The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-06-11


cases where, in his judgment, justice, equity and
necessity require such details, and he may re-
woke such orders or details whenever he thinks
PROPER: Provided, That the power here3 granted
to the President to make details and exemptions
shall not be construed to authorize the exemp-
ton or detail Of any contractor for furnishing
supplies of any kind to the Government by rea'
son of said contract, unless the Head or Secre-
tary of the Department making such contract
shall certify that the personal services OF such
contractor are Indispensable to the execution OF
the contract: Provided further, That whenever
such contractor shall fail diligently and faithfully
TO proceed with the execution of such contract,
his exemption or detail shall. cease.
Section IL. That in appointing local boards OF
surgeons for the examination Of persons Liable to
military service, no member composing the same
shall be appointed from the county or enrolling
district in which they are required to make such
examination.
Approved 18th Of February, 1864.
I-FOREIGNERs
Foreigners, whether domiciled or not, are
liable to military service-residenee IN tue Con
fedefate States being, under the law, The test OF
liability.
1. All white male residents of the Confederate
States between the ages of II and Is, and As and
so, may, within forty days from the PRONUNCIATION
of this order, form themselves into voluntary or
CARNATIONS of companies, battalions and r0gi-
ments, for service within their respective States,
and after being SO organized, upon furnishing
copies of their muster-rolls to the General COM
manding the Department and to- this Bureau,
will be accepted as minute-men during the war.
The commanding officers Of such organizations
will also deposit a copy Of their muster-rol!s
| With the Commandant of the District.
| R. Persons between the ages aforesaid, who
fail to ataes-semselves to the voluntary organi-
| cations above mentioned, will report themselves
| for enrolment to the enrolling officers of their
respective counties or parishes, within forty days
! from this date. Those who are enrolled pursu-
ant hereto, will within ten days after the period
fixed for their enrolment rendezvous, for the
purpose of forming themselves into companies.
battalions and regiments, as follows, viz: Those
in Arkansas, at Washington; those in Louisiana,
at Shreveport; those in that portion of Texas
east Of the Trinity river, at Rusk, and those IN
that portion of Texas west of the Trinity river,
at Hampstead. Copies of the mnster-rolls OF
such organizations will be forwarded to the De-,
partment Headquarters and this Bureau. TIE
men will await at the rendezvous the orders OF
the General commanding. =,
/ 8. AL persons within the said ages who, with
ont reasonable excuse therefor. to be judged of
at this Office, shall fail to attach themselves to
voluntary. organizations, or enroll themselves, as
is hereinbefore directed, viii be enrolled by the
enrolling officers and sent to the proper Camp of
instruction for assignment to duty i'll the field
IIfJP the war, as though they were between the
ages Of l8and As. Any person who shall fail to
attend a5 the place of rendezvous, after enroii-
ment, as above required. without sufficient ex-
cuse, to be judged Of at this Office, will be placed
in the field for the War.
: A. Enrolling officers viii designate suitable
clerks, agents and employees, for the different
/ Departments, from those of the reserve corps
between the ages of As and So to replace ahle-
bodied men SO employed in their respective Dis
tricts.
s. Officers of the Quartcrmasters', Subsis-
q tence, Ordnance and other Departments, are per-
mitted to select such persons from the persons SO
designated, as may be necessary TO replace the
able-bolied men now in their employ, who are
! not skilled artisans.
s. Enrolling officers will, as soon as practical
bic, report to this Office the designations made by
them. stating particularly tne occupations for
which the persons designated are fitted, and the
officers named in the 9th Section will be allowed
sixty days from this date to make the selections
authorized by said 9th Section. The said Off
GERS will report 10 this Bureau, the names of the
persons whom they may so select, that they may
be properly detailed.
I, Provost Marshals, Directors of Hospitals,
Commissaries, Quartermasters. Ordnance officers
Navy Agents. Conscript officers and Govern
ment Agents and Contractors will forthwith fur
nsh to this Bureau lists of the soldiers aud con-
scripts in their employ, with statements of the
kind of duty they are performing, 10 the end
that their places may be supplied with the classes
q of persons mentioned in the 9Th Section OF the
Act of Congress.
8. Any officer who shall fail to relieve all able.
|, bodied men in their employ within sixty days
from this date, will be reported to this Office by