before the thirty-first of December of each year, including a detailed statement of all expenditures for military purposes during that year, and shall also make a biennial report to the General Assembly. He shall when necessary, and at the expense of the State, cause the military law, the regulations governing the National Guard of the State, and the Articles of War of the United States, to be printed, indexed and bound in proper and compact form, and distributed to the commissioned officers of this State at the rate of one copy to each officer; and to each commissioned officer of the general headquarters he shall issue one copy of the necessary text-books, and a copy also of the annual reports concerning the active militia. He shall cause to be prepared and issued all necessary blank books, blanks, forms and notices required to carry into full effect the provisions of this chapter. All such books and blanks shall be and remain the property of the State. Allowance for clerical work and printing. The Adjutant General shall have such assistants, clerks and employees as may be prescribed by the commander in chief. The Adjutant General shall perform such other duties not herein specified as may be required of him by the military laws and regulations or by the commander in chief. The Adjutant General shall be allowed all such necessary expenses as may be incurred for clerk hire, and for printing, and for making the blank forms, books, orders and reports required in his office, not to exceed one thousand dollars, and out of said sum he may employ the executive clerk, when not required by the Governor, at a salary of twenty-five dollars per month.
Quartermaster general and assistants.
4867. The Quartermaster General and assistants.
First. The Quartermaster General may have two assistants, one with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and one with the rank of Major, and one military storekeeper, who shall be a quartermaster with the rank of Captain. These officers shall be appointed and commissioned by the Governor upon the recommendation of the Quartermaster General, and shall at the time of their appointment be officers in active service in the National Guard of the State, and shall be entitled to the rights and privileges of officers of the National Guard of corresponding rank. The Quartermaster General shall have the necessary clerks and employees, not exceeding four, and as many laborers as may be required from time to time. The clerks and employees shall be appointed and the laborers hired, with the approval of the Governor, by the Quartermaster General.
Bonds of assistants and of store-keeper. Second. The Quartermaster General may require his assistants and the military storekeeper to give bonds with sufficient security in not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000) each to the people of the State, conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties, such bonds to be approved by the Governor and Adjutant General, and filed in the latter’s office.
