Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-03-08
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BY an Act Of the Congress of the Confederate
States, passed February lftb, 1864. SEQ 9. It'll:
er,otod that hereafter the duties Of provost and
hospitalagu&rds and cl9rks Of clerks, guards,
agents, employees, or lsborers il the ComHlista-
ry's and Quartermastcr's departments, a,al'o IN !
the e.e,cusion ot tie Eroiimeat octs stall be per-
formed by persons who are within the ages of
sis sht.on and fortE-fsC years; and wso BY The rs-
port If {. toerd eJ army Surgeons, sauR be re-
ported as ustajle 10 perform actire seirice in the
Geid, but capable of performing come of the
aforementioned Lutos, specyging ,chich and
when those persons ahall have bean assigned to
those duties as far as practicable, thO President
shall dotail or assign to their performances such
bodies Of troSps, individuals, between the ages
Of forty.iyo ond fifty years, as may be. needed
fer the discharge Of such dutie5 By Sec. Q. of
the samo act, it is enacted, that any Quartorira
ter, or Assistant Quarte.master, Commi:sary or
Assistant Commissary, (other than those rerving
with regiments and brigadcs in the fsld) or cGi-
Ger in the Cvnscript scrriee, who shall hereafter
employ. or rOtain in his employment, any person
in any Of their'said departments, or bnreanx, or
in any OF the duties mentioned in tie e;shlh-sec-
ton of this act in violation of the provisions
hereof, shall; on conviction thereof by a court
martial, er military court, be cashitred and it
] shall be the duty Of any department or district
commander, upon proof by the oath Of any credi-
BE person, that any such Officer has violated this
provision, immediately to relieve such -eface-
| ,Io
measures, to have him tried for such offence and
any Commander as aforesaid, failing to perform
the duties ,cajoncd by this section, shall, upon
being duly convicted thereof be dismissed from
the service. Dig. Military and Naval Laws, GIGS.
BY General ord4r No. Z, from Headquarters of
Resolve Forces, Par. 6, it is ordered, that the
Commaudant Of Conscripts IAN officer, by the
way, not recognized in the acts of c0nscription)
will, without delay, order the medical examins-
tion Of oil Commissioned officers, and other per-
sons (cxcept those Of the Invalid. Corps,") en-
ployed in the enrolling service of this State.
Commissioned officers, as to whom no disability
is found to exist, will hold themselves in readi-
ness to be assigned to daty in the field, as soon
as practicable. This order was issued by Genl.
Chestnut, Sept. 3Oth, 1854, who then assumed con.
troll and direction Of the conscription service in
this stuts. How we'll tho above, N entioned Sec
tiOns of the act of 18th February, 1854, have
boen observed, and the order of Gen. Chesnut
obeyod, q l.ok into the different departments Of
the military buresu1 will abundaRtly shcw.
And hero We will inquire whether Enrollin
Officers arc commissioned? They cannot be COM
lnissioned, unless they are appointed in the mau-
ner designated By ths. Statute, as shewn.in our
previous article. If TREY are not thua appointed,
then they arc not commissioned, and are merely
clerks, or employees. of the bures11of conscrip,
tion. invested with no military power whatever,
and all their. acts, dono under the assumption Of
military authority have besp, anil arc, illegal
Upon the application of party (arressod by those
persons) for the writ oc uabeas Corpus, the fill
ure of these ,o:callsd officers, to produce their
commissions, eriacncing their legal appointment
in the manner designated by tho Statute, would
Subject them to tho hoaviest penalties Of tho law
either Oh The civil or criminal side Of tha Court
j Of JNstice. PETER THE HERMIT