The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1862-08-09
THE CONSUMPTION LAW.
A BI1M TO BIS ENTITLED IAN ACT TO FURTHER
PROVIDE Eon TIE PUBLIC DEFENCE"


service our gallant army, and nt placing IN
the 1eld large additional force to meet the
advancing columns or the enemy now lnvad-
ing our soil therefore,
SEoTIoN /. The Congress Of the CoJede-
rate States Of America DO enact, mat the
President be, and hereby authorized 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 men who are residents Of the Confed'
crate States between the ages of eighteen
and thirty-tive years at the time the call or
calls may be made who are not legally ex-
empted from military service All of the
persons aforesaid who are not now in the
service of the OUnfedeTOty, and whose term
of service will expire before the end of the
wal, land shall be continued in the service for
three years frou the date OF their original
enlistment. unless the war shall have been
sooner ended; Provided, however, That all
such companies, battalOns and regiments,
whose terms of original enlistment we're for
twelve months. shall have the, right within
forty days on n day to be fixed by the com
mander of the brigade TO re-organize SAID
companies, battalions and re iments by elect
ing their officers, which they had right
hereto fore to elect, Who shall be commission
el by the President: Provided, furti err, J hat
furlouphs rot exceed ng sixty days, with
granted to all those retained in the services
by the provisions of this act beyond the
period O their original enlistment. and who
have heretofore not received Burroughs under
the provisions f an act entitled IAN act
providing for the granting of bounty and
fnrioughs to privates and non-commssioned
officers in the Provisional Army" approved
18th December, eighteen hundred and sixty
one, said furloughs to be gran ed at such
in rtah M hpra gg the SpQrptprp
of War may deem most coln. aub,e with the
public interest; and Provide further, That
bn lieu of a furlough the cUmu alton value In
money of the transportation herein above
mrnnted shall be paid to each private, nu-
Riciar, or non-commissioned officer who may
elect 10 receive 1t at such time as the fur
Lough would otherwise be grPntrd: Prov lded.
further That all persons under he are OF
eighteen years, or over The age of thirty-fiye
years, who are now enrolled in the military
Aervice of the Confederate st ltes in the
regiments, battalions and companies here
after to be organized, shall be required to
remain in their respective cou anles, bat
Aslions and regiments for nintey days, unless
their places can be supplied by other re-
ewuits n / now in the service, who are be-
tween she ages of eighteen and thirry-fve
year,, and all laws and parts Of laws provi-
dinftor Lha eenllstmenL 81 IaalHa
nmuod Ons, battalions or reg ments, shall BIZ
asld the same are hereby, repealed.
SRa. g. Be IL further enacted, That such
companies, sQuadrons, battalons, or regi-
menis organized, or in process of organiza
kon by authhrity from the Secretary of War,
M may be within thirty days from passage
Of shis act 80 far completed as 10 have the
whole number of men requisite tor organiKa-
hon actually enrolled, not embracing in said
hhmll be mustered into the service OF the
Confederate STATED az part Of the land forces
Of the same, to be received In that arm: of
the service III which they are authorized to
or5aniSe, and shall elect their company bat
TALON and regimental Office -.
6Ro. 3 Be 1t further e'tdatrd, That for the
enrolment Of all persons cOmprehended
within the provisions OF Lhi5 ac,, who are
NOT already 10 service III the armies of tie
Confederate States, it shall be lawful for the
President, with the consent II the Govern rs
Of the States, to employ State officers, and
OH failu Q 10 Obtain such usent, he shall
employ Confederate officers, charged with the
duty of making such enrolment IN accord
snee with rules and reguiat uns to be pre-
wmUibsd by law.
SRc. 4. Be IL further enacted, That per-
SONS enrolled under the provisions of
the preceding section, shall be assigned
by the Secretary of War to the different
companies now in ryice until each
company il filled its maximum num-
ber, and the persons so enrolled shall
be assigned to companies from the States
frem which they respectively come.
SEo. 5. Be it further enacted, That
all seamsn aud ordinary seamen in the
Confederate States, enrolled under the
provisions Of this act, may on applica-
zion Of the Secretary of the Navy, be
transferred from the land forces to the
naval service.
SIC. q. BE it further enacted, That in
all cases where State may not have in
the army q number Of regiments, bat
MlinnS, sQuadrons or companies Suili-
oient to absorb the number OF persons
subject to military service under this
act, belonging to such StaSe, then the
residue or excess thereof shall be kept
no reserve, under such regulations Us
may be established by the Secretary of
war, and that at stated periods OF not
greater than three months, details, de-
Iermined by lot, shall be made from
Eaid reserve, so that each company
shall, as nearly as practicable, be kept ,
fWll Provided, That the persons held