Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-07-22
NO. IL.
rHEMEW ENROLMENT Law.
The following is the Enrolment act as pass.
ed by both Houses OF Congress
AN ACT


AN ACT
Further 10 regulate and provide for the en-
rolling and calling out of the national for
ces, and for other purposes.
The President of the United States may, at
his discretion, al any time hereafter, call for
any number of men as volunteers, for the re-
spectiVe terms of one, two and three years, Tor
military service, and any such volunteer, or in
case Of dralt, as hereinafter provided, any
substitute, shall be credited to the town, town
ship, ward, or city precinct, or election dis
tricl Ol county, toward the qaota which be
may have volunteered or engaged as substi-
tute, aud every volunteer who is accepted and
mustered into the service for tern Of one
year, uuiess sooner discharged shall receive
and be paid by the United States bounty OF
$l00, and ii for term of Two years, unless
sooner discharged, q bOuRty of 5000, and if
for term of three years, unless sooner dis
charged bounty of $500; One-third of which
bounty shalt be paid to the soldier at the
time of his being mustered into the service,
and in case of his death while in the service,
then the residue OF his bounty unpaid shall be
paid to his widow, il he shall have left wild
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to his mother, in case she be a widow.
In case the quota or any part thereof of any
town, township, ward OF city, precinct or
election district, or of any county not so d.
vided, shall not be filed within the space of
fifty days after such call, then the President
shall Immediately order draft for one year to
fill such quota or any part thereof which may
be untitled; and III case of any such draft, no
payment OF money shall be accepted or re-
ceiVed by the Government as Communication 10
release any enrolled or drafted man from per-
sonal obligation to perform military service
1t shall be lawful for the Executive of any
of the States to send recruiting agents into
any of the States declared to be in rebellion,
except Arkansas, Tennessee and Louisiana,
and to recruit volunteers under any call under
the provisions OF this act, who shall be credit
ed to the State and to the respective sub-di-
visions thereof which may pracure the enlist
menI.
Drafted men, substitutes and volunteers,
when mustered 10, shall be organized in or as
signed to regiments, batteries or other organi-
cations of their own States, and, as far as prac-
ticable, shall, when assigned. be permitted to
select their own regiments, batteries or other
organizations from among those of theiF re-
spectiye States which at the time Of their as
signment may not be filled to their msximup
number.
The twentieth section of an act entitled
AN act to amend an act entitled an act for
enrolling and calling out the national forces, y
approved February "a. 1864, shall be constru'
ed to mean that the Secretary OF War shall
discharge minors under The age OF eighteen
years, under the circumstances and on the con-
ditious prescribed in said SECTION; and hereaf-
ter if any officer of the United States shall en-
list or muster into the military service any
person under the age OF sixteen years, with or
without the consent of his parent or guardian,
such persen so enlisted or recruited shall be
Immediately and uncondi tionally discharged
upon the repayment of the bounty received;
and such recruiting or mastering officer who
knowingly enlists person under sixteen years
OF age shall be dismissed from the service, with
the forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and
shall be subject to such further punishment as
court martial may decide.
Sixth-Section three Ul an sgt entitled 'An
act to amend an act entitled an act Tor enroll
ing and calling out the national forces aud foI
other purposes" approved February "a, 1864
shall be aud The same herby is amended so as
to authorize and direct district provost mar
shals, under the direction of the Provost Mar
shall General, to make draft for one hundred
per centum in addition to the number required
| to ELL the quota of any district as provided by
said section.
| Seventh-That instead of travelling pay, al
drafted persons reporting at place OF rendez
Yous shall be allowed transportation from
their places ofEesidence, and persons discharg
ed at the place of rendezvous shall be allowed
transportation to their place of residence.
Eighth-All persons ip the naval service o
the United States, who haye entered said serv
ice during the paesent rebellion, Who have not
been credited to the quota Of any town, dis
trict, ward or State, by reason CT their being
in said service, and not enrolled prioE to Feb
ruary "a, 1864, shall, on satisfactory proof o
their residence. made to the Secretary Of War
be enrolled and credited to the quotas of tn
town, ward, district or State, in which the.
respectively reside.
Ninth.--If any person, duly drafted, shal
be absent from home in the prosecution Of hi
usual business, the Provost Marshal of tn
district shall cause him to be duly notified n
soon as may be, and he shall not be deemed I
deserter, nor liable as such, until notice ha
Ibeen given to him and reasonable time allow
ed for him to return and sepOrt to the Proves
Marshal Of his district; but such absence shal
not otherwise affect his liability under this act
Tenth and EIeventh.-N othing contained i
this act is to be construed to alter or in an
way affect the law relative TO those eonscien
tiously opposed to bearing arms, or to ateC
the rights of persons to procure substitutes.