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LAWS GF THE TWELFTH LEGISLATURE CONDENSED. 47
counties, or such other officers as may be detailed by the governor, who shall
specify name, age, residence, and occupation of each person enrolled. The
State guard and reserve military to be organized in the same manner as the
army of the United States; all general, field, company, and staff officers to be
appointed by the governor, who may provide for their muster out of service,
when the exigencies of service may cease to require them. The governor
shall appoint one adjutant-general, with the rank of colonel, who shall also
be quartermaster and commissary-general, whose salary shall be $3000 per
annum, and the discipline and tactics shall conform as nearly as may be to
that of the army of the United States, and the regulations that are now or
hereafter prescribed by the Congress of the United States. Persons may avoid
service in the reserve military by paying $15 at such time in each year, and to
such of icer as may be directed by the governor, to be paid into the State
treasmury. The governor may, as he may deem necessary, divide the State
into military divisions, districts, and sub-districts, and detail officers to com-
mand the same, so as to render the military force of the State efficient; and,
in time of war, rebellion, insurrection, invasion, resistance of civil process,
breach of the peace or imminent danger thereof, he shall have full power to
order into active service the military force of the State. He shall also have
power to declare martial law in any county or counties, and suspend the laws
therein, whenever in his opinion the enforcement of the .law of the State is
obstructed, and he shall call out such part of the State guard or reserve mili-
tia as he may deem necessary, the expenses of maintaining such force to be
assessed upon the people of the county or counties where the laws are sus-
pended, at the discretion of the governor, whose duty it shall be to provide
for the trial and punishment of offenders by courts-martial and military com-
missions. All officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates,
whenever called into service, shall receive the same compensation as commis-
sioned officers and enlisted men of the regular army of the United States, with
all necessary rations and forage, and for the horses of any mounted men bne
half-dollar per day.
CHAP. 11. Filling Vacant Oflices.-Empowering the governor to appoint,
till the next general election in the State, one district-attorney for each
judicial district, one county treasurer, and one county surveyor, a sufficient
number of hide and cattle inspectors and public weighers of cotton, where
required; also, where a vacancy may exist, one sheriff and one district clerk;
also a mayor and board of aldermen for each incorporated city or town, and
a city recorder for each of the cities of Galveston and Houston, all of which
officers shall hold their offices until the next general election, or until other-
wise provided by law, and shall be qualified electors in the State, and other-
wise eligible by the constitution and laws of the State.
CHAP. 12. .Establishing County-Seat of Hopkins County.-Establishing
the town of Sulphur Springs as the county-seat of Hopkins County, and
legalizing the removal of the records and all county books and papers of said
county, from the town of Tarrant to the town of Sulphur Springs, by the
military authorities of the United States, and making valid all official acts
since its said establishment by the military as the county-seat of said
county.
CHAP. 18. State Police Law.-Establishiug a State police, (in connection
with the militia system of the State,) to be composed of one chief of police,
four captains, eight lieutenants, twenty sergeants, and two hundred and
twenty-five privates; the pay of each private to be $60 per month; each
sergeant, $75 per month; each lieutenant, $100; and that of each captain, $125
per month; the adjutant-general of the State performing the duties of chief
of State police without extra compensation: provided that when there is no
adjutant-general the governor shallappoint, by and with the consent of the
Senate, a chief of State police, at a compensation of $2500 per annum. The
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