Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-12-18

prlvateS required by law, except those nov
in actual service, or already ordered into ac
tual service, be, and the same are hereby
dissolved; and that all persons liable to dc
ordinary militia duty under this act, and pat
rol duty under the provisions of this act, OIL
under any act shall be entitled to vote in al
company, battalion and regimental elections
SIC. 9. That upon any proclamation or or.
der from the Governor and COMMANDMENTS
chief calling for troops, the commandant oI
each militia regiment, not excepted in this
act, shall forwith assemble his command at
the usual muster ground, and proceed to exc,
cute the acquisitions thereof; and that officers
commanding beat or volunteer militia compa-
nieS, and if there be no such commissioned
officers, then sone.suitable person appointed
by the commandant OF the regiment, shall
forthwith take, or cause to be taken, a cen
sus Of ell persons liable to militia daty un.
der this act, residing within their respective
beats, and make out roll Of the samc and
also separate rolls of those between eighteen
and forty.iive, and Of those who have voun-
teered from said beats, and are in the service
of this State or the Confederate States; and
shall return copies of said rolls to the com
mandant Of the regiment and to the Adju.
tant and Inspector General of the State, and
for default in making said returns within ten
days after being required to. do so by the or
der of any superior officer, they shall each be
liable to fine of fifty dollars to be imposed
and recovered as provided for by the militia
laws Of this State.
SIC. 10. That Immediately after the passage
Of this act, it shall be the duty Of the Adju-
tant and Inspector General, and he is hereby
required, to issue an order for elections to fill
Offices in the various companies and rcgi-
mets. baitslions or squadrons of the militia
Of this State, which order shall be published
in The newspapers Of this State, and there
upon the commanding officers Of said corps
shall extend said order to their respective
commands; and said elections shall be con-
Quoted in the manner provided by the militia
laws of this State, and in the tir:e required
by said order; and tic managers OF said e'cc.
tiuns shall forthwith, return the result thereof
III writing, to the commantlant Of the regi-
mcnt, who shall Immediately transmit Il c py
of tie same to the adjntaat and inspector
general.
Sec. II. That the corporate limits Of any
town containing not less than five hundred,
nor more than two thousand five hundred in
habtants, including slaves and free parsons
of color, shall constitute a separate militia
beat: and it shall be the duty Of the inhabi-
tan.s of all such towns corporate, who are IL
able to militia duty under the provisions Of
this act, to organize themselves into CORA
pany, to lie attached TO the regiment in which
such town is situated, unless any such town
is divided by regimental lines, i'll which case
the company therein organized may elect the
regiment to which they shall be attached and
the companies thus organized shall be subject
to all the provisions Of this act, as other Mill
tin beat companies.
SIC. - That the companies which have
been, or may be. accepted by the Governor,
under TIC resolution passed at the called scs-
sion Of this General Assembly, sl:all not be
subject to The Gail for volunteers, or 70 the
draft hcrcinbeGorc provided for, but shall be
organized by him, in pursuance Of said res
olution, into regiments, battalions Or squad
rons.
SEc. L.. That Tic Qaartermaster General
and Commissary General of this State shall
each be entitled to one assistant, with the rank
and pay OF captain Of infantry, and as many
other assistants, with the pay of first sergeant,
as the Governor may deem necessary 10: the
efficient administration of their departments;
and that the Adutant and Inspector General
shall be allowed, if deemed necessary by The
Governor to employ clerk a; a sam not cx
cccding sixty dollars per month.
SEC. L. That the troops raised within the
limits Of the fourth military division, and or,
ganizad under the name Of the Pee Dee Lac.
gion, be, and the same are hereby, exempt
ell from the operation of this act; Prosidcd
they shall, within twenty days from the rati.
fca,ion hereof, file in the office of the AdjI
tant and Inspector General a roll OF such com
panics as may be willing to be mustered into
Confederate service, under the provisions d
an act Of the Confederate Congress, entitled
an act to provide for local defence and spc.
cial scrvicc approved the twenty.frst day Of
August, in the year Of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixry.one: and shall, II
the meantime continue in The service in which
they are now employed: .lm' Prorh3ed, tka
! such troops as shall not be mustered into thC
Confederate service, as aforesaid, shall be sub
ject to all the provisions OF this act.
SEr. Is. That all pc:iioas liable to miltar,
duty under the provisions Of this act, who
shall make default when summoned into ac
tual service shall be liable to such punish
mcnt, short Of death, as may be imposed l.,
q courtrmartial, according to the Articles o