The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-04-08
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Acts Passed by the State Legislature.

an Act TO organise and go0ern the Militia O,
he State Of South Carolina.
SECTION 1. Be it.enaeted by tAe5iSenate a,,c
i House Of Representatives, he State of ISout2
Cdrolina, mo'o met and sitting IN Genera
assembly, and by The authority of the same
That all able-bodied male citizens, between
the ages of eighteen and forty-hve years
residing in this State. and not exempted ty
the laws of the United States, shall be sub
lect to military duty, excepting
1st. All persons i'll the army or navy o,
volunteer forces of the United States.
I'd. Regularly ordained or licensed minis
ters and preachers of the Gospel
Sd. The Lieutenant Governor, members
and officers of the General Assembly, the
Secretary of State, Attorney General,
Comptroller General, State Auditor, Com.
missioner OF Bureau of Agricultural Statis-
tics, Superintendent of Education. State
Engineer and Surveyor, State Treasurer,
and clerks and employees in their Offices,
Judicial officers of the State, including Jus
tlces of the Peace, Sheriffs, Coroners, Con
stables, civil officers Of the United States,
ferrymen employed at any ferry on post
road, and millers
sclentlous scruples against bearing arms,
practicing physicians, professors, teachers
and students in colleges. academies and
common schools.
9th. Persons regularly AID honorably
discharged from the army and navy of the
United States in consequence of the per-
formance of military or naval duty, in pur-
suance of any law of this State, and all per-
sons who now are, or may hereafter be,
active members of regularly incorporated
fire companies in this State
9th. That commissioned officers who
shall have served as such in the loyal militia
OF this State, or in any of the United States,
Tor the space CT seven years; but no such
officer shall be exempt unless by his resigna-
ton after such term of service, duly ac-
cepted, or in some other lawful manner he
shall have been honorably discharged.
7th. Idiots, lunatics, paupers, and per-
sons convicted of Infamous crimes, shall
not be subject to military duty
Sec. q That under the directions of the
Commander-in-Chief, all persons liable to
military duty within this State, who are not
already members of the National Guard, as
hereinafter provided, shall, Immediately
upon the passage of this Act, and from
time to time thereafter, rs the Commander
ln-Chief shall deem necessary, but as often
as once in every two years be enrolled.
Such enrolment shall distinctly specify the
names and residences of the persons en-
rolled, and shall also divide the same into
two classes-the persons between the ages
the first class, and the persons between the
ages of thirty and forty-fve years to con-
stitute the second class. Four copies of
such enrolment shall be made by the officer
making the same, one Of which, after being
corrected. shall be retained by him; another
shall be filed in the Office of the Town or
City Clerk in which such company is en-
rolled; another shall be filed in the Office of
the Clerk of the Courts of Record in the
County where such district is situated; and
the fourth shall be filed in the Adiutant-
Generals Office. The persons making such
enrolment shall be compensated at the rate
OF one dollar and fifty cents per day for
every day necessarily spent in making and
copying the same; the number of days not
to exceed ten; and the amount of such
compensation shall be paid by the Treasurer
OF the State, upon production of the certi-
Gates of the Clerk of the Courts of Record
in the County and of the Adjutant. General
that such rolls have been duly filed, on or
before the first day of February in each
year i'll which such enrolment shall be
made: Propiced, That the Commander-in-
Chief may, if he deem it necessary, extend
the term of completing the first enrolment
under this Act, not to exceed twenty days,
and authorize payment for the same, as
hereinbefore specified and set forth.
SEC: 3. That all persons duly enrolled,
who shall neglect to attend the musters and
drills provided for in this Act, except in
cases of sickness, shall be subject to a fine
of one dollar for each day so neglecting,
which, if not paid to the County Treasurer
on or before the fifteenth day of March next
ensuing, shall be collected by the collector
or receiver of taxes OF the city or County in
which the person SO neglecting is enrolled;
and the Board OF County Commissioners,
at their annual meetings, are authorized
and directed to annex a list of the several
deiinquents, with the fines set opposite their
respective Names to the assessment rolls of
the several towns and wards; and the war
rants for the collection of the same shall
direct the collector or receiver of taxes to