under this order. And all officers herein designated as enroling officers who shall fail or refuse to perform with energy and fidelity the duties herein assigned to them will be dealt with as the public safety may require.

IX. The judges of the supreme and circuit courts, judges of probate, all ministers of religion in the regular discharge of their ministerial duties, telegraph operators, and the officers and persons actually in the employment of railroad companies and holding certificates of exemption as such from the commandant of conscripts for this State, are exempt from enrollment under this order.

X. Volunteer companies will be accepted and are preferred, if organized previous to the day appointed for the election of officers under this order, or if on that day organized as such and so reported to the enrolling officer and to the adjutant and inspector general.

By command of the Governor and commander-in-chief:

EDWARD BRADFORD, Jr.,

Acting Adjutant-General.

[Inclosure Numbers 3.] GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. ADJT. AND INSP. General 'S OFFICE, Numbers 14.
Tallahassee, September 2, 1864.

I. The officers commanding companies of State forces recently organized will order each and every man of thei rrespective companies to hold himself in readiness, at the shortest possible notice, to rendezvous at any place in his county designated by such officer, to repel invasion by the enemy, to suppress servile insurrection, or render whatever service the safety of the State or any part thereof may require.

II. The said officers will to thei rutmost to arrest any deserters from the Confederate army who may be lurking in their vicinity and send them, under a suffieint guard, to the Confederate officer commanding the sub-district in which the arrest may be made.

III. When informed of runaway slaves who may be attempting to escape to the enemy, or of slaves who may be unlawfully assmbled, the officers aforesaid will cause the arrest and return to their owners of such sunaway slaves, or imprisonment when deemed necessary, and will disperse any unlawful assemblage of slaves after inflicting lawful punishment upon the slaves so unlawfully assembled.

IV. If reliably informed of any person harboirng deserters or encouraging persons to desert the Confederate service the said offocer shall cause the arrest of such person or persons and send them, under a sufficient guard, with a written statement of the facts in each case, to the Confederate officers commanding the sub-district in which the arrest may be made.

V. And, whereas, information has dome to these headquarters that in different sections of the State there are persons trading and tampering with slaves and otherwise holding communication with them in order to create dissatisfaction or induce them to run away to the enemy, it is hereby made the duty of all officers of the State forces to be on the alert for these persons, and, on satisfactory information of their guilt, to cause their arrest and have them turned over to the civil authorities.

VI. The said officers will use the force requisite to overcome any resistance in the discharge of their duties in carrying out these orders.

VII. The officers aforesaid are referred to the following extract form the laws for the discipline of their men, to wit:

Be it further enacted, Taht all volunteer companeis, when not in actual service, may adopt such additional rules and regulations for their government, and impose such additional fines and penalties upon their members, as they deem proper, and