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- Executive and legislative documents [1864-1866]
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- Date
- 1864 - 1866
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- Creator
- ["North Carolina."]
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- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Executive and legislative documents [1864-1866]
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10
Document No. 1.
[Session
From a careful observation of the difficulties experienced
bv the county supply commissioners last year, and owing to-
the impressment and tithe laws of Congress, now rendered
still greater by the bonding of a large portion of our farmers
to sell all their surplus to the Confederate government, I am
convinced that this is the surest and best way to provide for
the poor. Surely no humane and patriotic citizen can object
to this plan. If it should meet your approbation, the sooner
it is adopted the better, as the season is already far advanced.
I deem it unnecessary to elaborate tins suggestion, as yon
vrill doubtless be able to mature the plan of operating better
than I could myself.
I desire to call your attention to tlm condition of the Militia
and the Guard for Home Defence, which requires some addi¬
tional legislation. Both of these organizations were put on
foot when the territory allotted to the difierentregiinents and
battalions contained men sufficient to ffii them to the numbers
required by law. Both have alike been stripped by conscrip¬
tion until scarcely anything remains of either regiment or
battalion, but officers. When I now call out the
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Guard for StateDcfoiice, I have to put many companies to¬
gether in order to get one of convenient size, and the super¬
numerary officers constituting a large per cent of the whole
force, are sent home, as they cannot be made to serve in the
ranks. This causes the greatest inconvenience and injustice.
The only remedy is re-organization and consolidation, I there¬
fore recommend the abolition of the Home Guard organization
as being one too many, and the passage of a law authorizing
the combination of the skeleton companies of the Militia into
new regiments having the number necessary to take the field
at once, and so that all may be compelled to do duty alike.
I deem it unnecessary further to give the details of the pro¬
posed plan, as the Adjutant General will present them fully
to your military committees in a form which has my ap¬
proval.
I also recommend the extension of the age to which men
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