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State of Sou/tli Carolina. I 
 
 HEAD QUARTERS, * 
 
 May L9th, 1861. 
 
 The Secretary of War has made two requisitions for Troops, on the Governor, amount- 
 ing to eight thousand men. If the Regiments were to lie retained bv the Slate as Volunteer 
 
 iments, then they are subjeel to orders to march whenever and wheresoever direi 
 by the Commander-in-Chief. 
 
 The Resolutions of the Convention seemed as intended to require that the Governor 
 should give the honor, in the first instance, to the Volunteer Regiments to be mustered into 
 the service or tb i I lonfcderatc States, and thus, through the action of thai body their sen ice 
 should be changed. 
 
 The President of the Confederate Government, under a recent Act of Congress, as 
 intimated by the Secretary of War, adopted the policy of calling only for Com] 
 mustered into service for the War, and theu for the President to appoint all Field officers, 
 when such Companies were formed into Battalions or Regiments ; bul as eight Volunteer 
 
 iments were already organized in South Carolina, it has been determined to give them 
 llie honorable opportunity i ig into the service as Regiments with their Field offi< 
 
 Under the imstauces, it is ordered that the eight Regiments of Volunteers be 
 
 prepared by their officers to be "mustered into service" for their twelve months enrollment. 
 For this purpose the Field officers, and then the Company officers with the men of each 
 Company will be required to sign o rod agreeing distinctly to the terms. Ii will take 
 sixty-four Privates, as the minimum, to make a Company to be "mustered in.' and when a 
 majority, according to the present roll, of any Company so agree, then that Company, by 
 this i :rve its present organization as a ka-i- to be filled up upon, and il 
 
 or ii in an\ Regiment so igree, then the organization of that Reginient may 
 
 I, and a system, hereafter to be adopted, will be ordered to make up the ( 
 panies that may thus have their majority, but not sixty-four, as the case may be in that 
 Regimeut. 
 
 And Anil, upon the same system, orders will be given to make up the remaining Com- 
 panies, after six, to fill up the Regiment, always reserving the right of the Company or 
 I; ■imeni. as the case may be, to elect officers where tbej (the officers) do n< se to 
 
 change their sen ii i 
 
 If ten Companies, with sixty-four Privates in each, be found to agree to the terms, 
 then such I. rit is i omplete. 
 
 When these eighl Regiments are made up, a portion of them will be retained, by order 
 
 of the (io\ ernor, to defend the Mate of South Carolina, and if the Regiments decline to be 
 
 ••mustered into the Confederate service," then .-till u sufficient number of them, under the 
 
 present Volunteer organization, will be retained by order of the Commander-in'-ChieT, for 
 
 coast. defence in the Nate. In any case however, this selection will be made.- 
 
 The mi'-!"' ; ier " n; - soon as returns arc made upon this. 
 
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