CHAP. 623.—An ACT to prescribe the mode of appointment, term
of office and duties of the adjutant-general.

Approved March 3, 1892,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That sections three hundred and fifty-two and three hun-
dred and seventy-three of the code of Virginia, chapter
Lwenty-one, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 352. Liability of officers not affected by resignation.—
Until an officer, or his legal representative, receive from
the adjutant-general notice that the property accounts of
such officer have been examined and found correct, the
liability of such officer, or of his estate, for public pro-
perty, for which he is responsible, shall be in no way
affected by resignation, discharge, change in Official posi-
tion or death. Upon the death or desertion of an officer
responsible for public property, his immediate commander
shall at once cause the property for which such officer was
responsible to be collected, and a correct inventory made
by actual count and examination; which inventory shall
be forwarded to the adjutant-general, in order that any
deficiency may be made good from the estate of the de-
ceased or deserting officer. Compensation for such defi-
ciency may be recovered in the manner provided in sec-
tion three hundred and fifty. The adjutant-general shall
examine all the accounts mentioned in this section within
sixty days after the return is made, and notify at once the
officer, or his legal representative, of the result of said
examination. If the adjutant-general approves the ac-
counts, the officer, or his legal representative, shall be
acquitted and released of all pecuniary liability.

§ 373. Appointment of adjutant-general; his salary;
duties of adjutant-general.—The governor of the state shall
appoint the adjutant-general, whose term of office shall be
during the term of the governor appointing him. The
salary of the adjutant-general shall be fifteen hundred
dollars per annum. The adjutant-general shall distribute
all orders from the commander-in-chief; attend at all
public reviews when the commander-in-chief shall review
the Virginia volunteers, or any part thereof; obey all
orders from him relative to carrying into execution and
perfecting the system of military discipline established by
the laws of the state and of the United States; furnish
blank forms for the different returns and rolls as may be
required; receive from the several officers of the different
corps throughout the state returns of the Virginia volun-
teers under their command, reporting the actual condition
of their uniforms, arms, accoutrements and ammunition,
their delinquencies, and every other thing which relates
to the advancement of good order and discipline; all of
which the several officers of the Virginia volunteers are
hereby required to make, so that the adjutant-general may
be furnished therewith; and from all said returns he shall
make proper abstracts, and Jay the same annually before
the commander-in-chief; and he shall annually, on or
before the first Monday in January, make a return in du-
plicate of the Virginia volunteers of the state, with the
condition of their uniforms, arms, accoutrements and
ammunition, according to such directions as he may
receive from the secretary of war of the United States,
one copy of which he shall deliver to the commander-in-
chief, and the other of which he shall transmit to the
president of the United States.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.