The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-06-10
THE CONsCRIPTION ACT.
Instructions Issued to the Provost Mar
shdLs.

Marshals by tne war department. require
that enrolling officers, under the conscrip-
ton law, are to enroll all persons subject
to military duty, whether white or black,
and to note their ages, residences, color
and occupation. They must include, FIRST
all able-bodied males between the ages
oftwenty and forty-fve, and exempt by
law; and, second, all persons of foreign
birth who shall! have declared their inten-
ton to become citizens.
The enrolment of the two classes be-
tween twenty and thirty-fve, with un-
married persons, and, second, all others)
must be kept on separate sheets, but made
at the same time. Students in colleges
or schools, teachers, apprentices, sailors,
travellers, travelling merchants, and the
like are to be enrolled at their legal resi-
dence, their temporary absence from
which forms no cause for exemption
Enrolling officers are to Judge of age by
the best evidence they can obtain; but
appeals for exemption on account of age
may always be made to the board.
Whenever any part of the forces thus
enrolled arc to be called out, the Provost
Marshal General shall notify each District
Provost Marshal of his proportion, with
specific instructions as to the sub-dvi-
sions. The board shall then make the
apportionmenL to the sub-districts, and
shall add fifty per cent. thereto.
What follows is embraced in the fol-
lowing regulations:
"E3. The board shall make an exact
and complete roll of the names of the per-
sons drafted, and of the order in which
they were drawn, so that the first drawn
may stand first on the said roll, and the
second may stand second, and so on
The draft shall take place at the head
quarters of the district. 1t shall be pub
lie. and under the direction of the Board
of Enrolment The name of each
person enrolled shall be placed in n
box to be provided for the purpose, and
the Provost Marshal or some person TO
be designated by him (the drawer to be
blindfolded), shall draw therefrom one
name at time until the required num-
Der is obtained.
"74. The exact ard complete roll of
the names of persons drawn in the draft
shall be entered by the board in n book
to be kept for that purpose, ruled and
headed to correspond with the descriptive
roll of drafted men.
"75. The number required to Gil the
call will be taken from this roll, by COM
mencing at the first name, and taking in
order until the required number is OBJ
tanned, all who are not, by the board, de.
cided to be accepted and exempt under
the provisions of the enrolment act.
"76. The names of the men thus call.
ed into service will be entered on de-
scriptive rolls Tin triplicate), signed by
the board. One copy of this roll will be
sent to the Provost Marshal General di
rect, one copy to the Acting Assistant
Provost Marshal General OF the State
and one will be retained by the Provost
Marshal
al. Certified extracts from this de
scriptive roll shall be made in duplicate
by the Provost Marshal for every party
of drafted men sent off, and sent with the
party to the officer to whom he is to bt
delivered. One copy is to be retained by
this officer, and the other is to be return
ed with a receipt for the party as delivered
to him on the back. The returned copy
will accompany the Provost Marshal
monthly reports to the Provost Marsha
General.
as. The board shall note on the rol
book of drafted men, in the column of re
marks opposite each mans name, tn