The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-11-01
THE NEW MILITARY LAW.

| THE NEW MILITARY LAW.
4 Bill to organize forces to serre during the War.
Sec. l. That from and after the passage of this act
all white men, residents of the Confederate States
tween the ages of II snd so, shall be in the military
service of the Confederate States for the
Sec 3 That all the persons aforesaid, between the
ages of Is and As in service, shall be retained
during the present with the United States in the
same regiments, battalions and companies to which
they belong the passage of this act with the
organization and officers unless regularly transferred
discharged in accordance with the laws and regu-
ations for the government of the Prorided that
companies from State organized against their
consent, expressed the tine, with regiments bat
talions from another State shall have the privilege of
being transferred to organizations of troops in the
of the service from the States in which said
| companies were raised and the soldiers from one
State in companies from another State, shall be allow
ed if they desire it, transfer to organizations from
| their own States, in the same arm of the service
Sec 3. Be further enacted, That at the expiration
of six months from the first day of April next bounty
of hundred dollars in a six per cent Government
bond, which the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby
authorized to issue, shall be paid to every
missoned officer musician and private who shall then
be in service in the event of his death previous
the period of such payment then the person per-
sons who would be entitled by law to receive the
rearages OF his pay; bnt shall be entitled to the
! bounty herein provided who shall at any tme during
the period of six months next after the said first day Of
April be absent from his command without leave.
Sec 4. Be it further enacted, That person shall
be relieved from the operation of this by Of
where no disability exists; shall those who
have furnished substitutes be any longer exempted by
thereof ProUided, that person, heretofore
exempted account of religious opinions and who
has paid the tax levied to relieve him fl ON service
shall be required TO render military service under this
act.
Sec s. Be it further enacted That all white male
residents of the Confederate States between the ages
of II and Is and 40 and so years. shall enroll them
selves at such times and places and under such regu-
atons, as the President may prescribe, the time al
lowed not being less than thirty days for those east
and sixty days for those west of the Mississippi river
and any person who shall fail to enroll himself,
without reasonable excuse therefor to be judged of
by the PRESIDENT shall be placed in service in the field
for the war; in the though they were
between the ages Of eighteen and forty ProOided
that the persons mentioned in this section shall con-
stitnte for State defence and detail duty and
shall not be required to perform service out of the
State in which they reside.
Sec 6. That all persons required by the 9Th section
of this enroll themselves may within thirty days
after the passage thereof of the Mississippi river
and within sixty days. fwes of said river form them
selves into voluntary organizations of companies, bat
talions, regiments, and elect their officers said
organizations to conform to the existing laws and,
having organized, to tender their services volun-
eerS during the to the Pres dent; and if such
CARNATIONS shall furnish proper muster rolls,
organized and deposit cop! thereof with the EN- OIL
ing officer of their district which shall be equivalent
to enrolment they may be accepted as minute men
for service in such State, but in event to be taken
out of it. Those who do volunteer and organize
shall enroll themselves before provided and may,
by the President, be required to assemble at
lent places of rendezvous, and be formed organized
into companies, baalions and giments under
atiOns to be prescribed by him. and shall have the
right to elect their company and regimenta officers
and all troops organized under this act for State de-
fence shall be entitled while in actual service, to the
same pay and allowance troops now in the field.
Sec Z. That any person who shall fail to attend at
the place of rendezvous as required by the authority
of the President, without sufficient excuse, to be
judged of by him. shall be liable to be placed in SER
vice in the field for the war; if he between the
ages of Is and As years.
Sec That hereafter the duties of provost and hos
plta guards and clerks and of clerks guards agents.
employees aborers in the Commissary and Quarter
masters Departments, in the Ordnance Bureau, and
clerks and employees ofnavy agents, also in the
cuton of the enrolment act, and all similar duties,
shall be performed by persons who within the ages
Of eighteen and foryve years. and who by the report
of Board of army surgeons shall be reported
BILE to perform active service in the field, but capable
of performing ofthe above said Duties specifying
which, and when those persons shall have been assign
ed to those duties far practicable the President
shall assign detail to their performance such bodies
o. troops individuals required to be enrolled under
the 9Th section of this act, be needed for the
discharge of such duties Prorided that persons be-
the ages of IL and IS shall he assigned those
duties: Prouided further that nothing contained in this
act shall be construed to prevent the President
from detailing artiZanS, mechanics persons of scien
tifc SKILL to perform indispensable duties in the de-
Dartments bureaus herein mentioned.
Sec O. That any Quartermaster or Assistant Quar-
terniaster, Commissary Assistant 10Th
er than those serving with brigades regiments in
the fed) officers in the Ordnance Bureau or Navy
Agents Provost Marshall officer in the conscrpt
service who shall hereafter employ retain in his
employment any person in any of their said depart
bureaus, in any of the duties mentioned in
the Sh section of this act, in violation of the provs
ions hereof, shall, conviction thereof by court
martial military court be cashiered and shall be
the duty ofany department district commander up
proof by the oath of any credible person, that any
such officer has violated this provision, Immediately
relieve such officer from duty and said commanders
shall take prompt measures to have him tried for such
offence: and any commander aforesaid faling"to
perform the duties enjoined by this section SHALL upon
being duly convicted thereof be discharged from the
service.
IN REGARD TO EXEMPTIONS.
Sec 10. Be it further enacted. That all laws granting
exemptions from military service be- and the
hereby repealed and hereafter shall be exempted
except the follcwing
l. All who shall be held unfit for military service
under rules to be prescribed by the Secretary
2 The FicePresident of the Confederate States the
members and officers of Congress and of the several
State Legislatures, and such other Confederate and
State officers as the President the Governor of the
States, may certify to be necessary
proper administration of the Confederate State
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