at the most public place in the district or country: provided that in the district or county of Nacogdoches, their shall be one additional individual :-ippointed, whose duty it shall be to make out seperately the names of all natives therin liable to serve, and that then, when drafted or ordered out, shall be orginized in separate corps. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid, that the executive authority established by the convention (and that until such authority he established the president of this body) shall have power at all times to order out the militia by draft or otherwise, for a term to be specified by him not lo exceed at any one time six months in case the exigencies of the county may require it, provided that not more than two thirds of the militia shall he required to be in service at any one time, and the militia when so ordered out shall be under the command and direction of the commander-in-chief of the army. SEC. 4. Be it ordained by the authority aforesaid, That when the services of any portion of the militia shall be required, the executive or the president of this body, as the case may be, shall issue his orders and transmit them to the persons appointed in each district or county, setting forth the number of men required from each, and it shall he the duty of such person to make out on separate slips of paper, the names of all the persons therein liable to do military duty, which names when so made out shall be deposited in the manner hereinafter directed in a hat or box in the presence of three disinterested persons, who are not by the provisions of this act liable to do military duty, and after the said names shall be well mixed up, and shaken by each of the three persons, they shall cause to be drawn, from the hat or box, one at a time, by a child under the age of ten yem·s, the number so required for service. The names to be placed in a hat or box in the following manner, to wit: the names of all persons who have not been in the service shall be placed therein, and drawn before the names of those who have served or are now serving, or shall, during this campaign, and before any draft enter the service, and all those who have served for a shorter period than one month, or may in the present campaign serve for a shorter period than one month, shall be first drawn before those who have or may in the campaign serve for one month or upwards; provided no person shall be entitled to any of the benefits of these exceptions who shall not, before the day of the draft, of which two days notice shall be given, furnish satisfactory proof, either in writing or by the testimony of two respectable witnesses, to the person appointed tp enroll the names, of his having performed such service; which names, when so drawn,
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