Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1863-09-09
HgApouAoTLRs BUREAU CoSScEIprIuN, Der
sHnEvEPo T, LA August 4, lS3. {
GENERAL ORDERS,
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"HEApQuARrERs DEPARTMENT TRANS MI, y
SHREVEPORT, LA, August LIST, loO3 /
GENERAL ORDERS,
NO 33. I
The enrolment Of persons under the Conscript Act;
approved September 2yii, 1862, having been, by pro
camation of the President, extended TO embrace ali
persons between the ages of lS and As years, who
not exempt by law the comman liant of Comscrpts for
the Department Of Trans Mississippi, will forthwith,
takt such measures and issue such orders may te
necessary for the enrolment of NIL such persons.
by command of Lieut.. Gen. Z. KIRBY SMITH.
SIS. ANDERSON, A. A. Gen"
III Enrolling officers will proceed without delay 70
enroll conscrips, all persons between the ages Of II
and 45 who are not legally exempt from service.
BY command of Brig. Gen GREER,
W. STEDMAN, A. A. Gen.
HEADQUARTERS TRANS slns,l
GENERAL ORDERS,
l. The following Ac Of Congress and Regulations
are published for the inIo nation of all concerned:
an Act 10 repeat certain clauses Of act entitled an act H.
exempt certain Persons rom AhAtary Service, etc. ao-
pro0ed lH October, 1862
81 The Congress Of the C6gjedrate States Of America
do enact, That so much of the approved Octobel
llth lS62, as eXcmpts from military service one per
son, either as agent owner, Ovesecr, each plantl
tion on which white person is required to be Kept
by the laws or ordinances of any Stare and whic..
there is no white male adult not liable military ser
vice, and in States having sucl law, one person. az
agent, owner or oveiseer each plantation of twenty
negroes, and on which there is white male adult no,
liable military service, and also the following cauee
ofsaid act TO wit: and furthermore, for additiena
police for every twenty negroes, more plana
tiOus within five miles Of each other, and each hayinr
less than twenty negroes, and on which there is NJ
white male adult liable to military duty, one person
being the oldest OF the overseels on such
plantation, he and are hereby repealed.
"2. For the police and mana cement of slaves there
shall be exempted one person each farm or planta
ton the sole property Of minor, person of ulsound
mind Jeme sole, or person absent from home in the
uhi,
there are twenty or more slaves propded the pel son so
exempted was employed and acting as an o, erseer
previous to the 10th April, 1862, and there white
male adult said farm plantation who not liable
To military duty; which fact shall be rfud by the
afidavis Of said person and two resp able cit zens
and shall BE- filed with the enrol n office. and r pG-
ed the owner OF such farm pnniniiom. his agent o..
legal representative, shall make affidavit and deliver
the to the cnro ling officer that after dgent et.
fort overseer can be procured for snch frr or
plantation not linhlc TO m litary dry: Irlp G Jutay
that this clause shall extend any u or planta
tOn which the negroes have been placed by vision
from any OF er farm panta On, since the llth da,
of October 1862: prorded frtey that for e,e person
exempted Aforesaid and during the period OF such
exemption, there shall be paid annually into the pub
lie treasury by the owners of such slaves the Of
five hundred dollars
"3. Such other persons shall be exempted as tbp
President shall be satisfied ought to b. exempted IN
districts OF coupy deprived OF white or slave labor in
dispensabe to the production of grain or provision
necessary for the support Of the population remaining
at home. aud also on account of justice, equity and
necessity. ,
"a. In addition to the State officers exempted by the
of October lth 1862 there shall also be exempted
all State officers whom the Governor of any Stae ma,
claim to have exempted for the due administration OF
the government and laws thereof but this exemption
shall continue in State after the adjournment
of the regular session of its Legislature unless
such Legislature shall by law exempt them from mill.
tary duty in the provisional army of the Confederate
States"
GApproved May l. 1881
III. Any person ming exemption under the Ord
Section of the before reccd act will be enrolled as
conscript and upon producing to the enrolling officer
the afhdavits, and paying the therein required
will be detailed by the latter overseer of d e farm.
or plantation named in afidayiis for II mouths Upon
the expiration of the year, the detail will be renewed
under the same circumstances and upon the
and conditions. The sum required by the act will b.
paid TO the tax ector of the county or parish who
will transmit il to the chief Quartermaster of tbs
Bureau, without delay.
Ill. Details will be allowed to and ov .rseers
in strictly within the provisions OF the said
act when Justice equity, and necessiiv require tn
In snch cases the applications must be ported 81
The affidavit Of ibe applicant and accompanied wih