Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-02-22
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Il, raise North Cardinals QaotQ Of Con Tolerate
r. Troops passed by the State .coareation
1. Be Il ordaihed dc, That It shall be the duty
of the Governor, from time to time, to issue his
proclamation calling for volunteers to meet the re-
| QUESTIONS Of the Confederate Government now
made, or hereafter 10 be made: Pro1idcd hoeeser,
That volunteers heretofore in service re-enlsting,
shall have credit for the time they have served
Prooided, further, That said volunteers shalI-not
be for longer time than three years, and to be
sooner discharged in case the present war terminates
before the expiration of that time: a nd Prootded,
FURTHER That the Governor shall not be required TO
keep in the Confederate service more than the Tegu-
lar quota of North Carolina.
3. Be it, further ordained, That the Governor
shall call upon the counties TO furnish, by volunteer
ing, the necessary number Of troops, under the
present requistion, according to white population
ater credting them with the troops already i'm SER
vice. for three years the war; and their volunteers
for twelve months) to complete their respective
quotas, on or before the 18th of March, 1852. p
3. Be IL further ordained, That the Governor
shall require each Captain now in the service on or
before the 18th day of March, 1862 to return to the
Adjutant General list of the officers and men un-
der his command, with the county of the residence
of each at the time of his entry into service.
A. Be it further ordained, That the Governor
shall call upon the several captains Of volunteer
companies from North Carolina now in the field for
twelve months or officers in command of companies
TO muster their said companies for re enlistment,
and shall make known to them the earnest desire OF
this Convention and the people of North Carolina
that they shall enlist for three years the war, and
in order to forward this purpose, the captains OF
companies or officer in command of the company,
the occasion of such muster shall put the qdes-
ton distinctly to every officer and soldier belonging
thereto whether he will re-enlist for three years or
the war, not and those agreeing TO reenlist,
he will cause to subscribe roll containing such OBJ
LEGATION with their names and places Of residence
at the times of their first entry into service and the
signatures of the persons enlistng shall be as
binding as 1t they had been mustered into service,
which lists he will Immediately return to the office
ofsthe Adiutant General of the State.
5. BE IL further ordained, That volunteer COM
panies now in service re enlistng, may retain their
present organization, or re-organize at their OPP
tion and that all volunteers not reenlisting with
their present organization, shall be thrown into
companies and proceed to elect their company COM
| mssioned officers who shall be commissioned by
the Governor; and the company commissioned OIL
GERS shall elect their field officers: Prooded h01o-
euer That the commissions of all officers company
field who shall be reelected shall bear the dates
| Of their former commissions. >
G. Be it further ordained, That the Governor
shall have power to appoint captains and eutenants
to recruit men for the service aforesaid and to Or
ganize the so recruited into companies and regi-
| ments; and the company commissioned officers
shall in all cases elect their field officers under the
rules now prescribed Proridea, houerer, That no
person shall receive comnlissio pay under said
appointments, except as Pillows: When any person
shall tender forty privates, who in writing have
| agreed to serve under him, Captains commission
and pay and in like manner for twenty five pri.
Yates first Lieutenants commission and pay and
for fifteen privates second Leutenants commission
and pay.
Z. be it further ordained, That bounty of fifty
dollars, deducting the bounty already paid, shall be
paid by the State to all privates musicians and non
commissioned officers, whose term of service al
together shall be for three years the war; to be
paid at the following times, to-wt to all volunteers
now in service at the time of their reentry into SER
vice; to all now in service for three years the
war; at the expiration of their first years service
to all new volunteers, at the time of their entry
into service: Provided howeper, That any soldier
may permit his bounty to remain in the Treasury
and draw the same, with interest at the expiration
of one year from the time it is due or at the time
of his discharge: And provided further, That such
payments may be made in Treasury Notes, unless
otherwise provided for by law. E