Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-07-13
The COnscriptIon Act,

The following is the act as agreed to
by both Houses:
" Further, to regulate and provide for
the enrolling and calling out Of the ma
tional forces and for other purposes.
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 term Of one,
two or three years, for military service
and any such volunteer, or in case Of draft,
as hereinafter provided, any substitute,
shall be credited to the township, ward or
city, precinct or election district, or of a
county, towards the quota Of which he
may have volunteered or engaged as a
substitute and every volunteer who is
accepted and mustered into the service for
term of one year, unless sooner dis
charged, shall receive and be paid by the
United States bounty of one hundred dol
lars and if for term of two years, I'M
less sooner discharged, a bounty Of two
hundred dollars and for term of three
years, unless sooner discharged, a bounty
of three hundred dollars, 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 in case
of his death while in the service, the resi-
due of his bounty unpaid shall be paid to
his widow, if he shall have left a widow :;
if not, to his children or if there be
none, to his mother, if she be a widow.
In case the quota or any part thereof of
any town, township, ward Or city precinct,
or election district, or of any county not
so subdivided. shall not be filled within
fifty days after such call, the President
shall Immediately order a draft for 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 be
accepted or received by the Government
as communication, to release any enrolled
or drafted man from personal obligation
to perform military service
1t shall be lawful for the Executive
of any of the States to send recruiting
agents to any of the States declared to be
in rebellion, except the States of Arkan-
sas, Tennessee and louisiana. to recruit
volunteers under any call under the pro-
visions of this act, who shall be credited
to the State and the respective sub-divi-
sion thereof which may procure the en-
listment."
The following is continuation of the
bill:
Sec 4. Drafted men, substitutes and
volunteers when mustered in shall be or
ganized 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 select their
own regiments, batteries or other organi-
cations from those of their own respective
States which at the time of assignment
may not be filled to their maximum num-
ber.
Sec. 5. The twentieth section of the
bill entitled. An act to amend an act
entitled an act TOR enrolling and calling out
the national forces, and for other purpo-
ses," approved February 25, 1864, shall
be construed to mean that the Secretary
of war shall discharge minors under the
age of eighteen years, under the circum-
stances and on the conditions prescribed
in said section Hereafter, if any officer
of the United States shall enlist or mus
ter into the military service any person
under the age of sixteen years with ol
without consent of his parents or guardi