New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-17
OFFICIAL.
STATE OF LOUISIANA, !
ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE. I
New Orleans. NAV l4th 1895


The attention of State Tax Assessors through
out the State of Louisiana, is specially called
| 70 the third section of the Act approved 23d
March, 1865, entitled 81 An Act to organize fine
Militia OF Louisiana" and which reads as fol-
| lows to wit
SEC, 3. 1t shall be the duty of the State
| IaX Assessors In the several cities and par-
ishes to prepare list Of ALI, PERSONS who NAV
De living within their respective limits, and
llable TO enrolment, giving the name, age, and
occupation OF each Of such persons, and facts
which may determine his exemption from mill
taly duty, and place certified COPY of such
lists IN the hands of the Clerks of their respec-
1--WE cities or parishes. But in the city of New
Orleans, said return shall be made to the Ad-
lQJant-GeneraL on or before the first day of
June, 1868. And the said clerks shall return
copies OF such lists to the Adjutant-G General, on
OF 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 impracticable to make
the enrollments within the time specified in
this section and such enrollments 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 Adjutant-G General is hereby
extended to the first day of October, ashland
within which the Clerks of the Courts in fbe
country parishes shall make their returns to
the Adlutant General, is hereby extended to
the first day OF November, 1866, on or before
which DAY al! Assessors and Clerks of Courts
1nff 10 H. III
ton seyyelaily imposed on them by the above
reclted Section and Act.
Inc eniolments will be made by police jury
wards giving the name, or number bvwhich
each ward Is designated, also the creek. bavou.
OF stream on which each man resides, In the
Guy OF New Orleans and in other cities, towns
ana 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
RHYME years, shall be enrolled in the mill
1la ana negroes never having heretofore been
enrolled IN the militia of the State, Assessors
are directed to make separate list of all ne
8roes' as well those recently emancipated as
thoSe formerly free, residing within their re-
sPeGtlFe limits, who are hAble to enrolment
IN the militia of the State
by command of
J. MADISON WELLS,
Governor and Com. -in- Chief of Louisiana.
u MASON GRAHAM, Brig -Gen'l
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