Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-03-02
sOFFICIAL.
The New Military Law.


$50. |. That from and after the passage
of this act all white men, residents of the
Confederate States, between the ages of II
and SO, shall be in the military service Of
the Confederate States for the war.
. SEC. 2. That all the persons aforesaid,
between the ages of Is and As, now in the
service, shall be retained during the present
war with the United States, in the same
regiments, battalions and companies to which
they belong at the passage of this act, with
the same organization aud officers, unless
regularly transferred or discharged, in ac-
cordance with the laws and regulations for
the. government of the army: Provided,
that companies from one State, organized
against their consent, expressed at the time,
with regiments or battalious from another
State, shall have the privilege of being
transferred to organizations of troops, in
the same arm Of service, from the States
in which said companies were raised and
the soldiers from one State, in companies
from another State, shall be allowed, if they
desire it, transfer to organizations from
their own States, in the same arm of the
service.
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That at
the expiration Of six months from the first
dayof April next, bounty of one 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 commissioned officer, musician,
and private who shall then be in service, or
in the event Of his death, previous to the
period Of such payment, then to the person
orpersons who would be entitled by law to
receive the arrearases of his pay; but no
one shall be entitled to the bounty herein
provided, who shall at any time, during the
period of six months next after the said
first day Of April, be absent from his com.
mand without leave. ....-
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That no
person shall be relieved from the operation
Of this act by reason of having been here
tofore discharged from the army, where no
disability now exists; nor shall those who
have furnished substitutes be any longer
exempted by reason thereof: Provided,
Thatsno person, heretofore exempted on &C.
count Of religious opinions and who has
paid the tax levied to. relieve him from ser.
vice, shall be reqcred 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
45and 80 years, shall enroll themselves at
such fines aud places, and under such reg
ulations, as the President may prescribe, the
time allowed not being less than thirty days
for those east, and sixty days for those west
Of the Mississippi river, aud 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 same man
ner as though they we're between the ages
Of eighteen ari forty.fVe Provided, that
the persons mentioned in this section shall
constitute reserve for State defence and
detail duty, and shall not be required to per-
form service out of the State in which they
reside.
SEC. 6. That all persons required by the
9th section Of this act to enroll themselves,
may within thirty days after the passage
thereof, east of the Mississippi river, and
within sixty days, if west of said river,
form themselyesinto voluntary organizations
of companies, battalions or regiments, and
elect their own officers; said organizations
to conform to the existing laws; aud, hav-
ing SO organized, to tender their services as
volunteers during the war to the President ;
and if such organizations shall furnish. pro-
per muster-rolls, as now organized, and de-
posit copy thereof with the enrolling off,
Ger Of their district, which shall be equiva-
lent to enrolment, they may be accepted as
minute men for service in such State, but
in no event to be taken out of it. Those
who do not so volunteer and organize, shall
enroll themselves as before provided; and
may, by the President, be required to as
semble at convenient places of rendezvous,
and be formed or organized into companies,
battalions and regiments, under regulations
to be prescribed by him and shall have the
right to elect their company and regimental
officers; and all troops organized under this
act for State defence, shall be entitled,
while iD actual service, to the same pay and
allowance as troops now in the field.
SEC. 7. That any person who shall fail
to attend at the place of rendezvous as re-
quired 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, as if he were
between the ages of Is and As years.
SEC. 8. That hereafter the duties of
provost and hospital guards and clerks, and
of clerks, guards, agents, employees or Ia
borers in the Commissary or Quartermaster' s
Departments, in the Ordnance Bureau, and
clerks and employees of navy agents, as
also in the execution of the enrolment act,
and all simila. duties, shall be performed
by persons who are within the ages of Is
and As years, and who, by the report of a
Board of army surgeons, shall be reported
as unable to perform active service in the
field, but capable of performing some ofthe
above. said duties, specifying which, and
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