The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1865-03-14

We hope all our subscribers viii save this paper
containing the following laws, that they re-
fer to it when desired, and save the trouble OF
furnishing copies hereafter. Of course those who
are not subscribers will not expect us to stop
work for the purpose of hunting up papers con-
tanning laws of Congress
CoNsCRIPTIoN.
The following bill sfto regulate the business Of
conscstfSion has passed both Houses Of Congress:
The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact, That for the purpose of con-
Quoting the business of conscription, 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 as
signed in the Office of the Adjutant and Inspector
General, to the duty Of receiving returns and re-
ports and issuing all orders in relation to con-
scription.
Sec. 2. All applications for exemption and detail
except as hereinafter provided shall be decided by
the General officers having charge of the business
of conscrption in the several States Appeals
may be taken from their decisions to the Secretary
of War, but during the pendency of such appeals,
the applicants shall be liable to military service
Sec. 3. 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
sufficient number of enrolling officers who shall
report to and be under the immediate direction
and control of the General officers conducting the
business Of conscription in the several States.
Sec. 4. All conscripts shall be examined by the
medical boards Of the army, after joining the CON-
mands in the field to which they may 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 Of
it is set forth in the discharge
Sec s. If any censcript shall furnish to the
enrolling officer of bis county certificate, under
oath, from a respectable physician from any
army Surgeon, that he is unable to travel to the
command to which he may be assigned without
serious prejudice to his health, furlough shall be
granted him until the next meeting of the medical
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 meeting, shall visit each
county of the district at least in two months,
and shall examine for discharge or recommends
ton for light duty, all conscripts who have been
furloughed 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 7. 1t shall be the duty of all officers ard
others employed in the military service Of the
Confederate States, and not actually in the field,
nor attached to any army in the field, including
quartermasters and commssaries, 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
conscript officer, Of the names, ages and physical
condition of all persons employed in the service,
which returns shall be forwarded to the General
officer controlling CONSUMPTION in the State.
Sec. s. For the enforcement of the duties i'm
posed by this act upon the general officers control
ing conscrption in the several States, such detach
mens of the reserve forces they may deem neces-
sary, shall be placed at their disposal.
Sec. 8. 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 service the 18th day of February 1864,
and VINO 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 Secretary of War, under the direction of
the President. 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 or parish, an
agricultural board, consisting of three farmers or
planters over the age Of forty five years, to whom
SHALL be addressed every application for the detail
of --- overseer, farmer or planter, in their
respective countess districts parishes, and whose
duty it shall be to enquire aud report upon the
merits of such application And if majority of
said board shall approve the same, they shall for
ward it, together with the reasons for their ap
rroval. to the general officer controlling conscrip
tion in the State, and if he approve such aprlica
tion the detail shall be allowed IF the General
officer of conscrption shall disapprove such appl-
cation the applicant shall have the right of appeal
to the Secretary of War; and if the said board shall
disapprove such application, their decision shall be
final, and no right of appeal shall exist.
Sec 10. The bureau Of conscriprion, the camps
of instruction, and the office of commaudant of
conscripts, hereby abolished, and all rules and
regulations of the War Department, inconsistent
with this act, are hereby repealed
THE EXEMPTION BILL.
The old exemption bill has passed both Houses
of Congress, with the following changes:
A Bill to diminish the number of exemptions and