6. That when any mess of volunteers shall keep a servant to wait on the members of the mess, each servant shall be allowed one ration.
This act to take effect from and after its passage.
W. C. Whitthorne,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
B. L. Stovall,
Speaker of the Senate.
Passed June 28, 1861.
1862, November 2—Governor Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, issued a call announcing that if a sufficient supply of negroes be not tendered within ten days, General Mercer will, in pursuance of authority given him, proceed to impress, and asking of every planter of Georgia a tender of one fifth of his negroes to complete the fortifications around Savannah. This one-fifth is estimated at 15,000.
1863. The Governor of South Carolina in July, issued a proclamation for 3,000 negroes to work on the fortifications, “the need for them being pressing.”