The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1863-02-18

sa'd coIIeges and schools are in actual
operation; the superintendent, teachers,
and steward Of the Cedar Springs Asy.
Ium; all school-mas;ers having under
their charge not less than twenty schol-
ars; all branch pilots; one white man
to each established ferry, toll bridge, or
toll grain mill, if actually KEEP, by such
white man the President, Cashier, aud
one Teller Of each of the several Banks
Of this State, and the Treasurers Of the
several Saving Institutions Of this State:
the officers and men Of the City Guard,
and officers and forty men to each Com
panv of the Fire Department Of Charles.
ton and Columbia; tho officers and IS
many employees OF each Railroad Com.
pany as the President or Superintendent
may certify to be necessary to the efficient
conduct Of its business; Prorided, that
1t is also certified that the duty of said
employees cannot be discharged by slaves;
the Superintendent and Keeper Of The
Lunaiic Asylum, and their assistants
Stewards or Keepers Of Poor Houses;
the Keepers cf the Arsenas of the State;
all persons holding flee under the Con
federa'e States, except Deputy Post Mas.
ters; all persons employed by Ihe State
or hy the Confederate States in the man.
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army supplies; all persons actually en-
gagged in the manufacture Of salt or the
sen coast, and all persons over the age Of
fifty ; and all persons belonging to the
Boards Of Reet OF soldiers families.
V. That the commdnling officers of
beat companies shalt keep two separate
rolls, one Of the names OF al; persons res
'den. in tlreir beats between. the ages of
sixteen and sixty, and another OF the
names Of all persons between the ages Of
sixteen and fifty. designating in said rolls
the ages Of each person, and all persons
required 20 be enrolled by this Act shall
immedia'el y after its passage report their
names to commanding officers of their
beat, who shall have power to administer
oaths AS to the ages and residence Of per.
sons, when they refuse to make known
their age or place OF re'iGence, or where
there may be doubts as to either; and
each and every beat company shall he
called out for drill and instruction once
n every two months.
vi. That the commanding officers Of |
companies, ~ soon Ms said enrolment can
'e made, shall return said rolls to the
commanding officers of their regiments,
who shall return the same within ten davs
% the Office Of the Adjrtant and Inspec.
.or Genera, and for default in making
SAID returns, the commanding officers Of
companies shall be liable to a fine Of fifty
dollars, and the commanding officers Of
regiments to n fine OF ore hundred dol.
lars, to be- imposed 10y a oour, martial or.
dered by the Governor ior lhe trial of
such defaul;ers.
VII. That all persons who now are or
may hereafter be in actual service in the
regiments known as the First Corps Of
Reserves, or who may be in actual State
military service, and who shall not, at the
expiration Of said service haze been called,
shall report t. the commanding officer Of
the Beat in which they respectively re
side, and be enrolled for militia service in
said beat.
VIII. That to repel invasion and sup.
press instructions the Governor shall
have power and he is hereby authorized,
whenever i" hisjudgement the public
safety requires that troops should he rails
ed for the pubic dcfence, to call into ac
tual service, in any part Of the State, all
or such portion Of the militia as he NAV
deem necessary, between the ages Of six.
teen and hity years, except such persons
As are exempted by the provisions Of this
Act from ordinary militia duty, and from
actual service, except within the limits of
the districts in which they reside. That
when such call has been made, the Gov
ernor shall have the power, and is hereby
authorized, to organize the troops into
companies, battalions and regiments, com
forming said organization, MS far as may
be practicable, to the laws and army reg
ulations Of the Confederate States; Pro
gided. That the said troops shall exercise
the right OF eIect'ng their company and |
field officers; and it shall be the duty of |
the Governor to order said elections to be |
held at such times and plances as he may !
select, and to be conducted in such man |
ner as he may direct, and in the event
Of a failure to hold any CT said elections
the Governor snail ill such Offices by ap.
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