Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1863-02-26
Instructions for the Government Of
Officers Of the Volunteer and
Conscript Bureau. -
HID Q'Rs VoL. AND CoNs'Pr }
BUREAU, ARMY OF Tenn, :
HUNTsvILLE, Feb. Is, 1868. J

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This Bureau is organized TO en-
Jorce the law. Its officers and a.
gents have no power to suspend or to
enlarge its provisions. Their duty
is to enfolce it, and this must be done.
Between the ages Of 35 and 40 there
are many exemptions. These must
be allowed where the parties, in good
faith, are entitled to the exemptions.
There are; however, many cases Of
fraudulent efforts TO get the benefit
Of TIC Law by parties trying to put
themselves within lis provisions who
are not entitled TO them. In all such
cases, th9 parties SO acting, must be
put into the service.
Mechanics and Manufacturers must
have been such, aud carrying on
their trade or occupation, when the
Law was passed, viz: on the llth
October, 1862, and must keep on
hands supply Of material necessary
to keep up their shops and business,
and must no. exceed in their charg'
es 70 per cent. profit on the cost o.
manufacture. Ii they do they for
felt their exemptions, and all mus
be put into the army.
Such is the case with every trade
and exemption by Law for the good
iol the service of the country.
| If the owners of Cotton Mills, Tan
neries, Shoe-makers, Blscksmiihs
and other manuiacturers,reIuse 10 re
ioeive Confederate money for thei
products, you will repor: the parties
names TO these head quarters, ant
unless there are urgent public reason
for contrary course, they, them
selves, (if within conseript age, AM
their operatives will no longer be ex
emp:ed.
| Exemptions, which have been al
loved by Enrolling officers and 9th
ers, ere liable to re-eXaminatiou, and
If found to have been granted in vi
olation Of the law, will be set asid
and the parties placed in the Amy
All officers, acting under the au
thority of this Bureau, when they re
ceive Conscript or Volunteer, vii
swear him into the service, cause tt
be made out a descriptive roll, and
where they have any doubt as to tb
7 parties reporting to the command
they my elect to join, will sem
them to the army under proper es
cort.
The wants Of the Infantry arm o
the service require that all of ID
earliest Conscripts obtained, who ar
fit for it, shall join the Infantry
No Cavalry officer engaged in en-
forcing the Law, under ordels OF
this Bureau, will be allowed to &C
cept Conseripts for his comman'
without permission from the Chief Of
this Bureau, Until the Infantry arm
shall be made strong enough to ALLOW
of relaxation of this Order.
! Notice is hereby given the Caval
ry arm, that al! Cavalry. men who arr
not mounted on efficient horses, as
the Law requires, will be required t.
be mounted on good horses in 81
days, otherwise they will be placed
in the Infantry, and that all strag
glers and absentees from their com
mands after that date, without prop.
er authority, will be conscripted anc
| placed in that arm OF the service.
Citizens Of one State found within
the limits OF another State, and Of
Gcers dropped in the re, organization
and those who have resigned, are Ii
able. and, where they failed to join
as Volunteers, must be conseripted
and placed ia the service.
Officers of this Bureau will not in.
terfere with Camps of instruction
established by State or Confederate
aqthonty - nor attempt the exer.
else of authority over officers on du-
ity under either, nor with recruits OF
volunteers already sworn in and en-.
rolled by them. We must all work
in the same field of labor, relying up
on superior energy and industry for
success in Strengthening the army
of Tennessee.
By order Of Brig. Gen. Pillow,
G. S. A, and chief of Vol. and
Cons, Bureau of Army Of Tenn,
H.. C. LOCKHART, A. A. G..