Iowa State Militia
An Act amendatory of an act entitled, "An act to orgazine, discipline, and govern the militia of this Territory," approved July 31, 1840.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Iowa, That section three of title three; section fifteen of article second, title six; article first of an act entitled "An act to organize, discipline and govern the militia of this Territory," approved July 31st, 1840, and so much of all acts or parts of acts which now require militia drills, musters, trainings, inspections or reviews, in time of peace, be and the same are hereby repealed. Section 2. That it shall be the duty of assesors in the several counties in this Territory, at the time they return their assessment rolls, to return to the clerk of the board of county commissioners the names of all able bodied males, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, resident in each township or precinct in their respective counties; and it shall be the duty of said clerks to make out and return forthwith to the adjutant general of this Territory complete abstracts of the number of such able bodied males, which abstracts the said adjutant general shall file and carefully preserve in his office. Section 3. This act shall in no way interfere with the authority of the commander-in-chief, or any other officer, in calling out the militia, or any portion thereof, whenever, in their opinion, the public safety may require it. Section 4. The adjutant general sall receive for his services one hundred dollars per annum. Approved 15th February 1844
In addition to the persons exempted by the laws of the United States, the following persons shall be exempt from military duty.
- The Secretary of the Territory
- The members of the legislature, and its officers, during the session thereof, and fourteen days before and after each meeting.
- Ministers and preachers of the gospel, teachers in all colleges.
- Officers hereafter to be commissioned, who shall serve as such in the militia of this Territory, or in that of one of the United States for the space of five years; but no such officer who may have served in the militia of this Territory shall be so exempt unless by his resignation, after such term of service duly excepted, or in some other lawful manner he shall have been honorably discharged from his commission.
- Every non-commissioned officer, musician and private, of every uniform company, raised or hereafter to be raised, who has uniformed himself, or shall hereafter uniform and equip himself, and whose term of service in such company shall have amounted, or shall amount to ten years from the time of his enrollment therein, shall be exempt from military duty, except in cases of insurrection or invasion.
- Every person actually employed by the year or season on board any vessel, or in the merchant service coasting trade in this Territory, all fireman attached to supply engines, and all other firemen belonging to any company in any city or village in this Territory, not exceeding twenty-four in number, attached to a fire engine, unless, in cases otherwise especially provided, shall be exempt from military duty, and also all ferrymen actually employed on post roads, not exceding two in number, to each ferry, except in cases of war, insurrection or invasion.