Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1863-11-27

| the field, or to be organized under the 18th
section of chapter 10 of the General Stat
utes, as he may order at the time of such
draft. M -
SEC. 2. The selectmen of each town
and the common councilmen Of each city
in this State, shall enter upon the book con-
tanning the record Of the board of enroll
ment made in such town or city, against the
name of each person, when he shall ar
rive at the age Of forty-fve years, with the
words forty-fve years of age y; and shall
also draw red line across the name of such
person upon said record and shall also
cote upon the margin. the death of any
person thus enrolled, stating the time when
such death occurred, at the same time eras-
ing the name Of such deceased person from
such record Of enrolment, by red line
drawn across the same, and said selectmen
and common councilmen shall, from time to
time, as the cases occur, draw red line
across the name of every enrolled person
who had been, or may hereafter be drafted,
either under the laws of this State or Of
Congress, aud gone into the service. or pro-
cured a substitute, or paid the commuialion
required by law, and statement of the
fact shall be entered on the margin against
the name Of such person, and shall, forth
with, after making such erasures and en-
| tries, transmit to the Adjutant General
copy of the same; and in all cases where
substitutes for drafted men are accepted, if
enrolled in any town or city in this Slate, a
minute report on the margin of such record
of enrolment shall be made, showing such
! substitution, a copy of which shall forthwith
| be transmitted to the Adjutant General,
and the discharge nj all persons from the
military service, shall be noted upon the
margin of such record against the name of
such returned person.
SIC. 3. The sum of one dollar required
by section AZ of chapter ITO, shall be by
the medical board repaid TO said applicant
for examination, in case such applicant shall
receive from such board his certificate oil ex-
emption.
Sec. A. IF such selectmen or common
councilmen shall neglect or refuse to per-
form the duties named in section two of this
act, they shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars
for each neglect, to be recovered in any
proper action TO be commenced by the Ad-
jutant and Inspeeto. General, and in his
name.
SEC. 5. Section twelve of chapter one
hundred and ten of the General Statutes,
is hereby repealed.
SEC. 6. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
: Approved, Nov. II, 1868.
No. IAN ACT explanatory of section
, forty-six, of chapter one hundred and ten
of the General Statutes, relating TO the
Militia.
4 Hhereds, there is some uncertainty as TO
the reservation contained in section forty
six, of chapter one hundred and ten of the
General Statutes, Therefore,
Ii is hereby enacted, &c.
SEC. /. That said section shall be so
: construed as TO reserve and keep in force
the office of Judge Advocate General, SO
long as the troops of this State shall remain
: in the United States service, and the duty
of such officer shall be to perform such SER
: vice on courts martial, and in reference
S thereto, as the Commander-in-C Chief shall
direct.
!, SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved, Nov. z, 1868.
=
a No. SAN ACT in amendment of section
ten of chapter one hundred and ten OF
d the General Statutes.
IL is hereby enacted, &c.
r SEC. /. Section ten. of chapter one hun
: dred and ten of the General Statutes. is
d hereby amended so as TO read as follows:
: Any person claiming 10 be exempt by
y reason of being conscientiously scrupuious
: of bearing arms. shall be exempt from draft
by paying into the town or city treasury
n where he resides, on the day when any
draft is ordered, and before such drafting
shall have commenced, as an equivalent,
the sum of three hundred dollars, and by
4 filing with the clerk of such town or city,
d ar affidavit by him subscribed, and TO which
he shall make oath or affirmation, stating
that he is conscentiously scrupulous OF bear
ing arms" ar
r SIC. 2. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
: Approved, Nov. 10, 1868.
y No. 9.--AN ACT to restore and extend the
jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace, IN
u certain criminal prosecutions.
70 is hereby enacted, &c.
SEC. 1. All prosecutions of criminal
nature, for any Of the offences described in
n sections five and seven of chapter ninety
/ three, and in sections thirty-fve. thirty
l. eight, fifty, fity-two and ffty-six Of chapter
If one hundred ard thirteen, and in sections
one, ten and eleven, of chapter one hun
dred and sixteen, of the General Statutes,
e may be tried and determined by any justice
}, of the peace within the County where the
n offence il committed. And any justice be-
e fore whom such prosecution is tried, may