Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-03-09

! hereof.
Sec. Is. Amd Be IL further enacted, That provost
narshais, boards OF enrolment, or any member
thereof, acting by authority OF the board, shall
have power to summon witnesses in behalf OF the
Government and enforce their attendance by at
tscbment without previous payment OF fees, in am
case pending before them, or either of them and
mons shall be six cents per mile tor mileage, count
ing way and no other fees costs sLali be
allowed under the provisions of this section and
they shall have power TO administer oaths and af-
hrmations. And any person who shall gilfully and
eorruPtly affirm falsely before any pro-
yost marshal. OF board of enrolment, or mem Der
thereof, acting by authority of the board, who
shall, before any civil magistrate wilfuly and cor
ruptly swear or affirm falsely to any affidavit be
used in any pending before any provost mar
shaI or board of enrolment, shall, on conviction,
be hned not exceeding i've hundred dollars and i'm
prisened not less than six months more than
twelve mouths Ike drafte ed shall have pro
cess TO bring in witnesses. but without mil cage.
Sec. 10. Ind be az further enacted That copies
OF any record of provost marshal or board of
rolment, Of any part thereof, certified by the
provost marshal, jority OF said board of en-
rolment. shall he deem ed and taken as evidence in
any civil military court in like manner as the
original record ProUided That il any person
shall knowingly certify any false copy or copies of
such record, TO be used in any civil military
court, he shall be subject TO the pains and penal
ties OF peri ury-
Sec. IL ana BE- il further enacted, That members
OF religious denominations, VINO shall by oath or
Affirmation declare that they conseientiousy
opposed to the bearing OF arms, and who are pro-
hiolted from doing by the rules and articles Of
faith and practice OF said religious denominations,
shsll, when drafted into the military service, be
con sidered uon-combatants, and shall be assign
ed by the Secretary of ar duty in the hospitals,
or to the of freedmen, shall pay the sum of
three hundred dollars TO such persons as the Sec
retary of War shall designate receive it, to be
applied to the benefit of the sick and wounded sol
dlers Prorided, That no person shall be entitled
less his declaration of conscientious scrupes against
bearing arms shall be supported by satisfactory
evidence that his department has been uniformly
consistent with such declaration.
sec Is. 4ild De II Jurtter enacted, That 10 per
son Of foreign birth shall, account Of alenage,
be exempted rom enrolment or draft under the
provisions of this act, the act which it is an
am ndment, who has at any time umed the
rights of = citizen by voting at any election held
under authority of the laws of any State Terri
tory, OF the United States, or who has held any
office under such laws any of them but the
fact that any such person OF foreign birth has voted
or held, or shall vote or hold office aforesaid,
shall be taken conclusive eYidenc that he not
entitled to exemption from military service &c
count OF alienage.
Sec. 10. And be At further enacted. That ali
claims to exemption shall be verified by the oath
or affirmation OF the party claiming exemption, To
the truth the facts stated, unless it shall salts
iactorly appear to the board of enrolment that
such party is for some good and SUN eient reason
unable TO make such oath or affirmation and the
testimony OF any other party filed in support OF a
claim TO exemption shall also be made upon oath
or affirm alton.
Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That if any
person drafted and liable render military service
shall procure decision of the board Of enrolment
IN Ills favor upon a claim to exemption by any
fraud or false representation praeticed by himself
or by his procurement, such decision or exemp tiou
shall be OF effect, and the person EXEMPTED or
Ia whose favor the decision may be made, shall be
deemed a deserter, and may be arrested, tried by
court martial aud punished SUCH and shall be
held 20 service for the Iull term Tor which he was
drafted, koning from the time of his arrest Pro
rided That the Secretary of War NAV order the dis
charge OF all persons in the military service who
are under the Of eighteen years at the time of
the application for their discharge, when il shall
appear upon due proof that such persons are in
the service without the consent, either expressed
implied. 9uH
proraed further, That such persons, their parents
or guardians, shall first repay to the Government
and to the State and local authorities all bounties
and advance pay which may nave been paid 60 them,
any thihg in the act to which this IS amendment
to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sec u. Ind be 1t further enacted, That any per-
son who shall procure, or attempt to procure
false report from the surgeon of the board OF en-
rollment concerning the physical condition of any
drafted person, or decision in favor Of such person
by the board of enrolment upon a claim to exemp-
ton knowing the to be false, shall upon con.
States be punished by i'm for the period
for which the party was drafted
Sec. p. And be ii further enacted. Thai The
fees of agents and attorneys for making out and
causing to be executed any papers IN support I
claim for exemption from draft, for any services
that may be rendered to the CLAIMANT shall not III
any case, exceed five dollars; aud physicians or
surgeons furnishing certtcatesof disability 10 amy
claimant for eNemp ton from draft shall not be
titled any fees or improvisation therefor. And
any rney who shall, dii ectIy or iudi-
rectly, dem aDd receive any greater compeusa-
ton for his services under this act, and any physi-
clan surgeon who shall, directly indirectly dc
mani receive any compensation for furnishing
said certificate of disability, snd officer, clerk.
or deputy come tied with the toard OF enrolment
WI shall receive compensation from any drafted
for any services, or obtaining the performance
of such service required from any member of said
board 10y the provisions Of this act, shall deem
ed guilty OF high msdem or, and, upon couyic-
ton, SHALL for every such offence, be fined not
ceeding five Luudred dollars, to be recovered upon
formation indictment before any OF com-.
potent jurisdiction, on half for the use # any in
who MA nm for rA in
name OF the United States and she other half for
the of the United States and shall also be sub
ject to imprisonment for term not exceeding one
ear, at the discretion Of the court.
Sec %. And be it further enacted, That no
N EN- Der of the board of enrolment, and surgeon
etaled o. employed to assist the board OF enrol
10 eut. and o clerk, assistant employee of any
provost marshal or board of enrolment, shall, d.
rectly indirectly, be engaged in procuring
pting procure substitutes for persons draft
ed liable to be drafted into the military service
of the United States. And if any member of
board OF enrolment, or any such surgeon, clerk Jas
sis ant, employee, ehall procure, at tempt to
procure, q substitute for any person drafted, or
liable be drafted, afore said, he shall be
ed yril,v Of a nisdemeanor and shall upon con-
viction be punish by imprsonm ent not less than
thirty days, nor more than six months, and pay
fine not less than one hundred, than
one thousand dollars, by any court competcn to
try the offence.
Sec "a. And be 1t further enacted That all able
bodied male coiored persons, between the ages Of
twenty and forty-ive years. resident IN the United
States shall be enrolled according to the proyis-
of this act, and of the act to which this is
am endment, and form part OF the national forces
and when slave of loyal master shall be drafted
and ed into the service of the United States
his master shall have a certificate thereof. and
thereupon such slave small be free aud the boun-
ty Of one hundred dollars, payable by law for
each drafted man, shall be paid to the person to
whom such drafted 7erson was owing service or la
Dor the time Of his ulster into the service of
the United States. The Secretary Of War shall ap-
point a commission in each of the slave States rep
resented in Congress, charged award to each loyal
uh1r inrGf Val Yrlre NAV "a
vice a Just compensation, not exceeding three IN
dred dollars, for each such colored volunteer, pay
able out OF the fund derived from combinations,
and eve cry such colored volunteer being mus
tered into the service shall be free. And in all
listed have volunteered in the military service
the Unit ed States all the provisions OF this act,
the payment of bounty and
compensation are provided shall be equally ap-
pIicabie as those who may be hereafter recruit
ed. But of color, drafted or enlisted, or who
may volunteer into the military service, while they
shall be credited the quotas Of the several states
or subdivisions Of states wherein they are respee-
lively drafted, enlisted, shall volunteer, shall
u OF be assigned as State troops, but shall be mus
tered ia to regimsnts or companies as United states
cocred troops.
Sec. 25- Arld Be it Further enacted That the If
teenth section of the act which this l. amends
tory be amended that it will read follows !:
That any surgeon charged with the duty OF such
inspection who shall receive from any person whom
any money other val liable thing, or