Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-02-23


SEC. a. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, 4
and he Is hereby anth6rized in case the
Of the government shodld Tc1rre H. TO pay the de
mand Of any public q editGf whose debt may De
Contracted aftcr the paSegcSnf this act. willing to
receive the same in certificate Of Indebtedness 70
be issued by said Secretary in such form as he may
deem proper, payG Two years alter ratncatIon
Of treatyof peace With the United States, bearing
interest at the rate of six per cent per annqm, pay
able 81 iiahhually and transferable only by sIecnl
endorsement, under regulations to be preScrned ny
the Secretary Of the Treasury, and said certhcaieS
shah be exempt firn taxation 10 principal ana IN
terest =. I,i' -.'2Ni 80 -
' $50 Is The Secretary Of the Treasury is atl
thorized to increase Tire number OF repositories SO
as to meet the requirements OF this act, aud win
that view TO employ such Of the banks OF the several
States as he may deem expedent. ..., 60,
9. SEC. 1G The Secretary Of the Treasury shall
forthwith advertise this act IN such newspapers pao-
4 llshed in the several States, and BY such other
means as shall secure immediate publicity andthe
Secretary of War and the Secretary Of the Navy
shall each cause it. to be published in general order
for the Information Of the army and navy. -.
Sec IT The forty section Of the act for
the assessment and collection of taxes appraised
May lst 1858, is hereby repealed. -. 49,.
SIC Is. The Secretary of the ne1sury is here
by authorized and required, upon the Application
Of the holder Of any call certificate, which, by the
hrst section of this act to provide for the funding
and further issue of Treasury notes, approved
March %, 1868, WAS required to be thereafter
deemed to be bond, to issue to such holder bond
therefor, upon the terms provided by said act.
THE MILITARY BILL
u SECTION l. That from and after the passage of
this act all white men, residents of the Confede-
rate States between the ages of seventeen and fifty
shall be in the military service Of The Confederate
States for the war. .....- -.
SRC. 2. That all the persons aforesaid, between
the ages Of eighteen and forty. five in 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 and officers,
unless regularly transferred or discharged IN ac-
cordance with the laws and regulations for the
government of The army Pr0rided, That compa-
MES from State, organized against their con-
sent expressed at the time with regiments Or bat
taons from another State shall have the privilege
Of being transferred to organizations OF troops IN
the same arm Of the service, from the STATES In
which said companies were raised; and the SOL
ders from one State, IN companies from another
State, shall be allowed, il they desire it transfer
TO organizations from their own States, in the same
arm of the service -- %
SEC. 8 BE IL further enacted That at the ex-
praton of six months from the first day of April
next bounty Of one hundred dollars in six per
cent government bond, which the Secretary Of the
paid to every non 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 or persons who would
be entitled by law receive the arrearages of his
pay; but 10 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 command without leave.
SEC. 3. BE 10 further enacteh That no person
Shall be relieved from the operation Of this act by
reason Of having been heretofore discharged from
the army, where no disability now exists nor
shall those who have furnished substitutes be any
longer exempted ty reason thereof Prnrided that
no person, heretofore exempted on account of re-
ligous opinions, aud who has paid the tax levied
to relieve him from service, shall be required to
render military service under this act. ...
Sec. 5. Be it FURTHER enacted, That all white
male residents of the Confederate States, between
the ages of seventeen and eighteen aud fOTty-five
and fifty years, shall enroll themselves at such
times and places, ard under such regulations as
the President may prescribe the time allowed not
being less than thirty days for those east and six
ty days for those west of the Mississippi river, and
any person who shall fail SO to enroll himself with
out reasonable excuse therefor, TO be Judged OF
by the President, shall be placed in service in the
field for the war, in the same manner as though
they were between the ages oil eighteen and forty.
five: 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 re-
side.
SEC. G. That all persons required by the fifth
section Of this act 10 enroll themselves may with
in thirty days after the passage thereof east of the
Mississippi river and within sixty days if west Of
said river, form themselves into voluntary organ-
cations Of companies, battaons regiments, and
elect their own officers said organizations to con-
form to the existing laws; and having SO organ
lied, to tender their services as volunteers during
the war to the President and if such organiza-
tions shall furnish proper muster rolls, now
ganized and deposit copy thereof with the
rolling officer Of their district which shall be equiv
alent to enrolment they may be accepted as min
ute men for service in such State, but in no event
to be taken out Of it TbUse who do not so yolun-
teer and organize shall enroll themselves as before
provided; and may, by the President, be required
to assemble at convenient places of rendezvous,
and be formed or organized into companies, bat
taons and regiments, under regulations to be pre-
scribed ~ him and shall nave the right to elect
their company and regimental officers; and all
troops organized under this act for State defence
shall be entitled while in actual service to the
same pay and allowance as troops now in the field.
Sec z. That any person who shall fail to attend
at the place of rendezvous as required by the au-
thority of the President without sufficient ex-
cuse, to be judged of by him, shall be liable to be
placed in service in the field for the war; as if he
were between the ages of eighteen and forty-fve
years. .r- ....-- 8 ......': .r..
SEC 8. That hereafter the duties of provost and
hospital guards and clerks and of clerks, guards,
agents, employees or labourers in the Comlnissary
and QuartermasteT's Departments in the Ordnance
Bureau, and clerks and employees of navy agents,
as also in the execution of the enrolment act, and
all similar daties, shall be performed by.persons
who are within the ages of eighteen and forty five
years, and who by the report Of Board of army
surgeons shall be reported as unable to perform &C.
tive service in the field but capable of performing
some of the above said duties, specifying which
and when those persons shall have been assigned to