The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-03-05

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Az ACT 10 oR0ANRs FoacW TO szxst poHASo -. 80
The Csrass # ne Confederate s'aies q .asse. s,a
Do sne Tint from and s., ss.sr Of tie Ccnsdesase
State. bctw the ages OF seventeen ana MY,
ss 10 n al,e military service Of the Confederate
Sta.cs rs.s, All the persons aforesaid, between
tho nres " eighteen and forty five now In the ser
,icc shall be retained, during the present war win
The JJnIted States, In the same regiments, halai
ions and companies to which they belong Al the
Massage OF this aci with the same organization and
ofccrs unless regularly transferred or discharged,
in accordance with the laws and regulations for the
Government of the army: Provided, That cOmpa
MICS from one State Ovganized 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 the said companies were raised, and soldiers
from one State In companies from another State
shall be allowed, if they desire IL, transfer to or
ganiz ations from their own State In tho same arm
Of the service. -
Sec 3. That, at the expiration ofsix months from
the first day of April next, bounty OF one hun
bred dollars, In a six per cent. Government bond,
which the Secretary Of the Treasury is hereby au-
thorized to issue, shall be paid to every non com
missioned Officer, musician, and private, who shall
then be In the service In the event Of his death
previous TO the pcrio such payment, then to the
person or persons who would be entitled ny law to
receive the arrcarages of his pay, but 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 4. That no person shall be relieved from The
operation Of this act by reason of having been here
,ofose discharged fiom the army where disability
now exists, nor shall those who have furnished
substitutes be any longer exempted by reason
thereof: Provided, That no person heretofore ex
empted on account of religious opinions, and who
has paid the levied to relieve him from service,
shall be required to render military service under
this act.
Sec That all white male residents of the Con-
iederaic States between the ages OF seventeen and
eighteen, and forty five and fifty years shall enroll
themselves at such times and places and under
such regulations 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; and any person who shall fail SO
to enroll himself, without a reasonable excuse
therefor be judged OF by the President, shall be
placed in service I'm the field for the war In the
same manner as though he were between the ages
of eighteen aud fortyfive PROVIDED, That the per-
sons mentioned in this section shall constitute a
reserve for State defence and detail duty and shall
not be required to perform service out OF the STATE
In which they reside.
See. 6. That all persons required by the nIth
section of this act TO enroll themselves may, with
in thirty days after the passage hereof east OF the
Mississippi river and within sixty days, If west of
said river fern themselves into voluntary organtza
lions of companies, battalOns OF regiments, and
elect their own Otfcers-said organization to con-
form TO the existing law; and having SO organized,
to tender their services as volunteers during the
war to the President; and If such organization
shall furnish proper muster rolls as now required,
and deposit copy thereof with the engroliing 9th
Ger of the district, (Which shall be equivalent to
enrollmen.,) they may be accepted as minute men
for service In such State; but in no event to be
taken out of 1t. Those who do not volunteer and
organize shall enroll themselves as before prOvid. d.
and may by the President, be required TO assemble
ut places of rendezvous, and be formed into COM
eanies, battalions and regiments, under regula
tions to be prescribed by him, and shall have the
right TO elect their company and regimentai Off
GERS and all troops organized under this act for
state defence shall be entitled. while In actual ser
vice, to the same pay and allowances as troops
now in the field
Sec 7 That any person who shall fail to attend
at the places of rendezvous as required by the
authority of the President, without a sufficient ex-
cuse 10 be judged of by him, shall be liable to be
placed in service in the field for the war, as il he
were between the ages OF eighteen and forty hve
years.
Sec. 8. That hereafter the duties Of provost and
hospital guards and clerks, Of clerks, guards,
agents, employees, or lsbOrers In the COmmissary's
and Quartermastcr's Departments, In the Ord
nance Department, and clerks and employees of
navy agents. also in the execution of the enroll
ment acts, and all similar duties, shall be per
formed by persons who are within the ages OF
eighteen and and forty five years, and who, by the
report of a board Of army surgeons, shall be re-
ported rs unable to perform active service in the
field but capable Of performing some Of the above
named duties, specifying which; and when those
persons shall lave been assigned to those duties
far practicable, the President shall detail
sign to their performance such bodies of troops
idividuas, required to be enrolled under the fifth
.<,ca Ill moi la fnr fhn
charge of such duties Provided, That persons be-
tween the ages of seventeen and eighteen shall
be assigned to these duties Irouide further, That
nothing contained In this act shall be construed
as to prevent the President from detailing artizans
mechanics, or persons of scientific skill to perform
indispensable duties in the departments or bureaus
herein mentioned.
| Sec 9. That any Quartermaster or assistant
| quartermaster, cOmmissary or assistant commissa
/ nv, (other than those serving with regiments and
brigades in the ield,) or officer in the ordinance
bureaux, or navy agent, or provost marshal, or Off
l Ger in the cOnscr!pt service, who shall hereafter
employ or retain In his employment any person in
any of their said departments or bureaux or in any
/ of the duties mentioned in the eighth section Of
this act in violation of the provisions hereof shall
on conviction thereof by court martial or mill
tary court, be cashiered; and it shall be the duty
of any department or district commander, Upon
proof by the oath Of any credible person, that any
such officer has violated this provision, Immediate
iy to relieve such officer from duty; and said
mander shalitake prompt measures to have him
tried for such offence, and any commander as
aforesaid failing to perform the duties enjOined by
/ this section, shall, upon being duly convicted
thereof, be dismissed from the service.
Sec. 10. That all laws granting exemptions from
military service be, and the hereby repeal
| cd, and hereafter none shall be exempted except
| the following:
| /. All who shall be held unfit for military ser
vice, under rules 10 be prescribed by the Secretary
| Of War.
II. TIL, Vice President of the Confederate States
the members and officers of Congress- and of the
several State Legislatures, ard such other COnfed-
errors of the respective States may certify to be
necessary for the proper administration of the Con-
federate State Governments, as the case may be-
III. Every minister OF religion authorized 10
preach according to the rules of his church, and
WHO, at the passage of this act, shall be regularly
employed IN the discharge of his ministerial duties
superintendent and physicians of asyIums for the
deaf dumb and blind and of the insane; editor
the passage of this act, and such employees said
editor may certify on oath to be Indispensable Ia
the publication of such newspaper; the public
printer of the Confederate and State Governments
and such JOurneymen printers as the said public
printer shall certify on oath to be Indispensable to
perform the public printing; orc skilled apothecary
in each apothecary store, who was doing business
as such apOthecary on the tenth day of October
eighteen hundred and sixtytwO, and has continued
sand business, without ntermssion since that pc
Rod; all physicians over the age Of thirty years
WHO now are and for the last seven years have
been In the actual and regular practice Of theil
professions but the term physician shall not include
dentists; all presidents and teachers of colleges
theological seminarics, academies, and schools
who have been regularly engaged as such for two
years next before the passage Of this act: PROVIDED
that the benefit of this exemption shall extend to
those teachers only whose schools are composed oil
twenty students or more /; all superlntendents OF
public hospitals established by law before the pas
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