Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-03-03
Consumption and Details.
The following bill "to regulate the business of
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The following bill "to regulate the business of
consumption has passed both Houses Of Congress:
TIE Congressof the Confederate States of Amsri-
ca do enact 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 be assigned in the
ot1ce OF the Adjutant and Inspector General to the
duty OF receiving returns and reports and issuing
all orders in relation to conscrption. -,
SECTION 2. Ali applications for exemption and de
II, except as hereinafter provided shall be dec.
ded by tie General officers having charge of the
business Of CONSUMPTION in the several States Ap.
peas may be taken from their decisions to the Sec
rotary of War, but during the tendency of sach an
Peas, the applicants shall be liable to military ser.
vice
SEC, 8. There shall be assigned from the Invalid
corps, or from officers certified by the proper med
cal boards to be unfit for active service in the field
a suthcient number OF enrolling officers who shall
report to and be under the immediate direction and
control OF the General officers conducting the bust
ness of CONSUMPTION in the several States.
SEC. 4. All conseripts shall be examined bv the
medical boards of the army, after joining the com.
lnands in the field to which they may be respec
lively assigned and every discharge granted bv an
army medical board, shah be final and shall relieve
the party from all military service in the future,
whenth disability is permanent, Ind the cause of
it is set forth in the discharge -
SEC 3. If aHy 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.
rious prejudice to his health, furlough shall be
granted him until the next meeting sf the medical
board, hereinafter provided for
Sec 9. There shall be assigned to each Con-
gressional District medical board, consisting of
three army Surgeons, who, after due notice of the
time place OF thelT meeting shall visit each codn
" OF the district at least once 10 two months, and
shall examine for discharge or recomm Sndation for
light duty, all conscripts who have been furloueb
ed under the provisions of the preceding section
Every discharge granted by the said 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 this
certificate.
SEC Z. 1t 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 the 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.
dlton OF all persons employed in the service which
returns shall be forwarded to the General officer
SEC. 8. For the enforcement of the duties i'm
posed by this act upon the general officers con-
trolling CONSUMPTION in the several States such de-
tachments Of the reserve forces as they NAV 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 were not enrolled in the military ser.
vice on the 18th day Of February, 1864, and who
will be more 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 detailed 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 or pl anters over
the age of forty-6ve years, to whom shall be ad
dressed every application for the detail of
oyerseeT, farmer pl nter in their respective coda-
ties districts parishes, and whose duty it shall
be to enquire and report upon the merits of such
application. And if 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 if
he approve such application, the detail shall be al.
lowed. If the General officer Of CONSUMPTION shall
disapprove such application, tie applicant shall
have the right Of appeal to the Secretary of War,
and if the said board shall disspprove such a2plica
ton, their decision shall be final, and no right of
appeal shall exist.
Sec. 10. The bureau of CONSUMPTION, the camps
OF instr ucton and the office of commandant Of con-
scripts, are hereby abolished, and all rules and
regulations of the War Department, inconsistent
with this act, are hereby repealed.