Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1865-03-08
CONSUMPTION and Details.

Conscription and Details. |
The following bill d" to regulate the business Of
CONSUMPTION " has passed both Houses of Congress:
Tho Congressef The Confederate States of Amsi-
ca do eGet That for the purpose of conducting the
business Of CONSUMPTION, there shall be assigned to
each State by the President General officer who
shall report to the Secretary Of War through an |
Assistant Adjutant General, to b assigned in the
office Of the Adtutant and Inspector General to the
duty Of receiving returns and reports and issuing
all orders in relation to CONSUMPTION.
SECTION Q. ALI applications for exemption and do.
tall except as hereinafter provided shall be dec-
ded by tire General officers having charge Of the
business of CONSUMPTION in the several States APP
peals may be taken from their decisions to the Sec
rotary of War; but during the tendency of such ap-
peals, the applicants shall DO liable to military ser.
vice.
Sec. 8. There shall be assigned frsm the Invalid
Corps, or from officers certified by the proper medi-
cal boards to be unfit for active service in the field
a sufficient number Of enrolling officers who shall
report to and be under the immediate direction aad
control Of the General officers conducting the bust
ness of CONSUMPTION in the several States
Sec. A. All eonscripts shall be examined by the
medical boards Of the army, after joining the CEN.
mands in the field to which they m.y be respec.
lively assigned, and every discharge granted by an
army medical board, shall be final and shall relieve
the party from all military service in the FUTURE
when the disability is permanent and the cause Of
it is set forth in the discharge
/ Sec s. If any conscript shall furnish to the en-
rolling officer of his county . certificate, under
oath, from respectable physician or from any
army Surgeon, that he is unable to travel to the
command to which he may be assigned without Sc.
rous prejudice to his health. y furlough shall be
~f AZ Il
| board, hereinafter provided for
SEC. g. There shall be assigned to each Con.
gressional District medical board, consisting of
three army Surgeons, who, after due notice of the
time and place of their nesting shall visit each
ty Of the district at least once In two months and
shall examine for discharge or recommendation for
light duty, all couscripts who have been furlough.
ed under the provisions of the preceding section
Every discharge granted by tho said medical board
shall be final and shall relieve the party from eli
military service in the future, when the disability
permanent and the cause of it is set forth in this
certificate.
| Sec Z. It shall be the duty of all officers and
others employed in the military service of the Con-
federate States- and not actually in the field, nor
attached to any army in tie field, Including quar-
| termasters and commissaries, commanders Of posts
provost marshals, officers of, the ordnance, nitre
and mining and medical bureaus, and others, to
make certified monthly returns to the nearest con-
script officer, of the Names ages and physical con-
dition of all persons employed in the service which
returns shall be forwarded to the General officer
controlling conscrption in the State.
SEC. 8. For the enforcement of the duties i'm.
posed by this act upon the general officers con-
tachments of the reserve forces as they may deem
necessary, shall be placed at their disposal.
SEC. g. In order to secure the production of grain
and provisions necessary for the use of the army
and the families of soldiers, such overseers farmers
or planters as were not enrolled in the military SER
vice on the 18th day Of February, 1864, and who
will be useful to the country in the pursuits
Of agriculture than in the military service shall be
detailed upon the terms to be prescribed BY the ST..
cretary of War, under the direction Of the Presi.
dent. And in order to ascertain what persons
should be desifed under this act, for the purposes
aforesaid, there shall be appointed by the President
in each county, district parish, an agricultural
board, consisting of three farmers planters over
the age of forty five years, to whom shall be ad-
dressed every application for the detail Of -
Overseer farmer planter in their respective coun-
ties districts or parishes, and whose duty it shall
be to enquire and report upon the merits Of such
application. And if q majority of said board shall
approve the same, they shall forward it together
with the reasons for their approval to the general
officer controlling CONSUMPTION in the State, and il
he approve such application the detail shall be al.
lowed. If the General officer of CONSUMPTION shall
disapprove such application, the applicant shall
have the right of appeal to the Secretary Of War
and if the said board shall dsapprove such a2plica.
ton, their decision shall be hnal, and no right oil
appeal shall exist.
Sec TO- The, bureau of CONSUMPTION, tts camps
of instr uction aud the Office Of command.nt Of con
scripts are hereby abolished, and all rules and
regulations of the War Department, inconsistent
with this act, are hersb. repealed.
The following bill has passed Congress:
BILL TO DIMINISH THE NUMBER OF EXEMPTIONS
/ AND DETAILS.
The Congress Of tho Confederate iStatss Of Amsr.
iea do enact, That so much of the act to organize
forces to serve during the war, approved February
II, 1868, as exempts one person az overseer or AZ
riculturist on each farm or plantation upon which
there are at specified times, fifteen able bodied field
hands, between the ages Of sixteen and fey, upon
certain conditions, is hereby repealed; Proeidsd
That exemptions of persons over forty five years Of
age may be granted under the provisions Of the ae
aforesaid, and said persons shall be liable to militia
service upon the expiration of the time for which
they received exemption by reason Of haviag exc.
cuted bonds for one year from, the date thereof =
SECTION 2. No-exemption or detail shall be grant
cd by the President or Secretary Of War. by viru,
of said act, except of persons lawfully reported by
board of surgeons as unable to perform active ser
vice in the field, persons oveE the age of forty
years, and Of laborers artizs mechanics, and o
persons Of scientific skill employed by, or workin,
for, the government State or Coafederate, AMI
shown by proper testimony to be such laborers
artzans, mechanics, persons of scientific skill
and with the same exemptions, all exemptions an,
details heretofore granted by the President or Sec
rotary OF the War; by virtue Of said act are hereb.
revoked.
SEC. That all skilled africans and mechanic
who are engaged in the employment of the govern
ment of the Confederate States are hereby exemp
from all military service during the time they ar
so employed: Provided, That persons whose ser
wees, labor or skill may be more usefaly employ
ed for the public good at home than in the field
be determined by the Secretary of War, on tn