Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-07-21
The New Consumption Act.
A SYNOPSIS OF IT'S PROVISIONS.

SYNOPSIS OF ITS PROVISIONS.
l. The President OF the United States
may, at his discretion, at any time here
after, call for any number OF men as vol
unteers, for the respective terms OF one,
two or three years, for military service J;
and any such volunteer, or, in case OF
draft, as hereafter provided, any substi-
tute shall be credited to the town, town
ship, ward, or city precinct, or election
district Of the county, towards the quota
of which he may have volunteered or en-
gagged as substitute ; and every volun-
teer who is, accepted and mustered into
the service for term'of one year, unless
sooner discharged, shall receive and be
paid BY the United States bounty OF
500, and if for term of two.years, I'M
less sooner discharged, bounty of $500
and if for term of three years, unless
sooner discharged, bounty of $500,
one third of which bounty shall be paid
| to the soldier at the time of his being
mustered into the service, one third at
| the expiration of one half of his term OF
service, and one third at the expiration
of his term Of service, and III case OF his
death while in the service, then the resi-
due of his bounty unpaid shall be paid
to his widow, if he shall have left wild
dow if not, to his children, or if there
shall be none, to his mother, in case she
be4a widow. satts 4 3s11>
z. ln case the quota or any part there
of of any town, township, ward OF a city,
precinct or lection district, orany coun-
ty not so sub-divided, shall not be flied
within the space OF fifty days after such
call, then the President shall immedl-
ately order, a draft tor one year to fill
such quota or any part thereof which
may be untitled, and In case OF any such
draft, no payment Of money shall De ac
cepted or received by the Government
as communication to release any enrolled
or drafted man from personal obligation
to perform personal service. Ea" 9sfrl
g. 1t shall be lawful for the Execu-
tive Of any OF the States to send recruit
ing agents into any OF the States deciar-
ed to be in rebellion, except the States
OF Arkansas, Tennessee and Louisiana,
and to recruit volunteers under any call
under the provisions of this act, who
shall be credited to the State and to the
respective sub divisions thereof which
may procure the enlistment, a a
4. Drafted men, substitutes, and vol
unteers, when mustered in, shall be or
gained in or assigned to regiments, bat
teries, or other organizations of their
own States, and, as far as practicable,
shall, when assigned, be permitted to Sc
lect their own regiments, batteries, or
other organizations from among those
Of their respective States which, at the
time oftheir assignment may not be fill.
led to their maximum number. % ore gA4
5. The twentieth section Of the act
entitled ''An act to amend an act entitl-
ed an act for enrolling and calling out
the national forces" approved Febru-
airy "a, 1864, shall be construed to mean
that the Secretary of War shall discharge
minors under the, age Of eighteen years,
under the circumstances and Oil the con-
ditions prescribed in said section and
hereafter if any officer Of the United
States shall enlist or muster into the
military service any person under the
age Of sixteen years, with or without the
consent Of his parent or guardina, such
person so enlisted or recruited shall be
Immediately and unconditionaIlyt dis
charged upon the repayment of all boun-
ty received ) and such recruiting or mus
tering officer who. knowingly enlists a
person under the age. Of sixteen years,
shall be dismissed the service, with the
forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and
shall be subject to such further punish
ment as a court martial may decide Y
6. Section three of an act entitled .san
act to amend an act entitled an act for
enrolling and calling out the national
forces and for other purposes, approx
ed February "a, 1864, be, and thesame1
hereby is, amended SO as to authorize
and direct the District Provost Marshals
under direction of the Provost Marshal
General, to make draft for one hun
dred per centum in addition to the num-
Der required to fill the quota Of any
district, as provided by said section.
7. That instead Of travelling pay, all
drafted. persons reporting at place Of
rendezvous shall be allowed transporta-
ytion from their places of residence, and
persons discharged at the place Of
rendezvous shall be allowed transporta
stion I'd their places of residence. s,1
g. All persons in the naval service of
the United States, who have entered said
service during the presentrebellion, who
have not been credited to the quota of
any town, district, ward or State, by rea-
son of their being in said service, and
not enrolled prior to February "a, 1864,
shall on satisfactory proof of their
residence, made to the Secretary Of War.
be enrolled and credited TO the quotas Of
the town, ward, district or State in which
they respectively reside.
9. Ifany person duly drafted, shall be
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