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1812 93 (1812)

handle is hein.ssl/ssct0376 and id is 1 raw text is: SPECIAL SESSION,
AUGUST, isi.
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CHAP. .
An Act lo raise certain Volunteer Corps.
E, it enacted by the G ,te,or and Council and Military e.
I. B  fouse f Repfrescntaliwea in General Court ,a. empts associ.
ambled, That whenever a sufficievit number of able  d- atilg for mu.
acu,,      . ~l-aw ftemmilitsry. dttt, to f. -ni .t full o
SiVmpally Of infantr , shall associate for that purpise, and ed. --
equip thens, Ives to the acceptance of the commandar
in chief, and engage for a term  1ol less than three years,
unless sooner discharged by law, the commander in chi,-f,
upon application to him made, shall issue hIs order tc
some suitble person to lead said company to a choic,. of
the same number and grades of commissioned of iers, as comNpny oM~.
the companies of infantry'in the militia  -ow hive ; which cer how ap-
officers, when approved by the commander in chief, shall Pointed.
be commissioned by him ; and such 'olutitter compa.
nies shall be entitled to the same number of non-cowmis.
sioncd officers and musicians as the'companies of infantry
in the i'litia, and to be agpoitited ia the same manner ;
and the commanders theieof m'iy enlist from exempts
from time to time to fill such volunteer compatits ; and
whenever a sufficient number (if companies shall be rais-
ed, the commander in .chief may form them into battal-
io,,s and rrgiments ; and as occasion may require f. rm
such regiments into brigades and divisions; and the field Field offieei.
and general officers shall be appointed and commissioned hr,'j appoint.
by the commander in- chief.
S 2. And be it furth.r enacted, That said volunteer May be called
shall be liable at any time, to be called out by the coin- out for the deo,
mander in chief for the defncc and ptooctiwa of tht statc fence fit, the
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