Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-06-09
The Coming Dran


The Coming DRAFT.
Ihe instructions issued to the Provost
Marshals By the War Department reouire
that enrolling officers, under the couserin.
ton law, are to enroll oil persons subject
to military duty whether white or black,
and to note their ages, residences. color
and occupations. They must include. first.
all able-bodisd males between the ages of
twenty and forty FIVE, not exempt BY law.
ano' second, all persons Of foreign birth
who shall have declared their intention tor
become citizens.
The enrolment Of the two classes fbe.-
tween twenty and thirty-6ve, With nnmar.--
ried persons, and, second, all otbersl must
be kept on separate sheets, but made az
the same time. Students in colleges or
schools, teachers, apprentices, sailors, tray
ellers, travelling merchants, and the like,
are to be enrolled at their legal residence
their temporary absence from which forms
no -eS1re for exemption. EnrelEng officers
as to Jueseof age by the best evidence
they saR obtain; but appeals for exemp.
ton on account of age may always be made
to the board.
whenever any part of the forces thds
enrolled are to be called out, the Provost
Marshal General shall notify each district
provost marshal Of his proportion, with
| specific instructions as to the subdivisions.
The board shall then make the apportiop.
ment to the sub-districts, and shall add f;ftv
per cent. thereto.
What follows is embraced in the follow
ing regulations:
70. The bOa:d shall make an exact and
complete roll OF the names of the persona
GRATED, and the order in which they were
drawn, SO that the first drawn may stand
hrst on the said roll, and the second NAV
stard second. and so on. The draft shall
take place at the headquarters of the dis
trict. 1t shall be public, and under the
direction of the board Of enrolment. The
name Of each person enrolled shall be slac.
ed IN box TO be provided for the purpose.
and the provost marshal, or some person
designated by him, the drawer to be blind
toided,) shall draw therefrom one name AT
time untll.Ibs required humber is OBJ
tanned.
"A. The exact and complete roll of the
names OF persons drawn n tho draft shall
be entered by the board in a book to be
kept for that purpose, ruled aud beaded 10
correspond with the descriptive roll of
drafted mer.
80 The number required to gil the call
III be taken from this roll, by commence
ing at the First name, and taking in order.
until the required number is obtained, all
who are not. by the board, decided to be
accepted ami exempt under the provisions
of the enr, limPnt act.
80 The names If the men thus called
into service will lie entered on "descriptiye
rolls" lin triF cate signed By the board
One copy of this roll will be sent to the
Provost Marshal General direct, one COW
to the Acting Assistant Provost Marshal
General Of the State, and ene will be re-
tanned by the provost marshal.
-. Certified extracts FROM this descr;,-
tive roll shall be made in duplicate by he
provost marshal for every party of drafted
m'n sent Of, and sent with the party TO
the ofhcer to whom the party is be deliver.
60. Ooe copy is to be retained by the
theer, and the other is to be returned with
receipt for the party as delivered 10 him
on the back The returned cory will ae-
Company the provost marsbaPs moutlhy
report TO She Provost Marshal General.
fS. The board shall note on rcll book of
the drafted men, in the column of remarkn-
opposite each mans name, the disposition
made OF him-Thether called into service
and sent to the rendezvous, exempted hv
the board, replaced by a substitute, com
muted for, deserted or discharged. az not
being required.
az. The substitute whom anT drafted
person is authorized, 10y section Is of the
enrolment act, to furnish must be present
ed to the board Of enrolment; and it shan
be the duty of the board to examine BIN.
AID IT accepted, TO place his name on the
hook Of pers ms drafted, with explanatory
remarks. His name will then be trsn~
scl5ed on the descriptive rolls of men cal.
led into the service.
so. Certificates Of exemption from the
draft by reason of having provided a sub
-stitute, or having paid Computation monsv.
shall be furnished by the board of enroll,
ment according to form 81 A DISCHARGE
from draft furnishes no exemption from
any subsequent draft. except that when a
person drafted has furnished en- acceptabIe
substitute, and has received a certi6eate of
discharge from preceding draft, be shall
be held exemnt from military duty during
the time for which he had been drafted.
and for which such substitute was furn.
ished.
81. The board shall furnish discharge
from further liabilities uuder the particu-
lar draft to any drafted person who pre-
sents a bona Jfde receipt for the sum an
nouncee 10 orders for procuring sutsstitu-
ties from the persons authorized by the Sec
.etary Of War to receive it.
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