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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0812 and id is 1 raw text is: MILITARY AFFAIRS.
b)e employed by the confederate government as the agent or overseer
flow discharged in charge of the slaves during their service of sixty days; and slch
overseer or agent shall not be discharged by any oflicer of the con-
federate government, except for good cause, to be appr~oved by the
peoretary of war: provided, that if the requisition on any county,
city or town shall amount to only. twenty slaves and less than thirty,
iti such case an overseer or manager may be selected as aforesaid.
Subsistence 10. The owners of slaves may furnish them subsistence and pro-
visions, and in such event s'hall be allowed commutation in money in
lien of rations, equal to the commutation allowed soldiers in the
service.
Slaven sont vol- 1. All slaves sent voluntarily by their owners to the confederate
notarily authorities, ani accepted by them, shall st'nd on the same footing
Ps if sent under the proceedings required by this act.
Act to beo com. 12. This act shall he forthwith communicated by the governor to
munincted to
president the president of the Confed(.!ratc States. Any request for slaves
hereafter made by the president on the governor shall he regarded
an assent to and acceptance of all the provisions of this act by the
Confederate States.
Commencement 13. This act shall be in force from its passige.
CnAP. 7.-An ACT to amend and re-enact the 12th section of an act passed
M|arch 131h, 8I, enitled an net to aonned and re-onaet an act further to
provide for the Public Djefence, passed October 3d, 18Wi2, and to'amend
the title of. said act.
Passed March 30, 1863.
Act of 166 1. l]e it enacted by the general assembly, that the twelfth section
wnendceI of tle act passed Miareh thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three,
entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act further to prlpvide for
the public defence, passed October third, eighteen hundred and sixty-
two, l)e amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
now amended § 12. This act shall be forthwith communicated by the governor
As to impress. to the president of the Confederate States, and shall be regarded an
ent act regulating the mbode in ihich and the terms upon whicl slaves
in this state shall be impressed by the confederate authorities, under
the act of congress entitled an act to regulate inlpressments, ap-
proved March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, to the
extent provided for- in the act to which this act is anendatory. Any
call for.slaves hereafter made by the president on the governor, shall
be regarded an assent to and acceptance of all the provisions of this
act by the Confedarato Statbs.
Title amended 2. Be it further enacted, that the title of said act of March thir-](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsva0812&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)