The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1865-03-07
CoNSCRIPTION.

CONSUMPTION" 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 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 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 g All applications for exemption and detail,
except hereinafter provided shall be decided by
the General officers having charge of the business
Of conscri ption in the several States. Appeals
may be taken from their decisions to the Secretary
of War; but during the tendency of such appeals
the applicants shall be liable to military service.
Sec. 8. There shall be assigned from the Invalid
Corps, or from officers certified by the proper med
ical 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 CONSUMPTION 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
army medical board, shall be final and shall relieve
when the disability is permanent, and the cause of
it is set forth in the discharge.
Sec. 5. If any conscript shall furnish to the
enrolling 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
serious prejudice to his health, furough shall be
granted him until the next meeting of the medical
board, hereinafter provided for.
Sec 6. 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 vsit each
county of the district at least in two months,
and shall examine for discharge or Recommended
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. It,shall be the duty of all officers and
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 commissaries, commanders of
posts, provost marshals officers of the ordnance,
nitre and mining and medical bureaus, and others,
t. 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.
SEQ. 8. For the enforcement of the duties i'm
posed by this act upon the general officers contro
ing CONSUMPTION in the several States such detach
ments ofthe reserve forces as they may deem neees
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 planters not enrolled in the
military service 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 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 the age Of forty-fve years, to whom
shall be addressed every application for the detail
OF --- overseer, farmer or planter, in their
respective counties, 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
ard it, together with the reasons for their ap-
prevail to the general officer controlling conscrip-
ton in the State, and if he approve such aprlica
ton, the detail shall be allowed If the General
officer of Consumption shall disapprove such appli
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 conscription, the camps
OF Instruction. and the Office of commandant of
conscripts, are hereby abolished, and all rules and
regulations of the War Department, inconsistent
with this act, are hereby repealed
Destructive FIRE-Fice Persons Burnt to
DeaM.-One of the most horrible catastrophies
which has, probably, occurred in this city since
the burning of the Richmond Theatre (some forty
years past0 took place about o'clock on Tues
day morning last. At that hour, the three-story
brick building on Main street, between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth, occupied jointly as store and
dwelling by Messrs. Marcuse & Hutzler, and Mr.
Joseph Stebbins and family, was discovered to be
on fire; and so rapidly did the flames spread, that
the occupants of the third story, consisting Of Mr.
Stebbins his wife and three children persisted in
the building.-Richmond Dispatch.
THE CATHOLIC CONVENT IN CoLUMBIA.-A |
large number of parents aud guardians in this city,
having daughters and wards in the large Female |
College in Columbia. known as the Convent, very !
naturally feel much anxiety in regard to their
dtion since the city has fallen into the enemy's
hands. To quiet these apprehensions, we would
state that we have heard from sources which we
deem reliable, that the institution and its inmates
will be respected by the enemy. 1t is said that
General Sherman told lady in Savanuah, who
has daughter at the Convent, that if the fortunes
Of war sboudplace Columbia in his possession, that