48-239. Call and organization of volunteers; discharge.
48-239
48-239. Call and organization of volunteers; discharge.Should the national guard of the state when so recruited be insufficientto fill the requirements of said requisition of the president, or whenadditional troops are needed for service, the governor may call forvolunteers from the reserve militia of the state, and provide for theirexamination and mobilization, and form the same into additional companies,battalions and regiments as may be required, and appoint and commissionofficers therefor; and said troops, when called for by the president of theUnited States and ordered into service thereof, shall serve within orwithout the state as he or she may direct, and during the time specified in saidcall or requisition; and where volunteers are called into the service ofthe state only, they shall be subject to the same discipline and penaltiesand receive the same pay as the regular national guard of the state; andsuch temporary volunteers shall be discharged when directed by thecommander in chief, or as soon as the emergency for which they wererequired has passed.
History: L. 1901, ch. 255, § 39; May 1; R.S. 1923, 48-239.