Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-03-02

strike the names of such persons from the
enrolment.
Sec. Z. And be it further enacted, That
any mariner or able or ordinary seaman who
shall be drafted under this act, OF the act
to which this is an amendment, shall have
the right, within eight days after the uotifi-
cation of such draft, 70 enlist in the naval
service as q seaman, and certificate that
he has 60 enlisted being made out, in con.
fOrmity with regulations which may be
prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy,
and duly presented to the Provost Marshal
of the district in which such mariner or
able or ordinary seaman shall have been
drafted. shall exempt him from such draft !:
Provided, That the period for which he
shall have enlisted into the naval service
shall not he less than the period for which
he shall have been drafted into the mill
tary service: And provided further, That
the said certificate shaal declare that sat
istacIory proof has been made before the
naval officer issuing the Same that the said
person so enliBting in the navy is mariner
/ by vocation, or an able or ordinary seaman.
Aud any person now in the military service
of the Tn ted States who shall furnish sat .
isfGctory proof that he is mariner by 70.
cation or an able or Ordinary seaman may
enlist into the navy under such rules and
regulations IS may be prescribed by the
President Of the United States Provided,
That such enlistment shalt not be for less
than the unexpired term Of his military
service nor for less than one year. And
the bounty money which any mariner or
seamen enlisting from the army into the
navy may have resolved from the United
States, or from the State in which be en-
listed 10 the army, shall be deducted from
the prize money to which he may become
entitled during the time required to COM
plete his military service: Aud provided
further, That the whole number of such
transfer enIistments shall not exceed ten
thousand,
Sec 8. Aud be it further enacted, That
whenever any such mariner or able or or.
binary seaman shall have been exempted
from such draft In the military service by
sRch enlistment into the naval service,
under such due certificate thereof, then the
ward, town, township, precinct or election
districts, or county, Whea the same is
not divided into wards, towns, town
ships, precincts OF election districts
from which such person has been draf-
ted shall be credited with his services
to all intents and purposes as if he had
beer duly mustered into the military SER
vice HndeF such draft
Is
all enlistments into the naval service of the
United States, that may hereafter be made
of persons liable TO serve under the act
of Congress entitled "An act for enrolling
and calling out the natiopal forces, and
for other purposes" approved March third,
eighteen hundred aud sixty. three, shall be
credited to the ward, town, township, pre-
cinct or election district, or county when
the same are is divided into wards, towns,
townships, precincts, or election districts,
in which said enlisted men were or may
be enrolled and liable to duty under the
act aforesaid, under such regulations ne
the Provost Marshal General of the United
States may prescribe.
Sec. 10. Aud be it further enacted, That
the following persons be and they are here.
by exempted from enrolment and draft
under the provisions of this act aud the
act to which this is an amendment, to wit:
Such as are rejected as physically or men,
tally unit for the service, all persons actu-
ally in the military or naval service of the
United States at the time of the draft, and
all persons who have served in the military
or naval service two years during the pres.
eut war and been honorabIy discharged
therefrom; aud no persons but Fqcb as
are herein exempted shall be exem 1t.
Sec. IL. And be it further enacted, rnat
section third of the "Act for enrolling and
calling out the national forces, and for
other purposes" approved March third,
eighteen hundred and sixty three, aud so
much of section ten of said act, as pro.
Ntdes for the separate eurollmeut of each
class, be and the same are hereby repealed;
and it shall be the duty of the board OF
enrolment of each district. to consolidate
the two classes mentioned in the third SEQ.
ton Of said act.
Sec. IL. And be it further enacted, That
any person who shall forcibly resist or on
pose any enrolment, or who shall incite.
counsel, encourage, or Who-shall conspire
or confederate with any other person or
persons forcibly to resist or oppose any
such enrolment, ortWhO shall aid or assis,
or take any part in any forcible resistance
or opposition thereto, or who shall assault
obstruct, hinder, impede or threaten
any officer or other person EMPLOYED in
making or aiding to make such enrolment.
or employed in the performance, orln aid .
ing In the performances of any service in
any way relating thereto, or in arrestiuR
or aiding To- arrest any spyior deserter from
the military service of the United States
shall, upon conviction thereof in any court
competent 70 try the offence; be punished
BY q hne not exceeding iyeithonSand. dol.
lars, or by imprisonment not exceeding five
years, or by both of said punishmsnts in
the discretion of the court. ! And in cases
whore such assaultiug, obstructing, binder.
log, or impeding shall produce the death
OF such officer or other. person, the offen-
der shall be deemed guilty Of murder, and
/ upon conviction thereof upon indictmen
In the circuit court of the United States.
for the district within which the offence
was committed, shall be punished with
death. And nothing In this section con-
party Offending from liability: under Oroper
indictment or process, for A1y crime apainst
the laws of State, committed by. him
while violating the provisions of this Sec
ton. si,a 49, 81 - - :,
Sec. Is. And be il fdrthar enacted. That
the Secretary OF War shall be- s1thor;1sS
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