Unknown, January 23, 1864
INOnRd: Richmond, January 23, 1864.
I. Paragraph IV, General Orders, No. 3, current series, is hereby revoked.
II. Enrolling officers will proceed as rapidly as practicable in the enrollment of all persons made liable to military service. Previous to enrollment as conscripts all such persons will be allowed to volunteer: Providedâ
1. The company selected was in service on the 16th of April, 1862.
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2. The company selected is at the time of volunteering below the minimum number prescribed by regulations.
3 No person made liable to service under this order will be permitted to join or will be assigned to any company which has more than sixty-four privates on the roll until all the companies in the service from the State of which the volunteer or conscript is a resident shall have the minimum number prescribed by regulations.
4. Upon the company being selected, the volunteer will receive from the enrolling officer a certificate to the effect that he has so volunteered, and no volunteer will be received in any company except on such certificate.
Ili. Persons who fail to make selection according to the provisions of this order, and at the time of enlistment, will be assigned according to existing regulations.
IV. All officers in command of companies authorized under this order to receive conscripts or volunteers will forthwith send to the commandant of conscripts of the State accurate certified rolls of their companies, and without such roll, showing that they do not exceed sixty-four privates, there will not be assigned any conscript or volunteer.
8. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General.