Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-02-10
AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT TO INCREASE
THE EFFICIENCY OF THE HOME GUARD


SEC. l. Be 1t enacted by the General Assembly u
tie State Of North Carolina, and 1t is hereby enact
ed by the authority Of the same, That the Govern
or whenever he deems it expedent, may re-organize
the Guard for Home Defence, by causing two or
more companies to be consolidated into one so to
make not less than sixty four men, rank aud 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
pany. The said companies, when so consolidated,
shall have the privilege Of eectng their company Of
fcers from the rank and file of said companies; and
such officers shall not be elected for service in said
company shall be required to perform service as nom
commissioned officers privates, under the same
rules and regulsons other nou-commiSsOned OFF,
aud prvstes required to serve, and whilst 50
serving their commissions shall be suspended.
SEC. 2. Be it further enqcted, That the Govern
or may In like manner, cause two or more battallons
or regiments of Home Guards to be consolidated !;
said battalions when consolidated, to be compes-
ed of net less than three companies and said regi-
meuts, 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
they be required to peri 'rm duty in the ranks as
non-c0mmiSsioned officers and privates.
SIC 8. Be 1t further endcted, That in addition
to the exemptions mentioned in the second section
Of an act in relation to the Militia and Guard for
Home Defence, ratified 7th July, 1868, there shall
be exempt one Commissioner to each County, ap-
pointed under an act entitled act for the relief
of wives and families Of soldiers iu the army )" the
Attorney General Solicitors for the several Circuits
and Counties; County Trustees; County Surveyors
Physicians of Eve years practice; one Eiitor to a
newspaper and necessary mpositurs and employees,
to be certified to on oath by the Editor; mail-car-
riers; professors 10 colleges and teacherswho at the
passage of this act had, and shall continue to have
twenty scholars the necessary skilled operatives in
factories and foundries regular public millers and
Llacksmiths, and wheelwrights who have estab-
lished shops; regular public tanperS and shoetna-
kers, and one overseer Of the poor of each County
Provided, all the tradesmen thus exempted shall be
skilled in their respective trades and were employed
in the same prior to the 1st of Jan. 1864 and have
continued to be so employed since that time; except
public millers, who shall be exempt wherever they
so engaged unless it shall appear that owners OF
mills have turned off their millers and gone in them
selves to evade the service then such owners not to
be exempt: PrOUided, that the exemptions 10 this
act shall not apply to Home Guard Officers commits
stoned under this act, but shall apply to officers o
the home guard and militia, who are required
under this act to serve in the ranks, and whc
would be entitled to exemption if they did not hold
commissions: and proUtded further, that no provis
ion of this act shall be construed as to exempt any
person herein mentioned from Home GuaId Duty il
the County in which he resides.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That all laws anC
clauses of laws coming in conflict with this act be
and the same are hereby repealed.
SEC. 5. Be II further enacted, That this act shall
be In force from and after its ratification.
Ratified in General Assembly this 7th day of Feb
ruary, 1865.
GILES MEBANE.S S. S.