The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-04-11
The New Consumption law
How it will be Enforced.

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 oil
three will be appointed, as the case may
require. In addition for each district,
there will a SO be one civilian and one
surgeon, to. be paid as assis ant surgeon OF
cavalry, except the rations, &c, leaving
about Sll3 per month. This will con-
stitute the enrolling board, whose duty
it is to divide each district into subdivi-
sions, and to appoint for each an enroll
ing officer, whose special duty it will be
to make the enrolment.
Immediately after his appointment, the
enrolling officer of each sub-district is
to proceed to make the enrolment in such
manner that each class shall be enrolled
separately, and the age of the person
enrolled is to be set down on the list as
it will be on the first day of July sue
ceeding the date of the enrolmcnt.-
That is, If any person not now twenty,
but will be on the first of July next, he
is to be placed on the Iist; or if any
married man is not thirty-fve now, but
will be on the first of July next, he is
not TO 90 in the first class, but in the
second class or if any person liable to
duty is not now fort -fve years of
age, but will be on the irst day of July
next, he Is not to be placed on the list
at all.
All persons thus enrolled are to be
subject to military duty for two years
from the fist day Of July after the en-
rollnent, and ii called into the service
shall continue during the rebellion, but
not to exceed three years. But the per.
sons of the second class shall no in any
district, be called into the service of he
United Sta cs until those of the frs
class shall have been called. Whenever
the President shall make a requisltion
he is authorized to assign to each district
he number of men to be furnished, and
then the enrolling board shall make Il
draft of the required number, and fifty
per cent. additional and shall make a
complete roll in the order in which the
names are drawn. The drafted men are
to stand on the same footing with the
three years. volun GERS, in respect to
advance pay and bounies as now provi-
dcd by law and the PRECEDENT, in as
signing the required number to each dis
rict, is authorized to make allowance in
respect to the numbers already furnished
by such district during the war.
After the draft is made each person
whose name is drawn is to be notified in
writing within ten days, and he is to re-
pair to a designated place of rendezvous
but before the day of assembling he may
furnish a substitute, Or he may pay to
such person as the Secretary Of War
shall select, n sum of money in lieu of II
subs ute, which sum is made uniform
by general order, and is not to exceed
three hundred dollars. Every person
failing to report in person, or by procnr-
ing substitute, or by paying a stipula-
ted sum, is to be deemed deScrter.
Many persons are still of ,hc opinion
that the conscript act, as passed by the
last Congress, is the same as that ell
forced by the rebels. This is not so, as
there is wide difference. The rebel act
takes aH persons between certain ages,
leaving none behind, while our bill mere
ly takes the required quota out of 1.-The
whole number enrolled. Thus there
might be in one district 10000 persons
bc.ween 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 reb-
els, on the onrary, take all they can
lay hands upon, whether old or young.