Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1864-12-15

ton 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 of every month.
Circular No. III from this office, dated June
25, 1864, Is reproduced and revised for the
guidance of all concerned. 1t is a. follows:
The attention of BOARDS of snrollment l.
called to Section of the Act amendatorv Of
the Enrolment Act, which IS in the following
words, viz:
SECTION o. And b. IL further enacted, That
boards Oh hnIoilmep'. shall enroll all persons
ihoie 10 aIale UT der the provisions of this
ACT, ana the ct to which this is an amend
ment, whose .ames may have ben omitted by
the proper e'arolling officers all persons who
s ga, aln'ie at the age of twenty years before
.ne ols At; all r.iiens who shall declare their
~. ltlon to become citizens all persons dis.
cparged from the military 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 provisions 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 re-
4 lease and discharge from draft all persons who
between the time of the enrolment and the
draft, shall have arrived at the age of forty
five years, and shall strike the names of such
persons from the enrolment"
Attention is also called to paragraphs IS,
56, 81, bS, SO, 60, 81, and 60, Revised Regu-
lations for the Bureau of the Provost Marshal
General.
1t is to be borne in mind by the Boards
that their duties in regard to the correction of
the enrolment, do not cease with its revision
| ~ recently completed or now in progress On
the contrary, the revision and correction of
| these lists is a continuous duty, to which the
labors of all Boards must be directed The
names of all persons liable to military duty
taking up their residence in a ub-district. as
| well as all in the sub-district, who from time
to time, became liable, shrll be added to the
enrolment lists; and the names of persons
who enlist into the military or naval service,
or remove permane ntly from a district, or
whose liability terminates while in it, will be
| stricken off and in case of removal, when
| ever 1t is practice BILE, the Board of Enrolment
of the district to which the person removes
will be notified, and he will be enrolled by
that Board
The Board of Enrolment shall have copies
of the enrolment lists open to the examina-
ton of the public at all proper times, and
shall give public notice that any person may
appear before the Board and have any name
stricken off the list, if he can show to the sat
! isfaction of the Boaad that the person named
is rot properly enrolled on account Of
/. Alienage.
2. Non-lesidende.
/ 8. Over age.
| 4. Permanent physical disability, of such
a degree rs to render the person not q proper
subject for enrolment under the law and reg
ulations.
! g. Having served in the military or naval
/ tVvn Aursv, tlo inf n
been honorably discharged
Civil officers, clergymen and all other prom
inent citizens are invited to appear at all
times before the Board to point out errors in
the lists, and to give such information in
their possession as may aid in the correction
and revision thereof.
To the duty of hearing and acting upon
claims for exemption, Boards of Enrolment
are enjoined to devote all the time that can
be spared from other less pressing duties. They
will report to the Provost Marshal General for
the purpose Of correcting lists on file, at the
end Of each month, upon sheets of consolida-
ted enrolment 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 recapitula-
ton, showing In concise form, the number
enrolled ut the time of forwarding the last
list, the number stricken from the enrolment,
and the number added to it since that time,
and its actual condition at date of report.
JAMES B. FRY,
Provost Marshall General.
NOTICE Acting Assistant Provost Marhals
General will see that in all cases where no al
| terations have been made in the enrolment
lists for the month, that nevertheless, a report
of that fact shall be promptly made to this
Office by the Commissioner, before the third
day Of the ensuing month.