Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-05-03
THE CONSUMPTION ACT.

the Consumption Act, are published by authority for
the information of the public:
H. ENROLMENT AND DISPOSITION OF RECRUITS.
l. An officer not below the rank of major will be
detailed for each State to take charge of the enroll
ment, mastering in, subsistence, transportation and
disposition Of the recruits raised under this act
2. Application will he made Immediately to the
governors of the several States for permission to
poy State officers for said enrolment; and in case
such permission be not granted, officers of the army
will be selected by the department to perform that
duty under such regulations as may be prescribed
Where State officers employed the regulations of
the respective States in regard to military enrolment
will be observed as far as applicable.
3. The enrolled men in each State will be collected
IN camps of instruction by the officers in command
OF the recruits, the said camps to be selected with
reference to health and the facilities for obtaining
subsistence and transportation. The number Of
these camps shall not exceed two in each State
without authority from the department. and to each
will be allowed quartermaster and a commissary
T. The commandments ofthe camps ofinstructon in
the several States will call upon the generals
handing the military. departments in which their
camps may be situated for competent drill officers to
instruct the recruits and will prepare them for the
held as rapidly as possible They will cause them to
be promptly vaccnatcd, and in ordering them to the
field WILL as far as practicable prefer those who have
passed through the usual camp diseases. They will
establish hospitals in connection with their camps,
and stores as may be required
b. The commandments of regiments, battalIons
SquadronS and unattached companies in service, on
the 10th instant, will send copies of their muster
rolls to the commandant of the proper camp of in
structiOn in their respective States, with officers to
take charge of such recruits may be furnished to
said corps. The said commandments will apportion
the recruits among such corps in proportion to the
deficiency Of each, except when otherwise specially
directed by the department, aOttng, as far prac-
tcabe, to each such corps the from the regions
of country in which it has been raised. They will
from time to time send off such bodies of recruits
as ready for the field and will report on the
first Monday of every month the number of recruits
in camp, their condition. the number sent off during
the month, and the regiments and corps to which
they were sent
g. The Commandants of regiments and corps will
distribute the recruits among their several COM
panies and in such as have not the number of COM
panles allowed by law to a regiment, the said CON-
mandants may organize the required number OF new
companies, after first filling up the existing COM
panies TO the minimum numbers required by law:
that Is to say, for each company of infantry, sixty
four prvates of cavalry, sixty privaes artillery,
seventy privatcS.
T. The recruits will be apportioned among the
several arms Of service according TO their respective
wants, consulting as far as practicable, the prefer
cncc of the men. Where greater number offer for
particular arm than he assigned to it. the dis
trioutiOn will be determined by lot but recruits for
the cavalry will only be taken from those who
furnish their own horses.
Ill. VOLUNTEERS FOR EXISTING CORPS.
8 Persons liable to military service under the
above act, not in service OH the 10th Of April, and
wishing 10 volunteer in any particular company In
thc Confederate service on the 10th day of April,
may report themselves, prior to their enrolment at
a camp Of instruction within their respective States,
where they will be enrolled, prepared for the field
and sent 20 the SAID company, until the same shall
Ice flied up
D. Recruiting officers NAV by detailed, with the
permission of the generals commanding military
departments 10y the cOmmandantS of regiments and
corps, and sent TO their respective States for the
purpose of receiving for such regiments and corps,
in conformity with recruiting regulations heretofore
adopted, general order No o. volunteers desiring
TO join them. Such volunteers may be assembled
at the camps CONSTRUCTION in their respective States
prepared for the field, ard sent their respective
regiments and corps until the same shall be filled
up, or If ready for the field may be ordered direct
ly to their corps by the officer so recruiting them.
". VOLUNTEER CORPS HERETOFORE AUTHORIZED.
10. Persons liable to military service under this
act aud not in service on the 10th day of April
may, until the 18th day of May next volunteer in
corps heretofore authorized to be raised by the
Secretary of War, by the Executive of any State
as part Of the quota thereof in pursuance of call
made upon such State by the President. Persons
authorized to receive such corps who may not on
that day have the necessary number Of enrolled
and mustered into according to the terms of
their authority, will proceed with their men to
camp OF instruction in their respective States and
will deliver their muster rolls TO the commandment
thereof
IL. The commandments of such corps as are COM
pleted on or before the 18th day of May, and not
otherwise ordered, will report to the commandants
of the recruits OF their respective States, and with
their corps will be placed by him in a camp of in
struction and reported Immediately to the depart
ment. Such corps will be under the command Of
the commandants of recruits i'll their respective
States, and will be prepared for the field in like
manner with the recruits until removed from the
camp. They will only be moved under orders from
the department. from the commanding general of the
army, in urgent from the commanding
general of the military department in which the
camps may be situated and in such cases report will
Immediately be made to the department by the Off
Ger in command of the camp.
V. ADDITIONAL CORPS GUERRILLA SERVICE.
IL. Under the prohibition of this act against the
organization of new corps, further authority for
that purpose can be given, except that specially pro-
vided for in the act of Congress, entitled An act
to organize bands Of partizan rangers" For this
latter purpose applications must be made through
the commanding generals of the military depart
men!s in which the said corps are to be employed.
VI RE ORGANIZATION OF TWELVE MONTHS CORPS.
Is. All regiments, battalions, squadrons and COM
panes of twelve months volunteers will re-organize
within forty days from the 10th of April by elect
ing all their officers which they had right hereto
fore to elect and on such days the brigade CON-
mander may prescribe, and the SAID brigade COM
manders hereby ordered to fix and announce
the day for such reorganization practical
ble No person who is to be discharged under the
provisions of the act will take part in such election.
IA. The form of holding and certifying the cleo
tons will be in conformity with the laws of the
State from which the men, the major part thereof
may GOMEZ and when the election of field officers is
to be made by company officers, the latter will be
first elected All certificates of election will be
turned to the Adjutant Generals Office and the Off
GERS will be commissioned by the President. They
will. however. receiving conY of the certificate