The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1865-03-21
THE NEW MILITARY LAW.

Adopted IN FEBRUARY, 1904
THE NEW MILITARY LAW
A BiHto organize forces during THE Var.
SEC. l. That from and after the passage of this act
all white residents of the Confederate States be-
the ages of II snd So shall be in the military
service of the Confederate States for the war;.
Sec 2. That all the persons aforesaid, between the
ages of Is and As, in service, shall be retained
during the present with the United States in the
regiments ebattalions and companies to which
they belong at the passage of this act, with the same
organization and officers unless regularly transferred
discharged in accordance with the laws and regu-
lations for the government of the army Provded that
companies from State, organized against their
consent expressed at the tme with gments or bat
tans from another State shall have the privilege of
being transferred organizations of troops, in the
Of the service from the States in which said
companies were raised and the soldiers hom one
State in companies from another State shall be allow
ed if they desire it, transfer to organizations from
their swn States, in the same arm of the service.
Sec g. Be it further enacted That at the expiration
of six months from the first day Of April next bounty
of hundred dollars in six per cent. Government
bond, which the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby
authorized to issue, shall be paid to every nen-eom
mss;oned officer musician and private who shall then
be in service, in the of his death previous to
the period of such payment then to the person per-
who would be entitled by law to receive the ar
rearages of his pay; bn 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 4. Be it further enacted, That no person shall
be relieved from the operation of this act by OF
having been heretofore discharged from the army
where disability exists; shall those who
have furnished substitutes be any longer exempted by
thereof: Provided, that person, heretofore
exempted account of religious opinions and who
has paid the tax levied to relieve him fl service
shall be required render military service under this
act.
Sec s. Be it further enacted Thst all white male
residents of the Confederate States between the ages
of II and Is and As and so years. shall enroll them
selves at such times and places and under such regu
laons, the President may prescribe, the time al
lowed 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
without reasonable therefor, to be judged of
by the President shall be placed in service in the field
for the war; in the same manner though they were
between the ages of eighteen and fortyve: Provided
that the persons mentioned in this section shall
sttnte for State defence and detail duty and
sha! not be required to perform service of the
State in which they reside.
Sec 6. That all persons required by the 9Th section
this act to enroll themselves may within thirty days
after the passage thereof of the Mississippi river
and within sixty days. if of said river form them
selves into voluntary organizations of companies bat
taons, regiments, and elect their officers said
organizations to conform to the existing laws and
having organized, to tender their services voun
teers during the the President; and if such
CARNATIONS shall furnish proper muster rolls
organized and deposit copy thereof with the oil
ing officer of their district which shall be equivalent
to enrolment, they may be accepted as minute men
for service in such State, but in event to be taken
shall enroll themselves as before provided; and may
by the President, be required to assemble at
lent places of rendezvous and be formed6 organized
into companies, battaons and regiments under regu-
laons to be prescribed by him; and shall have the
right to elect their company and regimental officers
and all troops organized under this for State de-
fence, shall be entitled, while in actual service to the
same pay and allowance as troops now in the field.
Sec T. That any person who shall fail to attend at
the place of rendezvous required by the authority
of the President, without sufficient excuse to be
shHl he 1iah tn he MIA
vice III the field for the war; if he between the
ages OF 6 and As years.
Sec 8. That hereafter the duties of prov ost and hos
pal guards and clerks and of clerks, guards agents.
employees laborers in the Commssary and Quarter
masters Departments, in the Ordnance Bureau, and
clerks and employees ofnavy agents. also in the
cution OF the enrolment act, and all similar duties
shall be performed by persons who within the ages
of eighteen and forty five years. and who by the report
of Board of army surgeons shall be reported
BILE to perform active service in the field but capable
of performing othe above said duties specifying
which; and when those persons shall have been assign
ed to those duties as far as practicable the President
shall assign or detail 90 their performance such bodies
o. troops or individuals required be enrolled under
the 5th section of this act as may lie needed for the
discharge of such duties Provded that persons be-
tween the ages of II and shall be assigned those
duties: Provided FURTHER that nothing contained in this
act shall be construed to prevent the President
from detailing artzans, mechanics persons of scien
tc SKILL to perform indispensable duties the de-
partments bureaus herein mentioned.
Sec 8. That any Quartermaster or Assistant Quar-
ermaster, CommlSsary or AsslStant-Commssary 10Th
than those serving with brigades or regiments in
the 6eld,) officers in the Ordnance Bureau, Navy
Agents, Provost Marshal, officer in the conscrpt
service who shall hereafter employ retain in his
employment any person in any of their said depart
mens bureaus, in any of the duties mentioned
the Sh section of this act in violation of the provis
ions hereof, shall, on conviction thereof by
martial military court be cashiered and shall
the duty ofany department district commander up-
proof by the oath of any credible person. that any
such officer has violated this provision immediately
to relieve such officer from duty; and said commanders
shall take prompt have him tried for such
offence: and any commander aforesaid failing to
perform the duties enoined by this section SHALL upou
being duly convicted thereof be discharged from the
service.
IN REGARD TO EXEMPTIONS.
Sec TO- Be il :drther enacted That all laws grauno
exemptions from military service be, and the sa nae are
hereby repealed, and hereafter shall be exempted
except the following:
/. All who shall be held unfit for military service
under rules to be prescribed by the Secretary of War
2. The VicePresident of the Confederate States the
members and officers of Congress and of the several
State Legislatures, and such other Confederate and
State officers the President the Governor of the
respective States certify to be necessary for the
proper administration of the Confederate or State
Governments, as the case may be.