Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-10-07
THE CoNscRIPT1oN LAW.

BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT FURTHER PROVIDE
s,.. THE PUBLIC DEFENCE"
In view OF the exgeuces of the country and the abso
Iute necessity o. the service gallant army,
and OF placing in the field large additional force to meet
the advancing columns of the enemy now invading our
SECTION /. The Congress of tie Cnf1erots States of
AecL do enact That the President be- and is hereby an
thorzed to call out and place in the military service Of the
Confederate States for three years. unless the war shall
have been sooner ended all white are residents
of the Confederate States between the ages eighteen and
thlrtyhve years at the time the call calls be made
who not legally exempted from military service All
of the persons aforesaid who in the armies of
the Confectionery and whose term of service will expire be-
fore the end of the shall be continued in service for
three years from the date of their original enlistment un
less the shall have been ended Provided how
That all such companies battaions and regiments
whose terms of original enlistment were for twelve months
shall have the right within forty DAYS on day to he fixed
by The commander OF the brigade to reorganze said
panes battaons and regiments by eecting their officers
which they had right heretofore elect who shall be COM
mssioned by the President Provided further That fur
Oughs not exceeding sixty days. with transportation home
and back shall be granted all those retained in the SER
vice by the provisions of this beyond the period of
their original enlistment and who have heretofore not re-
ceved Burroughs under the provisions of entitled
An act providing for the granting of bounty and fur
loughs to private and noneOmmissoned officers in the
Provisional Army, approved 18th December, eighteen
hundred and sxyOne said uroughs granted at such
and in such numbers the Secretary of War NAV
deem most compatible with the public interest and Prev
died. further That in lieu of urlough the Communication
value in money of the hereiuabove granted
shall be paid to each private musician noncOmmsson
ed officer who may elect to receive it at such as the
furlOugh would otherwise be granted Provided further
That all under the age of eighteen or over
the age OF hryhTe years who are now enrolled in the
military service of the Confederate States in the regiments
battaOns and companies hereafter to be organized shall
be required to remain in their respective companies bat
taUns and regiments for ninety day unless their places
can be supplied by other recruits in the
service who between the ages of eighteen and thirty
five years. and all laws and parts laws providing for the
reensment OF volunteers aud the organization thereof
into companies, squadrons baalions regiments shall
be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That such companies
squadrons battaOns regiments organized or in process
OF organization by the authority from the Secretary War;
as may be within thirty days from the passage of this act
50 far completed as TO have the whole number of
qulsite for organization actually enrolled embracing
In SAID organization any persons now in service shall be
mustered INTO the of the Confederate States
of the land forces of the same be received in that arm
OF the service in which they authorized organize and
shall elect their company battalion and regimena officers
SEC. 3. Be further enacted, That for the enrolment
of all persons cOnprehended within the provisions of this
act who are not already service in the armies of the Con-
ederae States it shall be lawful for the President with
the consent of the Governors of the respective States
employ State officers and, in failure obtain such con-
SENT he shall employ Confederate officers charged with the
duty of making such enrolment in accordance with rules
and regulations % be prescribed by him.
SEC 4 Be IL further enacted Plat persons enrolled
der the provisions OF the preceding section shall be
signed by the Secretary of War the different companies
now in service until each company filled to its maximum
number and the pers enrolled shall be assigned to
companies from the States from which they respectively
come.
SEC 5. Be it urt&er endcte That all seamen and ordi
enrolled under the provisions of this act may apphca
ton of the Secretary of the Navy be transferred from the
land forces TO the naval service
SEC s. Be u turthe, enacted That in all cases where
State may not have the army number Of regiments
squadronS or companies sufficient to absorb the
number OF persons subject military service under this
act belonging to such State, then the residue
therof shall be kept reserve under such regulations
be established by the Secretary of War and that
at stated periods of than three months details
determined by lot shall be made from said
company shall as nearly as practicable be kept full
he hold
home until called into service by the President PrOUbed
dS That during their stay at home they shall not receive
pay Pr0Uded FURTHER, That the persons comprehendd
this shall be subject the rules and articles of
war until mustered into the actual of the COnede
ae states except that SAID persons, when enrolled and
liable to duty If they shall wfuly refuse to obey said
CALL each of them shall be held to be deserter and
shed as such under said articles PrOCided further,
That whenever in the opinion OF the President, the
gehces of the public service may require it, he shall be
authorized to call into actual the entire reserve
so much may be necessary previously assigned
different companies in service under provision section
four of this act said shall be organized under such
rules as the Secretary of War adopt ProDded The
company battalion and regmenta offices shall be elected
by the troops composing the ProUide The troops
raised in State shall not tie combined in regmena
battalion, squadron company organization with troops
raised in any other States.
SEC z. Be IL fa,tAer enacted. That all soldiers now
serving in the army mustered the military service
of the Confederate States enrolled in said service under
the authorizations heretofore issued by the Secretary of
War and who are continued in the service by virtue of
this act who have received the bounty of fifty dollars
allowed by existing laws shall be entitled to receive said
bounty.
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted That each man who NAV
hereafter be mustered into the service and who shall
himself with musket shot gun, rifle carbne, accepted
as an efficient weapon shall be paid the value thereof to
ascertaned by the mastering officer under such regua
tons be prescribed by the Secretary of War; if he
willing to sell the and if he not then he shall
be entitled to receive dollar month for the ofsaid
received and approved musket rifle, shot gun carbne
SEC g. BE further enacted That persons not liable for
may DC reserved as substitutes lot tnose VINO are
under such regulations be prescribed by the Secre
tary of war.