Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-08-24
VOL. ll--NO. 81
The Coming DraGs-EnGpOrEan
information.


! We find in one of our cotemporaries.
! the following full and comprehensive sy-
nopsis of the requirements of the conscrip-
ton law. 1t contains full and reliable
( information concerning volunteers, sub
| stitutes and drafted men:
1st. The exemptions of the original
act, to fathers of motherless children un-
der twelve years Of age, 10 some members
OF families in which others are in service,
to sons who are the support Of aged and
destitute parents, and for other similar
causes, are no longer allowed.
2. The Communication clause, by which
4 person who is drafted might be released
upon the payment of three hundred dol
/ lars IS repealed, with a single exception
1 in the case of persons conscientiously Op-
! posed TO bearing arms, who may commute
! upon the payment Of three hundred dol
/ lars, or otherwise be considered as non
combatants, and if drafted, be held to
serve for hospital duty, or in the care Of
l4reedmen. Persons physically incapable
of duty are exempted upon surgical eX-
animation.
3. The division of citizens into two
classes, the second class not being liable
! to serve until the first class was exhausted
is abolished, and all citizens liable are en-
rolled in the same class, and may be held
/ 10 similar service.
18th, The age of liability to the draft is
/ between twenty and forty-fve years
9Th. Volunteers may be received who
/ are between the ages of eighteen and for
/ ty-fve years. Youth between sixteen
and eighteen years may be received with
/ the consent Of their parents or guardians,
/ The enlistment OF boys under sixteen
! years Of age, is a military otfense in the
/ officer who recruits them, who may be
! punished therefor.
/ 9th. Volunteers, white or colored, re-
! ccive the Government bounty, according
/ to the time for which they agree to serve.
! For one year, 500, for two years, 5000
( fvr three years, $500. These amounts
are paid in instaliments. To a one years
. volunteer when mustered IN, S3333 to
two years rccrnit, $3.50 to Il three
years recruit, Sl0O. Two other install
( ments are to be paid TO the volunteer or
. his representative during his term Of ser
vice.
9TH The monthly pay of private,
eiti e. volunteer, substitute, or drafted
man, Is sixteen dollars Il month. Non
commissioned and commissioned officers
receive an increase pay beyond the rates
/ which were allowed before the last scs-
sion of Congress.
/ Sth. Drafted men receive no bounty
from the Federal Government, and we
presume they will not receive any from
| tfle town or county TO which they belong,
9Th Substitutes for drafted men, or
men liable to draft, furnished in advance
/ of the draft, receive no bounties from the
! government.
10th. Representative substitutes for
/ persons not liable to draft, are considered
/ as volunteers, and receive the Federal and
municipal bountics, and whatever their
! principal agrees to pay them
/ llth. Volunteers and representative
/ substitutes may ba mustered in for one,
/ two or three years, as they may elect.
! 18th. Substitutes for drafted men, or
men liable to draft, may be accepted for
/ cnc, two or three years, according 10 The
time that the principal would have to
serve, or as he may engage them
18th. Representative substitutes for
/ persons not liable 20 draft, may be per
sons who are liable to draft
14th Substitutes for persons liable 10
draft, furnished before drafting, must not
themselves he liable. They may either
be aliens, veterans or sailors who have
served two years and been honorabiy dis
charged, or the citizens of the States in
rebellion. or slaves Of rebel owners.
18th The principal shall be exempt
from draft during the time that the said
substitute Is not Liable 10 draft, not cN-
ceeJinc the time for which the substitutes
shall be accepted.
Is. The United States 40 ionscr pays
premiums for the procu alton of recruits.
II Men furnished under the call OF
July 18th, 1864, whether enlisted for
one, two or three years, as we'll as all eX-
cess or deficiency Of three years men on
calls heretofore made, will count as man
for man. The equalization of the amount
of military service rendered 10y thc differ
ent States and parts of States WILDE cf
? factod hereafter.
I l8r y substitute for an enrolled mar
is credited, and, therefore, deducted from
the quota of The locality he cnlists in.
+ 10. An enrolled man furnishing al
n alien as a substitute, Is exempt tor th'
o time of service of the substitute, unles
i the alien becomes a citizen, or declare
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