1862. SEC. IX. Should there be no commissioned officer present with a company, the battalion or other commander shall have authority to assign an officer to command until some officer is elected to the place. SEC. X. Every senior in his appropriate command shall have authority to control the actions of his junior, in accordance with the principles of military subordination, under the laws and usages that govern the United States army. SEC. XI. In all cases not herein otherwise directed, the duties, both of the staff and of commanders, and other officers and members of the active militia, shall be made to conform as nearly as possible to the duties of the corresponding positions in the United States service. SEC. XII. When bodies of troops meet on duty, the of ficer highest in rank in the line of command shall command the whole. SEC. XIII. When officers are of the same grade, the of How rank to be ficer holding a commission of the oldest date shall command; and if of the same date, their relative rank shall be determined by lot. determined. struction may be purchased. SEC. XIV. All officers of the active militia shall have the right to command all officers of the same grade in the enrolled or reserve militia, notwithstanding their commissions may be of later date. SEC. XV. The commander-in-chief may at any time select any one of the general officers, without regard to his rank, to command the active militia; and the commander of the active militia, under the authority of the commander-in-chief, shall command the entire force of every kind, which may at any time be in the service of the State. SEC. XVI. There is hereby appropriated the sum of five Books of in- hundred dollars, from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, which may be expended by the Governor in the purchase of Hardee's Infantry Tactics, and the other systems of tactics for light troops in the United States army, and also in the purchase of the regulations for the army of the United States, and treatises on military law and courts martial; which books shall be distributed as the property of the State, under proper regulations, by the inspector general. Governor to for militia while in active service. SEC. XVII. It shall and may be lawful for the Governor, in the event that any of the militia are called into active make provision service in the field, to provide for them such arms, transportation, army stores, munitions of war, provisions, forage, and such other things as he may deem requisite, and may, if in his opinion the public safety demands it, seize and press into the service such horses, mules, wagons, teams, arms, munitions of war, provisions, forage, and such other things as he may require: Provided, however, That before the same shall be taken into the service, the same shall be valued by two disinterested men, not in the service, to be appointed by the Governor, or by his orders, and just compensation made therefor. 1862. Organization may be SEC. XVIII. The commander-in-chief may, in his discretion, withhold the organization of the militia under this act held. from any county or counties of this State, and for such length of time as he may deem advisable. All other laws now in force, having reference to the organization of the militia, are hereby repealed. with CHAPTER 646. AN ACT to create a Soldiers' Relief Fund for Bourbon County. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the county judge of Bourbon county shall have power, at any regular term of said court, to levy a tax upon the real and personal estate of said county, not exceeding five cents upon each one hundred dollars, which tax shall be collected in the same manner, by the same officers, and subject to the same penalties and responsibilities, as are applicable by law to the collection of the revenue of the State, and the fund arising therefrom shall be held and appropriated for the relief, maintenance and support of the wives and families of soldiers from said county now engaged, or who may hereafter engage, in the military service of the United States during the time of such service; and said court shall appoint two commissioners, who shall execute bond with good security for the faithful discharge of their duties as such, and shall receive and disburse said fund for the purposes above indicated, and make a full report of such disbursement and of their accounts relating thereto for the approval of said court. §2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved August 31, 1862. CHAPTER 647. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled, an act to establish equity and criminal courts in the 4th Judicial district. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That so much of an act, entitled, "An act to establish Equity and Criminal Courts in the 4th Judicial Distrist," approved February 9th, 1858, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as the same applies to the county of Logan; and the clerk of the Logan circuit court is di 1862. rected to transfer all actions now on the docket of the equity and criminal court for said county to the dockets of the Logan circuit court; and that the jurisdiction of the Logan circuit court is hereby restored as it existed previous to the passage of the act establishing said equity and criminal court. § 2. All process heretofore issued and made returnable to the Logan equity and criminal court shall be returned by the proper officers to the Logan circuit court. §3. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved August 31, 1862 CHAPTER 648. AN ACT for the appropriation of money. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1 That the following sums of money be and they are hereby appropriated to the persons hereinafter named, to be paid out of the treasury upon the warrant of the Auditor of Public Accounts, to-wit: § 2. To the speakers of the Senate and House of Rep resentatives, each, eight dollars per day during the present session. §3. To the clerks and assistant clerks of the Senate and House, each, ten dollars per day during the present session, and to the principal clerks the same per day for two days after the adjournment, for arranging papers, &c. § 4. To the sergeant-at-arms and door-keepers of the two Houses, each, six dollars per day during this session; and to the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate, one dollar per day for the service of one negro man; and to the sergeantat-arms of the house, for the services of two negro men, two dollars per day during this session. § 5. To the pages of the two Houses, one dollar and fifty cents per day for their services during the present session, to be certified by the principal clerks, and drawn and distributed by the sergeant-at-arms of the two Houses. § 6. To Hodges, Hughes & Co., for the "Daily Commonwealth," the sum of seven dollars and seventy-five cents per day during this session. § 7. To S. I. M. Major & Co., for the "Daily Yeoman," seven dollars and seventy-five cents per day during this ses sion. § 8. To the ministers of the different religious denomi nations in Frankfort, the sum of thirty dollars, to be drawn and distributed by the seargent-at-arms of the Senate. § 9. That the Auditor is authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of the principal clerks of the two Houses, for extra clerk hire, to be estimated and certified by them. § 10. To A. G. Cammack, for sundries, twenty-five dollars and sixty cents. § 11. To Nancy Morton, for washing towels, one dollar and fifty cents. § 12. To J. M. Mills, for sundries, four dollars and seventy cents. § 13. To Gray & Todd, for sundries, twenty-two dollars and ninety cents. § 14. To J. L. Smedley, for summoning witness by order of committee on Retrenchment and Reform, and traveling fifty six miles, seven dollars and fifty-four cents. §15. To J. B. Lewis, clerk to the committees on Enrollments, three dollars per day for his services during this session, to be certified by the chairman of said committees. § 16. To George A. Robertson, for the services of one negro man one dollar per day during this session, also thirty cents paid by him for hauling books. § 17. To J. C. Henrdicks, for sundries, two dollars and eighty cents. 18. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. 1862. CHAPTER 649. AN ACT for the benefit of the sheriff of Monroe county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the further time, until the January term of the Monroe county court, in the year 1863, is hereby allowed to the sheriff of that county to make out and return his lists of delinquents in the collection of the public revenue and county levy in said county for the year 1861. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its pas sage. Approved August 31, 1862. CHAPTER 650. AN ACT for the benefit of Wm. Mullins, late sheriff of Wayne county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That William Mullins, late sheriff of Wayne county, be allowed further time until the September term, 1862, 1862. of the Wayne county court, to present and verify his lists of delinquent tax payers in said county for the year 1861. § 2. Said list shall be verified in the usual manner, subject to the same penalties, and with like effect as under the general laws upon the subject of delinquent tax-payers. § 3. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved August 31, 1862. CHAPTER 651. AN ACT to amend the charter of the United Irish Association of Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the corporate name of the United Irish Association of Maysville be and the same is hereby changed to that of the St. Patrick's Benevolent Society of Maysville; by which name it shall be hereafter known and called, and by which it shall have and retain all the chartered rights, privileges, property and interests granted by the act incorporating said association, or which may have been acquired and held by said association under its charter. § 2. That in addition to the persons named as original corporators in the charter of said association the names of the Rev. Peter McMahan and Nicholas Cluney are hereby added, and who shall hereafter have the same rights and privileges, conferred by the charter upon the original corporators, as fully and completely as if they had been named as such in the act of incorporation. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved August 31, 1862. CHAPTER 652. AN ACT to change the place of voting in District No. 3, of Wayne Be it enacted by the of Kentucky: county. General Assembly of the Commonwealth §1. That the place of voting in election district No. 3, of Wayne county, shall hereafter be at a point on Otter creek, in said district, known as Slick Ford. § 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved August 31, 1862. |