Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-05-30
MOrtester 4ailp SPY.
THE DAILY SPY.
The Military ENROLMENT

1AS
The board of enrolment for this congress.
sona district, acting under orders from
Washington, have issued the following in.
structons to the enrolling officers =
LIST. The enrolling officers before entering
upon their duties shall take an oath duly ad-
ministered and witnessed that he will perform
faithfully, without parliality, favor, or affec-
ton, all the duties of this office as enrolling
officer OF the sub-diStrict to which he is APP.
pointed, and that he will obey all lawful in
structlOns of the board of enrolment; which
oath must be forwarded without delay to the
board OF enrolment, directed to SAMUEL V.
STONE, provost marshal, Worcester, Mass.
I'd. The enrolling officer of each sub-dis-
trict shall immediately upon subscribing the
oath proceed to enroll all persons subject to
military duty under the provisions of the act
for enrolling and calling out the national
forces. He shall note their respective places
OF residence, their ages as they will be upon
the first day Of July, 1868, their color, wheth-
er white or black, and their occupations, re-
spectively.
Sd. Who shall be Enrolled.-The enroll
ment, so tar as you are concerned, must in
clude all male persons between the ages of
twenty and fOrty-five. In the case of any
PNiS'ii canning CASihpllOll Ol lLC STOuUu Oh
alienage, enroll his name, and under the head
of remarks" state your belief from what
yon have known or heard, whether or not lie
has filed his declaration of intention to be-
come a citizen. So of other cases of exemp,
ton. Enroll ALL, informing persons claiming
exemption that this board will determine,
when such persons shall be presented before
1t III pursuance of the law, whether or not
they are subject to military duty.
4th. The persons thus enrolled must be di-
vided into two classes. viz =
First ClasS-All persons subject to do mill
tary duty between the ages of twenty and
thirty-tive years of age, and all unmarried
persons subject to do military duty above
the age Of thirty five, and under the age of
forty-tive.
Second ClaSS-All other persons subject to
do military duty. Crhis second class shall
not in any district be called into the service
of the United States until those of the first
class have been called.
5th. The enrolment of each class shall be
made separately on sheets by itself, (accord.
ing to forms furnished) but the enrolment In
both classes shall be carried on at the same
time.
9th. The enrolling officers shall write Gin
the column of remarks) against the names
of all persons who are obviously disabled
for military service, by reason OF the loss
OF limb, sight, total deafness, or any other
manifest disability, the nature of such disa-
bility.
It'll Persons having their legal domcl
within any district are not exempt from en-
rollment therein by reason of temporary alb
sence therefrom. Students in colleges or
schools, teachers, apprentices, sailors, trav-
elers, travelling merchants and similar classes
Of citizens, must be enrolled in the district in
which they have their respective domicils.
Persons now in the service must also be en-
rolled, stating in what regiment, in the col
umn offormer military service.
Sth. The enrolling officer is to judge of the
ages of individuals By the best information he
can obtain in such case, but always to make a
decision as to whether the person in question
is subject to enrolment, and if so, in what
class, and to enroll him accordingly. If ANY
doubt exists in the minds of the enrolling Of
fcer, in all cases let it be decided in favor of
the government, and enroll the person; also,
if any doubt exists It's to which class the per-
son belongs. in all cases enroll in the FIRST
class. The board aCiU decide exemptions on
account of age, When brought before 1t, under
the TAR, by the persons enrolled
9th. In the city of Worcester the enrolling
officers are required to submit their lists, as
far as completed, daily. Aud in all other dis
tricts the lists as far as completed must be
sent in twice a week, on Wednesdays and Sat-
days. By instructions from the provost mar
sinai general, the, enrolling officers are requir-
ed to give ''instant and energetic labor until
the work of enrolment is completed.
10th. Enrolling officers in the several sub
districts will, if possible, procure copy of
the state enrolment of last year (1862),
which they will examine carefully, and COM
pare with their own enrolment list, to ascer-
tain if they have made any omissions of per-
sons who should be enrolled, and also COM
pare the return of AGES and see if they agree
with the statement of age upon tile list of last
year They will also, where it is possible,
obtain access to the assessors lists of the pres
ent year, for the purpose of correcting any
omissions that may thereby be discovered in
their own enrolment. As many persons will
undoubtedly attempt to avoid enrolment the
greatest care, diligence, and circumspection
should be exercised, to prevent anv person
liable to military duty under the act, from es-
Gaping enrolment.
Ilth Enrolling officers will make state
ment in writing of the case of any person
within his district, who they have any reason
to suppose belongs in the military service of
the United States, and are absent from said
service without right; the statement to be
forwarded Immediately to the provost marshal
of this district, naming, if possible, the regi-
ment and company to which the soldier is sup
posed to belong.