The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-02-23
THE NEW MILITARY Law.

SEC l. That from and after the passage of this act
all white men, residents of the Confederate States be-
tween The ages of II snd 5e shall be in the military
! service OF the Confederate States for the war.
Sec 2 That all the persons aforesaid, between the
ages OF ls and 45, in service, shall be retained
during the present with the United States in the
same regiments, battslions and companies to which
they Deiong at the passage of this act witE the
organization and officers, unless regularly transferred
or discharged ia accordance with the laws and regu
atons for the government of the army ProUided that
companies from one State, organized against their
consent expressed at the time, with regiments bat
ta!ions from another State shall have the privilege of
being transferred organizations of troops in the
same arm ofthe service from the States in which said
companies were raised and the soldiers fiom one
State in companies from another State shall be allow
ed they desire it, transfer to organizations from
their own States, in the same arm of the service.
Sec 3. Be it further enacted, That at the expiration
OF SIX mouths from the first day of 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 nen-com
missioned officer musician and private who sharhe
be in service in tn" of his death, previous to
the period of such payment, then the person
sons who would be entitled by law to receive the
rearages OF his pay but shall be entitled to the
bounty herein provided, who shall time, during
the period of six months after the said first day
April, be absent from his command without leave.
Sec 4. Be it further enacted, That psrson shall
be relieved from the operation of this act by of
hasiRx been heretofore discharged from the army,
| where~no disability exists; shall those who
have furnished ostutes be any longer exempted by
reason thereof Irovided that person, heretofore
exempted on account of religious opinions and who
has paid the tax levied to relieve him Fl ON service
shall be required 10 render military service under this
act.
Sec g. Be it further enacted, That all white male
residents of the Confederate States between the ages
of II and ls and As and so years shall enroll them
selves at such times and places and under such regu
latons, the President may prescribe, the time al
lowed being less than thirty days those east
and sixty days for those of the Mississippi river
and any person who shall fail enroll himself
witho" 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 though they
between the ages of eighteen and fortyve: Provided
that the'persons mentioned in this section shall con-
stitnte for State defence and detail duty and
sha! not he required to perform 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 of said river form them
selves into voluntary organizations of companies bat
alons, or regiments and elect their officers said
organizations conform to the existing laws; and,
having organized to tender their services voun-
teers during the the President; and if such or
CARNATIONS shall furnish proper muster rolls now
organized and depo. cop! thereof with the 'oli-
ing officer Of their district, which shall be equivalent
to enrolment they may be accepted 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 as before provided and may
by the President be required to assemble at conven-
lent places of rendezvous and be formed organized
into companies battalions and regmepts under regu
lations to be prescribed by him; and shall have the
right to elect their company and reg mental 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 as troops now in the field.
Sec Z. That any person who shall fail to attend at
the place of rendezvous required by the authority
of the President without a sufficient excuse, to be
judged of by him, shall be liable be placed in
vice in the field for the if he were between the
ages of Ia and As years
Sec g. That hereafter the duties of provost and hos
pita guards and clerks, and of clerks guards agents.
employees aborers in the Commissary and Quarter
clerks and employees Of navy agents. also in the exc
cuton of the enrolment act and all similar duties,
shall be performed by persons who within the ages
of eighteen and years and who by the report
of Board of army surgeons shall be reported as una
BILE to perform active service in the field but capable
of performing of the above said duties specifying
which, and when those persons shall have been assign
ed those duties far practicable the President
shall assign detail to their performance such bodies
0: troops individuals required to be enrolled under
the 5th section of this act as may be needed for ne
discharge of such duties Provded that persons be-
the ages of II and ls shall be assigned to those
duties Provided further that nothing contained IN TINS
shall be construed as to prevent the President
detailing arzans mechanics, persons of scien
tifc Skill to perform indispensable duties in the de-
partments or bureaus herein mentioned.
Sec g. That any Quartermaster or Assistant Quar- |
termaster; Commissary, AssistantCommissary 10Th
er than those serving with brigades or regiments in
the ied) officers in the Ordnance Bureau, or Navy
Agents Provost Marshall officer in the conscrlpt
service who shall hereafter employ retain in his
employment any person in any OF their SAID depart
the 9Th section of this in violation of the prois-
ions hereof shall, conviction thereof by court
martial military court be cashered and it shall be
the duty any department district commander, up
proof by the oath of any credible person. that any
such officer has violated this provision ediately
to relieve such officer from duty and said commanders
shall take prompt measures to have him tried for such
offence; and any commander aforesaid failing to
perform the duties enoned by this section SHALL
being duly convicted thereof be discharged from the
service.
IN REGARD TO EXEMPTIONS.
Sec TO- Be it further enacted That al laws granting
exemptions from military service be- and the same are
hereby repealed and hereafter shall be exemped
except the following:
l. All who shall be held unfit for military service,
under rules be prescribed by the Secretary of War
@ The e-President of the Confederate States, the
members and officers of Congress and of the several
State Legislatures, and such other Confederate and
State officers the President the Governor OF the
respective States may certify to be necessary Tor the
proper administration of the Confederate or State
Governments, the case may be.
g. Every minister of religion authorized to- preach
according the rules of his church. and who, at the
passage of this shall be regularly employed in the
discharge his ministerial duties; superintendent
and physicians of asyums for the deaf and dumb and
blind and the Insane; editor for each
being bshed the time of this act and SUCH en-
ploy said editor may certify on oath to be lnds-
nensable to the publication of such newspaper the
public printer of the Confederate and State HoVern-
ments and such onrneymen printers as the said puohc
printer shall certify oath to be indispensable 10 per-
form til public printing! one skilled apothecary In
apothecay store who doing business as such
on the 10th day of October 1862, and has continued
said business, without ntermsson since that period
of h;rfvu Uh0 NOV