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 [House Bill, No. 10.] 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.— January 27, 1863.— Read 
 
 first and second times, referred to Committee on Military Affairs, 
 and ordered to be printed. g 
 
 [By Mr. Miles.] 
 
 Aj J3ILL 
 
 To be entitled An Act to provide for the arrest of soldiers absent from 
 their commands without leave, and providing compensation to 
 their captors. 
 1- Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do 
 
 2 enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall be 
 
 3 the duty of every commander of a company in the armies of the 
 
 4 Confederate States, so soon as he knows that any private or non- 
 
 5 commissioned officer of his company is absent without leave, to 
 
 6 send up a certificate of the fact to the commander of his brigade, 
 
 7 who shall forthwith employ such responsible person or persons 
 
 8 as he may think proper, to arrest and bring back to his command 
 
 9 such absent private or non-commissioned officer. 
 
 1 Sec 2. Be it further enacted, That whenever the delinquent 
 
 2 absentee, together with the certificate above mentioned of his 
 
 3 "company commander, to the fact of his absence without leave, 
 
4 shall be delivered to the commanding officer of a military post or 
 
 5 camp, such commanding officer s^all give a receipt for the 
 
 6 delivery of such absentee to the person or persons so delivering 
 
 7 him. 
 
 1 Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, /That upon the presentation of 
 
 2 the receipt above mentioned to the quartermaster of the post or 
 
 3 camp, it shall be the duty of the said quartermaster to pay to 
 
 4 the person or persons presenting such receipt the sum of fifteen 
 
 5 dollars, for which this law shall be his warrant and authority. 
 
 1 Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the 
 
 2 commanding officer of the post or camp w T ho receives the private 
 
 3 or non-commissioned officer so delivered, to send as speedily as 
 
 4 practicable such private or non-commissioned officer back to the 
 
 5 commanding officer of the company to which he belongs, together 
 
 6 with a copy of the receipt which he has given to the person or 
 
 7 persons delivering him. 
 
 1 Sec. 5. Be it further enactfd, That it shall be the duty of the 
 
 2 commanding officer of the company to which the returned private 
 
 3 or non-commissioned officer" belongs, upon the delivery of the 
 
 4 man and the copy of the receipt above mentioned, to enter on 
 
 5 the muster and pay rolls of the company, opposite tl>e name of 
 
 6 such returned private or non-commissioned officer, the full sum 
 
 7 of fifteen dollars, in order that the said sum may be deducted- 
 
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