New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-21
Governor Of the State Of Louisiana
STATE OF LOUISIANA, }
I'd ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE, 7
New Orleans. Nav 18th. 1866.

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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 San Act to organize the
Militia of Louisiana, and which reads as fol-
lows, to wit
'sSEc. 8. It shall be the duty of the State
Tax Assessors in the several cities and par
ishes to prepare a list of ALL 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 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 Adj
iutant- General, on or before the first day of
June 1866. And the said clerks shall return
copies of suchlists to the Adiutant- General, on
OF before the tenth day of June, 1866. 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 impractieable to make
the enrollments within the time specified in
this section, and such enrollments being indis-
| PSll5dO1Y LttGSStEJ W 6lhblS lIl6 STONSIuOE, db
Commander-in-C 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 Adjutant- General, is hereby
extended to the first day Of October, 1S66-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 enjoined to comply with the requisi-
ton severally 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 ant
number of each mans residence will be given
SEC. 1, Of same Act prescribes that I" EVER,
ABLE-BoD1ED MAN, resident Of this State, of tn
: age Of eighteen years, and under the age q
? forty-fve years, shall be enrolled in the mil
f tia, = and negroes never having heretofore bee
enrolled in the militia of the State, Assessor
I are directed to make separate list of all nj
groes, as we'll those recently emancipated O
those formerly free, residing within their re
; spective limits, who are liable to enrollmen
in the militia of the State.
By command of
J. MADISON WELLS,
Governor and Com. int Chief of Louisiana
g. MASON GRAHAM, Brig. -Genl
/ Adjutant- General of Louisiana.