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Militia. 1851 259 (1851)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0692 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. what expended; the number of patients ,foreign and do- 1852. mestic, confined in cach; the number received and dis- charged each year; and such other lacts and suggestions as they may deem important; which reports the governor Shall communicate to the legislature at its regular session. CHAPTER LXV. MILITIA. ARTICLE I. § 1. The enrolled militia shall be continued as at present Divisions. brg. organized in divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, and . companies. 1. Divisions, brigades, and regiments may be laid off, al- tered, and modified by the governor for the time being, as he may deem expedient. 2. The field officers of regiments shall have power to form, alter, and modify, from time to time, the boundaries of battalions and companies within their respective regi- ments, a majority concurring therein. 3. The adjutant of each regiment shall keep a record of the boundaries of battalions and companies as formed, al- tered, or modified. § 2. The following persons shall be exempt from militia who exempt duty: All persons under eighteen and over forty-five years from militia du- of age; all negroes, mulattoes, and indians; the judges of the respective courts; the treasurer, auditor, attorney gene- ral, register of the land office, and their clerks; attorneys of the commonwealth ; professors and tutors of public semi- naries of learning; the public printer and such as may be necessarily employed in his office; ordained ministers of religious societies; keepers of public jails ; and the guards employed in the penitentiary house. 1. But all of said persons between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, except ministers of the gospel, ne- groes, mulattoes, and indians, shall be liable to be called into service in a time of war., 2. All not exempted shall perform militia duty. § 3. Those who conscientiously scruple to bear arms Persons con. shall not be compelled to do so, but shall pay an equiv'a- scientiously scrupulous as to lent for personal services of one dollar per (lay for each bearing arms. muster. 1. In case of a call for actual service, such persons shall substnutei. be allowed to furnish an able-bodied substitute it, lieu of their own personal services. 2. If such substitute be not furnished, the captain of the detachment may hire a substitute for such conscientious person, who shall be bound to pay the substitute the sum agreed on by the captain, if the same do not exceed one

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