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

any district or circuit court Of the United
States, be punished by imprisonment for
the period for which the party was drafted.
SIC. %. And be il further enacted
That the fees Of agents and attorneys for
making out and causing to be executed
any papers in support of claim for ex-
emption from draft, or for any services
that may be rendered to the claimant.
shall not, in any case, exceed five dollars
and physicians or surgeons furnishing GER
tificates of disability to any claimant for
exemption from draft, shall not be en-.
titled to any fees or compensation there.
for. And any agent or attorney who shall
directly or indirectly, demand or receive
any greater compensation for his SER
vices under this act, and any physician
or surgeon, who shall, directly or indirect
ly, demand or receive any compensation
for furnishing said certificates Of disability,
and any officer, clerk. or deputy connected
with the board of enrolment, who shall
receive compensation from any drafted
man for any services, or obtaining the
performance of ouch service required from
any member of said board by the provis-
ions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of
high misdemeanor, and, upon convio-
ton, shall, for every offence, be fined not
exceeding Eve hundred dollars, to be re-
covered upon information or indictment
before any court of competent jurisdic-
ton, one half for the use of the informer
who may prosecute for the same in the
name of the United States, and shall also
be subjected to Imprisonment for a term
not exceeding one year, at the discretion
of the court.
Sec. %. And be it further enacted,
That no member Of the board of enroll
meut, and no surgeon detailed or employ
ed to assist the board of enrolment, and
no clerk, assistant, or employee of any
provost marshal or board of enrolment,
shall, directly or indirectly, be engaged in
procuring or attempting to procure substi-
tutes for persons drafted, or liable to be
drafted, into the military service of the
United States; and if any member of
board of enrolment, surgeon, clerk, as
sistant or employee, shall procure, or at
tempt to procure, a substitute for any per-
son drafted, or liable to be drafted, as
aforesaid. he shall be deemed guilty Of
misdeneanor, and shall, upon conviction,
be punished by Imprisonment not less than
thirty days, nor more than six months,
and pay fine not less than one hundred,
nor more than one thousand dollars, by
any court competent to try the offence.
.. SEQ, "a. And be it further enacted,
That the fifteenth section of the act to
which this is amendatory be so amended
that it will read as follows: That any sur
geon charged with the duty of such inspec-
tons, who shall receive from any person
whomsoever any money or other valuable
thing, or agree, directly or indirectly, to
receive the same to his own or anothers
use, for making an imperfect inspection,
or false or incorrect report, or who shall
wilfully neglect to make a faithful inspec-
ton and true report, and each member of
the board of enrolment who shall wilfully
agree to the discharge from service OF any
drafted person who is not legally and prop.
erly entitled to such discharge, shall Be
tried by a court-martial, and, Oh convic-
ton thereof, be punished by fine not less
than three hundred dollars and not more
than ten thousand dollars, shall be impris-
Oned at the discretion of the court, and he
cashiered and dismissed, the service. s,,,l>
SRo. %. And be it further enacted,
That all able-bodied male colored persons.
between the ages of twenty and forty-five
years, resident in the United States, shall
be enrolled according to the provisions of
this act, and Of the act to which this is All
amendment, and form part of the national
forces and when slave of loyal master =
shall be drafted and mustered intO the
service of the United States, bis master
shall have certificate thereof, and there
upon such slave shall be free; and the
bounty of one hundred dollars, now pay
able by law for each drafted man, shall he
paid to the person to whom such drafted
person was owing service or labor at the
time of his muster into the service of the
United States. The Secretary of War
shall appoint commission in each of the
slave States represented in Congress,
charged to award to each loyal person to
whom colOred volunteer may owe service
a just compensation, not exceeding three
hundred dollars, for each such colored
volunteer, payable out of the fund derived
from communications, and every such COL
ored volunteer, on being mustered into the
service, shall be free. And in all cases
where men of color have been heretofore
or have volunteered in the mill
tary service of the United States, all the
provisions of this act, SO far as the pay
ment of bounty and compensation are
provided, shall be equally applicable as to
those who may be hereafter recruited.
But men of color, drafted or enlisted, or
who may volunteer into the military SER
vice, while they shall be credited on the
quotas of the several States or subdivis-
ions of States wherein they are respec-
lively drafted, enlisted or shall volunteer,
shall not be assigned as State troops, but
shall be mustered into regiments or COM
panies as United States colored volun-
,eers.
SEa 20. And be it further enacted, i
That the words s precinct and 8 election
district, as used 10 this act, shall not DO
to require any subdivision for
purposes Of enrolment and draft, less
han the wards into which any city or viii
IL Al