Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-05-28
THE ENROLMENT OF THE MILITIA

gressl0nal District are now engaged IN |
the division of the district into number
of sub-districts, and the appointment of
enrolling officers for each Of the latter, so
that the enrolment may be completed
within twenty-five days from its commence
ment. The following instructions to the !
enrolling officers of the sub-distrcts have
been issued by the board
The enrolling officer for each district or
sub-district shall, Immediately upon his
appointment, proceed to enroll all persons
subject to military duty under the provis-
ions 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 LIST day Of
July, 1868, their color, whether white or
black, and their occupations, respectively,
This enrolment must include:
/. All able bodied male citizens of the
United States, between the ages of twen-
ty and forty-fve years, not exempt from
military service by law.
9. All persons of foreign birth not so
exempted, who shall have declared on oath
thier intention to become citizens OF the
United States, under and in pursuance OF
the laws thereof.
Section Sd of the act for enrolling and
calling out the national forces, ETC., APP
proyed March 3, 1868, provides "That
The national forces of the United States
not now In the military service, enrolled
under this act shall be divided into two
classes the first of which shall comprise
all persons subject to do military duty be-
tween the ages of twenty and thlrty-hv
wears. and all unmarried persons subject
to do military duty above the age OF thlr-
ty-fve and under the age OF forty-fve
the second class shall comprise all Other
personr subject to do military duty anc
thew shall not in any district be called In
to the service of the United States unit
those Of the first class shall have beef
called.
The enrolment of each class shall b
made separately on sheets by itself, bu
the enrolment of both classes shall be car
ried on at the same time.
Persons having their legal domicll with
in any district are not exempt from enro
mept therein by reason of temporary al
sence therefrom Students IN colleges
schools, teachers, apprentices, sailors, tray
elers, travelling merchants and slmlla
classes of citizens, must be enrolled IN u
districts IN which they have their dom
Giles.
The board shall require the enrollr
officers to Judge of the ages OF indlvldua
by the best information they can obta
in each case, but always to make dec
sios as TO whether the person in questlt
is subject to enrolment and If som whit
class. and to enroll him accordingly. IL
board viii decide questions OF exempt'
on account of age, when brought before
under the law, by the persons enrolled
Also the following:
You will enroll all male persons WI
ON the first day of July next, will be /
twenty and forfy-fve years of age, unlt
it shall clearly appear to you that the pt
son ic disabled to that extent that "
permanently unfit him for The performan
of military service. You will not Jud
of ordinary physical debilities. You
alto enroll all persons of foreign birth W
have declared on oath their intention
BECOME citizens of the United States, a
having exercised the right of suffrage m
be regarded as prima facie evidence
such declaration. Persons belonging
apy of the classes enumerated IN pa
graph 65 of g General Regulations '
be enrolled in the towns in which their
rents. families or guardians reside, exec
However, such students Tin schools or
\ Il l,Y,rr ,Yanr a n
have neither parents, families OF gual
ans. who will be enrolled in the to
where they make their home. Dlschar
soldiers. if their discharge papers q
prior to March Sd, 1868, are subject
enrolment. You will, however, IN
cases. inform them that on application
the board of enrolment, they will, if a
fled, be permitted to enlist IN the NV
corps, for garrison duty only. In
doubtful cases the person will be enrol
If legally exempt he can present his cls
thereto before the board OF enrollm
when drafted. 1t is expected that
will have completed the enrolment
returned your last list to this ONCE wi
tventy-fce days from its initiation.
Attention is called to the following
visions of the act for enrolling and ca
out the national forces:
Where there are two or more son
aged or infrm parents subject to draft
father, or if he be dead, the mother,
elect which son shall be exempt.
When there are father and sons
the same family and household, and
Of them are in the military service Of
United States as non-commssloned
GERS. musicians or privates, the resid'
such family and household, not excee
two, shall be exempt
In all cases falling under these pr
ions Won will require the parent to d'
which son or sons shall be exempt,
note the decision in the column Tor
marks, opposite the name of the pers'
exempted.
The attention of enrolling officer
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