New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-05-09
NATIONAL MILITIA ENROLLING. ACT
A PROCLAMATION BY TIE PRESIDENT
HIS CONSTRUCTION OF THE LAW
PLEA OF AIIENsGE NOT TO BIZ RECEIVED
Aliens Refusing to Serve Must Leave INC
Country in Sixty-ivt Days.
N, m. rre.iden, Of the United states Of
America. .

WASHINGTON. Friday, May 9, 1862
us..xo. The Congress Of the United States at
;ts Isss session enacted law entitled An Act for
Enrolling and Ostiing Out the National Forces ana
far other PURPOSES" which was approved on the Sd
day of March lssti and
Whereas 1t il recited an the said act that there
now exists IN she United States insurrection ana
rebellion ag3nst the scthority thereof, ano u TO-
under the Constitution of the United States Tue
duty of the Gogernment to suppress insurrecuo a"'
yehellion. 10 guarantee TO each State Repuorcan
form of Government and TO preserve tne Puo''
tranquility; and
Whereas, For there high purposes nnhtsr! io'eo
is Indispensable, 10 raise and support winch Oh
persons ought willingly to contribute; ana
Whereas. No service can be more prsiseworlhy sno
houovhle than tina; which is rendered for the ms-n-
tensy,e of the Constitution and the Union, and The
.ony, ,neut preservation of free government; ann
B1ber,as For the reasons thus reclted, 1t was en-
sei.1 Inv the said statute that all able bodied male
citizens of the United States and persons OF foreign
h,th who shall beYe declared Oh oath their inten'
TORS TO become citizens under add in pursuance OF
the laws thereof, between the ages OF " and Il
wears with certain exceptions not necessary to b'
here mentioned, and declared te consulate tbe Ma
toua forces and shall be liable TO perform miiIar,
auty in the service of the LATED States W Ell
called out by the President fer that purpose and
Whereas. 1t is claimed aud IN be
half of persons of foreign brit
within the ages specified in SAID act who baVe here
tofore decsced on oath their intentions 10 become
c.tzeus under and in pursuance OF the laws OF I'M
limited States and Who have not exercised the righ
Of suffrage or any other POLITICAL franchise unde
the laws OF the United States, or OF an!
o. the States thereof, are not absolute
ly concluded by their aforesaid declaration
of intention from renolncing their purpose 10 be
come citizens, and that. on the contrary such per
sous under treaties or the law Of nations retain
right to renounce tina. purpose aud 10 iOrego the
privilege of citizenship and residence within th'
United States usder the obligations imposed by the
aforesaid act of Congress,
Nov, therefore, to AVOID all misrepresentation
concerning the liability of persons concerned 10 per
form the service required by such enactment, and tc
give it fall effect, do hereby order and proclaim
that no pea Of aensge will be received or allowed
10 exemp. from the obligations imposed BY
the aforesaid act OF Congress, any person
Of foreign birth who stall have declared
OR oath his intention 70 become d citizen OF tn
United Slater under the laws thereof and who sha
be found within the United States at any time durin
the continuance of the present insnrrection Az
rebellion, at OF after the expiration of the period
sixty-fge days from the date of this Proclamation
nor shall any such plea of alienage be allowed !
favor Of any such person who has go as sforesai
declared bis intention TO become citizen OF tb
United States and shall have exercised at any tim
the right of suffrage, or any other political hanchis
within the United States. nnder the laTs thereof,
under the laws Of any of the several States.
In witness Whereof have hereunto set my zeal
and caused the seal Of the United States to be at
fixed
Done at the City of Washington, this eighth day
of May, in the year of our Lord 1868, aud OF the
Independence Of the United States the Eighty
seventh. ABRAHAM LiNCoLN'
WILLIAM H. SEWARD Secretary Of State.