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An Act to alter an Act entitled An Act to amend an Act entitled An Act to prevent and punish the planting and cultivating in this State over a certain quantity of Cotton during the present year 1864-1865 249 (1864)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0459 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 249 AN ACT TO ALTER AND AMEND THE MILITIA LAWS or Tims STATE. A. D. 1861. 1. De it enacted by the Senate and House of'Representatives, now mot and sitting in General Assembly, aid by the authority of the same, That from No. 4705. and after the passage of this Act, all free malo white persons within this Stato, 1ersoii1 lift- betwoon the ages of sixteen and fifty, hot exempt from active servicehi itte without the limits of the District in which they reside by the Militia Laws ut. of this State, shall be liable to active military duty without the limits of the State, at the call of His Excellency the Governor. II. That the Governor shall have authority, whenever in his judgment when ov- it is necessary for the defence of this State, or of the adjacent States, to 'rnor to order order out of the limits of the State suich portion of those liable to active Militia out of military duty, and for such a length of time, as in his judgment the exi- geucy may require. And that, in addition to the other pualtics prescribed by law for defaulters, the Governor shall be authorized to order the arrest )o Vf nitors of all such as may be liable to military duty under this Act, to the intent to be arrested. that they may be compelled to perform the duty devolving upon them: Provided, nevertheless, That he shall at no time place such Militia beyond his control, so as not to be able to recall them at any moment, whenever the necessities of the State require it. III. That all free male white persons within the State between the ages Alarm loun. of sixteen and sixty, not embraced in the active Militia, shall bo liable to military duty in cases of alarm, invasion, insurrection, or as the posse comitatus, anywhere within the limits of the State. IV. That the Governor shall have power to allow an exemption or detail Exeipti oin in such special cases, either of necessity or of public interest, as in his o' detaiil. judgment should be made, in either or both of the said classes of Militia, V. That all Acts or clauses of Acts inconsistent with this Act be repealed. In the Senate House, the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and in the eighty- ninth year of the sovereignty and indepondence of the Stato of South Carolina. W. D. PORTER, President of the 8Nate. R. B. BOYLSTON, Speakm' Hfouse of Representatives. AN ACT TO ALTERl AN Aci' ENTrTLD AN AcT To AMEND AN AoT ENTITLED No. 4706. 'AN ACT TO PR'EVENT AND PUNISH TIE PLANTING AND CULTIVATING IN TILS STATE OVR A CERTAIN QUANTITY O COTTON DURING THE RESENT YEAR' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met what Hilaves and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That to be counted an Act ontitled An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to prevent and a handS. punish the planting and cultivating in this State over a certain quantity of cotton during the present year,' ratified on the tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-throo, be, and the same is hereby, altered and extended so that all slaves employed in agricul- ture, within the meaning of said Act, between twelve years of ago and sixty-five years of age, shall be counted as hands; and that all slaves under twevo years of ago and over sixty-five years of age shall ho excluded in the estimate of hands employed in agriculture. In the Senate House, the twenty-third day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and in the eighty-ninth year of the sovereignty and independence of the State of South Carolina. W. D. PORTER, President of the Senate. R. B. BOYLSTON, Speaker Mouse qf Bepresentatives.

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