New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-16
OFFICIAL.
STATE OF LOUISIANA, !
ADJuTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
New Orleans. May Nth. 1866.

STATE OF LOUISIANA, J
ADyuTANr GENERALS OFFICE
New Orleans, May 18th, 1866.
The attention of State Tax Assessors through
out the State of Louisiana, is specially called
to the third section of the Act approved 23d
March, 1865, entitled ''An Act to organize the
Militia Of Louisiana" and which reads as fol-
lows, to wit:
g Sec. 8. 1t shall be the duty of the State
Tax Assessors in the several cities and par
ishes to prepare a list of ALI. PERSONS who may
be living within their respective limits, and
liable to enrolment, giving the name, age, and
occupation of each of such persons and facts
which may determine his exemption from mill
tary duty, and place q certified copy of such
lists in the hands of the Clerks of their respec-
tive cities or parishes. But in the city of New
Orleans, said return shall be made to the Ad-
jutant-General, on or before the first day of
June, 1865. And the said clerks shall return
copies Of such lists to the Adjutant- General, on
Or before the tenth day of June, 1865. And the
Assessors within the limits of the parish of
Orleans shall receive, each, the sum of three
cents, and the Assessors throughout the other
parishes of the State shall receive, each, the
sum Of five cents for each person so enrolled
in addition to their salaries as Assessors, pay
able by the respective parishes, towns or cities
in which said enrolment shall be made"
1t having been found impraoticable to make
the enrollments within the time specified in
this section, and such enTollments being indis-
pensably necessary to enable the Governor, as
Commander-in-Chief, to comply with other
acquisitions of the same Act, the time within
which the Assessors shall make their returns
to the Clerks of the Courts and in the parish
of Orleans to the Adiutant- General, is hereby
extended to the first day of October, 1866-and
within which the Clerks Of the Courts in the
country parishes shall make their returns to
the Adjutant General, is hereby extended to
the first day of November, 1866, on or before
which day all Assessors and Clerks of Courts
are hereby enioined to comply with the requisi-
ton seyerally imposed on them by the above
recited Section and Act.
The enrollments will be made by police jury
wards giving the name, or number by which
each ward is designated also the creek, bayou,
or stream on which each man resides In the
city of New Orleans, and in other cities, towns
and villages, which admit of it, the street and
number of each mans residence will be given.
SEC l, of same Act, prescribes that EVERY
ABLE-BoDIED MAN, resident Of this State, of the
age of eighteen years, and under the age of
fortY-tiye years, shall be enrolled in the mill
tia, and negroes never having heretofore been
enrolled in the militia of the State, Assessors
are directed to make a separate list of all ne
groes, as well those recently emancipated as
those formerly free, residing within their re-
speetive limits, who are liable to enrolment
in the militia of the State.
By command of
J. MADISON WELLS,
Governor and Com. i'm Chief of Louisiana.
g, MASON GRAHAM, Brig. -Gen1,
Acknowledgement of Louisiana.