Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1863-05-14
The New COnscripti0n LaW-llOW
ii will be Enforced.

lhe appointments Ol pTo'os1 m"ioh
throughout the United States to carry
out the enrolment bill will be made as
rapidly as possible. There will be one,
for every congressional district, and
when the district is very large two or
three will be appointed, as the case may
require. In ad dition for each eistrlct'
there will also be one civilian and one
surgeon of cavalry, except the rations,
ETC., leaving about $113 per month";
This will constitute the enrolling board,
whose duty it is to divide each district
into subdivisions, and to appoint for
each an enrolling officer, whose special
duty it will be make the enrolment.
Immediately after his appoin m mt,
the enrolling officer of each sub-distrlct
to proceed to make the enrolment in
such mannor that each class shall be en-
rolled separately and the age of the per-
son enrolled is to be set down on the lIst
as it will be on the 1st day of July sue
ceeding the date of the enrolment
That is, if any person not now twenty,
but will be on the 1st of July next, he
is to be placed on the list; or if any
married man is not thirty-fve now, but
will be on the 1st of July next. he is
not to 20 in the first class, but in the
second class; or if any person liable to
duty is not now forty five years of age,
but will be on the 1st day of July next,
he is not to be placed on the first at all
All persons thus enrolled are to be
subject to military duty for two years
from the first day Of July after the en-
rollment, and if called into the service
shall con ntinuc during the rebellion,
but not to exceed three years. But the
persons of the second class shall not in
any district, be called into the service
of the United States until those of the
| first class shall have been called. When
ever the President shall make rcqusl-
ton he is authorized to ass ign to each
district the number of men o be furnish
ed, and then the enrolling board sh all
make draft of the required number,
and fifty per cent. adtitional; and shall
make complete roll in the order in
which the names are drawn. The draf-
ted men are to stand on the same foot
ing with the three years volunteer, in
respect to advance pay and bounties as
now provided by law; and the President,
in assigning the required number to
each district, is authorized to max C al,
lowance in respect to the numbers alrca,
dy furni he'd by such district during the
war.
After the draft is made each pcrser
whose name is drawn is to be noticed il
writing within ten days, and he is tt
repair to a designated place of rendez
vous, but before the day Of assembling
he may furnish substitute. or he may
pay to such a person as the Secretary Of
| War shall select, sum of money in lieu
of substitute, which sum is made uni
form by a general order, and is not 10
exceed three huodred dollars. Every
person failing to report in person, or by
procuring a substitute, or by paying a
stipulated sum, is to be deemed dcser.
| ter.
Many persons are still of the opinion
that the conscript act, has passed by the
last Congress, is the same as that enfor-
ced by the rebels. This is not SO, as
there is a wide difference. The rebel act
takes aN persons between certain ages,
leaving none behind, while our bill mere
ly takes the required quota out of the
whole number en-. oiled. Thus there
might be in one district $1,000 persons
between the ages of twenty and thirty
five years enrolled as liable to military
duty, and the quota required might be
only two or three thousand, which would
still leave majority at home. The
rebels, on the contrary. take all they can
lay hands upon, whether old or youLg