The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-02-23

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draft who has iAt any time assumed the
rights of citizen by voting at any election
held under the authority Of the laws Of any
State or Territory of the United States, OF
who has held any Office under such laws, OF
any of them; but the fact that such person
Of foreign birth has voted or held, or shall
vote or hold Office, shall be taken as con-
elusive evidence that he is not entitled to
exemption from military service on account
of slienage. e-r r..,.,..s5-. ar.,
ANY person drafted and liable to render
military service, who shall procure exemp-
ton by fraud or false representations, will
be deemed deserter, punished as such, and
held to service Or the full term for which
he was drafted, reckoning from the time Of
his arrest; provided the Secretary Of War
may order the discharge of all persons in
the military service who are under the age
of eighteen years at the time of the app'i'
cation for their discharge, when it must
appear, upon due proof, that such persons
are in the service without the consent,
of either express or implied, of their pa
srts or guardians; and provided that such
persons, their parents, or guardians shall
first pay to the government and to the
States and local authorities all bOunties and
advance pay which may have been paid to
them. e+f .'
ANY person who shall procure, or attempt
tn nrocure. a false report from the Surgeon
Of a Board of Enrolment concerning the
physical condition of any drafted person
or decision in favor Of such person by the
Board of Enrolment upon claim to ex-
emption, knowing the same to be false,
shall, upon conviction in any District or
Circuit Court Of the United States, be
punished by Imprisonment for the period
which the party was drafted. The agents
or attorneys fees for making out and caus-
.ng to be executed papers in support of a
claim for exemption from draft, or for any
service rendered to the claimant, shall not
in any case exceed five dollars; and physi-
ans or surgeons furnishing 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 for obtain,
ing the performance Of such service requir.
ed from any member OF the Board by the
provisions of this act, shall be guilty of
high misdemesnor, and, on conviction, fined
not exceeding five hundred dollars, aud
shall also be subject to imprisonment for
term not exceeding one year, at the discre-
ton of the Court. No member of the
Board of Enrolment, and no surgeon de-
tailed or employed to assist the Board of
and no clerk, assistant or en-
ployee of any Provost Marshal or Board of
Enrolment shall, directly or indirectly, be
engaged in procuring, or attempting to pro-
cure, substitutes for persons daafted, or liza.
BILE to be drafted, and any surgeon making
q false or incorrect report, or shall wilfully
neglect to make faithful inspection and
true report, and any member of the Board
of Enrichment who shall wilfully agree to
discharge any drafted man who is not le.
gally and properly entitled to discharge, are
to be punished by fine and Imprisonment.
All able bodied male colored persons be.
tween the ages Of twenty and forty five years
resident in the United States, shall be en-
rolled according to the provisions of the
Enrolment act and of this Amendatory actl
and form part Of the national forces. And
when slave of loyal master shall be draf
ted and mustered into the service of the
United States, his master shall have Ger
ti6cate thereof and thereupon snch slave
shall be free, and the bounty of one hundred
dollars, now payable by law to each drafted
man, shall be 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 a commission in each
of the States represented in Congress
charged to award to each loyal person to
whom the colored volunteer may owe ser
vice, just compensation, not exceeding
three hundred dollars to each such co!ored
volunteer, payable out of the fund derived
from communications, and every such colored
volunteer on being mustered into the service
shall be free, and in all cases where men Of
color lave been heretofore enlisted or have
in the military service all the
provisions of this act, so far as the payment
of bounty and compensatioDs are provided
shall be equally applicable to those who
may be eafterrecruited; but men of color
drafted or enlisted, or who may volunteer,
into the military service, while they shall
be credited in the quotas of the several
States, or subdivisions Of States wherein
they are respectfully drafted, enlisted or
shall volunteer, shall not be assigned as
State troops. but shall be mustered into re-
gimen,s or companies as United States col
ored Volunteers.
The words "precints" and "electioa dis
tricts," as used IN this act, are not to be
construed to require any sub division for
the purpose of enrolment and draft less than
wards into which any city or village may
be divided, or less than the towns or town
ships into which any county may be divi-
ded.
DR. TANNERS COUGH MIXTURE This.