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Re-organization of the Militia.
The following act to re-organize the Mili
tia of the State of Georgia, and for other
purposes, was passed, by the late Legisla
ture of Georgia, aud has been assented to by
the Governor:
Section L Be it enacted. Ac., That each
Senatorial District in this State shall consti
tute a separate Military District, and it shall
be the duty o£ the Governor, as soon as prac
ticable after the passage of this act, to ap
point au Aid-de-Camp, with the rank of .Col
onel, in each district, who shall be charged
with the duties hereinafter set forth.
Sec. 11. Be if further enacted, That with
in four days after being notified of his ap
pointment, it shall be the duty ot each Aid
de-Catnp to commence t he. enrollment of all
free white moles resident In his District, who
are or shall be ot‘ the age of sixteen years,
and. net over sixty years, aud also those who
shall from time to time arrive at the age of
sixteen years, or who may come to reside
within the District, except those who shall
actually be in the Army or JS'avy of the Con
federate States, or in the State service. The
enrollment shall be by Company Districts,
and shall show the age, occupation and na
tivity of each person enrolled, the number
of the Company District in which he may re
side, and if any exemption is claimed, the
ground of it-.
For the purpose of facilitating the enroll
ment, the Aid-de-Camp shall be authorized
to employ, with the approval of the Governor,
three or more assistants for each county,
■who shall receive for tlutir services compen
sation tit the rate of fifty cents li r each per
son enrolled by them; but they shall not be
exempt from service under this act in con
sequence of their being suyh assistants. For
a failure faithfully to discharge their duty
the Assistant Enrolling officers shall be. lia
ble to removal by the Governor, and if with
out sufficient excuse to be judged of by the
Governor, shall be liable further to forfeit
ure of all compensation.
Bee. ILL And he it further enacted, That
it shall hethe duty ofthe Aid-de-Gamp, with
in ten days after the enrollment lias b?en com
pleted in Ins district, to forward complete
lists’, in duplicate, of the enrollment in each
county of his district to the Adjutant and In
spector General, and to file with the Clerk
of the Superior Court, in each county, a co
py of the enrollment in his county; and the
Aid shall be. empowered and required when
there are hut-few persons enrolled in a par
ticular company district, to incorporate and
-consolidate, subject to the approval of the
■Governor, two or more adjoining company
-districts into one, reporting the consolidation
•made and the numbers ot the.company dis
tricts so combined, aud in cities to divide dis
tricts.
Bee. IV. Be it. further enacted, That the
Governor be authorized, on receiving the re
ports of the new company districts provided
for in section third, to arrrange said compa
nies into Regiments or Battalions, defining
their limits without regard to county lines,
and if need be, for the purpose of effective
organization without regard to Senatorial
Districts: Provided that no Regimental dis
triet shall contain more than one thousand,
or less than five hundred, men, arranged
in ten cortpanies ; that no Battalion district
of the first class shall contain more than six
hundred, or less than four hundred, men, ar
ranged in not more than nine, nor less than*
six, companies ; that no Battalion district of
the second class shall contain more than
four hundred, nor less than two hundred,
men, arrastged ip not more than five, nor less
than two, companies ; and that no company
district shall contain more than one hundred,
nor less than sixty-four, men.
Bee. V. Be it. further enacted, That to
each Regiment there.shall he allowed one
Colonel, one Lieutenant-Colonel, and one
Major; to each Battalion of the first class,
one Lieutenant-Colonel and one Major ; to
each Battalion of the second class, one Ma
yor; and to each Company one Captain, four
Lieuts., five Sergeants, four Corporals; and
that each Company shall be divided into two
platoons, each platoon into two squads, and
that there shall be, for tho purpose of drill
and discipline, one Lieutenant, one Sergeant,
and one Corporal to each squad.
Sec. VI. Be it further enacted, That so
soon as the arrangement of Regiments and
Battalions and Companies shall be comple
ted in eaefi or any of the Senatorial Districts
the Governor shall be required within ten
thereafter to order elections for officers
to command said Regiments, Battalions aud
Companies in tho same manner now prescrib
ed iu the Military Code of Georgia, and shall
issue commissions od the eloction returns as
therein also directed under the Beal of the
BLAKELY, GEO., «TAN"CTALLY 13, 1864. •
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Executive Department, and in the event of
a failure'or neglect on the part of the peo
ple to elect, the Governor shall commission
to the vacancy a fit and proper person on
the recommendation ofa majority of the Co
mpany officers concerned. The officers thus
elected, or appointed and commissioned, to bo
vested with all the authority usually apper
taining to such grades. And all members of
the State Guard, who are absent in the ser
vice of this State or the Confederate States,
shall be permitted to vote at said election for
officers at the places where they are station
ed, and two commissioned officers shall pre
side at said elections, and transmit return!
thereof, within fifteen days after said election,
to the Governor of this State, whoso duty *t s
shall be to consolidate said votes as in other
cases.
.Sec. VIT. Be it further enacted, That
whenever the Governor shall have been ad
vised by the Aid-de-Camp in any Senatorial
District that the organizations hereinbefore
f rovided for, jhavo been completed in tbc
)istrict, and the officers therein elected, pr
appointed /gnd commissioned, it shall'be his
duty, within ten days thereafter, to declare
the militia organization heretofore existing in
said District, under the Military Code of
Georgia, suspended, and the officers under
said previous organ izafibn relieve’d from their
command, and said officers shall ho subject
• to all the Military duties imposed by this act
. upon persons ofthe same age with themselves.
Sec. VIII. Beit further enacted, That it
shair.be the 'duty of the Aid-de-Camp in each
Senatorial District to supervise and direct,
under the orders of the Governor, all-military
matters within his District. Heshall bethe
chaunel of communication between the Ad
jutant A Inspector General and the troops in
his District, tor the transmission of all orders,
instructions, reports and military communi
cations generally, and he shall be entitled to
compensation at the rate of seven dollars per
day for the time he may bo employed in per
fecting the organization herein provided for,
and for such time in each quarter, hot to ex
ceed ten -Jays, as he may he required to de
vote to military matters in bis District. Ho'
shall be removable at tho pleasure of the
Governor.
M“.c. IX. Be it further enacted, That it
shall be the duty of each Lieutenant of a
Squad to keep a list of all persons enrolled
within the limits of his squad beat, and shall
notify the Aid-de-Camp of his District, thro’gh
his Captain, quarterly, of oil persons arriving
at the age ot sixteen, or who shall move into
or out of his beat; which notifications shall
be consolidated by the Aid-de-Camp, and for
warded within ten days after the end of each
quarter of the year, to the Adjutant A In
spector General, noting alsosueh other chan
ges in rank, command, Ac., that may have
occurred during the quarter. The object be
i jug to continue a complete enrollment of the
District, and to preserve its military orgaui
zat ion.
Sett. X. And be it further enacted, That
the persons enrolled under the second sec
tion of this Act shall be divided into t.wo
classes. The first .-shall be composed of those
between seventeen and fifty years of age, ro
be styled the Militia proper, who shall be
first liable and subject to perform ull the
military duties contemplated by this Act.
The second class shall he composed of those
between sixteen and seventeen years of ago,
add between fifty and sixty years of age,
and be styled the Militia reserve; who shall
organize with the Militia proper, but shall
not he required to drill or perform any of
the military duties contemplated by this Act,
until the Militia proper shall have been call
ed into active sorvioc, nor be subject or liable
to any draft or other compulsory process to
fill any requisition for troops, uoou the Gov
ernor of this State, by the President of the
Confederate States. When tho Militia prop
er shall be called into active service, the Lieu
tenant of each Company most advanced in
age shall be left with and in comtnaad of
• - the Militia reserve of their respective Com
panies. And if any porson belonging to tho
Militia reserve shall at any time be elected
to, and shall accept any office under this
Act, he shall bo required to perform all the
duties of the office without reference to the
class which he may have belonged.
Sec. XL And be it further enacted, That
whenever, in the opinion of the Governor, it
shall be necessary either to repel invasion,
suppress insurrection, or to execute the laws,
to ca|l the State Militia, or any part thereof,
into active military service, -lie is hereby au
thorized and empowered to do so; but the
* 'Militia reserve created by this Act shall be
called into active military service only after
the Militia proper has boon called out in
great emergencies, to meet, which the Militia
proper are deemed insufficient, and shall be
discharged from such active service as soon
as tho emergency to meet which they arc
called out shall have passed ; and whenev
er the Militia, or aDy part thereof, shall be
called into active military service, they shall
receive tho same f*av and allowances as if
they were in tho service of the Confederate
States, and shall be subject to the rules and
articles of war and tho regulations for the
government of tho armies ot tho Confederate
States.
Soc. XIT. Bo it further enacted. That
whenever the militia shall bo called into ac
tive service by the Governor, Brigades and
Divisions may be organized for the period
of active service, in such manuer as the Gov
ernor may direct; the officers and meu com
posing the Brigades and Divisions in all cases
electing their Brigad* and Division comman
der/? , prided that the offices ot Brigadte;
and Division General shall expire When dis
banded, and the individuals holding them
shall return to service according to their ages,
as provided for in this act.
See. XIII. And bo it further enacted,
That whenever a requisitition tor troops for
local defence in this {State shall be made by
the President of the Confederate States upon
the Governor of this State, the Governor shall
be empowered and authorized to till the re
quisition by apportioning the number requir
ed among the different regiments, battalions
or companies of the militia proper, provid
ed for by this act ; and when {he apportion
ment is made, the Governor may order the
number apportioned detached, drafted or se
j levied 141 such other manner as lie may deem
' aoViattble, and may require the Aids-dc-Cainp
for the Senatorial Districts to superintend
the draft, or to to execute such orders as may
bo necessary to accomplish the object; pro
vided, that unmarried men, bachelors, or
widowers without children shall be subject
to draft before married men or widowers who
have children, und provided further, that the
men drafted’or selected shall be formed into
companies, battalions or regiments, as the
Governor may direct, and shall be permitted
to elect tho officers to command them while
in service ; and in case ®f neglect or refusal
to elect when ordered, that the Governor may
appoint the officers and compel them to or
ganize, or ho may appoint officers to fill va
cancies, if the men to be commanded fail or
refuse to elect: and provided further that
in case of requisition for troops for' local ser
vice in a particular part of the State, the
Governor tnay fill it by ordering the number
of troops called for to be made up from such
regiments, battalions or companies as he may
select, in tho section of the State where the
service is required.
See. XIV. And bo it further enacted, That
any militiaordered into active service, wheth
er by order ofthe Governor or on a requisi
tion from the President of the Confederate
S tates, who shall fail or refuse after due no
tice to enter said service, or being therein,
shall leave the service without permission,
shall bo liable to be tried aud punished as a
deserter, aud subject to all the pains and
penalties imposed upon deserters in the
Rules and Articles of War lor the govern
ment ofthe army of the Confederate States.
Sec. XV. Be it further enacted, That tliero
shall be appointed by the Governor one Sur
geon for each Senatorial District, whose duty
it shall be to examine all persons who claim
) to be umtldo to Bear arms, and ahull give eer
tificates to such as, in his judgment, are un
able to bear artiiH, clearly stating therein the
cause of such disablity. Said surgeon shall
be sworn to discharge his duty faithfully and
impartially, find shall receive compensatioit
at the rate of ?•"> per day for every day he
shall be employed under the orders of the
Governor, and who shall be removable by
the Governor for neglect or failure in the dis
charge of his duties.
Sec. XVI. And be it further enacted, That
exemptions from, and discharges after en
rollment before organization under this act
may be granted by the Aids-de-Camp ol the
Senatorial Districts, on tho certificates of the
District Surgeon ; and discharges from or
ganization under this act, may be granted
by said Aids-de-Camp on the certificate of
the battalion or regimental surgeons, ap
proved by the company and battalion or regs
luicutal commanders.
Sec. XVII. And be it further enacted,
That any person made subject to service
under this am may volunteer in the military
or naval service of the Confederate States,
or in guy company authorized by the Cons
gross of the Confederate StatOH, providing
for local defence and special service, but shall
again be subject to State service when his
term of service as a volunteer shall have
expired.
Sec. XVIII. And be it further enacted,
That any person subject to service under this
act, who is in the employ of the government,
of the Confederate States, or has A contract
with said government or ia employed on any
railroad, may be detailed for special duty
upon the request of the Secretary of War,
addressed to the Governor, naming the em
ployee or contractor, and the length of time
for which such detail is requested ; provided,
that nothing herein contained shall he. so
construed as authorizing the detail for spe
cial duty of any common laborer or other
person in the employment of railroads,
manufactories, Ac., unless the President or
Superintendarit of the road, manufactory or
other labor, shall make application to tho
Governor, through the 'Aiusdc-Camp of his
Senatorial District, on affidavit, that such
persons are indispensible to said road or
work, and their places cannot be tilled by
other persona not liable to military duty.
Soc. XIX. Be it further enacted, That in
making the enrollment protided for by this
act, tho enrolling officer shall report by namo
all persons having efficient guns, describing
the gun, whether rifle, musket or shot-gun,
and those who have not; also such persons
who can furnish their own horses, saddles
and bridles, aud serve as mounted men, and
that the Governor be authorized, whenever
iu his power to do so, to. furnish arms and
ammunition to the force herein created, as
iu his judgment he may doom advisable,
upon the requisition and receipt in duplicate
ot the commanders of regiments, battalions
or companies, who shall bo held accountable
for the same, and who shall make returns of
the same quarterly to the Adjutant and In
spector General, through the Aid-de-Camp
of their Senatorial district, and who shall,
for his own security, be entitled to make do-
nuuui for any gun fumishetlby him to any
person; and any person failing to return
said gun to the officer accountable for it. on
his demand, or who shall injure or damage
any gun or ammunition entrusted to lua
care, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction thereof in any county in this,
State shall be lined or imprisoned at the
discretion of the Court trying the case.
Sec. XX. lie it further enacted, That the
Commanders of regiments, battalions, brig
ades and divisions shall be entitled to ap
point such staff officers as arc allowed to
similar grades in the Confederate service,
and to secure the efficient operation of this
Act, that the Governor he entitled to ap
■ point from time to time such stuff officers
and additional Aids-de-Camp as he may
think necessary.
Sec. XXI. Arid be it further enacted,
That the officers of the Executive Department,
members of the General Assembly, Secretary
of the Senate, and four principal assistants.
Clerk of the House ot Representatives, and
six principal Clerks, and flic Clerk of the
joint Committee of both houses on Finance,
and the Clerk of Military Committee of tha
Senate, Judges of the Supreme and Superior
Courts, and Justices of the Inferior Courts-,
Attorney and Solicitors General, Reporter
and Clerk of the .Supreme Court, Clerks of
the Superior and Interior Courts. Tax Col
lectors, She? itfs. Ordinaries, Ministers of
Religion in the actual care and charge of any
organized Church or Synagogue, and surti
other persons as the Governor in his discre*
lion may deem it absolutely necessary for
the public interest to exempt, shall be exempt
from the. provisions of this Act.
See. XXII. And bo it further enacted,
That the Governor be authorized to prescribe
the number and kind of drills and military
exercises to be performed by the militia
proper, created by this Act, when not ac
tively engaged in the field, and, that fora
failure to attend as required on the part of
either officers or men, it shall he the duty of
the Aid-de-Camp of each district to whom
reports of delinquencies shall be made, with
in three days after any called drill or exer
cise by the senior officer or non-commission
. ed officer present at the drill or exercise, to
issue a writ of fieri facias directed to any
Sheriff or Constable within his district to
collect out of the property of any'delinquent
who shall uo.t furnish a satisfactory excuse,
within one week after being reported, a sum
nut losj than, three dollars nor more than
fifty dollars, at the discretion of said Aid
de-Catnp, which sum shall be turned oyer
by said AuKde-Cainp on receipt therefor
to the Justices of the Inferior Court of the
county in which the delinquent may reside,
to be applied to the benefit of soldiers' fam
ilies within said county.
Sec. XXIII. And ho it further enacted.
That so much of the military code of thu
State of Georgia as is inconsistent with the
provisions of this Act, shall be, and the same
is hereby suspended so long as this Apt
shall he in force, and this .Act shall become
inoperative and void upon the ratification of
a treaty ol peace between the* United States
and Confederate States.
Sec. XXIV. Aad bo it further enacted.
That no person shall be enrolled under this
Act who is subject to conscription under the
Conscript Act or Acts of the Confederate
Congress ; if the State Enrolling officer has
doubt whether any person within his limits
is subject to enrollment as a conscript he
shall report the fact totlie Confederate enroll
ing officer of the. Congressional district, and
if such Confederate officer does ?iot cause
such person to bo enrolled within twenty
days after such notice is given, the State En
rolling officer shall enrol hipi this
Act, (tr if he is found to be exempt after he
is enrolled by the Confederate officer, ho shall
then be subject to enrollment by the State
officer under this Act.
Sec. 'XXV. And be it further enacted,
That this act shall take effect and be oper
ative and in force fporn and immediately af
ter its passage.
Sec. XXVI. That all laws and parts of
laws militating against this Act, be and thy
same are hereby repealed.
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Horse 3 in the Army.
The Adjutant and Inspector General
has issued an order in regard to horses
which cannot fail of beneficial results it
properly carried out. Forage in kind
will hereafter he issued to officers (enti
tled to it) for but one horse each. In lieu
of forage, eight dollars a mouth may be al
lowed for each horse to which the officer
may be entitled, A certificate in each
case will be given that the horses are ac
tually kept in service and mustered. Offi
cers of the Adjutants, General's, Quarter
master’s, Commissary’s, (except purchasing
Commissaries,) Medical and Ordnance De
partments, Signal and Regitnental officers
(except commanders of regiments) and
subalterns of artillery who areserving in the
field, are embraced in th,e provisions of
the order, unless otherwise directed by
the Commanding General. If the order
had gone further, and been made to apply
to Aids de-Camp, and had dismounted the
escorts now allowed to Lieut. Generals and
Major Generals, it would have beer, al!
the better. Forage, as well as horses, is
too scarce to indulge officers ju auoh costly
appendages.
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