The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-07-24
APPREHENSION AND DELIVERY OF DEsERrERs.

Every possible effort must be made by tho
Provost Marshal to arrest all deserters withir
his district, and he must receive and hold al
deserters presented to him by other parties. The
five dollars reward for the delivery of desert
is to be paid just as soon as he is satisfied thai
the person presented is deserter, 80 that those
bringing deserters may receive their rewards as
surely and promptly as possible. Where there
is military station in the immediate vicinity
deserters will be sent to ii at once. If such sta
tions are remote, they will be sent tri-monthly
or otiener if there be more than five on hand al
any intermediate period. A special guard may
be employed, when military one is not procu
rable, to accompany the prisoners for which
they shall be paid dollar day and expenses,
if they deliver the prisoner safely-otherwise
nothing. Persons who are drafted, duly noti-
fled, But fail to report or furnish substitute
or pay for one, are to be treated as deserters
Finally, Provost Marshals are warned against
improper or unwarrantable arrests, and urged
to special care on that point.
SPIES
Are to be arrested as deserters, and forthwith
turned over to the General commanding the de-
partment.
ENROLMENT
Is to be begun, under the orders Of the Board,
as speedily as possible. Assessors are to be gen.
orally preferred for enrolling officers One is to
be appointed from each sub-district, and the
Board may take as many of these as it deems
necessary having generally but one for each
sparseiy settled county, and one in each ward
Of city, or township of a populous county.
Enrolling officers are to enroll all persons sub
ject to military duty, achetter chite or black, and
to note their ages, residences, color and occu-
pations They must include, first, all able-bod.
led males between the ages of twenty and forty
five, not exempt by law; and second, all per-
sons of foreign birth who shall have declared
their intentions to become citizens
The enrolment of the two classes (between
twenty and thirty-fve, with unmarried persons,
and second, all others) must be kept on separate
sheets, but made at the same time. Students
in colleges schools, teachers, apprentices, sail
ors, travellers, travelling merchants and the like,
are to be enrolled at their legal residence, their
temporary absence from which forms no cause
fos exemption. Enrolling officers are to judge
OF age by fae best evidence they can oatsiu, but
appeals from exemption on account of age may
always be made to the Board.
DRAFTS.
WhssaSssr any puEt-of the forces thus enroll
ed are to be called out, the Provost Marshal
General shall notify each District Provost Mar
shal of his proportion, with specific instructions
as to the subdivisions The Board shall then
make the apportionment to the sub-districts,
and shall add fifty per cent. thereto.
What follows is embraced in the following
regulations:
70. The Board shall make an exact and COM
plete roll of the names of the persons drafted,
and of the order in which they were drawn, so
that the first drawn may stand first on the said
roll, and the second may stand second, and SO on.
The draft shall take place at the headquarters
of the district. 1t shall be public, and under
the direction of the Board of Enrolment Tile
name of each person shall be placed in box to
be provided for the purpose, and the Provost
Marshal, or some person designated by him,
ithe drawer to be blindfoldeD shall draw there
from one name at time until the required
number is obtained.
"a. The exact and complete roll of the names
of persons drawn in the draft shall be entered
by the Board in book for the purpose, ruled
and headed to correspond with the descriptive
roll Of drafted men.-(Form 34)
rs The number required to fill the call will
be taken from this roll, by commencing at the
first name, and taking in order, until the requir
ed number is obtained, all who are not, by the
Board, decided to be excepted and exempt un-
der the provisions of the Enrolment Act.
e Al II
service will be entered on descriptive rolls" !"
lin triplicate) signed by the Board One copy
of this roll win be sent to the Provost Marshal
General direct, one copy to the Acting Assistant
Provost Marshal General of the State, and one
will be retained by the Provost Marshal.
n. Certified extracts from this descriptive
roll shall be made IN duplicate by the Provost
Marshal for every party of drafted men sent off,
and sent with the party to the officer to whom
the party is to be delivered. One copy is to bc
retained by this officer, and the other is to be
returned, with receipt for the party as deliv-
cred to him on the back The returned copy
will accompany the Provost Marshars monthly
report to the Provost Marshal General.
rs. The Board shall note on the roll book Of
drafted men, in the column of remarks, oppo-
site each mans name, the disposition made of
him-whcther called into service and sent to the
rendezvous, exempted by the Board, replaced
by substitute, commuted for, deserted or dis
charged as not being required.
ID. The substitute whom any drafted person
is authorized, by section l3 of the Enrolment
Act to furnish, must be presented to the Board
of Enrolment; and it shall be the duty of the
Board to examine him, and, if accepted, to
place his name on the book of persons drafted,
with explanatory remarks. His name will then
be transcribed on the descriptive rolls of men
called into service.
80. Certificates of exemption from the draft,
by reason of having provided substitute, or
having paid communication money, shall be fur
nished by the Board of Enrolment according
to form 81 A discharge from one draft fnr-
nishes no exemption from any subsequent draft,
except that when the person drafted has fur