The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-12-03

residences, enlistment, or other causes
which affect the enrolment.
N. B. BAKER,
Adjutant General OF Iowa.
WAR DEPARTMENT, PROVOST !
MARSHAL GENERALS OFFICE, y
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. Is, 1864. J
CIRCULAR, No. 80.
Attention Is again called to the necessity
OF correcting the enrolment lists in every
district and sub-district. While the Board
is responsible, as body, for the enrol
| inent, the Commissioner of the Board will
be required to give his particular attention
ton Of the lists, and to the preparation of
all reports and returns in regard to them;
and he is hereby especially directed to see
that monthly reports of the corrections
made In the enrolment for the preceding
month are promptly forwarded to this
Office on or before the Sd day or every
month.
Circular, No. "a, from this Office, dated
June 25, 1854, is reproduced and revised
for the guidance Of all concerned. It is as
follows:
The attention of Boards of Enrolment is
called to Section Of the Ac, amendatory
of the Enrolment Act, which is in the fol-
lowing words, viz:
SECTION 6. And be st further enacted.
That Boards Of Enrolment shall enroll ali
persons liable to draft under the provisions
OF this Act, and the Act to which this is an
amendment, whose names may have been
omitted by the proper enrolling officers; all
persons who shall arrive at the age of TWEEN.
~ years before the draft; all aliens who
snail declare their intention to become citi-
zens all persons discharged from the mill
tary or naval service Of the United States
who have not been in such service two years
during the present war; and all persons
who have been exempted under the provi-
siOns. OF the second section OF the Act to
which this is an amendment, but who are
not exempted by the provisions OF this Act;
and said Boards of Enrolment shall release
and dischage from draft all persons who.
between the time Of the enrolment and the
draft, shall have arrived ut the age Of forty.
five years, and shall strike the names of
such persons from the enrolment"
Attention is also called to paragraphs 55,
Sc. 81, 50, SO, 60, 81, and s., Revised Kegula-
lions for the Bureau OF the Provost Mar
shall General.
Ii is to be borne IN mind by the Boards,
that their duties, in regard to the correc-
ton OF the Enrolment, do not cease with
its revision as recently completed or now
in progress. The contrary, the revision
and correction Of these Lists is continuous
duty, to which the labors Of all Boards
must be directed. The names of all persons
liable 70 military duty taxing Ap their resi-
dence IN q sMb-d,str1ct, as yell as all in the
sub district, from time to time, become tiabie
shalt De added to the ENROLMENT lists; and
in case of removal, whenever it is practica.
BILE, the Board Of Enrolment of the dis
trict 10 which the person removes will be
noticed, and he will be enrolled by that
Board.
The Board Of Enrolment shall have COD.
les Of the Enrolment lists open to the ex-
animation OF the public at all proper times,
and shall give public notice that any per-
son may appear before the Board and have
any name stricken off the list, if he can
show, to the satisfaction Of the Board, that
the person named is not properly enrolled,
on account Of
lst. Alienage; -
I'd. NOn-residence; BIZ
Sd. Over age;
4th. Permanent physical disability, of
such degree as to render the persoD not a
law and Regulations;
5th. Having served in the military or ma.
val service two years during the present
war, and been honorably discharged.
Civil officers, clergymen, and all other
prominent citizens are invited 20 appear at
all times before the Board to point out err
rors in the lists, and 10 give such Informal
ton In their possession as nuy aid "A the
correction and revision thereof.
To the duty OF hearing and acting upon
claims for exemption, Boards Of ENROLL
ment are eEjoined to devote all the time
shat can be spared from other less pressing
duties. They will report to the Provost
Marshal General. for the purpose Of cor
recting lists on file, at the end Of each
month, upon sheets of Consolidated Enrol.
ment Lists, the names and residences Of
all persons who have been added to, or
stricken from the rolls during the month.
They will send with each report 8 recapit-
ulation, showing, in concise form, the nun
Der enrolled at the time of forwarding the
last list, the number stricken from the en-
r0llment, and the number added to Il since
that time, and its actual condition at the
d0tc OF report. JAMES B. FRY,
Provost Marshal General.
NoTE.-Aeting Assistant Provost Mar
shals General will see that in all cases
where no alterations have been made in
the Enrolment lists for the month, that.
nevertheless, a report Of that fact shalt be
promptly made to this Office, by the Com
missioner before the third day OF the ensu-
ing moth.
~Papers il the State usually author
lied to publish orders Of this department
will publish once.