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toll (fount)) JtaL VOL. V. (Sarin Corntto Jlctos. Terms of Subscription: For 1 Year 5,00 For 6 Months 2,50 So subsciptions received for less than six mouths, aud payment always required in ad vance. SCALE OF PRICES To be Charged by the “Early County News.” 1 Square, (occupying the space of ten Bour geois lines, or less,) one insertion,.,.? 2,00 F r every subsequent insertion 1,00 Obituary noticeecharged as advertisements. 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. • * 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. ♦ •*— 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. isro. 13.