Washington telegraph., 1864-05-18
An Act to Organize Forces to Serve
During the War.

shall be In the service of the Confederate
States during the war.
2 That all persons aforesaid between the
ages of Is and Is, now in the service, shall
be retained during the present war with the
United States, in the same regiments battal.
ions and companies to which they belonged at
the passage of this act, with the same organi
raOns and officers, unless regularly transfer
red or discharged, in accordance with the laws
and regulations of the army: Provided That
companies from one State, organized against
their consent, expressed at the time, with reg
iments or battalions from another Sta,e, shall
have the privilege of being transferred to or
sanizatons of tr ops, in the same arm of the
s,rvice, from the State i'll which said compa-
aps were raised; and the soldiers from one
State, in companies from another State, shall
be allowed, if they desire it, q transfer 60 or
ganizationsfrom their own States, IN the same
arm Of the service.
3. Be it further enacted, That, at the exni-
ration of six mouths from the 1st of April
next, bounty of one hundred dollars in six
per cent. Government bonds, which the Secre-
tlry of the Treasury is hereby authorized to
Issue, shall be paid to every non-commissioned
officer, musician and private, then in the SER
vice, or in the event of his death, previous to
the period of such payment, then to the per-
son or persons who would be entitled by law
10 Tue dFTedTdReS OI MS pay, Ouh no one Sndtt
be entitled to the bounty therein provided,
VINO shall at any time during the period Of six
months next after the sad first day of A rii,
be absent from his command without leave.
4. Be it further enacted, That no one shall
De relieved from the operations of this act by
eason OF having been heretofore dschar. ed
from the army, where no disability now ex-
lists, nor shall those who have furnished SUBJ
stitutes be any longer exempted by reason
thereof: Provided, at no person heretofore
exempted on account OF religious opinion ..
aud who has paid the tax levied to reievs him
from service, shall be required to render SER
vice under this act.
5. Be 1t further enrcted, That all white
male residents of the Confeder tie States, be-
tween the ages of seventeen and eighteen, aud
YOrty aud fifty years, snail enroll them
selves at such times and places, aud under
such regulations as the President may pre-
scribe, 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 to enroll himself, with
out reasonable excuse therefor, t. be judged
Of by the President, shall be placed in sc vice
ia the field fur the war, in the same manner AS
slough they were between the ages OF Eighteen
and terty-hve; Provided, That tue persons
mentioned in this section shall constitute a re-
serve fer State defence and detail duty, and
snail not be required to perform service out OF
The State in which theysreside.
8. That all persons required by the fifth sec
Non Of this act to enroll themselves may, within
thirty days of the passage thereof, east of the
Mississippi river, and within sixty days west
Faid river, form themselves into voluntary
o'gsnizations of companies battalioRs or reg
inents, and elect their own officers; said or
ganizatlons to conform to the sting laws;
sAd hov 70 feudsr hair
vices as volun' eers during the war to the Pres
idsnt; and if such organizations shall furnish
proper muster rolls, as now organized, and de-
post copy thereof with the enrolling ofic r
Of their district, which shall be equivalent to
enrolment, they may be accepted as minute
men Tor service in such State, but in
no event to be taken out of it. Those
who do not so volunteer and organize, shalt
enroll themselves as before provided and may,
oy the PRESIDENT, be required TO assemble at
convenient place or rendezvous, and be form
I'd or organized into companies, battalions and
regiments, under regulations to be prescribed
ty him, and shall have the right to elect their
company and regimentai officers, and all troops
organized under this act for State defence,
shall be entitled to the same pay and allowance,
as troops now in the field
!. That any person who shall flil to attend
hthe place of rendezvous, as required by the
authority of the President, without a sufh
clent excuse, to be judged of by him, shall be
liable to be placed in the field for the war. as
II he were between the ages of eighteen and
fOrty-fve years
s. That hereafter the duties of provost and
hospital guarGs and clerks, and of clerks,
guards, agents, employees OF laborers in the
Commissary and Quartermaster's Department,
the Ordnance Bureau and clerks and em-
p0yeeS OF and oil cir lar Iuties
ssil be performed by persons within the ages
eighteen and forty-hve years, and who by
ne report of the board of army sur.
ssons, shall be reported as unable to perform
s'u'e service in the field, but capable of per-
,,Osnlng some of the abovesaid duties, speci-
!i'g which, and when those persons shall have
"eth assigned to those duties as far practi-
'&H0ie' the President shall assign or detail to
; lsr performance such bodies of troops, or
xsl, xasul,iUduals, required to be enrolled under the
-" section of this act, as may be needed for
ns discharge of those duties; Provided, That
Peisons between the ages of seventeen and
p. peen snail not be assigned to those duties;
tiOhued further, That nothing contained in
aas act shall be so Construed to prevent the
ueat from detailing srtizans, mechanics,
PERSONS OF scientific skill, to perform indis
f'nsaole duties in the Departments of Bureaux
herein mentioned.
n mat any Quartermaster or Assistant
S4Ar'efhaster, Commissary or Assistant Com
dary, tother than those serving with Brig
.s OF Regiments in the field, or officers in
D. orunance Bureau, or Navy Agents,
O'ost Marshals, or officers in the Conscript
!, zee who shall hereafter employ or retain
si1 AT = employment any person IN any of their
dnf pspartments or Bureaux, or in any OF the
sct y. mentioned in the Sth section of this
on u violation of the provisions hereof, shall
mE,. mEra'ietion thereof by court martial or
tbs sry court, be cashiered; and it shall be
msnd-! OF any Department or District Com
bls na,, upon proof by the oath of any credi-
Ia. On, that any such officer has violated
ee, fsion. Immediately TO relieve such off.
p,oras. duty, and such commander shall take
ofenp measures to have him tried for such
mo ana any commander as aforesaid fall
by tb,.p perform the duties enj ned upon him
ncted - ection, shall, upon being duly con-
To- TT'efeot, be discharged from service.
nili,s,, nat al! laws granting exemptions from
rens.l service, be. and the same are hereby
t1csr.'' and hereufter none sLail be exempted
P, .,i tue following.
,sr,ra M VINO shall be held unfit for military
Sscrsta-ur rAuer " rules to be prescribed by the
States. q. 'ice-President Of the Confederate
of,hs 'ns members and officers OF Congress;
stA.r co. cesersl State Legislatures, and such