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An Ordinance to provide for the enrollment and employment of Free Negroes in the public service. . 1861 67 (1861.6)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0797 and id is 1 raw text is: ORDINANCES OF TIE VIRGINIA CONVENTION. No. 84.-An ORDINANCE to provide for the enrollment and employment of Froe Negroes in the public service. Passed July 1, 1561. I. Be it ordained, that the county and corporation courts are hereby How enrolled authorized, when deemed expedient, to cause to be enrolled all able bodied male free negroes, between the ages of eighteen and fifty, residing within their respective jurisdictions at the date of this ordi- nance; which said enrollment shall be deposited in the clerks' offices of the counties and corporations aforesaid. 2. That upon the requisition of the commanding officer of any Commanding oflicer to make post, or department of our forces, for labor in erecting batteries, requilition entrenchments, or other necessities of the military service, addressed to the presiding justice of any county, or mayor or senior alderman of any corporation, as aforesaid, he shall proceed forthwith to summon two other justices to assemble at the clerk's office as aforesaid; and any three justices shall constitute a board to carry out the purposes of this ordinance. 3. That said board, or a majority thereof, slall proceed to select llow to b from said list or enrollment such number of laborers as in their selcted judgment may be proper and expedient, hiating reference to the condition and circitmstances of the parties; and shall require the sheriff or sergeant to notify the free negroes thus selected to assemble at such time and place as may be agreed upon between said board and tle military authorities as aforesaid. 4. That all free negroes thus detailed, and appearing at the place What compen. of rendezvous, shall be received into public service (under such alh, & h. toh officers as may be detailed by the commandant as aforesaid to receive rmi of Herld required them) as laborers, on condition that they be entitled to such com- pensation, rations, quarters and medical attendance as may be al- lowed other labor of a similar character employed in the public ser- vice; and that they shall not be detained, at any one time, for a longer period than sixty days, without their consent. 5. That any free negro duly detailed and notified as aforesaid, who Penaities wvhen shall fail or refuse to obey the requisition as aforesaid, shall be sub- service refused ject to the penalties provided by law for persons drafted from time mi- litia, and failing or refusing to obey such draft. 6. Such free negrves shall, whilst engaged in the public service as aforesaid, be subject to the rules and articles of war. 7. The county and corporation courts are authorized to accept and Courts nutho- rized to accept enroll as volunteers all such able bodied free negroes as may offer servicl themselves for such service as is herein before provided for; and, in

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