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Senate Committee on Militia - 8th R.S. (1859)

Committee Members
Forbes N. Britton, Chair
Benjamin Neal, Chair
George Bernard Erath
Claiborne Caleb Herbert
Steward Miller
Alexis Theodore Rainey
Chauncy Shepard
Charges
• Report on the militia law of the state and what amount of money will be required for purchase of arms and munitions of war necessary to put the state in a position of complete defense.*

Note:
Britton listed as Chair in committee reports, 8th R.S. and Extra Session. Miller added 1/22/1861 (Senate Journal, 8th Extra Session, pp. 5-6).
Neal added 3/19/1861 to the various committees on which Britton had been placed, Neal identified as Chair in committee report 4/1/1861 (Senate Journal, 8th Adjourned, pp. 112, 141).

* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.

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