Number of brigades. The brigades compose one division. New counties, how attached. Staff of Staff of SEC. 2003. The National Guard of this State is organized into six brigades, each commanded by a Brigadier General, as follows: First Brigade-San Diego, Los Angeles, San Bernar dino, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Monterey Counties; Second Brigade-Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Mateo. San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Sonoma, Solano, Napa, and Lake Counties; Third Brigade-San Joaquin, Mariposa, Tuolumne, Fresno, Stanislaus, Calaveras, Merced, Mono, Inyo, Kern. and Tulare Counties; Fourth Brigade-Sacramento, Yolo, Sutter, El Dorado, Alpine, Amador, Placer, Nevada, Yuba, and Sierra Counties; Fifth Brigade-Butte, Plumas, Lassen, Colusa, Tehama, Shasta, Trinity, and Siskiyou Counties; Sixth Brigade-Mendocino, Humboldt, Del Norte, and Klamath Counties. SEC. 2004. The six brigades of the National Guard compose a division, commanded by a Major General. SEC. 2005. New counties hereafter organized must be attached to the respective brigade in which the larger portion of such new county is now located. SEC. 2006. The staff of the Major General consists of one Assistant Adjutant General, one Engineer Officer, one Ordnance Officer, one Quartermaster, one Commissary, one Paymaster, one Division Inspector, one Judge Advocate, and one Surgeon, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, two Aides-de-Camp, with the rank of Major, and four Staff Orderlies, with the rank of Sergeant Major, who are appointed by and hold office at the pleasure of the Major General. SEC. 2007. The staff of each General of Brigade consists of one Assistant Adjutant General, one Engineer Officer, one Ordnance Officer, one Quartermaster, one Commissary, one Paymaster, one Brigade Inspector, one Judge Advocate, and one Surgeon, with the rank of Major, one Aide-de-Camp, with the rank of Captain, and two Staff Orderlies, with the rank of Sergeant Major, who are appointed by the Brigadier General, and hold office at his pleasure. ARTICLE V. PARADES AND DRILLS. SECTION 2018. Parades, time of. 2019. Public receptions and celebrations. 2020. Companies parading with less than thirty members 2021. Exemptions from arrest. 2022. Drills, regimental and battalion, time of. 2023. Companies failing to report may be disbanded. 2024. Cavalry drills. 2025. Drill of regiment not concentrated. 2026. Company drills, time of. 2027. Company drills in Sacramento and San Francisco. 2028. Penalty for absence from company drills. 2029. Book to be kept showing who was present at company drills. time of. SEC. 2018. The National Guard of California must Parades, parade at least three times in each year: 1. On the fourth day of July, by regiment or battalion, if practicable; 2. On the ninth day of September, by battalion, if prac ticable; 3. In the month of May, by companies, for target prac tice. SEC. 2019. Upon receptions or upon the celebration of any event of public importance the commanding officer of the brigade may order out any portion of the National Guard under his command to join in such parade. Public receptions and cele brations. SEC. 2020. Any company parading at any of the Companies parades or drills in this Article provided for with a less number than thirty-two rank and file, must be reported parading with less members than thirty may bo to the Adjutant General, and by him notified to the Com- disbanded. Exemptions from arrest. Drills, regimental and battalion, time of. Companies failing to report may be mander in Chief, who in his discretion may disband the same. SEC. 2021. No person under military orders for parade, drill, or other military service, is subject to arrest on civil process while going to, returning from, or on such parade. SEC. 2022. Commanders of regiments and battalions must assemble their commands for battalion drills at least once in each year, exclusive of the legal brigade, regimental, or battalion parades. SEC. 2023. Any company failing to report for duty at such assemblage must be reported to the Adjutant Genedisbanded. ral, who must notify the same to the Commander in Chief, who may in his discretion disband it. Cavalry drills. Drill of regiment not concentrated. Company drills, time of. Company Penalty for absence from company drills. SEC. 2024. Cavalry must drill, mounted, at least twice in each year. SEC. 2025. When regiments are not concentrated, a portion of the companies may be assembled for battalion drill. SEC. 2026. Each company must assemble at least once a month for drill or military instruction. SEC. 2027. The companies located in the City and County of San Francisco and in the City of Sacramento must assemble once a week for drill. SEC. 2028. All officers or members who absent themselves from three consecutive assemblages without an excuse acceptable to the commanding officer, are debarred from the privileges and exemptions provided for members of the National Guard; and if a non-commissioned officer or private is reported to the commanding officer of the regiment or battalion as having so absented himself, he may, upon the recommendation of the commanding officer of the company to which he belongs, be expelled the service. SEC. 2029. Commanders of companies must keep a book, in which must be entered the number of officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, respectively, Book to be present at each drill. kept show- CHAPTER III. CALLING AND DRAFTING THE MILITIA INTO ACTUAL SERVICE. SECTION 2039. Militia, when and by whom it may be called into actual service. 2040. Same. 2041. Call, how made. 2042. Duty of officer to whom order is directed. 2043. Same. 2044. Same. 2045. Organization of companies, etc., and election of officers. 2047. Commander in Chief may assign volunteers to com- 2048. Organization and command of troops from different 2049. When draft may be ordered. 2050. Who to superintend draft. 2051. Persons drafted to rendezvous. 2052. Election of officers. 2053. Refusing to rendezvous, penalty for. 2054. Companies, how attached. 2055. Drafted men may be enrolled in existing companies. 2057. Same. 2058. Same. 2059. Rules governing conduct of troops when called out to suppress insurrection, etc. 2060. Duration of commissions of officers called into actual service. 2061. Vacancies occurring in actual service, how filled. 2063. Same, for personal bravery in battle, etc. 2064. Rules to govern militia when in actual service. SEC. 2039. In case of war, insurrection, or rebellion, or of resistance to the execution of the laws of this State, or upon the call or requisition of the President of the United States, or upon the call of any officer of the Militia, when and by whom it may be called into actual service. Same. Call, how made. Duty of officer to whom order is directed. Same. United States army commanding a division, department, or district in California, or upon the call of any United States Marshal in California, or of the chief executive officer of any city, or of any Sheriff, the Commander in Chief is authorized to call into active service any portion of the National Guard or enrolled militia. SEC. 2010. In case of the absence of the Commander in Chief from the Capital, or if it is impossible to immediately communicate with him, the civil or military officer making the requisition for troops may, if he deem the danger imminent and not admitting of delay, serve a copy of such requisition, together with a statement of the Governor's absence or the impossibility of immediately communicating with him, upon the Major General, or, in his absence, upon the General of the Brigade, who is authorized to exercise, with respect to calling out the troops of his division or brigade, the powers conferred in this section upon the Governor; but if the call is disapproved by the Governor, the troops so called into service must be immediately disbanded. SEC. 2041. Such call must be made by an order issued and directed to the commanding officer of the company, battalion, regiment, brigade, or division which is called into service, designating the particular troops called, the time and place of rendezvous, and the officer to whom they must report. SEC. 2042. If such order is directed to the Major General of Division, it must be immediately communicated to the Brigadier Generals, and by them to all the officers of their respective brigades. SEC. 2043. Every officer receiving such order must rendezvons and report for duty as herein directed; and every officer commanding an organized company or battalion of the National Guard, on receiving such order, must immediately proceed to notify the same to each individual of his command, by personal notice or by publication in some newspaper, or by the posting in public |