Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1865-02-15
an ACT TO AMEND AN ACT TO INCREASE
~ THE EFFICIENCY OF THE HOME GUARD
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Sue /, Bed enaded 6y tie General Assen6ty II
The State of North Carolina and i Is hereby enact
ed 6v Tho astAarils efkke 4Rhhss the' Gosstn-
NJ wbepever he deems It expedieut, may re-organze
the Guard for Home Defence, by causing two or
,ors companies to be consolidated into one, as to
make not less than sixty four men, rank and file, TO-
each company Provided, however, that if there are
not sixty home guards in any one county, that such
number as may be shall be incorporated into COM
napy. The said companies, when so consolidated,
shall have the privilege Of eiectiug their company Of
6cers from the rank and file of said companies; and
such officers as shall not be elected for service in said
company shall be required to perform service as nom
commissioned officers or privates, under the same
rules and regulations as other non-commssioned obi
GERS and prvates required to serve, and whilst 30
serving their commissions shall be suspended.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Govern
or NAV In like manner, cause two or more battaons
or regiments of Home Guards to be consolidated; !;
said 6attalions, when so consolidated, to be compos-
ed of net less than three companies, and said resl-
uents when so consolidated, of not more than ten
companies that the rank and file shall elect their
field officers, and all field officers who shall not be
elected, their commissions shall be suspended, and
thew be REQUIRED to perf,r duty in the ranks as
non-commissioned officers and privates.
SEC 8. Be it further enacted, That in addition
to the exemptions mentioned in the second section
of an act IN relation to the Militia and Guard tor
Home Defence ratified 7th July, 1868, there shall
be exempt one Commissioner to each County, ap-
popted under an act entitled an act for the relief
Of wives and families of soldiers in the army !" the
Attorney General Solicitors for the several Circuits
and Counties; County Trustees; County Surveyors ;
PHYSICIANS of five years practice one Editor to
newspaper and necessary eompostors and employees,
to be certified to on oath by the Editor; mail-car-
riers professors in colleges and teachers who at the
passage of this act had and shall continue to have
twenty scholars; the necessary skilled operatives in
factories and foundres: regular public mlllers and
blacksmths, and wheelwrights who have estab'
lished shops regular public tanners and shoema'
ksrs, and one overseer Of the poor Of each County
Prorided, all the tradesmen thus exempted shall bt
skilled in their respective trades and were employed
in the same prior to the 1st of Jan. 1864, and hav
continued to be so employed since that tlme excep
public millers, who shall be exempt whenever the!
are 50 engaged unless it shall appear that owners
mills have turned off their mers and goue in them
selves to evade the SERVICE then such owners not t
be exempt: Provided, that the exemptions IN thi
act shall not apply to Home Guard Officers commls
stoned under this act, but shall apply to officers
the home guard and militia, who are require
under this act to serve in the ranks, and wh
would be entitled to exemption if they did not hol
commissions and provided further, that no provis
ion of this act shall be construed 50 as to exempt
person herein mentioned from Home Guard Duty i
the County IN which he resides.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That all laws an
clauses of laws coming in conflict with this act b.
and the same are hereby repealed.
SEC. s. Be 1t further enacted, That this act sha
be in force from and after its ratification.
Ratified in General Assembly this 7th day of Eel
ruary, 1865.
DANIEL G. FOWtE, pro. TEN. S. H. e.
GILES MEBANE. S. s.