The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-12-24
The Amendments 10 the Con.
ScripliOn Act.
Sen HtOr wilson's Amendment i'm Full

"A act 10 amend an act entlIleu An |
Act for Enrolling and Calling Out
the National Forces, and for other
purposes" Approved March Sd,
1863. ..- .
Be it enacted blythe Senate and House
of Representatives Of the United States
Of America, in Congress assembled, That
the President is hereby authorized,
whenever he shall deem it necessary, |
to call upon the several States for such |
numbers of men for the military ser
vice Of the United States as the cXi-
gencies Of the country may require.
Section 2. And be it further enacted,
That if any State shall fail to furnish,
within the time designated by the
President, the number of men requi-
red therefrom, the Provost Marshal of
the District within which any ward of
a city, town, or township, or county,
when the same is not divided into
wards, towns or townships, which is
deficient in its quota is situated, shall
under orders of the Provost Marshal
General, make draft for the number
deficient therefrom; but all volunteers
who may enlist after the draft is order
ed, and before it is actually made, shall
be deducted from the number ordered
to be drafted.
Section 3. And be it further enacted,
That section three of the act entitled
"Ap Act for enrolling and calling out
the national forces, and for other pur-
poses," approved March 3, 1863, be,
and the same is hereby repealed, and
it shall be the duty of the Board Of En-
rollment of each district to consolidate
the two classes provided for in third
section of said act.
Section A. And be 1t further enacted,
That any person enrolled under the
provisions of the act approved March,
3, 1868, entitled can Act for enrolling
and calling out the national forces, and
for other purposes" may furnish at
any time an acceptable substitute, and
he shall be exempted f'om draft during
the time for which such substitute has
been accepted.
Section 5. And be it further enacted,
That Provost Marshals, Boards of En-.
roIlment, or any member thereof, shall
have power to summon witnesses and
enforce their attendance by an attach
mcnt in any case pending before them
or either of them, and the same wit
ness fees and costs shall be allowed as
may be allowed in the Courts of the
I United States, and to administer oaths
and affirmations and any person who
shall swear or affirm falsely before any
Provost Marshal or Board of Enroll.
mont, or before any civil magistrate,
to any affidavit to be used in any case
pending before any Provost Marshal
or Board of Enrolment shall, on con-
viction, be fined not exceeding $500,
and imprisoned not less than six
months nor more than twelve months.
Section 6. And be it further enacted,
t That copies ofany record Of n Provost
Marshal or Board of Enrolment, or OF
: any part thereof certified to as correct
by the Provost Marshal, or majority
of said Board of Enrolment, shall be
f deemed and taken as evidence in any
} civil or military Court, in like manner
as the original record and that the
, person or persons certifying to the
correctness of such record, who shall
: knowingly make or certify to Il false
1 copy or copies of such record shall be
: subject to the pains and penalties o.
. perjury.
Section 7. And be il further cadctcd
. That all claims to exemption shall be
, verified by the oath of the party to the
!, truth of the facts stated, if within his
, personal knowledge, and to his belle
!, in their truth if not within his per
!, sonal knowledge; and tho testimony
:, of any other party filed in support OF
!, claim to exemption shall so be under
!, oath.
: Section s. And be it FURTHER enacted
: That if any person drafted and liabl,
,, to render military service shall pro
j. euro decision Of the Commissioners
t, in his favor upon claim to exemption
t, or n discharge from the EXaminin.
l, Surgeon, procured by any fraud prac
|, ticcd by himself or by any other per
son, with his knowledge and consent
o or by any false statement or rcprescn
1t tation wilfully made by himself, O
d any other person with his knowlcdg
|. and consent, with the intent to cvad
military service, or by giving or agree
+ ing to give to the Provost Marshal o
\, any Of his Deputies, or either Of tn
" Commissioners, or the Examining Sur
~ goon, or to any other person for thei
use or benefit, directly or indirectly
any bribc, pecuniaiy consideration O
ID other induccmcnt, or by holding out G
of offering to them any gain or advantag
n of any kind, such decision or discharg
III shall be of no effect, and the person 5
o. discharged, or in whose favor the d,
of cision is made shall be deemed a d,
in scrtcr, and may be arrested, tried by
IS Court-marshal, and punished as sucl
" and shall be held to service for the tu
of term for which he was drafted, reckon
at ing from the time of his arrest.
~ Section 8. And be it FURTHER cndcte
9 That any person who shall procure, {
ed attempt to procure, the discharge |
nv the Examining Surgeon Of any persc
~ drafted and liable to render service,
Y n decision IN favor of such person
ce tho Commissioners upon claim
,c- exemption by any such means, sha
CD upon conviction in any District or Ci