[184] Act, Feb. 17, 1864, Pub. Laws, C.S.A., 1st Cong., 4th Sess.
[185] Acts, Jan. 31, 1861, 1st Called Session.
[186] Act, Aug. 29, 1863.
[187] Nov. 25, 1862.
[188] Dec. 6, 1862.
[189] Act, Aug. 29, 1863.
[190] Dec. 13, 1864. This was a measure of obstruction, since the Confederate laws did not exempt millers. The legislature elected in 1863 contained many obstructionists.
[191] Act, Aug. 29, 1863.
[192] Resolution, Dec. 4, 1863.
[193] Ex parte Hill, In re Willis et al. vs. Confederate States—38 Alabama Reports (1863), 429. All over the state at various times men sought to avoid conscription or some certain service under every pretext, sometimes “even resorting to a habeas corpus before an ignorant justice of the peace, who had no jurisdiction over such cases.” See O. R., Ser. I, Vol. XXVI, Pt. II, p. 139; also Governor Shorter to General Johnston. Aug., 1863.