Unknown, January 5, 1864
No. 2. Richmond, January 5, 1864. For the information of all concerned, and to correct prevalent misapprehension, it is announced that there exists no mandatory provision of law securing to enrolled conscripts the right to choose in what company or regiment they will serve. They cannot be assigned to companies from other States, and in general their wishes are to be consulted as to the choice of companies, where no considerations for the good of the service intervene to prevent compliance. Assignments once made by commandants of conscripts in good faith, in the exercise of their discretion, will not be considered as fit subjects for complaints. By order: S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General.
AN ACT to continue in force an act entitled ”An act to provide for the compensation of certain persons therein named,” approved May the first, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the act entitled ”An act to provide for the compensation of certain persons therein named,” approved May the first, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, which, by its own limitation, would expire on the first of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, be, and the same is hereby, continued in force until the first of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.
Approved January 6, 1864.