Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-08-11

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States service, the President be and be
10 hereby authorized to accept the SER
vices Of volunteer in such number ~
may be presented for that purpose, for
twelve months, If not sooner discharged.
And such volunteer, when mustered 10.
to the service, shall be 10 oil respects
upon . footing with similar troops in
the United States service, except - to
service bounty, which shall be $50, one
half Of which to be paid upon their
joining their regiments, and the other
half at the expiration Of their enlist
ment.
STATE LAW.
WHO ARR RxENPr.
SECTION l. Be It enacted By the
General Assem6ly Of the State Of
Zosoa, That al abIe-bodied white male
citizens Of this State, between the ages
Of eighteen and forty.five years, reading
in this State, and not exempted by the.
laws Of the United States, shall be sub
ject to military duty, excepting,
lst-All persons in the Army or Navy
OF the United States.
2d-Persous who have been or here
after shall be regularly and honorably
discharged from the army and navy Of
the United States in consequence Of the
performance Of military duty in pursu-
ance Of any Law of this State, and su:h
firemen ~ are now exempted BY law.
3d-Commissioned officers Who shall
have served a. such in the Militia Of
this State or in any one of the United
States for the space Of four years, but no
officer shall be exempt unless by bis res
equation after such term of service duly
accepted or in some other lawful man.
ner be shall have been honorably dis
charged.
4th-Every n0n.commissioned officer,
musician and private Of every uniformed
company or troop raised or hereafter to
BE- raised, who has or shall hereafter uni
form himself according to the provisions
Of any law Of this State for the space Of
six years from the time of his enroll.
ment 10 the active Militia, shall be ex-
empt from military duty, except in cases
OF war, insurrectlon or invasion.
MODE OF DRAFTING.
SEC. 20. Whenever the President Of
the United States, or the Commander
in., hief shall order draft from the Mi.
tia for public service, such draft shall
be made in the following manner
Frst-Wheo the draft required to be
made shall be . number equal to one or
more companies to each Brigade, such
draft shall be made by company, to be,
termined by lot, to be drawn by the
Commandaot Of Brigade, in presence of
the commanding officers OF the regi-
nents composing said Brigade, from the
military forces eft the State in b Brig
ade, 9organized, uniformed, armed and
equipped according to the provisions OF
this Act.
Secoad-1n case such draft shall re-.
quire number equal to one regiment,
such shall be determined by lot in the
manner above described.
Zhird-1n case such draft shall re.
quire . larger number than the whole
number of men composing the Volun.
teer Militia Of said Brigade, such add
tional draft shall be made Of an equal
number from the Reserved Militia.
Such draft shall be determined by lot,
to be drawn by the Clerk in whose Of
fee said writ shall have been filed, in
the presence of the Commandant Of the
Regiment within the bounds of which
such persons may reside, and upon his
requisition.
SUBSTITUTES.
Sec. 80. Any person so drafted in
accordance with the above provisions,
may offer substitute at the time and
place OF the rendezvous Of euch drafted
militia, and such substitute, If he shall
be an able-bodicd man Of the age Of
twenty.one years, and shall consent in
writing to subject himself to all the du.
ties, fines, forfcitures and punishments to
which his principal would have been sub
ject had he personally served, shall be
accepted by the Commandant OF the
Company Of drafted militia to which his
principal may belong.
ORDERING OUT IN CASE OF WAR.
SEC. SO. In case Of war, alarm, inva-
sion, insurrection, or to rcpel invasion,
The Commander-in- Chief is hereby au-
,hor'zed and required to order out from
time to time for &C ual service, by draft
or otherwise, as many Of the Militia As
the necessity. Of the case may or shall
demand.
FAILURE TO APPEAR DEEMED DESERTlON.
SEC. 80. Every soldier ordered ont,
volunteered or drafted, who shall not
appear at the time and place designated,
or who shall not have some able bodied
aud proper substitute at such time and
place, within at least twenty.four hours
from such time, shall be taken to bsve
deserted, and be dealt With accordingly !;
aid each non-cemmissioned officer aud
soldier shall take With him provisions
for not less than three days when 30 or
dered out.
DocToRs' CERTIFICATES OF NO AVAIL.
From the Albany Evening Joulnal.l
We are requested BY the Surgeon
General to state s'lhat doctors' cert,fi-
cate Of disability" will be of no avail ex-
ccpt for mere State service. Under the
order from the War Department every
b.dy, within certain ages-~ 'thout ref.