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 [House Bill, No. .] 
 
 HOUSE, September 4, 1862. — Read first and second times, and 
 referred to Military Committee. September 22. — Reported back with 
 amendment, placed upon the Calendar and ordered to be printed. 
 
 [By Mr. Collier, of Virginia.] 
 
 A. BILL 
 
 To be entitled An Act Authorizing and Regulating Substitutes- 
 
 1 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of 
 
 2 America do enact, That all persons not liable for, but 
 
 3 capable of. performing military duty, may be received as 
 
 4 substitutes for those who are liable and not mustered 
 •") into the military service, under the following regulations, 
 t'» to-wit : 
 
 7 First. Whenever a substitute so authorized is received 
 
 8 into the service shall desert, the captain of the company 
 
 9 from which such desertion is made shall compel the 
 
 10 attendance of the principal for military service. 
 
 1 1 Second. If such principal so attending shall present 
 
 12 another substitute, who shall be in all respects fit and 
 
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 13 proper, such substitute shall be received upon the same 
 
 14 conditions as the first: Provided, however, That in no 
 
 15 case shall more than two substitutes he permitted. 
 
 1 Sf.c. 2. Whenever the substitute in any case shall 
 
 2 become liable to military Bervice, his principal shall be 
 
 3 made liable to and perform all military duty, and be 
 
 4 compelled into such service as might be required of his 
 
 5 substitute. 
 
 1 Sec. 3. When a party has been regularly mustered 
 
 2 into the service and desires to put in a substitute, such 
 
 3 substitution may be permitted under such regulations as 
 
 4 may be prescribed by the Secretary of War. 
 
 1 Sec. 4. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to 
 
 2 prescribe regulations concerning discharges from service 
 ?> as herein provided. 
 
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 J± BILL 
 
 To be entitled An Act to regulate the Reception of Substi- 
 tutes in the Army. 
 1 Th. Congress of the Corifederatt States of America wo 
 '1 enact, That all persons for whom substitutes over thirty- 
 :) live years o\' age have been received into the military 
 
 4 service of the Confederate States, shall continue exempt : 
 
 5 Provided, That the principal shall be held liable to said 
 
 6 service upon the desertion of the substitute ; and where 
 
 7 persons have employed substitutes under eighteen years 
 
 8 of age, they shall become liable on the arrival of the 
 !) substitute at that age. and hereafter no substitutes shall 
 
 10 be received under eighteen years of age. 
 
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