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The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
he Speaker. The House took up the unfinished business of Saturday, being the bill to provide for placing in the military service persons claiming to be citizens of the United States. The question was upon the passage of the substitute of Mr. Chilton, requiring all persons between the ages of 18 and 45 who may be resident in the Confederate States after the 1st day of February next, to be subject to enrollment in the military service of the Confederate States, regardless of any claim of noident, upon considerations of equity and justice, or of public necessity, to exempt such persons. The call for the question upon the passage of the bill was not sustained, and Mr. Clapp, of Miss., offered an amendment to the substitute of Mr. Chilton, extending the time allowed to the class of persons alluded to, to sixty days from the passage of the bill, and moved that the whole subject be recommitted. The bill was continued under discussion until the expiration of the morning hour,