Incidental regimental headquarter expenses, how paid. Annual report of oflicers' convention, how printed and distributed. May purchase a traveling library. Retired list, how formed. Rank of officers thereon. hundred dollars annually as extra allowances for the extraordinary expenses incident to drills and instruction of mounted organizations; provided that not more than three hundred dollars of this amount shall be paid annually unless said troop and battery shall have present at each annual inspection not less than forty-five enlisted men in complete uniform and at each annual encampment at least forty-five enlisted men properly mounted and equipped; and each regimental commander shall receive annually for the incidental expenses of the regimental headquarters and staff one hundred dollars, and each such commander shall annually report to the adjutant general the disposition made of such fund. SECTION 39. The adjutant general may procure the printing of, and upon the order of the commissioner of public printing the public printer shall print and deliver to him for distribution, not to exceed two thousand copies of the report of the annual convention of the officers of the Wisconsin national guard which shall be distributed as follows: To each company troop or battery five copies, to each commissioned of ficer one copy, to each officer and member of the legislature one copy and the remainder to the adjutant general for distribution at his discretion; provided, that such report shall not exceed one hundred pages each. SECTION 40. The adjutant general, subject to the approval of the governor, may purchase a traveling library of military text books for each regiment of infantry at a cost for books. boxes and transportation of not to exceed fifty dollars for each regiment annually. The expense to be paid out of the treasury from any un expended appropriations for the national guard. SECTION 41. All commissioned officers whe may have heretofore served or who shall here after serve five years in the national guard may upon honorable retirement from the service be carried on a roll to be estab lished and maintained in the office of the adjutant general which roll shall be designated the "Wisconsin national guard retired list" and they shall be entitled to wear on occasions of ceremony the uniform of the highest rank which they have held. The officers so carried on said pay roll may be eligible for detail or appointment by the governor but when so detailed or appointed shall be considered as of the rank to which they have been detailed or appointed, which rank they shall hold during the period of such detail or appointment, and in case of a second retirement from active service, if the rank held by them at the time be higher than the one held by them on their first retirement, they shall be entered on said list as of the highest rank held by them. No officer whose name shall appear on said retired list shall be entitled to receive any pay or emolument whatever from the state during the time he so remains on said list, and in case he be reappointed, recommissioned or detailed therefrom, he shall be entitled to the pay and allowance provided by law for officers of the rank to which he may be detailed or appointed. citizens for military duty, when and how taken. SECTION 42. At the time when the state cen- Census of sus is taken in the year nineteen hundred and five and every ten years thereafter the several of ficers required by law to enumerate the inhabitants shall each also carefully enroll all ablebodied male citizens between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, specifying their names, ages, occupations and residences and whether married or unmarried, who shall reside in the territory in which he makes such enumeration, omitting from enrollment only those persons whose mental or physical incompetency is plainly apparent to such officer. Every such enrollment shall be separately made and verified and returned in the manner directed for verifying and returning the enumeration of inhabitants, and the secretary of state shall, upon the receipt of the returns thereof from the several county clerks, file the same in the office of the ad When actions against mem may be de fended by state. jutant general. All proper blanks and instrueitons for such enrollment shall be prepared by the secretary of state, with the assistance of the adjutant general, subject to the approval of the governor. SECTION 43. If any member of the Wisconsin bers of guard, national guard shall be prosecuted by civil or criminal action for any act performed by such member while in the performance of his military duty and in pursuance thereof, the action against such member may, in the discretion of the governor, be defended by counsel appointed therefor by the governor upon the recommendation of the attorney general. The costs and expenses of any such defense shall be audited by the secretary of state and paid out of the state treasury. Appropriating clause. SECTION 44. There is hereby annually appro priated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated a sum of money suf ficient to make the purchases, defray the expenses and pay all allowances authorized by this act. SECTION 45. Chapter 34 of the statutes of 1898 and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 46. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 18, 1899. No. 58, S.] [Published April 20, 1899. CHAPTER 201. AN ACT to authorize the sale and conveyance of a certain lot in the cemetery at Sparta, belonging to the state. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: are Sale of s'ate public school authorized. SECTION 1. The land commissioners hereby directed to convey to the purchaser cemetery lot, thereof a lot in the cemetery in the city of Sparta, purchased for the use of the state public school, but not used by it and contracted to be sold by the state board of control, and the proceeds of such sale shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to the current expense fund of the said state public school. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 18, 1899. Ch. 202 See 1901 c 154 Appropriation Transfer from No. 138, S.] [Published April 20, 1899. CHAPTER 202. AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money therein named to the normal school fund income and to authorize a temporary transfer of a like sum from the trust funds of the state to the general fund. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to the normal school fund income out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for building, repairs and heating apparatus, the sum of seventy thousand dollars. SECTION 2. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, the secretary of state, the attorney general and state treasurer, with the consent and approval of the governor, are hereby authorized and empowered to transfer from the trust funds of the state to the general fund the sum of seventy thousand dollars, to be returned to the trust funds from the general fund income for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of September, 1900, if such transfer shall be found necessary to make this appropriation available during the present fiscal year. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 18, 1899. |
