Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-07-17
The New Conscription Acf.

The following is copy of the Consumption Act passed.
recently, by both Houses of Congrsss;
AN ACT to amend an act entitled An act to provide
further for the public defence "approyeI 10Th April,
1852.
Tile Gngrsss of the CJnfsIs-ats Sstes of America do
enac That the President be- and he rs hereby authorized
to call out and place in the military service of Coued
crate States for three years. unless the shall have
been ended all white who residents of the
Confederate States between the ages of hryve and for
tyve years. the time the call calls may be made
and who not at such time times legally exempted
from military service; such parts thereof in his
Judgment may be necessary to the public defence such
call calls to be made under the provisions and according
to the terms of the act to which this is an amendments
and such authority shall exist in the President during the
present as to all persons who are may here
after become eighteen years of age; and, when
rolled all persons beween the ages of eighteen and forty
i've shall serve their full te PrO0led that if the Pres
iden in calling our troops into the service of the Confed
crate States shall first call for only part of the persons
between the uges herenbore stated he shall call for those
between the age OF and any other age less than
fortyfve pro0ilt, that nothing herein contained shall
be understood repeating modifying any part of the
to which this IS anne ndatoy except herein expressly
stated and prooed FURTHER that those called out under
this ac and the act to which this amendment shall
be first and mmedat y ordered to fill to their maximum
number the companies bata lions squadrons and regiments
from the respective States the time the further
provide for the public defence, approved 10Th April 1862
organizations formed from each State since the passage
that ACT placed in organizations be differed by
the State having such residue according to the laws there
Of or disposed of provided by law; procideG that
the President authorized to suspend the execution of this
or the act TO which this is an amendment locality
where he may find it mpracticable the same
and that in such localities, aud during such suspension
the President authorized to receive troops into the
deae under any of the acts passed by the
fedeate Congress- prior to the passage OF the act to further
provide for the public defence approved 10th April 1862
The Military Exemption Act.
The following is copy of the Exemption Act as finally
passed by both Houses of Congress;
Bill to exempt certain persons from military SERVICE
and repeal the act entitled can act to exem6t certain
persons from enrolment for Che army of the Con
Tolerate States" approved the 2lst nf April 1862.
INvALIDs, OFFICERS OF GOVERNMENT CLERKS ETC.
l. TIE Congress Ut the OJRfaLdrdts States If america do
enact That all persons who shall be held unfit for military
service in the field by of bodily mental ncapac
NY or lmoecty under the rules to be prescribed by the
secretary OF war; the VcePresdent of the Confederate
States the officers judicial and executive of the Confederate
and State governments including postmasers appointed
the President and confirmed by the Senate and such
Clerks IN tnelr olces as are allowed by the Postmaster
General and now employed and excluding all other most
masters their assistants and Clerks and except such
state officers as the several States may have declared or