Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1862-11-21
The ConscrTptiom Law.

The COnscriptiOM Law.
Bill to be entitled ian Act to further provide
for the public Defense"
IN view of the exigencies of the country, and
the absolute necessity of keeping in the service
our gallant army, and OF placing i'll the field
large ADDITIONAL force to meet the advancing
columns of the enemy new invading our soil,
therefore
Section l. The Congress Of the Comfeder-
ate States of Anaericc do enact That the Presi
H dent be, an9 is hereby authorized to call out
and place in the military service of the Confed-
crate States, fer three years, unless the war
shall have ocen sooner ended, all white men
who are residents of the Confederate States, be
tween the ages of eighteen and thirty five years
at the time the call or calls may be made, who
/ are not legally exempted frem military ser.
vice. All of the persons aforesaid who are
/ not now in the armies of the Coatederacv. and
whose term of service will expire before the
end of the war, shall be continued iii service
for three years from the date OF theil Original
enlistment, unless the war shall have sooner
ended Provided, however, That all such com
paniss, battalions and regiments, whose terms
of original enlistment were for twelve m ON tbs
shall have the right within forty days, a
day to be fixed by the commander of the brig
sde, to re- or ganize said companies, battalions
and regiments by electing their officers which
N they had right heretofore to elect, who shall
+ be commissioned by the President provided,
II furtker, That furloughs not exceeding sixty
days. with transportation home and back shall
be gra nted to all those retained in the service
by the provisions Of this act beyond the period
] Of their rriginal;enlistment,a ,and who have here
tofore not received furloughs under the provis.
\ ions of an act entitled IAN Act providing for
/ the granting of bounty and furloughs to private
ofH he -ic
ional Army approved l1th December, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty one; said furloughs to
I bs granted at such times and in such Numbers
as the Secretary of War may deem most COM
\ patible with the public interest, and provided,
further. That in liew of furlough, the commu
tstien value in money of the transportation
hereinabove granted shall be paid to each pri.
vase, musician or non>commissioned officer
who may elect to receive it at such time as the
furlough would otherwise be granted :: Provid-
. ed further, That all persons under the age OF
eighteen years, or over the age of thirty five
/ years, who are now enrolled in the military
service of the Confederate States, in the regi-
ments, battalions and companies hereafter te
i be organized, shall be required to remain il
in their respective companies, battalions and
regiments Cor ninety days, unless their places
can sooner be supplied by other recruits moi
now in the service, who are between the ages
Of sghteen and thirty Ave years, and all laws
and parts of laws providing for the re-enlist
meut of volunteers and the organization there
OF into companies, squadrons, battalions or reg
iments, shall be, and the same are hereby re-
4 psaed.
Sec. Q. Be it further enacted, That srch CON
panies, squadrons, battalions or regiments or
gaaized by the authority from the Secretary o
War, as may be within thirty days from the
passage of this act SO far completed as to hav,
the whole number of men requisite for organic
ton actually enrolled, not embracing in said o.
sanlzation any person now in service. shall b
mustered into the service of the Confedsrat
states as part of the land forces of the same, +
oe received in that arm of the service 10 whicl
.aey are authorized to organize, and shall cleo
hs,r company, battalion and regimental officer
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That for th
mrollment of all persons ccmprehsnded witt
tbe provisions Of this act, who are not .
ready ~ ssryice ii the armies of che Confeder