Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-07-13
The New Enrolment Law.

| l lie lOllOWlnH are the lFONlSipii, oi lHt
important act passed by Congress, further
to regulate and provide for the enrolling
and calling out the National forces, and
for other purposes:
The President of the United States may,
at his discretion. at any time hereafter,
call for any number of men rs volunteers,
for the respective terms of one. two and
three years, for military service, and any
such volunteer, or in case OF q draft. as
hereinafter provided, any substitute, shall
be credited TO the town, township. ward,
or city precinct, oi election district of a
county, toward the quota Of which he may
have volunteered or engaged as substi-
tute. and every volunteer who is accepted
and mustered into the service for one
year, unless sooner discharged, shall re-
ceive and be paid by the United States a
bounty of 500. and if for a term Of two
years, unless sooner discharged, bounty
OF $500. and if for a term OF three years,
unless sooner discharged, q bounty OF
$500; one-third Of which bounty shall be
paid to the soldier at the time of his being
mustered into the service. one third at
the expiration of one half of his term OF
service, and one third at the expiration OF
his term of service, and in case of his
death while in the service, then the resi-.
due of his bounty unpaid. shall be paid TO
his widow, if he shall have left widow;
if not, to his children, or if there be none,
TO his mother, in case she be widow.
In case the qnota, or any part thereof,
of any town, township, ward of city,
precint or election district. or of any coun-
| ty not so sub-divided, shall not be filed
within the space Of fifty days after such
call, then the President shall Immediate
| ly order a draft for one year to fill such
quota or any part thereof which may be
untitled; and in case of any such draft, no
payment of money shall be accepted or
received by the Government as commu-
tation to release any enrolled or drafted
man from personal 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 the States of Arkansas,
! Tennessee and Louisiana, and TO recruit
volunteers under any call under the pro
visions of this act, who shall be credited
to the State and to the respective sub-d -di-
visions thereof which may procure the en-
| listment.
Drafted men. substitutes and volun-
teers, when mustered in, shall he organ
lied in or assigned to regiments, batteries
or other organizations of their own States,
and, as far as practicable, shall, when as.
signed, be permitted to select their own
regiments, batteries or other organizations
| from among those of their respective
States which at the time of their assign
ment may not be filed to their maximum
number.
The twentieth section of an act entitled
"An act to amend an act entitled an act
for enrolling the national forces" approx
ed February "a, 1864, shall be construed
to mean that the Secretary of War shall
discharge minors under the age of eigh-
teen years, under the circumstances and
on the conditions prescribed in said sec
ton: and hereafter if any officer of the
United States shall enlist 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
person so enlisted or recruited shall be
Immediately and Internationally dis
charged upon the repayment of the boun-
ty received, and such recruiting or mus
tering officer who knowingly enlists per-
son under sixteen years of age shall be
dismissed from the service. with the for
feiture of all pay and allowances, and
shall be subject to such other punishment
as a court martial may decide
Sixth-Section three of an a0t entitled
"An act to amend an act entitled an act
for enrolling and calling out the national
forces and for other purposes" approved
February "a, 1864, shall be and the same
hereby is amended so as to authorize and
direct the Provost Marshals, under the di-
rection of the Provost Marshal General,
to make draft for one hundred per cen
tum in addition to the number required
to fill the quota of any district as provi-
ded by said section.
Seventh-Thatin instead of travelling pay,
all drafted persons reporting at place of
rendezvous shall be eallowed transportation
from their place of residence. and persons
discharged at the place of rendezvous
shall be allowed transportation to their
places of residence.
Eighth-All persons in the naval ser
vice of the United States, who have en-
tered said service during the present re-
bellion, who have not been credited to
the quota of any town, district ward, or
State, by reason of their being in said
service, and not enrolled prior to Febru-
airy "a, 1864, shall on satisfactory proof of
their residence, made to the Secretary of
War, be enrolled and credited TO the
quotas OF the town, ward, district or State
in which they respectively reside.
Nlnth-lf any person, duly drafted,
shall be absent from home in the prose
outioD of his usual business, the Provost
Marshal of the district shall cause him TO
be duly notified as soon as may be, and he
shall not be deemed deserter, nor liable
as sach, until notice has been given to
him and reasonable time allowed for him
to return and report to the Provost Mar
shal of his district; but such absence shall
not otherwise affect his liability under
this act.
Tenth and Eleventh-Nothing contain
ed in this act is to be construed to alter
or in any way affect the law relative to
those econscienciously opposed to bearing
arms, or to affect the rights of persons to
procure substitutes