FROM THE SOUTH: Legislative Resources of the Rebellion; The Tax, Currency and Military Bills (2/27/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 2/27/1864

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From our late files of Richmond journals, the receipt of which we have already acknowledged, we extract the following important matters:

The Richmond papers publish the Military Bill which is now the law of the Confederacy.

Section 1 -- Provides that all white men, residents of the Confederate States, between the ages of 17 and 50, shall be in the military service of the Confederate States during the war.

Section 2 -- Provides that all between the ages of 18 and 45 now in service shall be retained during the present war in the same organizations in which they were serving at the passage of this act, unless they are regularly discharged or transferred.

Section 3 -- Provides that, at the expiration of six months from the 1st of April next, a bounty of one hundred dollars, in a six per cent. Government Bond shall be paid to each non-commissioned officer and private then in service.

Section 4 -- Brings again into the service those exempted on account of disability which does not now exist.

Section 5 -- Provides that all between 17 and 18 years of age shall form a reserve corps not to serve out of the State in which they reside.

Section 8 -- Provides that all the duties of provost and hospital guards and clerks, and of clerks, guards, agents, employes or laborers in the Commissary and Quartermaster Departments, in the Ordnance Bureau and Navy Departments, and all similar duties, shall be performed by persons who are declared, by a board of surgeons, as unable to perform military service in the field. The President may detail such bodies of troops or individuals required to be enrolled under the sixth section of this act (between 45 and 50) as may be needed

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From the South: Legislative Resources of the Rebellion – 2-4
Scientific Discoveries: Dr. Doremus’ Lecture – 4, 6
The Metropolitan Fair and the Railroad and Ferry Companies – 6
Highly Important: Severe Reverse to the Florida Expedition – 6
News from Washington: Special Dispatches to the N.Y. Times – 6-7
From New Orleans: Escape of Union Prisoners – 7
From Fortress Monroe: Deserters – 7
The Presidency: Indorsement of Mr. Lincoln by a Union Convention at Columbus, Ohio – 7
Gen. Grant’s Army: Advance in Force from Chattanooga – 7-8
Extraordinary Statement: British Merchants Propose to Fit Out a Cruiser to Catch the Alabama – 8
From Louisville – 8
From North Carolina: Vigilance of Gen. Peck – 8-9
Grant Moving – The Campaign Toward Atlanta – 9
Grant’s “Blundering Audacity” – 9