Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-29

! suance of any law of the United States or re-
QUESTION of the President, be drafted as sol
| der, shall when so drafted be. deemed to be IN
the actual service of the United States, and
shall be thereupon subject to the rules and ar
ticles of war in the same manner as though
he had been mustered into the service OF the
United States.
Fifth. The drafted militia brought into the
service of the United States by authority OF
this act shall be placed in all respects upon II
footing with the troops authorized by the 18th
section of the act approved July 18th, 1862.
Sixth. Every person not subject to the
rules and articles of war who shall procure or
entce any soldier in the service of the United
States to desert, or who shall harbGr, con-
ceal, or give employment to deserter or
carry HIM away, or aid in carrying him away,
knowing him to be such, or who shall pur-
chase from any soldier his arms, equipments,
uniform, ammunition, clothing, or any part
thereof, or any captain or commander of any
ship or vessel carrying away such soldier as
one of his crew, or otherwise, knowing him to
have deserted, or who shall refuse to deliver
him up to the orders of his commanding Otii-
Ger, shall, upon legal conviction, be fined at
the discretion of any court having cognizance
of the same any sum not exceeding five hun
bred dollars, and shall be imprisoned not eX-
ceeding two years nor less than six months
Seventh, Whenever a single regiment of
volunteers or of the militia of the same arm
from the same state is reduced to one halt of
the maximum number prescribed by law, the
president may direct the consolidation OF the
companies OF such regiment, provided that no
company so formed shall exceed the maxi
mum number prescribed by law. When such
consolidation is made the regimental officers
shall be reduced in proportion to the number
of companies.
Eighth, Whenever a regiment is reduced
below the maximum number allowed by law,
no more officers shall be appointed in such
regiment beyond those necessary for the COM
mand of such reduced number.
Ninth, So much of The 9TH section of the act
approved July 18th, 1862, entitled an act to
amend an act calling forth the militia to exc
cute the laws of the union, &C., as require the
consent of the president to carry into eXecu-
ton the sentence of a court martial, be and
the same is hereby repealed, as far as the
same extends to the punishmenttor desertion,
and sentences for that offence may be carried
into execution upon the approval of the COM
handing general of an army in the field
Tenth, Immediately after the passage of
this act the president shall issue his proCla-
nation declaring that all soldiers absent from
their regiment without leave may return to
such place or places as he may indicate in his
proclamation, and be restored to their respec-
tive regiments without punishment, except
the forfeiture of their pay and allowances
during their absence, and all deserters who
may not return within the time SO specified
by the president, shall upon being arrested be
punished as the law provides.
Eleventh. Courts martial shall have pow
er to sentence officers who shall abs ent them
selves from their companies without leave, to
be reduced to the ranks, TO serve three years
or during the war.
Twelfth, If any person shall resist any
draft of the militia men into the service of the
United States, or shall counsel or aid any
person in resisting any such draft, or shall as
sault or obstruct any officer in making such
draft, or shall counsel any person to assault
or obstruct any such officer, and shall cause
any drafted men not to appear at the place of
rendezvous, such person shall, upon convic-
ton thereof, be punished by fine not eX-
ceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprison-
ment not exceeding two years, Or by both of
| said punishments.