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An Act for the better organization of the militia, and for other purposes. 1862-1863 100 (1862)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0446 and id is 1 raw text is: STATUTES AT LARGE A. 1). 1862'. AN ACT FOR TIE BETTER ORGANIZATION OF THE MILITIA) AND r0ft OTHER PURPOSES. No. 4613. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met oIininances of and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That cinventlon repoied. the Ordinances of the Convention of this State, except the Ordinance en- titled An Ordinance to exempt overseers from the performance of militia duty, passed on the second day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, which is amended hereinafter by the provisions of this Act, and all Acts, Resolutions, and Orders, of the Governor and Council, altering, suspending or repealing the Militia law of ailillActin this State. be, and the same are hereby, repealed; and the provisions of the Act of the General Assembly, entitled An Act to reduce all Acts and clauses of Acts in relation to the Militia of this State to one Act, and to alter and amend the same, passed on the seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and all Acts amending the same, which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby declared to be of full force and effect. Pirt of Act of II. That an Act entitled ' An Act to amend and suspend certain portions Isi1repealed. of the Militia and Patrol laws of.this State, passed on the seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty- one, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, except the fifth, sixth, eleventh and thirteenth sections, which are hereby declaied to be of full force and Commission effect; and that said thirteenth section be so amended that the Clerk therein Ulr.ay of authorized to be appointed by the Governor shall be entitled to a commis- sion as Assistant Adjutant General, with the rank and pay of First Lieu- tenant of Infantry in Confederate service, to date from the day of his appointment: Persona liable III. All male persons between the ages of eighteen and fifty shall be to Military uorvice. liable to militia duty, except persons who are exempted by the said Act of eighteen hundred and forty-one from all militia service. Exemptions IV. The following persons Shall be exempted from ordinary militia duty, bilirduty but shall be liable to perform the duty in times of alarm, insurrection, in- vasion, or as one of the posse comitatus, when required, and shall not be exempted from actual service in their respective Districts, when called out by the Governor under the militia organization: The members of both branches of the Legislature and their respective officers, including the Attorney General and Solicitors of the State, during the session, and fifteen .days before the sitting and fifteen days after the adjournment thereof; all those in Confederate or State military service, including the officers and Cadets of the State Military Academy; all regularly officiating clergymen; all regularly licensed practicing physicians over the age of tfuirty-five years; 100 -

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