Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-03-12
OFFICIAL.
Lars of the United States Passed at the First Ses
sion Of the Thirty Eighth Congress.
IPuBLIc-No. Ill


IPuBLIc-No. Ill
! AN ACT to amend an act entitled 90 An act for en-
rolling and calling out the national forces, and
for other purposes,' approved March third,
eighteen hundred and sixty three. SO
! BE it enacted By the Senate and House of Repre-
seatatfres Of the United States Of America in Con
gfess assembled, That the President of the United
States shall be authorized, whenever he shall deem
it necessary, during the present war, to call for
such number of men for the military service of the
United States the public exigencies may require
See. q And be ii further enacted, That the quota
of each ward Of city, town. township, precinct,
election district, or of county, where the coun-
ty is not divided into wards towns townships pre-
cincts, election Districts shall be, nearly
possible, in proportion to the number of resi-
dent therein liable to render military service, TAX
ing into account, far practicable, the number
which has been previously furnished thereffom;
and in sscertaining and filing said quota there
| shall be taken into account the number of men
who have heretofore entered the naval service OF
the United States, and whose names are borne upon
the enrolment lists as already returned to the office
of the Provost Marshal General of the United
| States.
See g. And be ii further enacted, That il the quo
tas shall not be filed within the time designated
by the President, the provost marshal of the dis
trict within which any ward OF a city, town, town.
ship, precinct election district, county, where
| the same is not divided into wards, towns, town.
ships, precincts, election districts, which is de-
fcient in its quota, is situated, shall, under the
direction OF the Provost Marshal General, make a
draft for the number deficient therefrom but all
volunteers who may enlist after the draft shall have
been ordered and before il shall be actually made
shall be deducted from the number ordered to be
drafted in such ward, town, township, precinct,
election district, or county. Aud If the quota of
any district shall not be filled by the draft made in
accordance with the provisions of this act and the
act to which it is an amendment, further drafts
shall be made, and like proceedings had, until the
quota of such district shall be filled.
Sec 4. ind be it further enacted, That any person
enrolled under the provisions OF the act for enroll
ing and calling out the national forces, and for
other purposes, approved March third, eighteen
,l.,1 Ssv uhn h.h
enrolled, may furnish, at any time previous to
the draft acceptable substitute, who is not liza
BILE to draft, at the time in the military
val service of the United States. and such person
so furnishing a substitute shall be exempt from
draft during the time for which such substitute
shall not be liable to draft not exceeding the time
for which such substitute shall have been accepted
Sec 5. And be it further enacted, That any per-
drafted into the military service of the United
States may before the time fixed for his appearance
for duty at the draft rendezvous furnish accept
able substitute, subject to such rules and regua-
tions may be prescribed by the Secretary Of War
That if such substitute 10 not liable to draft, the
person furnishing him shall be exempt from draft
during the time for which such substit ute is not
liable TO draft, not exceeding the term for which
he was drafted and If such substitute is liable to
draft the name of the person furnishing MIN shall
again be placed the roll, and shall be liable to
draft future calls, but not until the present
rollment shall be exhausted and this exemption
shall not exceed the term for which such person
shall have been drafted. And any person now in
the military naval service of the United States,
not phyncaly disqualified, who has so served more
than one year, and whose term Of unexpired ser
vice shall not at the time OF substitution exceed
six months, may be employed as a substitute to
in the troops of the state in which he enlist
ed and If any drafted person shall hereafter pay
money for the procuration of a substitute, under
the provisions of the act to which this is amend
ment, such payment of money shall operate only
to relieve such person from draft, in filling that
quota and his name shall be retained on the roll
in filing future quotas; but in no instance shall
the exemption of any person, on account of his
a
ton of a substitute, extend beyond one year but
at the end of one year, in every such case, the
name of any person exempted shall be enrolled
again, IL not before returned to the enrolment list
under the provisions Of this section.
Sec. q. Ind be IL further enacted, That boards of
enrolment shall enroll all persons liable to draft
under the provisions of this act, and the act to
which this is an amendment, whose names may
have been omitted by the proper enrolling officers;
all per sons who shall arrive at the age OF twenty
years before the draft all aliens who shall declare
their intention to become citizens; all persons dis
charged 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 tins Is an
amendment, but who not exempted by the pro-
visions of this act and said boards of enrolment
shall release and discharge from draft all persons
who, between the time of the enrolment and the
draft, shall have arrived at the age OF forty-nve
y ears, and shall strike the name of such persons
from the enrolment.
Sec. 7. And be 1t further enacted, That any
drafted under this act, or the act to which this
is an amendment, shall have the right, within
eight days after the notification of such draft, to
enlist in the naval service as seaman, and GER
tifcate that he has so enlistbed being made out In
conformity with regulations which may be pre-
scribed by the Secretary of the Navy, and duly pre-
sented to the provost marshal of the district in
which such mariner or able ordinary seaman
shall have been drafted, shall exempt him from
such draft ProUtded That the period for which
he shall have enlisted into the naval service shall
not be less than the period for which he shall have
been drafted into the military service And prorieed
further That the said certificate shall declare that
satisfactory proof has been made before the naval
officer issuing the that the said person so en-
listing in the navy is mariner by vocation, or an
able or ordinary seaman. And any person now in
the military service of the United States who shalt
furnish satisfactory proof that he is mariner by
vocation or an able or ordinary seaman may enlist
into the navy under such rules and regulations as
may be prescribed by the President of the United
States: Provided, That such enlistment shall not
be for less than the unexpired term OF hs military
service nor for less than one year. And the boun-
ty money which any mariner or seaman enlisting
from the army into the navy may have received
from the United States, or from the State in which
he enlisted in the army, shall be deducted from the
prize money to which he may Become entitled
during the time required to complete his military
service And prortded further, That the whole
number of such transfer enlistments shall not ex-
coed ten thousand.
Sec. s. and be it further enacted, That whenever
any such mariner able or ordinary seaman shall
have been empted from such draft in the military
service by such enlistment into the naval service
under such due certificate thereof, then the ward,
town, township, precinct or election district, or
county, when the same lie not divided into wards,
towns, townships, precincts or election districts,
from which such person has been drafted, shall be
credited with his services to all ntents and purposes
as if he had been duly mustered into the military
service under such draft
Sec Q. And be it further enacted, That all enlist
ments into the naval service ofthe United States, or
into the marine corps United states, that may
Ter be made Of persons liable to service un-
der the act of Congress entitled An act for en-
rolling and calling out the national forces, and Tor
other purposes" approved March third, eighteen
hundred and sixty-three, shall be credited Co the
ward town. township, precinct, election district,
or county, when the same is not divided into wards,
towns, townships precincts, or election districts In
which such enlisted men were or may be enrolled
and liable to duty under the act aforesaid, under
such regulations as the Provost Marshal General OF
the United States may prescribe.
Sec. 10. And be IL further enacted, That the fol-
lowing persons be and they are hereby exempted
from enrolment and draft under the provisions OF
this act and OF the act to which this is amend
ment, to wit: Such rejected as physically or
mentally unfit for the service, all persons actually
in the military naval service OF the United
States at the time Of the draft, and all persons
who have served In the military naval service
two years during the present war and been honora-
bly, discharged therefrom; and no persons but such
as are herein exempted shall be exempt.
Sec, IL. And be it further enacted, That section
third of the Sc Act for enrolling and calling out the
national forces, and for other purposes, approved
March third, eighteen hundred and sIxty-three, and
SO much of section ten of said act as provides for
the separate enrolment of sacn class, be and the
same are hereby repealed and it shall be the duty
of the board Of enrolment of each district to con-
solidate the two classes mentioned in the third
section of said act.
Sec e. And be IL further enacted, That any per-
son who shall forcibly resist oppose any enroll
ment or who shall incite, counsel, encourage, or
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