Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1863-09-16

VOL. II, no. P....WllOLE NUMBER, 5Gl.
nr,porAqr,rs BrngAr ~ CONSUMPTION. prrr rN,SsMlss
GENERAL ORDERS,
NO. j.
l. The following General Order. from the Depar'-
mont headquarters is published for the information of
all concerned
"EE,pQuAErrRs DEPARTMENT TRANS MISs,l
SHREVEPORT, La. August lst, 1865.
GENERAL ORDERS,
The enrolment Of persons under the Conscript Act,
approved September 29h, 1862, having been, by pro-
clamation of the President, extended embrace all
persons between The ages of Is and 40 years who
not exempt by law; the cOmnaniant of Conscrips i"r
the Department Of Trans. Mississippi will Forthwith
take such measures and issue such orders may he
necessary for the enrolment of all such persons.
By command of Lieut. Gen. L. KIRBY SMITH.
SIS. ANDERSON, A. A. GEN.
II Enrolling officers will proceed without delay I"
enroll cOnscrpts, all persons between the ages OF Is
and A., who not legally exempt from service
BY command Of Brig. Gen. GREER,
W. SrEDMAN, A. a. Gen.
HEADQUARTERS BrnrAr or coNscn,rroN Drrr Tn,xs Miss
SHREVEPORT, la, August 4, lSU5.
GENERAL ORDERS,
published for the information of all concerned
An Act rcpcet ccrtaa clauses Of act entitled
exempt certa@ Persons from -Mary Serrice, etc., 0j-
prored I'm Octobcr 1862.
do enact, That much of the approved October
lth, 1862 as cxemps from military service per-
either agent owner, or cvcrscer on each planu
tion which white person is required to be kept
by the laws ordinances of any State, and which
there is white male adult not liable to military
vice. and in States having no such law, one person.
agent owner, each plantation of twenty
negroes, and which there is white male adult
liable to military service and also the following clause
of said act; to wit: and, furthermore, for additional
police for every twenty negroes on two or pann
tons; within five miles Of each other and each having
less than twenty negroes, and on which there is
white male adult not liable to military duty, person.
being the oldest of the owners overseers SUCH
plantation, be and are hereby repealed.
N"2. For the police and management of slaves there
shall be exempted one person on each farm plana-
ton the sole property of minor person of unsouni
mind, teme soe or person absent from home in the
military naval service of the Confcderacy, which
there twenty slaves: propded the person
exempted employed and acting overseer
previous the 10Th April 1869, and there is whine
male adult said farm or plantation who is not liable
military duty which fact shall be verified by the
atdavits of said person and two respectable citizen,
and shall be filed with the enrolling otcer and JroUa-
,d the of such farm plantation, his agent
legal representative, shall make affidavit and deve-
the same the ling officer, that after dgent e.
fort can be procured for such farm
plantation not liable to military duty frovided furthc.
that this clause shall not extend to any farm pant
tion which the negroes have been placed by division
from any farm Or plantation, since the 1lth da-
of October 1862: procidd rthe that for every perso,
exempted aforesaid, and during the period Of
exemption, there shall be paid annually into the pu,
lie treasury by the of such slaves the Of
five hundred dollars.
"3. Such other persons shall be exempted the
President shall be satisfied ought to be exempted in
districts of country deprived of white slave labor i'll
dspensable to the production of grain or provision,
necessary for the support Of the population remaining
at home. and also account of justice, equity, and
necessity.
81 In addition to the State officers exempted by tn"
,ln hall a1an hn
all State officers whom the Governor of any State ma
claim have exempted for the due administration q
the government and laws thereof but this exemption
shall continue in any State after the adurnmen
of the next regular session of its Legislature unless
such Legislature shall by law exempt them from mil
tary duty in the provisional army of the Confederate
States"
TApproved May ], 1863
H. Any person claiming exemption under the 3rd
Section of the before reced act will be enrolled
conscript, and upon producing to the enrolling office"
the affdavts, and paying the sum therein requireG
will be detailed by the latter overseer of the farm
or plantation named in affdavts for II months. Upon
the expiration of the year. the detail will be renewe
under the circumstances and upon the terms
and conditions. The required By the act will be-
paid to the tax ector of the county parish, who
will transmit t to the chief Quartermaser of this
Bureau, without delay.
I'LL Details will be allowed to owners and overseers
in cases not strictly within the provisions of the said