The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1865-01-31
TIE NEW MILITARY LAW.

Adopted IN FEBRUARY, 1904
TEE NEW MILITARY LAW.
4 Bill to organize forces to during the Var.
SEC. l. That from and after the passage of this act
all white residents of the Confederate States, be-
tween the ages of 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 l9 and As, in SERVICE shall be retained
during the present with the United States in the
same regiments, batalions and companies to which
they belong at the passage of this act, With the same
organization and officers, unless regularly transferred
or discharged in accordance with the laws and regu
lations for the government Of the ProDided that
companies from State, organized against their
consent expressed at the time with regiments or bat
talons from another State shall have the privilege of
being transferred to organizations of troops In the
Of the service from the States in which said
companies raised and the soldiers from one
State in companies from another State, shall be allow
cd if they desire It: transfer to organizations from
| their own States, in the same arm of the service
Sec 3. 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-com
mssioned officer musician and private who shall then
be in service, in the event of his death previous to
the period of such payment then to the person or per-
sons who would be entitled by law to receive the ar
rearages OF his pay bnt no one 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.
4.
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
reason thereof: Provded that no person. heretofore
exempted account of religious opinions and who
has paid the tax levied to relieve him from service
shall be required render military service under this
act.
Sec 5. Be it further enacted, That all white male
residents of the Confederate Stats between the ages
of II and l8 and is and years. shall enroll them
selves such times and DaceS and under such
laons, as 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 excuse therefor, to be judged of
by the President shall be placed in service in the field
for the war; in the same manner as though they were
between the ages of eighteen and forty five Proraded
that the persons mentioned in this section shall con-
sttnte for State defence and detail duty and
shall not be required to perform service out of the
State in which they reside.
Sec 6. That al persons required by the 5th section
of this act to enroll themselves may within thirty days
alter the passage thereof east of the Mississippi river
and withinsxty days. if of said river form them
selves into voluntary organizations of companies bat
taonS, or regiments, and elect their officers said
organizations to conform to the existing laws and
having organized, tender their services voun
teers during the to the President and if such
CARNATIONS shall furnish proper muster rolls
organized and deposit copy thereof with the en-, OIL
ing officer of their district which shall be equivalent
to enrolment, they may be accepted minute men
Tor service in such State, but in event to be taken
out of it. Those who do volunteer and organize
shall enroll themselves before provided; and may
by the President, be required to assemble at
lent places of rendezvous, and be formed organized
into companies, bataons and regiments under regu-
latons to be prescribed by him; and shall have the
right to elect their company and regimental officers
aud 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 I. 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
Judged of by him, shall be liable be placed in
vice in the field for the war as if he were between the
ages Of Is and is years.
Sec 8. That hereafter the duties of provost 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
Of eighteen and forty five years. and who the report
of Board of army surgeons shall be reported
BILE to perform active service in the field but capable
of performing ofthe above said duties specifying
which; and when those persons shall have been assign
ed to those duties far practicable, the President
shall assign detail TO their performance such bodies
o. troops individuals required enrolled under
the 5th section of this act may be needed for the
discharge of such duties: Provided that persons De-
tween the ages of II and shall be assigned those
duties: PTorded fur that nothing contained in this
act shall be so construed prevent the President
from detailing arzans mechanics persons ofscien-
thc Skill to perform indispensable duties in the de-
partments or bureaus herein mentioned.
Sec Q. That any Quartermaster Assistant Quar-
termaster, Commissary, 10th
er than those serving with brgades regiments in
the field officers in the Ordnance Bureau, Navy
Agents, Provost Marshal Or officer in the conscript
service, who shall hereafter employ retain in his
employment any person il any Of theis said depart
ments or bureaus, or in any of the duties mentioned in
the 9Th section of this act, in violation of the provs-
ions hereof, SHALL conviction thereof by a court
martial or military court, be cashered; and it shall be
the duty ofany department district commander, up
proof by the oath of credible person, that any
such officer bias violated this provision Immediately
to relieve such officer from duty and said commanders
shall take prompt measures to have him tried for such
offence: and any commander aforesaid failing to
perform the duties enned by this section SHALL upon
being duly convicted thereof bedischargcd from the
service.
IN REGARD To EXEMPTIONS.
Sec 20. BE il further enacted That all laws granting
exemptions from military service be- and the 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 VcePresident of the Confederate States the
members and officers of Congress and of the several
State Legislatures, and s@ch other Confederate and
State officers the President the Governor of the
respective States, may certify be necessary for the
proper administration of the Confederate or State |