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poses authorized by this act, unless otherwise herein provided for, shall be valid against the State, until the same shall be approved by said board. The State Military Board Claims, etc., shall receive, examine and audit all claims and accounts for who to audit, the expenditures incurred for military purposes authorized by this act, unless otherwise provided for. Upon requisition of the State Military Board the Auditor General shall draw his warrant or warrants for such sum or sums not exceeding in all the appropriations herein made on the State Treasurer, who is hereby authorized to pay and charge the same to the State military fund. Whenever necessary in the performance of his duties any member of said board shall have power to administer oaths. The State Military Board shall Regulations. prepare regulations from time to time to carry out the various provisions of this act, and such regulations when approved by the Governor and filed in the office of the Secretary of State shall have the force and effect of law.

in chief, per

SEC. 20. The personal staff of the commander in chief shall Commander consist of the chief of staff, and such other officers as may sonal staff. be detailed from among the active officers of the Michigan national guard from time to time.

duties.

SEC. 23. The senior officer of the line shall perform such Senior officer, duties as may now or hereafter devolve upon the commander of a territorial department in the army organization of the United States, unless otherwise provided for in this act.

when retired.

examination

tion.

SEC. 27. Any officer having been duly examined by an ex- Officer, amining board and found not qualified for promotion, shall thereupon be retired from active service and his name placed upon the retired list, unless otherwise provided herein. Any Promotion, officer eligible for promotion under this act, by reason of his for. seniority, who shall be found by an examining board duly qualified for promotion, except as to his professional fitness, shall, if so recommended by the examining board, thereupon be and become an additional officer of the grade then held, and the vacancy thereby created shall be filled as prescribed herein. Such officer shall be re-examined not less than one Re-examinanor more than three months after the date of such first examination, and if found qualified shall be duly appointed and commissioned as of the date of such re-examination, and if found disqualified he shall be retired from active service and his name shall be placed on the retired list. Officers becom- When ineligiing additional officers as prescribed herein shall while so carried be ineligible to promotion by seniority to any other office. Any officer may voluntarily waive promotion before Promotion, examination, in which case the officer next in order of seniority shall be promoted in the manner prescribed by this act; but no officer shall be permitted to thus waive promotion more than three times. If all officers eligible for promotion to be vacancy, a field officer waive promotion in accordance with the above, the vacancy shall be filled by an election at which the commissioned line and field officers of the battalion or regiment

ble.

waiving of.

how filled.

Vacancy in company.

Medical

corps, appointment, rank.

Brigadier generals of brigades,

when retired.

Officers,

when retired.

Michigan national

guard, qualifications of officers.

Adjutant general, qualifications.

in which the vacancy exists shall be eligible to vote; and if the officers eligible to promotion to a vacancy which exists in a company shall waive promotion, the vacancy shall be filled by an election at which only officers and enlisted men who have been in the service six months or longer, and who belong to the company in which the vacancy exists shall be entitled to vote.

SEC. 30. Officers of the Medical Corps shall be appointed by the Governor upon recommendation of the State Military Board and commissioned in a grade to which appointed, as follows: Major from senior captain of the Medical Corps; captain from first lieutenant of the Medical Corps on completion of five years' service as such; first lieutenant by appointment, after an examination under regulations prescribed.

SEC. 31. Brigadier generals of brigades and the chief of the Medical Department with the rank of major appointed under this act shall be retired from active service upon the completion of three years' service as such, and their names shall be placed on the retired list. In the event of a junior colonel of a brigade being appointed brigadier general of such brigade, the colonels of such brigade senior to such appointee shall be retired from active service and their names shall be placed upon the retired list.

SEC. 32. All officers shall be retired from active service upon reaching sixty years of age, except veterans of the civil war, and if eligible under section thirty-five of this act their names shall be placed on the retired list. Officers upon the retired list who have reached the age of sixty years shall not be eligible to detail or appointment for active duty, except as members of courts martial.

SEC. 37. No person shall be appointed and commissioned as an officer of the Michigan national guard, unless he shall be a citizen of the State of Michigan and twenty-one years of age or over, nor shall any person be appointed and commissioned as such officer, except in the Medical Department or as a chaplain, unless he shall have served at least two years in the military establishment, regular or volunteer, of the United States, or of the organized militia of this State or one of the states or territories of this country or of the District of Columbia, or in actual field service of at least three months during the civil war, or the Spanish-American war, or the Philippine insurrection, or unless he shall have been employed as an instructor in military science of, or has been an officer in a cadet corps of a military college. No person shall be appointed the Adjutant General or Quartermaster General, unless he shall have served at least ten years in the military establishment, regular or volunteer, of the United States or of the organized militia of this State or one of the states or territories of this country, five years of which service shall have been as a commissioned officer,

ment, etc.

tions,

Nor shall any person be appointed, reappointed or promoted, Reappointuntil his fitness for the office shall be certified to by an examining board, which examination shall be commensurate with the office, and shall include character, capacity, record and military ability, and in determining the same the examining board shall be furnished the efficiency record of the candidate as it appears in the office of the Adjutant General. The State Military Board may provide by regulations for an Examinaexamination as to general education in addition to profes- educational. sional qualifications. No person shall be appointed in the Judge Advocate General's Department, unless he be duly licensed to practice law in the State of Michigan. No person shall be commissioned in the Medical Department, unless he be duly licensed to practice medicine in the State of Michigan or appointed a dental surgeon, unless he be a licensed dental surgeon. No person shall be appointed chaplain unless he be a duly ordained minister.

bonds for

of.

SEC. 44. Officers accountable for military property or Military moneys shall give bonds in such sums and with such sureties property, etc., as shall be required by the State Military Board, for the safe-keeping care and safe-keeping of all military property and the proper disbursement of moneys which may at any time be under their charge and control, and to account for the same, which bonds shall be approved by the State Military Board. Upon Allowance. the giving of such bonds and their approval as aforesaid, company commanders, adjutants and quartermasters, and also inspector generals of brigades, shall be entitled to an allowance from the date of said bond at the rate of one hundred dollars each, and the Adjutant General of each brigade shall receive for his services two hundred fifty dollars per annum payable by the Quartermaster General.

of officers.

SEC. 45. All officers shall receive for each day spent by Compen sathem in actual service or on duty under the orders of the tion, etc., Governor, who is authorized to determine when to place said officers on duty, the pay and allowances, including traveling allowances and all necessary expense for horses for mounted officers and increased pay on account of length of service as fixed by law or regulations for officers of the army of the same rank in the service of the United States. Enlisted men, when Enlisted men. on active or actual duty under orders shall receive in addition to their transportation the following compensation: To each enlisted man below the rank of corporal, one dollar twenty-five cents per day; to each corporal, one dollar thirty-five cents per day; to each non-commissioned officer above the rank of corporal and below the rank of first sergeant, and to each cook, one dollar forty-five cents per day; to first sergeants and all non-commissioned officers above the grade of first sergeant and below regimental sergeant major, one dollar fifty-five cents per day; and to regimental sergeants major, one dollar sixty-five cents per day. Each enlisted man shall receive dur- Re-enlisting his second enlistment and for each subsequent enlistment if his service is continuous, ten per cent for each enlistment

ments.

etc., salary.

in addition to the above mentioned sums, but not more than four re-enlistments shall be counted in computing continuous service pay; and to each enlisted man, subsistence, the cost of same not to exceed seventy cents per day, the difference between the cost of rations and seventy cents per day to be paid in money to said enlisted men at the time of Chief of staff, payment for such service. The chief of staff shall receive a salary of one thousand dollars per year, the other four members of the State Military Board shall each receive five hundred dollars per year, and each member of said board shall also be paid his actual and necessary expenses in attending said board. Each officer upon his first appointment as an officer shall hereafter be paid the sum of fifty dollars as an equipment allowance under such regulations as may be provided: Provided, That any officer or enlisted man guilty of drunkenness at any annual encampment, or on the way to or from such encampment, shall forfeit all pay for that entire tour of camp duty, and it shall be the duty of the officer charged with making the payrolls to note the fact of intoxication or drunkenness against the name of the person guilty thereof.

Equipment allowance.

Proviso.

Equipments, etc., furnishing of.

SEC. 51. The Quartermaster General shall deliver from the military property in his charge, as a loan to the proper officers of the Michigan national guard, uniforms, arms and equipments, camp equipage and such other military property as may be necessary; and, in case of death or discharge of such officer, he or his legal representatives shall be released from such responsibility, upon filing in the office of the Quartermaster General a bond with sufficient sureties or the certificate of the officer succeeding him, that the articles so furnished are at the date of the certificate in good order and Where kept. condition, reasonable use and wear thereof excepted. Whenever any articles are furnished as aforesaid to any of the Michigan national guard, the same shall be deposited and kept in an armory. The Quartermaster General may when so directed by the military board pay for horses used for mounted drills at home stations when used by organizations required to be mounted.

Annual report, board to make.

Boards of control,

armory, who to compose.

SEC. 69. The State Military Board shall make a report annually of the proceedings incident to the location and management of such armories, respectively, together with a detailed account of disbursements to the Governor, which report and account shall be filed in the office of the Auditor General and a copy of the report and account furnished the Adjutant General for publication in the biennial report of the Adjutant General's Department.

SEC. 70. For each armory there shall be a board of control, which in the case of armories occupied by one company shall consist of the three company officers. In case an armory is occupied by one or more companies and less than a battalion, it shall consist of the five field, battalion staff and line officers highest in rank belonging to the organizations therein.

quartered. In case an armory is occupied by a battalion or squadron it shall consist of the battalion or squadron commander and the four highest ranking line officers of the or ganization quartered therein. In case an armory is occupied by a force larger than a battalion or squadron it shall consist of the seven highest ranking field and line officers in the organizations quartered therein. One officer of each board of control herein provided for shall be designated as disbursing officer by said board of control, and shall give bond to the Quartermaster General for the proper disbursement of funds coming into his hands for the maintenance of the armory to which he is attached.

maintenance,

tionment.

SEC. 71. For the purpose of providing for the expense for Armories, the maintaining, heating, lighting and renting of the armories etc. of the permanent organized militia, or such portion thereof in each as is used or occupied by an organization of the permanent organized militia, the board of control of each of such armories shall receive from the Quartermaster General of the State out of the State military fund the following armory allowance which shall constitute an armory maintenance fund in the hands of its disbursing officer, to-wit: For each com- Maintenance pany occupying a State armory or a portion thereof, five fund, apporhundred dollars per annum; for each company occupying an armory not owned by the State, in cities having two hundred fifty thousand inhabitants or more, one thousand dollars per annum; and for each other company occupying an armory not owned by the State, five hundred dollars per annum: Provided, That the State Military Board may increase the Proviso. amount allowed to any of the companies of the class last named, if it deem it necessary, not to exceed six hundred dollars to a company of infantry, or not to exceed one thousand dollars to a troop of cavalry, or not to exceed two thousand dollars to a battery of field artillery. Said annual allow- When paid. ances shall be paid by the Quartermaster General to the said disbursing officers in equal semi-annual payments on January first and July first of each year: Provided, That amounts paid Proviso, disto organizations of the Michigan naval brigade or to disburs officers, etc. ing officers, for the armories wherein divisions of the naval brigade are quartered, shall be provided out of the funds provided for the Michigan naval brigade.

bursing

owned by

SEC. 72. The armories erected, constructed and owned by Armories the State of Michigan by virtue of this act, shall be for the state, use of. use and benefit of the permanent organized militia quartered therein: Provided, however, That local organizations of the Proviso. civil war veterans and Spanish-American war veterans upon their written request to the Governor, may be granted the regular use of such portion of said State armories as may be provided from time to time by the State Military Board in regulations, and subject to the rules governing the organized militia quartered therein and the rules of the board of control thereof. They shall be used for no other purpose ex

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