Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-02-24


and he is hereby authorized, in case the exigencies
Of the government should require it, to pay the de-
mand of any public creditor whose debt may be
contracted after the passage If this act willing to
receive the same in ; ceftficate It fndebtedoess,
be issued by said Secretary in such form - he msy
deem proper, payable two years after rstifintion
of treaty of peacs with the United States bearing
interest at the rate Of six per cent per annui pay
able scmi annually and transferable only by special
endorsement under regulations to be prescribed ny
the Secretary Of the Treasury, and said certificates
shall be exempt from taxation in principal and in
terest
SEC IS. The Secretary Of the Treasury is au-
thorized to increase the number Of repositories SO
as to meet the requirements Of this ae.. ana with
that view to employ such Of the backs Of the several
States as ne may 9ce9 expedlent.. :
oES. 10. me Sec etary of the Treasury shall
forthwith advertise this act in such newspapers pub
lished in the several States, and by such other
means as shall secure immediate publicity and the
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 aad navy.
Sec. II. The forty second section At the act tor
the assessment and COLLECTION OF axes, appraised
May LIST. 1853, is Hereby repealed.
SEC, 10 The Secretary of the Treasury is here
by authorized and required, upon the application
OF the holder Of any call certificate, which, by the
first section of this act to provide for the funding
ana an 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
SECTION l. That from and after the passage of
this act all white men, residents of the Confede
rate States, between the of seventeen and fifty,
snail be IN the military service of the Confederate
States for the war.
Sec. 2. That all the persons aforesaid, between
the ages OF eighteen and forty five, now in service,
snail De 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 &C
cordance with the laws and regulations for the
government of the army: Provided That compa.
MES from one State, organized against their con-
sent expressed at the time, with regiments or bat
taiions 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
dlers 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 lie 1t further enacted That at the ex-
pration of six months from the first day of April
next, bounty of one hundred dollars in six ,,s-
CENT government bond, which the Secretary of tho
Treasury is hereby authorized to ISSUE shall be
paid to every non commissioned officer musician
and private who shall then be in service, or in the
event OF bis death, previous to the period of such
payment then to the person or persons who would
oe emitted oy law TO 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. y. Bs At further enacted, That no person
Shall be relieved from the operation of this act bv
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: Prupided that
no person, heretofore exempted on account of re.
lgous opinions, and who has paid the tax levied
10 relieve him from service, shall be required to
render military service under this act
SEc. s. BE 1t further enacted, That all white
male residents Of the Confederate States, between
me ages OF seventeen and eighteen and forty.fiye
ma nifty years, shall enroll themselves at such
lines aud places, and under such regulations as
ne President may prescribe the time allowed not
being less than thirty days for those east and six
y days for those west of the Mississippi river. and
my person who shall fail so to enroll himself with
'ut reasonable excuse therefor, to be judged of
y the President shall be placed In service in the
leu ior the war, in the Same manner as though
hey were between the ages OF eighteen and forty.
I've: Proo1dsd, that the persons mentioned IN this
ect'on Shall constitute reserve for State defence
Ind detail duty, and shall not be required to ner
orm service out of the State in which they re-
ide.
SEC 6. That all persons required by the fifth
ecton Of this act to enroll themselves, may with
thirty days after the passage thereof east of the
dsssslppi river, and within sixty days, if west of
aid river, form themselves into voluntary orgsni.
atoms Of companies, battalions, or regiments and
lect their own oficerH said organizations to con-
orm to tho existing laws; and, having SO organ.
zed to tender their services as volunteers during
ne war to the President; ard if such organizs-
ions Shall furnish proper muster rolls as now Or
anized, and deposit copy thereof with the Ell
olling officer of their district which shall be EQUIV
lent to enrolment they may be accepted as min
tie men for service in such State, but in no event
be taken out Of it Those who do not so volunr
eer and organize shall enroll themselves As before
ro''oed and may, by the President, be required
assemble at convenient places of rendezvous,
no De formed or organized into companies, bat
alons and regiments under regulations to be pre-
cribed by him; and shall have the right to elect
heu company and regimental officers; and all
roops organized under this act for State defence.
hall be entitled, while in actual service, to the
anne pay and allowance rs troops now in the field.
SEC. z. That any person who shall fail to attend
t the place of rendezvous as required by the au-
hority of the President, without q sufficient ex-
use, to be judged of by him, shall be liable to be
laced in service in the field for the war, As if he
'cre between the ages of eighteen and forty.five
cars
Sec. 8. That hereafter the duties of provost and
ospital guards and clerks, and of clerks, guards.
gents, employees or labourers in the Comu,issary
nd Quartermaster's Departments, in the Ordnance
'ureas, and clerks and employees of navy agents,
also in the execution Of the enrolment act, and
Il similar duties, shall be performed by persons
Tho are within the ages of eighteen and forty.five
ears, and who by the report of Board of army
urgeons shall be reported as unable to perform &C.
We service in the field, but capable of performing
ONE Of me above said duties, specifying which
nd when those persons shall have been assigned to
nose duties as FAR as practicable, the President
nall assign or detail to their performance snch