The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the sum of thirteen thousand five hundred dollars be and the same are hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the Choctaw nation of Indians the interest due July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, by the State of Virginia, upon four hundred and fifty thousand dollars invested in the Choctaw General Fund, which interest has been placed by the said State in the Treasury of the Confederate States, in trust for said Indians.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, may appoint seventy officers of artillery in the Provisional Army, for the performance of ordnance duties, in addition to those authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the appointment of officers of artillery in the Provisional Army,” approved April twenty-first eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and that from the whole number of artillery officers appointed to discharge ordnance duties, there shall be one with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel for each command composed of more than one army corps, one with the rank of Major for each army corps composed of more than one division, and the residue with the rank of Captain and of First and Second Lieutenant in such proportion as the President shall prescribe.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the sixth section of the Act to provide for the public defence, approved on the sixth of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, be amended by adding after the words “brigades into divisions,” the words “and divisions into army corps,” and each army corps shall be commanded by a Lieutenant-General, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall receive the pay of a Brigadier-General.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby authorized to issue, in addition to the amounts heretofore authorized to be issued, three millions five hundred thousand dollars of Confederate States bonds, under the provisions and conditions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the issue of Treasury notes, and to provide a war tax for their redemption,” approved August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and by the further supplemental Act to the above cited Act, approved December nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to meet a contract made by the Secretary of the Navy for six iron-clad vessels of war and six steam engines and boilers complete, to be constructed abroad, and said bonds, when issued, shall be delivered to the persons entitled to them under the above recited contract.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to transfer any private or non-commissioned officer who may be in a regiment from a State of this Confederacy other than his own, to a regiment from his own State, whenever such private or non-commissioned officer may apply for such transfer, and whenever such transfer can be made without injury to the public service; and the Secretary of War shall make regulations to facilitate such transfer: Provided, that this act shall not apply to any one who has enlisted as a substitute.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That all officers and soldiers belonging to the Confederate States service who were enrolled into said service under the command of Major General Sterling Price, in the State of Missouri, shall be allowed by the quartermasters of the respective corps in the Confederate Army to which such officers and soldiers may belong, compensation according to the laws of the Confederate States for that period of their service between the time of such troops having been actually enrolled in the Confederate service and the time of their regular acceptance by the proper authorities as Confederate troops.

SEC. 2. All officers and soldiers of the Missouri State Guard, called into the service of the Confederate States by the order of any commanding officer of the Confederate Army, and rendering service to the Confederate States under any agreement made between the authorities of the State of Missouri and those of the Confederate States, shall receive the same pay for the time during which such officers and soldiers may have been in such service as they would have been entitled to receive if belonging to the Confederate Army; Provided, however, That all staff officers belonging to said Missouri State Guard shall only receive for their services the same compensation with staff officers discharging like duties in the Confederate Army.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the officers of the Engineer corps of the Provisional Army may have rank conferred on them during the war, equal to that authorized by law for the Engineer corps of the Confederate States Army: Provided, That the number of officers in each grade be limited to one colonel, three lieutenant colonels, six majors, forty captains, thirty first lieutenants and twenty second lieutenants.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That from and after the passage of this act there shall be allowed to the Marine corps, in addition to the number of non-commissioned officers and musicians allowed by the first section of the act of Congress approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, twenty sergeants, twenty corporals, twenty drummers, twenty fifers and two principal musicians, each principal musician to receive the pay and allowance of a sergeant major.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the Congress of the Confederate States of America, for its next regular session, shall assemble on the second Monday in January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and not on the first Monday in December, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the clause of the second section of the above recited act, which requires the appointment of a chief clerk of the Patent Office, shall not be held obligatory if the current business of said office shall not require the services of such an officer; and that the Commissioner of Patents may, in his discretion, with the approval of the Attorney General, dispense with a chief clerk for such cause, or whenever the revenue of the Patent Office is insufficient to enable it to be self-sustaining.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the annual pay of the Engineer-in-chief of the navy, and passed assistant Surgeons shall be as follows: Engineer-in-chief three thousand dollars; passed assistant Surgeons, for service afloat, seventeen hundred dollars; for shore or other duty, fifteen hundred dollars; when on leave or waiting orders, twelve hundred dollars.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, may appoint one major, ten first and ten second lieutenants, in the Signal corps, and that the Secretary of War may appoint twenty additional sergeants in the said corps.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President be and he is hereby authorized to call out and place in the military service of the Confederate States for three years, unless the war should have been sooner ended all white men, who are residents of the Confederate States, between the ages of thirty-five and forty-five years, at the time the call or calls may be made, and who are not, at such time or times, legally exempted from military service, or such part thereof as, in his judgment, may be necessary to the public defence, such call or calls to be made under the provisions and according to the terms of the act to which this is an amendment; and such authority shall exist in the President during the present war, as to all persons who now are or may hereafter become eighteen years of age, and when once enrolled, all persons between the ages of eighteen and forty-five shall serve their full time: Provided, That if the President, in calling out troops into the service of the Confederate States, shall first call for only a part of the persons between the ages hereinbefore stated, he shall call for those between the ages of thirty-five and any other age less than forty-five: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be understood as repealing or modifying any part of the act to which this is amendatory, except as herein expressly stated: And Provided, further, That those called out under this act, and the act to which this is an amendment, shall be first and immediately ordered to fill to their maximum number the companies, battalions, squadrons and regiments from the respective States at the time the act to further provide for the public defence, approved sixteenth April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, was passed, and the surplus, if any, shall be assigned to organizations formed from each State since the passage of that act, or placed in new organizations to be officered by the State having such residue, according to the laws thereof, or disposed of as now provided by law: Provided, That the President is authorized to suspend the execution of this act, or the act to which this is an amendment, in any locality where he may find it impracticable to execute the same, and that in such locality, and during said suspension, the President is authorized to receive troops into the Confederate service, under any of the acts passed by the Confederate Congress prior to the passage of the act to provide further for the public defence, approved sixteenth April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the Postmaster-General of the Confederate States do proceed to pay to the several persons, or their lawfully authorized agents or representatives, the sums respectively found due and owing to them for postal service rendered in any of the States of this Confederacy, under contracts or appointments made by the United States Government, before the Confederate States Government took charge of such service, as the said sums have been audited and ascertained by him under the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to collect for distribution the moneys remaining in the several post-offices of the Confederate States at the time the postal service was taken in charge by said Government,” approved the thirtieth August, eighteen hundred and sixty-one; but the sums authorized by this Act to be paid are only the balances found due after all proper deductions shall have been made on account of previous payments made by the United States, or any of the States, or of available provisions made in whole or in part for such payment by said Government, or of any of the States, and after making all proper deductions for failures or partial failures to perform the service according to their several contracts or appointments during the time for which they claim pay: Provided, That the provisions of this Act shall only extend to loyal citizens of the Confederate States.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the commutation value of rations of sick and disabled soldiers, in the hospitals of the Confederate States, is hereby fixed at one dollar, instead of the commutation now allowed by law, which shall constitute the hospital fund, and be held by the commissary, and be paid over by him, from time to time, to the Surgeon or Assistant Surgeon in charge of the hospital of which the soldier, whose ration was commuted, is an inmate, upon the said Surgeon or Assistant Surgeon's requisition, made in writing, when necessary to purchase supplies for said hospital: Provided, however, when said fund for any one hospital shall increase over and above the monthly expenditures of the same to an amount exceeding the sum of five thousand dollars, the said commissary shall be required to deposit the said excess over and above the said five thousand dollars, in the Treasury of the Confederate States, or such other place of deposit where Government moneys are ordered to be kept; which said deposits, when so made, shall be passed to the credit of the said Confederate States, and be liable to draft as other public moneys are; and all such funds shall be accounted for by the said commissary in his monthly report and abstract as now required by law: And provided further, That all such Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons who shall receive from the said commissary any part of said hospital fund, to be expended for the use of hospitals, shall be held liable for a faithful application of it, and in a weekly account and abstract, to be made out and forwarded to the office of the Surgeon-General, to be verified in every instance by vouchers, shall show what disposition has been made of it, which account, abstract, and accompanying vouchers, shall be placed on file.

SEC. 2. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to make a contract with the several railroad companies and lines of boats, for the speediest practicable transportation of all supplies purchased for the use of hospitals by agents accredited by the Surgeon or Assistant Surgeon in charge for that purpose, or donations by individuals, societies, or States; and it shall be lawful for the Quartermaster-General to furnish general transportation tickets to such agents upon all railroad trains and canal boats, when engaged in the actual service of said hospitals upon the request of the said Surgeon or Assistant Surgeon.

SEC. 3. That there shall be allowed to each hospital of the Confederate States, suits of clothing, consisting of shirts, pantaloons and drawers, equal to the number of beds in the same, for the use of the sick while in the hospitals, when so ordered by the Surgeon or Assistant Surgeon in charge, which said clothing shall be drawn upon the written requisition of said Surgeon or Assistant Surgeon, and shall be receipted for and kept as hospital clothing, and be accounted for by him as other public property.

SEC. 4. That there be allowed to each hospital, with rations and suitable places of lodging, the following matrons and female nurses and attendants, viz: Two matrons, to be known and designated as hospital matrons in chief, at a salary not to exceed forty dollars per month each, whose general duties shall be to exercise a superintendence over the entire domestic economy of the hospital, to take charge of such delicacies as may be provided for the sick, to apportion them out as required, to see that the food or diet is properly prepared, and all such other duties as may be necessary. Two matrons, to be known and designated as assistant matrons, whose general duties shall be to superintend the laundry, to take charge of the clothing of the sick, the bedding of the hospital, to see that they are kept clean and neat, and perform such other duties as may be necessary, at a salary not to exceed thirty-five dollars per month each. Two matrons for each ward, at a salary not to exceed thirty dollars per month each, to be known and designated as ward-matrons, whose general duties shall be to prepare the beds and bedding of their respective wards, to see that they are kept clean and in order, that the food or diet for the sick is carefully prepared and furnished to them, the medicine administered, and that all patients requiring careful nursing are attended to, and all such other duties as may be necessary. And all Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons in charge of a hospital are hereby authorized to employ such other nurses, either male or female, as may be necessary to the proper care and attention of the sick, at a salary each not to exceed twenty-five dollars per month, and also the necessary cooks, at a salary not to exceed twenty-five dollars each per month, and one ward-master for each ward, at a salary not to exceed twenty-five dollars per month each, giving preference in all cases to females where their services may best subserve the purpose; and in the event a sufficient number of such nurses and ward-masters cannot be employed, not liable to military service, and it shall become necessary to assign to this duty soldiers in the service, then, upon the requisition of such Surgeon or Assistant Surgeon in charge of such hospital, the soldier or soldiers so assigned, who are skillful and competent, shall be permanently detailed to this duty, and shall only be removable for neglect or inattention by the Surgeon or Assistant Surgeon in charge: Provided, In all cases, that all other attendants and servants, not herein provided for, necessary to the service of said hospital, shall be allowed, as now provided by law.

SEC. 5. That the hospitals of the Confederate States shall hereafter be known and numbered as hospitals of a particular State; and in all cases where the same can be done without injury to the patients or great inconvenience to the government, all sick or wounded soldiers, being citizens or residents of such particular State, shall be sent to such hospital as may represent the same, and to such private or State hospitals representing the same, which may be willing to receive them.

SEC. 6. That all persons authorized to be employed by section fourth of this act, who are not engaged in the military service, and whose pay is not now provided for by law, shall be paid monthly by any quartermaster or other person authorized to pay troops in the military service, upon a muster or pay roll, to be made out and certified to by the surgeon or assistant having in charge the hospital or hospitals in which said persons have been employed.

SEC. 7. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, in such way and manner as he may deem best, and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to enter into and perfect some suitable arrangement with the railroad companies, their officers or authorized agents, whereby seats in one or more cars of each railroad train, as the necessities of the case may be, shall be reserved for the use of the sick and wounded soldiers who may desire transportation on any such railroad, and that no person not sick or wounded, and not an attendant upon the sick and wounded, shall be permitted to enter any such car or cars so reserved until the said sick and wounded and their attendants shall first have obtained seats; and, also, shall perfect some arrangement with the said railroad companies, their officers or agents, whereby all conductors having in charge any such trains shall be required to provide, for the use of the sick and wounded in the cars so reserved, a sufcient quantity of pure water.

SEC. 8. That all surgeons and assistant surgeons in charge of a hospital, having in his or their charge any sick or wounded soldier, desiring transportation as aforesaid, shall, in all cases, detail some competent person, acting under his or their authority, whose duty it shall be to accompany all such sick and wounded to the depot of any such railroad, to see that all such are properly cared for, and that they obtain seats on the said car or cars so reserved.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the counties of Matagorda, Wharton, Colorado, Washington and Burleson are hereby attached to the Eastern District of Texas, and all suits hereafter instituted against persons residing in any of said counties shall be instituted in the court of said district held at Galveston, until otherwise ordered by the judge of said district: Provided, however, That all suits and other proceedings instituted against persons or property in any of said counties shall be prosecuted to final judgment and execution under the laws now in force.

SEC. 2. That there shall be appointed a Marshal for the District of Eastern Texas, for the court held at Galveston, and the Marshal for the District of Eastern Texas shall be the Marshal for the court held at Tyler.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That whenever the Secretary of the Treasury may have found it necessary to extend the time for making the assessments and returns provided for by said acts, he shall have authority, at his discretion, to make an extension of the time fixed by said acts, for the payment of the tax, or for the sale in default of said payment, and otherwise to provide as may be necessary to render efficient the execution of the said acts, notwithstanding such extension.

The Congress of the Confederate States of Ameaica do enact, That the provisions of said Act shall be extended so as to apply to independent battalions, and that on the recommendation of the commander of any such battalion, an Adjutant of the grade of subaltern may be appointed by the President for said battalion, who is not attached as subaltern to said battalion, and that said Adjutant, when so appointed, shall have the same rank, pay and allowance as are provided by law for Adjutants of regiments.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That whenever the Secretary of War shall grant transfers agreeable to the above Act to any soldier now in the service, he shall furnish transportation also.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, any person subject to enrollment for military service under the Acts of Congress providing for the public defence, shall be permitted to enlist in the Marine corps at any time prior to being mustered into the Army of the Confederate States: Provided, That the number of men so enlisted does not increase the Marine corps beyond the strength authorized by law.

SEC. 2. That if any person who has been or is about to be enrolled for service in the Army shall, at any time before being assigned to any company, declare to the enrolling or commanding officer that he prefers being enrolled for service in the Navy or the Marine corps, it shall be the duty of the said officer to enroll such person for the service which he may prefer, and to transmit to the Secretary of the Navy a list of the persons so enrolled.

SEC. 3. That from and after the passage of this act, the pay of sailors and marines shall be increased four dollars per month.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That claims due to deceased non-commissioned officers and privates for pay, allowances and bounty, may be audited and paid without the necessity of the parties entitled producing a pay roll from the captain or commanding officer, when there is other official evidence of the amount due satisfactory to the second auditor, under such regulations as he has or may prescribe, with the approval of the Secretary of War.

SEC. 2. The claims of deceased commissioned officers shall be paid to their heirs or representatives in the same manner as similar claims of non-commissioned officers and privates are now or may be directed by law to be paid; and to assist the second auditor in more effectually carrying out the provisions of this act and other pressing business of his office, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to appoint an experienced accountant who, with the chief clerk, shall have authority to sign and attest such official business as said auditor shall approve and direct.

SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to employ in the office of the second auditor as many additional temporary clerks as he may think necessary, to assist said auditor in the settlement of the claims of deceased officers and soldiers, the compensation of said clerks to be four dollars per day, and without any addition whatever, for every day they shall be so actually engaged, except one, whose annual compensation shall be fifteen hundred dollars, the others to be paid weekly at the Treasury, upon a certificate of service of said auditor.

SEC. 4 This act shall take effect from its passage, and the third section shall continue in force for twelve months and no longer.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the sixth section of an Act to provide for the public defence, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be so amended as to authorize the President to organize divisions of the Provisional Army of the Confederate States into army corps, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint officers to the command thereof.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That where the place of holding any district court of the Confederate States is established by law, and such place shall be in the occupation of, or in danger of attack by the enemy, or when any contagious or epidemic disease may prevail at such place, the judge of the district may change the place for holding the court to some other convenient point in the district, by causing the marshal to give public notice for twenty days of such change.

SEC. 2. The order making the change of place for holding court shall be revoked whenever the cause therefor shall cease.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the Postmaster General be and he is hereby authorized to employ such special agents as he may deem necessary to superintend and secure the speedy and certain transportation of the mails across the Mississippi river, in the Confederate States, at such points as may be found practicable for that purpose.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That such agents shall receive the same pay and allowance for their services as is paid and allowed to special agents of the Post Office Department, and that this act shall continue in force during the existence of the present war between the United States and the Confederate States.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That so much of the existing law as provides commutation for clothing to the soldiers in the service of the Confederacy, be and the same is hereby repealed; and hereafter the Secretary of War shall provide in kind to the soldiers, respectively, the uniform clothing prescribed by the regulations of the army of the Confederate States; and should any balance of clothing be due to any soldier at the end of the year, the money value of such balance shall be paid to such soldier, according to the value of such clothing fixed and announced by order from the War Department.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President is hereby authorized to import, duty free cards or card cloth, or any machinery or materials necessary for increasing the manufacture of clothing for the army, or any articles necessary for supplying the deficiency of clothing or shoes, or materials for shoes for the army.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That any machinery, or parts of machinery or materials imported as aforesaid, may be worked on government account, or leased or sold, at the discretion of the President.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the President may extend the privileges of this Act to companies or individuals, subject to such regulations as he may prescribe.

SEC. 4. That the clothing required to be furnished to the troops of the Provisional Army under any existing law may be of such kind, as to color and quality, as it may be practicable to obtain, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the sum of seventy thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to the state of Louisiana, the same being the estimated excess of the war tax overpaid by her; the said payment to be made to the governor of the state of Louisiana or his authorized agent, subject to a final adjustment whenever the assessments and returns of the war tax for said state shall be completed.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the sum of one hundred and eleven thousand one hundred and seventy-four dollars and sixty-nine cents, be paid to the state of North Carolina, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same being the excess over her quota paid by her into the treasury of the Confederate States on account of the war tax.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That all persons subject to enrollment for military service may be enrolled under instructions from the War Department, and reported by the enrolling officer wherever found, whether within the state or county of their residence or not; and when so enrolled, shall be subject to the provisions of law as fully as if enrolled within the county and state of which they may be residents: Provided, That this act shall not extend to any member of a military organization under any state law while he remains in actual service within the limits of his state: And provided, further, That the President is authorized to suspend the execution of this act as regards the residents of any locality where he may find it impracticable to execute the act entitled “An Act to further provide for the public defence,” approved April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the act to amend the last mentioned act, approved September twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the first section of the act entitled “An Act for the organization of the Staff Departments of the Army of the Confederate States of America,” approved March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, be amended by adding to the Adjutant and Inspector General's Department one Assistant Adjutant General with the rank of colonel.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President be and he is hereby authorized, on the requisition of the Quartermaster General, to detail from the army persons skilled in the manufacture of shoes not to exceed two thousand in number; and it shall be the duty of the Quartermaster General to place them, without delay, at suitable points in shops under proper regulations prescribed by him, and employ them diligently in the manufacture of shoes for the army.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That soldiers detailed under the provisions of this act shall be entitled to receive pay for extra duty, and also thirty-five cents per pair for shoes manufactured by them severally, in addition to regular pay and rations.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the following sums be and the same are hereby appropriated for the objects hereafter expressed for the year ending the thirty-first of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-two:—

Executive.—For compensation of the President of the Confederate States, six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President be and he is hereby authorized and empowered, whenever in his opinion the public good would be promoted thereby, to receive into the service regiments or battalions which have been organized in good faith prior to the first day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, under authority or by direction of the Secretary of War, or any general officer of the Government, although said regiments or battalions may be composed in part of persons between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five years: Provided, That this authority shall not extend to regiments or battalions organized after the said first day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, except in those States and locations where the conscript law may be suspended.

SEC. 2. That the President be and he is hereby authorized and empowered, whenever in his opinion it would promote the public good, to receive into service regiments or battalions which have been heretofore organized of conscripts by a general officer in any of the States lying west of the Mississippi river.

SEC. 3. That all companies, battalions and regiments of infantry raised or organized before the first day of December next within the limits of middle and west Tennessee, to be composed of residents of said districts, may be accepted by the President, when, in his opinion, the public interest will be promoted thereby, and said troops shall be allowed to elect their own officers for the first election, after which all vacancies shall be filled by the President, under the act, and the acts amendatory of the same, providing for the public defence, passed sixteenth of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and also such counties in North Carolina lying east of the line of the Wilmington and Weldon railroad as are beyond the lines of the army and exposed to the incursions of the enemy.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the delegates from the several Indian Nations authorized to have delegates under their respective treaties, shall be paid the same salary and mileage that is paid to members of the House of Representatives under the law now in force.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That there shall be established in each county, parish or district, and in any city in a county, parish or district in the several States, a place of rendezvous for the persons in said county, district, parish or city, enrolled for military duty in the field, who shall be there examined by one or more Surgeons, to be employed by the Government, to be assigned to that duty by the President on a day of which ten days notice shall be given by said Surgeon, and from day to day next, thereafter, until all who shall be in attendance for the purpose of examination shall have been examined; and the decision of said Surgeons, under regulations to be established by the Secretary of War, as to the physical and mental capacity of any such person for military duty in the field, shall be final; and those only thus ascertained to be fit for military duty in the field shall be required to assemble at camps of instruction.