The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1862-05-07
rpr coNscRIPTIoN ACT.

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n.a.rtmant IN relation to the act Of Con-
80 Inown az the CONSUMPTION Act. are
eublished BY authority for the information
Of the public
ii FsRoLnENT AND DISPOSITION OF REcRurrs.
/. An officer not below the rank OF MAJOR
will be detailed for each State to take charge
of the enrolment, mastering in subsistence,
transportation and disposition Of the recruits
raised under this act.
q. Application will be made Immediately
to the governors of the several States for
permission to employ State officers for said
enrolment; and in case such permission be
not granted, officers Of the army will be Sc
lected by the department to perform that
duty under such regulations as may be pre-
scribed. Where State officers are employed
the regulations Of the respective States in
regard to military enrolment will be obsery-
ed as far as applicable.
3. The enrolled men in each State will be
collected in camps of instruction by the Of,
ficers in command Of the recruits, the said
camps 10 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
q commissary.
4. The commandants of the camps of in
struciion in the several States will call upon
the generals commanding the military de-
psrtments. in which their camps may be sit
uated, 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 vaccinated, and. in or
dering them to the field. will, as far as prsc-
ticable, prefer those who have passed through
the usual camp diseases. They will estab.
iish hospitalsi in connection with their camps.
and make requisition for such medical at
tendance and stores as may be required.
$. The eommandants Of regiments, battal-
ions. squadrons and unattached companies in
service, on the 18th instant, will send copies
OF their muster rolls to the commandment Of
the proper camp Of instruction in their re
spective States. with officers to take charge
Of such recruits as may be furnished to said
corps. The said eommandants will appor-
ton the recruits among such corps in pro-
portion to the deficiency Of each, except
when otherwise specially directed by the de-
partment, allotting, as far as practicable. 10
each such corps the men from the regions OF
country in which il has been raised. They
will from time 10 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 condi-
ton, the number sent of during the month,
and the regiments and corps to which they
were sent.
8. The commandants of regiments and
corps will distribute the recruits among their
several companies, and in such as have not
the number Of companies allowed by law to
a regiment, the said commandsnts may or
eanize the required number of new compa.
MES. after first filling up the existing com
panies to the minimum numbers required By
law: that is TO say, for each company OF in.
fantry, Iy-four priyates; Of cavalry, sixty
privates; Of artillery, seventy privates.
z. The recruits will be apportiOned among
the several arms Of service, according 10 iheii
respective wants. consulting. as far as prsc'
tiesbIe, the preference Of the men. Where
a greater number offer Tor a particular arr
than can be assigned 10 il. the distribution
will be determined BY lot but recruits toI
the cavalry will only be taken from those
who furnish their own horses.
iii. voLrsTEEss TOR ExIsTIso CoRPs.
Q. Persons liable to military service IN
der the above act. not in service on the I6tl
OF April, and wishing to volunteer in an,
particular company in the Confederate ser
vice, on the 10th day Of April, may rep0r
themselves, prior 20 their enrolment, AZ
camp Of instruction within their respectiy,
States. where they will be enrolled, prepare,
for the field, and sen, to the said company
until the same shall be filled up.
q. Recruiting officers may be detailed
with the permission Of the generals command
ing military departments, By the eomman
dants Of regiments and corps, and sent {
their respective States for the purpose Of re
ceising for such regiments and corps. in con
formity with recruiting regulations hereto
tore adopted. general order No. g. VIOLIN
tsers desiring 70 join them. Such volunteer
NAV be assembled al the camps Of instruc
ton IN their respective States, prepared fol
the field. and sent 10 IN cir respective reg
ment. aud corps until the same shall be Gil
ed an. or N ready for the field, NAV be order