The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-04

q Src. And Be IL further enacted,
That any mariner or able seaman who
shall be drafted under this act, or the act
to which this IL an amendment, shall have
the right, within eight days after the noti
fication of such draft, to enlist in the naval
service a. seaman, and certificate that
he has 30 enlisted being made out, in con-
formity with the regulations which may
be prescribed by the Secretary Of the
Navy, and duly presented to the Provost
Marshal OF the district in which such mar
liner or able seaman shall have been draft
ed. shall exempt him from such draft I:
,Propided, That the period for which he
shall have enlisted into the naval service
shall not be less than the period for which
he shall have been drafted into the mill
tary service: And provided further,
That the said certificate shall declare that
satisfactory proof has been made before
the naval officer issuing the same that the
said person SO enlisting in the navy is .
mariner by vocation, or an able seaman.
And any person now in the military serv-
ice of the United States who shall furnish
satisfactory proof that he is mariner by
vocation or an able seaman, may enlist in
the navy under such rules and regulations
as may be prescribed by the President of
of the United States: Provided, That
such enlistment shall not be for less than
the unexpired term of bis military service
nor for less than one year. And the
bounty money which any mariner or sea-
man enlisting from the army into the navy
may have received from the United States
or from the State in which he enlisted in
the army, shall be dedacted from the
prize money to which he may become en-
titled during the time required to COM
plete bis military service: And pr0oided
further, That the whole number of such
transfer enlistments shall not exceed ten
thousand.
SEo. 8. Aad be ii. further enacted, That
whenever such mariner or able seaman shall
have beer exempted from such draft in
the military service by such enlistment in
to the naval service, under such due GER
tifcates thereof, then the ward, town,
township, PRECINCTS, or election districts,
from which such person has been drafted,
shall be credited with his services to all
intents and purposes Is if he had been
duly mustered into the military serve IN
der such draft. % a s4.l /, ao,,.,5
SEQ. 9. And be it fu,sker enacted, That
all enlistments into the naval service of
the United States or into the Marine Corps
OF the United States, that may be hereaf-
ter made Of persons liable to service under
der the act of Congress entitled can act
for enrolling and calling out the national
forces, and for other purposes" approved
March third, eighteen hundred aHd sixty
three, shall be credited to the ward, town,
township, precinct or election districts, in
which such enlisted men were or may be
enrolled and liable to duty under the act
aforesaid, under such regulations as the
Provost Marshal General of the United
States may prescribe. a,r .,.....
SEC. 10. And be it Further enacted,
That the following perscns'be, and they are
hereby exempted from enrolment and
draft under the provisions Of this act and
of the act to which this is an amendment,
to wit. Such as are rejected as physically
or mentally unfit for the service. all per-
sons actually in the military or naval SER
vice of the United States at the time of
the draft, and all persons who have served
in the military or naval service two years
during the present war, and been honora.
bly, discharged therefrom and no Pc SONS
but such 40 are herein exempted shall be
exempt. Hs .gc lvl I....t g..c.g., s..i:a
SEQ. ii. And be it further, enacted,
That section third of the "Act for enroll
ing and calling out the national forces,
and for other purposes" approved March
third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three,
and so much of section ten of said act as
provides for the separate enrolment of
each class, be, and same are hereby, re-
pealed and it shall be the duty of the
board of enrolment of each district to con-
sOlidato the two classes mentioned in sec
ton third of said act. $500 -,-19 -s q
That any person who shall forcibly resist
or oppose any enrolment, or who shall in
cite, counsel, encourage, or who shall con-
spire or confederate with any other person
or persons forcibly to resist or oppose any
such enrolment, or who shall aid or as
sist, or take any part in any forcible re-
sistance or opposition thereto, or who
shall assault, obstruct, hinder, impede or
threaten any officer or other person en-
plOyed in making or in aiding to make
such enrolment, or employed in the per-
formance, OF 10 aiding in the performance
of any service in any way relating thereto,
or in arresting or aiding to arrest any spy
or deserter from the military service Of the
United States shall, upon conviction
thereof in any court competent to try the
offence, be punished by a fine not exceed
ing five thousand dollars, or by imprison-
ment not exceeding five years, or by both
of said punishments, in the. discretion of
the court. And in cases where such as
saulting, obstructing, hindering, or imped-
ing shall produce the death of such officer
or other person, the offender shall be
deemed guilty of murder, and upon con-
viction thereof upon indictment in the
circuit court of the United States for the
district within which the offence was COM
mitted, shall be punished with death. And
nothing in this section contained shall be
construed to relieve the party offending
from liability under proper indictment OF