Under the authority of an act entitled "An act to authorize the embodying and equipment of a volunteer militia, and to provide for the public defence," passed by the Legislature of this State on the 16th day of April instant, and in compliance with the formal determination of the officers named in the said act, I do hereby call for twenty-one regiments of volunteer militia, of 780 men each, in addition to the number already called for by my proclamation, under date of the 18th of April instant, and I do hereby require that the volunteer militia force shall hereafter be organized and accepted in conformity with section two of the Constitution of this State, and with the rules and regulations in general orders No. 17, issued this day.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the privy seal of the State, at the city of Albany, this twenty-fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
[L. S.] Edwin D. Morgan.
By the Governor:
Lockwood L. Doty, Private Secretary.