The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1862-12-10
Explanations and Instructions as to the
CONSUMPTION and Exemption Laws, by
the AdIutant General.


the Adiutant General.
II. CommGndaMts Of COnsripts and Camps Of In
HH strWctiOn.
l. An officer, styled the Commandant Of Con-
scripts, will be appointed for each Stale, who will be
charged with the supervision of the enrolment and
disposition Of conscripts He will establish one or
more camps, in which conscrpts will be assembled
and instructed and may recommend for appointment
/, Surgeon, a Quartermaster, "a Commissary. and the
requisite number Of Dillmasters for each camp If
more than one camp be established, he may also
commend Commandant for each camp not under his
own immediate command.
@ hospital will be established, and hus for win
ter quarters constructed at each camp, and all con-
scripts assembled at the camps will be promptly vac
cinated, If il has not already been done.
3. The Commandant Of Conscipts will requirefrom
each camp a reportfon the first Monday in every
month"; showing the expenses the preceding month;
tho number Of conseripts in the camp; the number
received and sent away during the preceding month
the regiments battalons or companies to which they
were sent; the number transferred to the navy the
number OF sick the nature ofheir diseases, and The
number Of deaths. He will make consolidated
monthly report to the Adjutan aud unprecedented
OF the army.
4. The Commandants Of Conscripts east Of the
Mississippi river will receive orders only from the War
Department, and will not be in!erfered with by Cen
erals commanding departments alnies ia the field.
West fthe Mississippi they will report TO and receive
instructions from the Commanding. General Of the
Trans Mississippi department, who will require them
to conform as nearly possible to this Order and to
the regulations prescribed for commandants east of
theMississippi lie will make consolidated month.
y report to the Adutant andInspector General of the
army. ,
5. The commandants Of all regiments battalions,
squadrons or unattached companies which were in
service on the 9Th ofApril 1862 desiring to receive
conscripts, may transmit through the Aduant and
Inspector General Of the army, statements Of the
strength of their commands, to the Commandant of
Conscrips in their respective States, who, unless
otherwise ordered, WILL as far as practicable distribute
the conscrps of the State among its regiments, bat
taons and companies thereof, in proportion to their
respective deficiencies.
lie will consult the wishes Of the conscrpts in as
signing them to companies regiments lar as may
be consistent with their proper disr button, and will
not separate men from the same county, district or
parish, If it can be avoided The same rule will be
observed by the Commandants of corps in assigning
,conscrpts TO companies.
g. Conscripts for cavalry will only be taken from
those who furnish their own horses. No conscrpis
can be assigned to companies mustered into service
since the lbth OF April, Le62.
z. The Commandments of Conscripls are specially
enjoined to pay unceasing attention to lls health
comfort and instruction o the conscrpts under their
comnand and TO bear in mind that the efficiency q!
the army and the safety of The country depend in a
great measure upon their faithful discharge of these
= duties.
III. Enrolment Of Conscripfs.
All white male residents Of the Confederate States
between the ages OF eighteen and forty not exempted
by act Of Congress. not already in the SERVICE will
BE enrolled Persons liable to enrolment may be en-
rolled wherever they may be found, as provided BY
the Act No AZ. herewith published.
Nv. Undouiciled Foreigners
|. Foreigners not domiciled in the Confederate
States are not liable to enrolment. Domcil in the
Confederate States consists in residence with inten-
ton permanently to remain n those States, and 10
abandon domic elsewhere. Long residence Of itself
does not constitute domicil. A person may acquire
domicin less than one year, and he may not acquire
ii in. twenty years residence. IL there is deierm
ration to return to the native county and TO retain
the domic there, no length of residence can confer
domich.
The principal evidence of intention to remain ave
the declarations Of the party the exercise Of the right.
OF citizenship, marriage, aud the acquisition OF Tea
eslats but the intention may be gathered from Other
facts.
q The enrolment will he made by the enrolling
officers OF the State f the Governor thereof will per
NIT them TO act under the orders Of The ;ommandan
OF Conscrpts, and application will be made by IN,
said commandants for such permission. II IL lie de
clned, the Commandant will report the fact 10 III,
Adjutant and Inspector General and ask Tor the EN-
ployment Of Confederate officers for the purpose o
making enrollments. If the Governor consents hu
the enrolling officers Of the Stale be found unable
unwilling to discharge their duty efficiently, the lik
application will be made to the Adjutant and lnspec
tor General; and in such event, comm issioned ,fii
Ger for each Congressional district, and non-coml
missioncd officer or private ior each county, city
town, district or PARISH will be assigned to such dut
i In making such assignment, officers and men dsa;
bed by wounds from active duty in The field. and &C
quainled in the localities in which they are requires
TO serve, will as far as practicable, be selected Tn
commissioned officer in each district will superinten,
the enrollments and collection Of conscrip,s therein
Non commissioned officers and privaies while SO EN-
ployed. will be allowed pay as extra duty mdi. Th