GEORGIA MILITIA  1835 Militia Monroe Co. - Rifle Company

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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1835. 

ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. PASSED IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1835. 
VOLUNTEER COMPANIES. 

1835 Vol. 1 -- Page: 293

Sequential Number: 171 

Full Title: AN ACT to incorporate a Rifle Company in
the county of Monroe, to be known by the name and style
of the Monroe Rifle Company, and to extend to it
certain privileges, &c.

Whereas, a volunteer military association has been
formed in the county of Monroe, under the name and
style of the Monroe Rifle Company; and whereas, the
persons so associated under said name are desirous of
being incorporated:

Sec. 1. Be it therefore 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 the several persons and members of
said association, and others who shall hereafter become
members thereof, respectively, and the successors of
officers and members thereof, shall be, and they are
hereby declared a body corporate, by the name and style
of the Monroe Rifle Company, and by said name shall
have perpetual succession of officers and members, with
power to make, alter, change and amend such by-laws and
regulations as may be agreed on and adopted by the
officers and members of said company for the government
of said association: Provided, such by-laws and
regulations be not contrary to the laws of this State
and of the United States.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the members of
said volunteer company shall be exempt from all
battalion musters except such as are ordered by and
under the immediate authority of the commander-in-
chief: Provided, that nothing contained in this act
shall be so construed as to exempt said association
from the liability of other militia of this State, on
any emergency which authorizes calling out the militia
for the suppression of insurrection, or for repelling
invasion: And provided further, that nothing herein
contained shall prevent the repeal of this act by a
future legislature.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws and
parts of laws militating against this act be, and the
same are hereby repealed.

JOSEPH DAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

ROBERT M. ECHOLS,

President of the Senate.

WILLIAM SCHLEY, Governor.

Approval Date: Assented to, 22d Dec. 1835.