Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-07-15
Ti.s gonscripsion Bin.


The following Is the new Conscfiptioiiib bill as
agreed to by both housesof Congress:
Further TO regulate and provide for the en-
rolling and calling out the national forces, and
other purposes. .--
The president of the United States may, at his
discretion, at any time hereafteE. call for any
number of men as volunteers forthe respective
terms of one, two and three years for military
service, and any such vOlunteer or IN case oil q
draft as hereafter provided. any substitute shall
be credited to the town, township, ward or city
precinct, or election district of county, toward
the quota of which he may have volunteered or
engaged as a substitute, aud every volunteer
who is accepted and mustered into the service
for a term of one year, unless sooner discharged
shall receive and be paid by the United States a
bounty of $IO0 and iffor term oftwo years,
unless sooner discharged bounty of $500; and
if for term of three years, unless sooner dis
charged, bounty of $500, one-third ofwhich
bounty will be paid TO the soldier al the
time Of his being mustered into the service
ope-third at the experation of one half Of his
term of service and one-third at the expiration
of his term of service, and III the case of his
death while IN the service, then the residue oi
his bounty unpaid shall be paid 10 his widow ifhe
shall have left widow, if not, TO his children,
or if there be none, to his mother in case she is
a widow.
In case the quota, or any part thereof, of any
town, township ward OF Ia precinct, or election
not he filed within tbe s,ace of f;ftv daVs after
sncb call lth,.n fhe Presidts5f Shall immediate-
lv order draft for one wear to fiji such ouoia
or anv mart tbereof which NAV he untitled and
IN ease of any sncb draft no utvment oi
,nonsv ebalI no .ccentpd ar received
Inv fhe Governb,eni MS co,nmntatiou ia
,o9lo.so .n,, enroIleJ 'oy drsfted man frnn NOR.
so,,aI obIiSaiion 10 perform military service.
n sbaIIbe la,vFul for the Executive of any
State 10 send recruitinp agents into any of the
States declared 10 he in rebel6on except the
s tates of Arkansas. Tennessee and Louisiana. and
-, ,,,,ay Ivory call under tbp
of t;S .ct which sbaIl Le cred;ted ~
ibe STATE and to the resnectiyc subd;visions
tber.,f which NAV nrot.I,re- 1be enlistment
Drafted men Substitutes and volunteers when
,,,,.t,J II, Shall he ,,ro,nizpd in ar ass;e,ned in
rao;n,onte ha,1eTiee og oiber organizatiops oi
H. ,,1-,, Ssttos ,,,d m f,, ,s ,,y,cticabIe shall
y-ben .ss;.,ned he normitted IN select their own
re,,;menfs batteries or otber organizations from,
among those of their respective States which al
tbe time of their assignment NAV not be filled
TO their maximum, number.
The twentieth section of the act entitled "A n
act 10 amend an act entitled an act for enrolling
and calling out the national forces" approved
that the Secretary of War shall discharge min
ors under the age of eighteen years, under the
circumstances and on the conditions prescribed
in said section; and hereafter if any officer shal
enlist or muster into the military service any
person under the age of sixteen years. with or
without the consent of his parents or guardian,
such person so enlisted or recruited shall be im-
mediated and Internationally discharged upon
the repayment of all bounty received; and such
recruiting or mastering officer who knowingly
enlists a person under sixteen shall be dismis-
sed the service with the forfeiture ofall pay and
allowance. and shall be subject to further pun
isbment as court martial may decide
Sixth-Section three of an article entitled
IAN act to amend an act entitled an act for en-
rolling and calling out the national forces and
for other purposes" approved February "a, 1864
be and the same is hereby amended so as to au-
thorize and direct District Provost Marshals gen.
to make draft for one hundred per centum III
addition to the number required to fill the quo