The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-04-17
CBY AUTHORITYo
Acts Passed by the State Legislature
Ia ict to ory"n:=r and gorr,m tie Militia q
The State If .SouM (urol:1n.
Deputy Surveyor.


the State If .Somh (arol:m
SECTION l. Be It cnact"I Ly tie .S"nutc ono
U'"se of Representatives. o5' tie .Soh of .Souih
C"'"fi"o, m"m met and sitting III Gcucrul .ts
@"b'y, an" hy Mc authority If tie same
That all able bodied male citizens. bctween
the ages of eighteen aud forty five years. re.
siding in this State. and not exempted by the
laws of the United States, shall be subject to
military duty excepting
LIST. All PERSONS III the army or navy or
volunteer forces Z! the United States
ID Regular ord,ned or licensed ministers
| aud preachers of the Gospel
3D.. The Lieutenant C Govcrnor members
and officers OF tho General Assembly, the See.
rctary OF State, Attorney -Gclcrll, Commis.
sioncr of bureau Of Agricultural Statistics
Superintendent Of Education, State Ensin.e,
and Surveyor, Statc Engineer AID Surveyor
State Treasurer and clerks employees in their
offices judicial officers Of the State, includin.
Justices OF the lc,cc, Shcritfs. Corumcrs. CON
stables. civil officers of the United States. fer
rymen employed at any ferry on ii p st rod
aud millcrs
4th. And all persons entertaining consci.n
tions seruples against bearing arms, prac;icinu
physicians, professors, teachers and students
III colleges, academies and Common schools
9th. Persons regularly and houorably dis
charged from the army and navy o!' the United
States in consequence of the performance OF
military or naval duty, in pursuance of any
law of this State, and all persons who now are
or may hereafter be, active members of rem
larly Incorporated fire companie, in this State
9th. That commissioned officers who shall
have served us such in the loyal militia of this
State, or III any OF the United States for the
space ot seven years; but no such o.hre. shall
be exempt unless by his resignation after such
term Of service, duly accepted, or in som. other
lawful manner lie shall have been honor,hly
/, discharged
9TH Idiots lunatcs, paupcrs, aud persons
convicted of infamous crimes shall no: be sub.
jcct to military duty.
SEC, ,. That under the directions of the
Commander Chief. all persons laulc to mil.
tary duty within this State, who are not al
ready members of the National Guard rs
hereinafter provided shall, Immediately unou
thc passage oi THIS Act, and from time to tilnc
ihcicattcr, as the Commander in Chief shall
deem necessary, but often as once in every
two years, be enrolled. Such enrolment shall
distinctly specify the names aud residences of
| ii. ll,.l 4 l.l,.
same into two ciaSscs-thc persons between
the ages OF eighteen and thirty years to con
stltnte the first class. and the persons bctwce,
the ages of thirty and forty five years to con.
stitutc the second class -Four comics of sucl
enrolment shall be made by the officer making
the same, one of which, after being corrected
shall be retained by him; another shall b..
filed in the offcc oil the Town or Gity CLERK
III which such company is enrolled anothc,
shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of TN,
Courts OF Record i'll the County where sucl
district is situated; aud the fourth shall b,
filed III the Adjutant Generals office. Th,
| persons making such enrolment Shall be com
pensaied at the rate of one dollar and fir,
cents per day Tor every day necessarily spcmr
IN making and copying the same; /; the nunlbc,
OF days not to exceed ten; and the amount OF
Snrli compensation shall ho paid by the Treas
urer OF tho State, upon production of the Ger
tltic"tes Of the Clerks of the Courts of Rccor,
IN the County aud of the Adjutant Genera
that such rolls have hoep duly flied, on or be
fore the first day Of February in each year i,
which such enrolment shall be made: PRO
rideSi, That the Cummander-in-C Chief NAV. i
n deem it necessary, extend the term of com
pleting the first enrolment aud authorize nav
ment for the same, as hcrciubciorc speciie,
and set forth.
SEC, g. That all pereons duly enrolled, VIII,