<emph>A Bill Concerning Raids.</emph><emph>Senate Bill No. 12. Extra Ses. 1863:</emph> Electronic Edition. North Carolina. General Assembly. Senate Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title. Text scanned (OCR) by Barry Maglaughlin Text encoded by Allen Vaughn and Natalia Smith First edition, 2000 ca. 15K Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.

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 A Bill Concerning Raids 2 p. [Raleigh, N. C.] W. W. Holden, Printer to the State 1863. Call number VCP353.6 1863.2 (North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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 Library of Congress Subject Headings, 21st edition, 1998 English North Carolina. Militia -- Mobilization. North Carolina. Militia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. Draft -- Law and legislation -- North Carolina. Impressment -- North Carolina. Legislation -- North Carolina. North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. Confederate States of America -- Defenses. 2000-11-13, Celine Noel and Wanda Gunther revised TEIHeader and created catalog record for the electronic edition. 2000-02-11, Natalia Smith, project manager, finished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing. 2000-02-10, Allen Vaughn finished TEI/SGML encoding 2000-01-29, Barry Maglaughlin finished scanning (OCR) and proofing. SENATE BILL No. 12.] . . . . . [EXTRA SES. 1863. Introduced by Mr. Young for Commons. W. W. Holden, Printer to the State A BILL CONCERNING RAIDS

SECTION 1. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of the 2 State of North-Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the 3 authority of the same, That during the war the Governor 4 shall have power to call out, for the purpose of resisting 5 raids by the enemy, all able-bodied white men and apprentices, 6 residents of this State, (including foreigners) 7 between the ages of sixteen and sixty years or such portion 8 thereof in the whole State or any part of the State, 9 as he may deem necessary for the public defence.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That he shall order the 2 men embraced in the above section to be immediately 3 enrolled, and formed into companies of not less than sixty 4 nor more than one hundred privates; and the companies 5 so formed may be organized into battalions or regiments.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the Governor shall 2 have power to appoint the officers of such companies, 3 battalions and regiments, or may order the same to be 4 elected, as in his discretion may seem best. The officers 5 shall be commissioned for the war, and no longer.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the officers and men 2 shall be subject to the rules and articles, of war of the 3 Confederate States, and shall receive the same pay, rations 4 and allowances whilst in actual service, as those of 5 like grade in the Confederate service.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That there shall be ex- 2 empt from the service under this act the following, to wit: 3 The officers necessary employee in the Insane Asylum 4 and Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, 5 with their inmates and pupils, and such persons as the 6 Governor may specially exempt, and no others.

SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be in 2 force from and after its ratification.