, in any one year, exceed two and one-half mills upon the dollar of the taxable property of such county: And provided further, That all loans Loans heretofore heretofore negotiated or moneys borrowed by any county, city negotiated, bonds or borough, for the purposes aforesaid, be and the same are herefirmed and made by ratified and confirmed, and the bonds or other evidences of indebtedness issued or to be issued therefor, are hereby made good and valid; and that all appropriations heretofore made of to be made by county commissioners or municipal authorities. for the purpose of arming or equipping volunteers, or for the relief of their families, are hereby legalized, and shall be allowed them on the settlement of their accounts, as other payments are by law allowed. issued, &c., con valid. Death of soldiers, relative to. SECTION 16. That in case any soldier shall die, after being mustered into the service of the United States or of this state, leaving a widow and minor children or a minor child under the age of fourteen years, the mother of such minor or minors shall receive eight dollars per month from this state, for the term of five years, unless all such minors shall, before the expiration of said five years, be of the age of fourteen, or unless she or they receive a pension from the United States. If such widow die or marry before the expiration of said five years, such pension, from the time of such death or marriage, shall go to the support of such minor child or children as are then living. SECTION 17. That any district attorney or other county or County and mumunicipal officer of this commonwealth who may have enlisted nicipal officers and been received into the service of the state or the United enlisting may appoint deputies. States as a soldier or officer for any part of the term for which such attorney or officer shall have been elected, may appoint a deputy, who, with the approval of the court of common pleas Court to approve of the county or district, shall discharge the duties of the said district attorney or other county or municipal officer during such term of service: Provided, That nothing herein contained be Proviso. ther, That the provisions of this section shall not extend to Proviso. SECTION 18. That all incorporated universities, colleges and Military profesacademies in this commonwealth are hereby authorized to es- sorships in coltablish, in connection with their several institutions, a military leges, &c., authoprofessorship, for the education of young men in military dis cipline and the art of war. rized. SECTION 19. That the commander-in-chief, in conjunction with Organization of the officers composing the grand staff of the militia of this com- Reserve Volunmom wealth, are hereby authorized and required to organize a composed, &c. teer Corps, how military corps, to be called the Reserve Volunteer Corps of the commonwealth, and to be composed of thirteen regiments of infantry, one regiment of cavalry and one regiment of light artillery. The said regiments shall severally be composed of companies of like number, and to be armed and equipped, clothed, disciplined, governed and officered, as similar troops in the service of the United States, and shall be enlisted in the service of the state for a period not exceeding three years or for the war, unless sooner discharged, and shall be liable to be called into the service of this state at such times as the commander-in-chief may deem their services necessary, for the purpose of suppressing insurrections or to repel invasions, and further to be liable to be mustered into the service of the United States, at such times as requisitions may be made by the President of the United States. and drill masters SECTION 20. That the commander-in-chief, in conjunction with Camps of instructhe officers aforesaid, shall cause two or more camps of instruc- tion to be formed tions, not exceeding eight, to be formed in different sections of appointed by the the state, for the accommodation and instruction of said troops; governor. and the governor shall appoint suitable officers or drill masters, with the rank and pay of captain, whose duty it shall be to instruct said troops in the military art, conforming, as near as may be, to the plan of instruction, rules, regulations and discipline adopted for similar troops in the service of the United States. der-in-chief as SECTION 21. That the commander-in-chief shall cause the troops Discretionary aforesaid to be drilled and instructed, in such encampments, for with commanand during such periods of time as he may deem necessary to to time employed perfect them in the military art. in instruction. SECTION 22. That the said corps shall receive the same pay Pay and rations. and rations when under such instructions in said camps, or in the active service of the state, as similar troops receive when When not in camp or service to hold themselves in readiness at their resi dences. Armories. Arms. &c., to be furnished. Captains to receipt to adjutant general and give bonds for safe keeping and return of arms, &c. Companies and regiments to elect officers. in the service of the United States, and that said troops shal when not under such instructions in camp, or in the service of the state or United States, at all times hold themselves n readiness at their respective residences to be called into the ser vice of the state, or upon requisition of the President into the service of the United States, and shall be required to provide and keep in repair suitable armories for the safe keeping and preservation of their arms and accoutrements. SECTION 23. That it shall be the duty of the commander-inchief and adjutant general, to procure and furnish arms and ac coutrements, and a uniform dress suitable for said troops, at the charge of the state; and the captains of the several companies composing said regiments shall be required to receipt to the adjutant general for said arms, accoutrements and uniform dress, and shall further give bond to the commonwealth, with surety in such sum as the governor shall direct, to be approved by the president judge of the court of common pleas of the county in which such captains may reside, conditioned for the safe keep ing and delivery over to the adjutant general of such arms and accoutrements as may be received by them for their respective companies, upon demand legally made by the adjutant general; and the said bonds, when so approved, shall be filed in the office of the adjutant general. SECTION 24. That the several companies and regiments com posing said volunteer corps shall be entitled to elect, and the governor shall commission, officers similar in number and rank to those allowed like troops in the army of the United States: Governor to ap- Provided, That the governor shall have power to appoint and point chaplains. commission chaplains for said corps, and to designate their rank. SECTION 25. That no troops shall be kept in camp longer than three months at any one time, except the governor shall, upon the expiration of said three months, deem the longer continuance of said troops necessary for the protection of the commonwealth, or shall have a requisition for troops from the President of the United States. Troops not to be kept in camp longer than three months. Exception. Rules and regu lations. SECTION 26. That the commander-in-chief, in conjunction with the grand staff aforesaid, are hereby authorized and empowered to make and adopt all needful rules and regulations for the speedy and efficient organization of said Reserve Volunteer Corps, and for arming and equipping the same with the most approved style of arms and equipments; and the officers and Oath to be taken. rauk and file composing said volunteer corps shall be sworn or affirmed to support the constitution of this state, and the con stitution of the United States. Arms to be pro counties. SECTION 27. That the governor and adjutant general be and cured for border are hereby authorized and required to procure and furnish at the earliest possible time after the troops provided for in this bill shall have been supplied, not exceeding one thousand stand of modern approved arms and accoutrements for each of the coun ties of this commonwealth bordering on the Maryland, DelaTo be received ware and Virginia lines, to be received by the county commis by county com- sioners of the respective counties, for the purpose of arming bonds given for Organized troops for the defence of said counties, and for such safe keeping, &c. other military service contiguous to their borders, as they may legally be called upon to perform; and the county commissioners missioners and of said counties shall respectively execute a bond in the name and in behalf of such county, in such sum as the governor shall direct, conditioned for the safe keeping and delivery over to the adjutant general all such arms and accoutrements as may be received by them for the purpose aforesaid, at such times as the governor may direct; and the bonds so executed shall be filed in the office of the adjutant general. Proviso. SECTION 28. That the governor and the adjutant general be Arms and accouand are hereby authorized and required, as soon as practicable, trements to be procured for to procure suitable arms and accoutrements sufficient to arm the volunteer comvolunteer companies of this state, now or hereafter to be regu- panies. larly organized under existing laws, and further to collect and contract for the remodeling of all such military arms belonging Remodeling of to the state, as are or have become deficient and unfit for modern arms unfit for modern service. service: And provided further, That before any arms are delivered to any volunteer companies, or home guards, they shall severally be sworn or affirmed to support the constitution of this state, and the constitution of the United States, and to obey all lawful orders of such officers as may be placed over them by proper authority: And provided further, That so much of any Proviso. law heretofore existing authorizing members of volunteer companies to receive pay for any military parading not in the actual service of the state, is hereby suspended during the existence of the present war; and the military tax now imposed by the laws of this commonwealth shall be collected and paid into the treasury of the commonwealth, to meet the expenses of the militia mustered into actual service. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. LOUIS W. HALL, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thou sand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 681. AN ACT To authorize the Commissioners of Dauphin County to appropriate a certain sum of money for the support of the Families of Volunteers during the present war. WHEREAS, The grand jury of Dauphin county, at April ses- Preamble. sions, have recommended an appropriation of ten thousand dollars out of the county funds, for the support of the families of volunteers during the present war; therefore, Commissioners authorized to That SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repren tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, the county commissioners of Dauphin county are hereby authorized and required to appropriate the sum of ten thousand make appropria- dollars, out of the county funds, for the support of the families of volunteers during the present war, said sum to be paid out How expended. by the treasurer of said county, under the direction of the court of quarter sessions of said county, to such persons, at such times, and in such sums as said court may order and direct. tion. Bonds to be negotiated. SECTION 2. The county commissioners aforesaid are hereby authorized and required to negotiate, of the bonds already authorized to be issued by them, to an amount sufficient to realize the sum of ten thousand dollars, to be appropriated as provided in the first section of this act; said bond to be payable in ten years, and to be free of state tax. ELISHA W. DAVIS, LOUIS W. HALL, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The sixteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 682. AN ACT Relating to Notaries Public. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That in all cases where a notary public of this commonwealth shall go into the military service of this state, or of the United States, every such notary public shall have full power to appoint a deputy, to act in his stead during his absence in said service; and the acts of said deputy shall be as valid, to all intents and purposes, as if done by the notaries public themselves; and it shall be lawful for the said deputies to use the seals of their principals, in the performance of their said duties: Provided, That the said deputies shall be subject to all the legal liabilities of notaries public; and before entering upon the duties of said appointments, the said deputies shall give security in the same amount and manner as now required by law for notaries public; and the said deputations shall be acknowledged or proved as deeds are now required by law to be acknowledged or proved, |