1 r Duke University Libraries Amendment of Mr Conf Pam 12mo #25 AMENDMENT OF MR. CHILTON TO BiLL OF MR. MILES. A. BILL tM^ n ' mt * To be entitled An Act to provide for the filling up of existing companies, squadrons, battalions, and regiments, and to increase the Provisional Army of the Confederate States. 1. Section 1 . The Congress of the Confer! crate States of 2 America do enact, That when the President shall con- 3 sider an increase of the forces in the field necessary to 4 the maintenance of public liberty and security, and the 5 successfully conducting of the pending war, he shall be 6 authorized to call for the raising of as many additional 7 troops from time to time, as in his opinion the public 8 exigency may require. 1 Si:r. 2. The calls shall be made upon the Governors of 2 the respective States of this Confederacy for the propor- 3 tion which each should furnish, having reference to the 4 number of i'vee white male citizens of said States not mgaged in the service of the Confederate States, and not ; > e 6 exempt by the laws of the Confederate States from mill- 7 tary duty, between the ages of 35 and 45 years ; said S calls shall designate how many of said troops are wanted 9 to fill up the companies, squadrons, battalions or legi- 10 ments from said State, how many are wanted as organized ] 1 companies, squadrons, battalions or regiments, and how 12 many to be held as a reserve in camps of instruction or 13 otherwise as the call may prescribe ; and a period shall 14 be fixed in each call within which the Governors respec- 15 lively are requested to furnish said troops, which shall 1G not be less than thirty days from the date of said call, IT within which period any person subject to perform mili- 18 tary duty in said State may volunteer and join any com- 19 pany from said State for the filling up of which the call 20 may in part have been made, but said company shall not 21 by volunteers be increased beyond its maximum legal 22 number, and the persons so volunteering shall be counted 23 as part of the quota to be furnished hy said State, and 24 shall conform to rules to be prescribed by the War l)e- 25 partment for ascertaining the number so volunteering. 1 Sec. 3. If the Governor's respectively, shall consent to 2 raise the troops aforesaid, they may resort to enrolment, 3 drafting, or in any other manner deemed more efficient, and 4 which may be prescribed by the laws of said State, for •5 the raising of the same ; and in raising such troops, it 6 shall be competent for the Governor's respectively, to 7 divide the persons liable to military duty into classes from 5 which to furnish the quota desire], according as they may 9 consider shall best subserve the wants and interests of 1.0 their States respectively. Should any Governor de- ll cline to raise said troops, or having consented to L2 do so, fail to raise them within the time specified in the 1.3 President's call, then the President shall be authorized J 4 and required to cause to be enrolled all the white male 15 citizens of said State, not legally exempt from military 16 service by the laws of the Confederate States, and who 1 7 shall not then be in the service of said Confederate States, 1$ between the ages of eighteen and forty-iive years, in the 19 same manner as is prescribed by An Act entitled " An 20 Act further to provide for the public defence," approved 21 April 16th, 1862, and under such rules and regulations 22 as he may prescribe, may proceed to select by lot from 23 among the whole number, the quota called for from such 24 State, and the remainder may return to theii homes, but I 25 subject to return to the rani]) of instruction upou there- 26 quirenient of the President : Provided^ That for good 27 cau.se the time allowed to any of the Executives of the 28 States may be extended for raising their respective quotas 29 by the President: Provided, further. That when said 30 troops shall be raised in any State by order of the IVes- 31 ident and not by the Governor, persons subject to mili- 32 tary duty shall, any time before their enrolment, have the 33 privilege oi' volunteering in the same manner and under 34 like restrictions, as if said quotas had been furnished by 35 the Governor of said State. 1 Sec. 4. The troops thus raised shall serve for three 2 years or during the present war, if it should be sooner 3 ended, and shall not be discharged by reason of having J passed the age of forty-five years before such term of 5 service expires. 1 Sec. o. The troops which may be called for in organ- 2 ized bodies, and which the Governors respectively may '6 furnish, shall be officered in the first instance by the au- 4 thority of the State, but the filling of vacancies there - 5 after shall be according to the laws of the Confederate 6 States. 1 Sec. 0. 'That the persons brought into military service 2 by this act shall be assigned to any company new in the 3 service of the Confederate States which they may prefer ■1 to join, subject to such regulations as the Secretary of •"> War may establish, to secure the filling up of existing 6 companies, squadrons, battalions or regiments from the 7 respective States : Provided, That the right of volun- S teering in, or of being assigned to, any company, shall not interfere with the objects of this act, or .produce in- 10 equality or confusion in the different arms of the service. 1 Sec. 7. That the powers hereby conferred upon the 2 President of the Confederate States shall exist only dur- 3 ing the present war. and the provisions of this bill shall 4 be applicable whenever, pending this war. calls as afore- 5 said shall be made. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Duke University Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/amendmentofmrchiOOconf / Hollinger Corp. pH8.5