JONES COUNTY, GA - Military Clinton Independent Blues  1824

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CLINTON INDEPENDENT BLUES

Sequential Number: 057   Dec. 15, 1824
Type: AN ACT 
Full Title: To authorise the volunteer company in the county
of Jones, commonly called the Clinton Independent Blues, to
receive members from the thirty-first regiment of Georgia
militia, and to exempt said company from [Illegible Text]
and regimental musters except in certain cases.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is
hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and
after the passage of this act, it shall be lawful for the
Clinton Independent Blues in the county of Jones to receive
members from the thirty-first regiment Georgia militia, at
this time under the command of Col. [Illegible Text] Bell of
Jones county, as well as from the regiment to which they
have heretofore been attached.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That the said company be and it is hereby exempt
from battallion and regimental musters except such as are
ordered by the authority of the commander-in-chief.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That nothing contained in
this act shall be so construed as to prohibit the colonel of
the regiment to which the said company has heretofore been
attached, to require of the captain or officer commanding
the said company a return of the number and names of the
members of said company, and of the arms and equipments
belonging to said company as often as he may review his
regiment: Provided, that no member of said company shall be
exempt from patrol duty, but shall perform the same in the
district where he may reside, nor shall he be exempt from
ordinary militia duty until he shall produce a certificate
to the captain of the district where he resides that he is
uniformed and equiped according to the bye-laws of the said
company, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary
notwithstanding.

JOHN ABERCROMBIE,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

ALLEN B. POWELL,

President of the Senate.

G. M. TROUP, Governor.

Approval Date: Assented to, Dec. 15, 1824.