Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-05-07
THE CONSUMPTION ACT.

THE CONSUMPTION ACT Is
l. Thefollowing regulations Of the War Depart
ment in relations to the act of Congress knownsas
the CONSUMPTION Act are published by authority for
the information Of the public: So sss,. VA
I il. ENROLMENT AND DISPOSITION OF RECRUITS. (,
1. An officer not below therank Of major will be-
detailed for each State to take charge of the enrol
ment, mastering in, subsistence, transportation and
disposition Of the recruits raised under this act.
L a @ Application will be made immediately to the
governors of the several States for permission to en-
ploy 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. I. *
8. 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 a quartermaster and commissary
4 The commandments of the camps of instruction in
the several States will call upon the generals COM
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
field as rapidly as possible. They will cause them to
be promptly vaccnated and, in ordering them to the
field will, as far practicable prefer those who have
passed through the usual camp diseases. They will
establish hospitals in connection with their camps,
and make requsition for such medical attendance
and stores as may be required.
5. The commandants of regiments, battallons
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 commandants will apportion
the recruits among such corps in proportion to the
deficiency of each, except when otherwise specially
directed by the department. allotting as far as prac
tcable to each such corps the men from the regions
of country in which it has been raised. They will
from time to time send off such bodies of recruits
as are 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 Oft 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 have not the number of COM
panies allowed by law to reg ment the said COM
mandants may organize the required number OF new
companies, after first filling up the existing
| panles to the minimum numbers required by law:
that is to say for each company Of infantry, sixty
four prvates; of cavalry sixty privates artillery,
| seventy privates.
T. The recruits will be apportoned among the
several of service according to their respective
wants, consulting, as far as practicable, the prefer
| ence of the men. Where greater number offer for
particular arm than can he assigned to it, the dis
tribution will be determined by lot but recruits for
| the cavalry will only be taken from those who
| furnish their own horses.
III. VOLUNTEERS FOR EXISTING CORPS.
| s. Persons liable to military service under the
above act, not in service the 10th of April, and
| wishing to volunteer in any particular company IN
the Confederate service, the 10th day of April,
may report themselves prior to their enrolment, at
camp of instruction within their respective States,
where they will be enrolled, prepared for the field,
and sent to the SAID company, until the shall
be filled up.
| Q. Recruiting officers NAV by detailed with the
| permission of the generals commanding military
| departments by the commandments Of regiments and
corps, and sent to their respective States for the
purpose of receiving tor such reg mentS and corps
conformity with recruiting sulationS heretofore
adopted, general order No. - volunteers desiring
| to join them Such volunteers may be assembled
at the camps ofinstruction in their respective States
prepared iur tue field ard sent to their respective
| regiments and corps until the shall be filled
up if ready for the field, may be ordered direct
ly to their corps by the officer recruiting them.
". VOLUNTEER CORPS HERETOFORE AUTHORIZED
TO- 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 ar, 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 men 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 comnandant
! thereof.
| H. The commandants of such corps as are COM
pleed on or before the 18th day of May, and not
| otherwise ordered, will report to the commandments
of the recruits of their respective States, and with
| their corps, will be placed by him in a camp of in
struc,ion, aud reported Immediately to the depart
! mcnt Such corps will be under the command of
the commantants of recruits in 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 or in urgent cases 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.
| ". ADDITIONAL CORPS GUERRILLA SERVICE.
70. Under the prohibition of this act against the
organization of new corps, no further authority for
that purpose can be given, except that specially pro-
yided for in the act of Congress, entitled IAN 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.
10. All regiments battalions, squadrons and COM
NAMES of twelve months volunteers will reorganize
within forty days from the 10th of April by elect
;no all their officers which they had right hereto
fore to elect and on such days as the brigade COM
mander may prescribe and the SAID brig ade COM
manders are hereby ordered to fix and announce
the day for such reorganization as soon practica
BILE. No person who is to be discharged under the
provisions of the act will take part in such election.
H. The form of holding and certifying the cleo
tions will be in conformity with the laws of the
State from which the men, the major part thereof
may come; 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 re-
turned to the Adjutant Generals office, and the off,
cers will he commissioned by the President. They