North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-03-23
THE ENROLMENT ACT.
Passed by Congress, Friday Feb. 4 eth 1 SO 4


An Act to amend an act entitled {" An act
for enrolling and calling out the national
forces, and for other purposes" approved
March third, eighteen hundred and sixty
three.
Be IL enacted By the Senate and House of
Representatives ntthe United States of Aney =
icd, an Congress assembled. That the Presi
dent 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 as the public exigencies may require.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the quota cf each ward Of city, town, town
ship, precinct, or election district, or of a
county where the county is not divided into
wards, towns, townships, precincts, or elec.
ton districts, shall be, as nearly as possible,
in proportion to the number of uen resident
therein liable to render military service, TAX
ing into account, as far as practicable, the
number which has been previously furnished
thcrefrom ; and in ascertainmg and filling
said quota there shall be taken into account
the number Of men who have heretofore en-
tered the naval service of the United States,
and whose names are borne upon the enroll
ment lists as already returned TO the office Of
the Provost Marshal General of the United
States.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That if
the quota sha! not be filled within the time
designated by the President, the Provost
| Marshal OF the district within which any
ward Of city, town, township precinct, or
election district, or county where the same
is not divided into wards, towns, townships,
precincts, or election districts, which is def
clent IN its quota, is situated, shall, under
the direction of the Provost Marshal Gener-
al, make draft for the number deficient
thereirom but all volunteers who NAV en-
| list 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, pre-
cinct, election district or county. And 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 il
is an amendment, further drafts shall be
made and like procee dings had until the
quota of such district shall be filled.
Sea. 4. And be ii further enacted, That
any person enrolled under the provisions of
| the act for enrolling and calling out the na
! tlonal forces, and for other purposes, approx
| ed March 3, 1863, or who may be hereafter
so enrolled, may furnish, at any time pre-
Vious to the draft, an acceptable substitute.
who is not liable to draft, nor at the time in
the military or naval service of the United
States, and such person so furnishing sub
Sttute shall be exempt from the draft during
the time for which such subs ttute shall not
De liable to draft, not exceeding the time for
which such substitute shall have been ac-
cepted.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted. That
any person drafted into the military service
oil the United States may, before the time
hxed for his appearance for duty at the draft
rendezvous, furnish an acceptable substi tute,
subject to such rules and regulations as NAV
DO prescribed by the Secretary of War
That if such substitute is not liable to draft
the person furnishing him shall be exempt
from draft during the time for which such
substitute is not liable to draft, not exceed
ing the term for which he was drafted and
II such substitute is liable to draft, the name
OF the person furnishing him shall again be
placed on the roll, and shall be liable to draft
on future calls, but not until the present en-
| rollment shall be exhausted and this ex
emptIon shall not exceed the term for which
such person shall have been drafted And
any person now in the military or naval ser.
vice of the United States, not physically dis
qualified, who has so served more than one
year, and whose term of unexpired service
| shall not at the time of substitution exceed
six months, may be employed as substitute
to serve in the troops of the State in which
he enlisted; and if any drafted person shall
hereafter pay money for the procuration of
substitute, under the provision of the act to
which this is an amendment, such payment
of money shall operate only to relieve such
person from draft on that call, and his name
shall be retained on the roll, and he shall be
subject to draft in filling that quota; and his
name shall be retained on the roll in filling
iuture quotas but in no instance shall the
exemption of any person, on account of his
payment OF communication money for the pro.
cura'lon OF substitute, extend beyond one
year; but at the end of one year in every
such case, the name of any person so exempt-
eu snail De enrolled again, if not before re.
turned to the enrolment list under the pro.
visions of this section.
SEC. T. And be 1t further enacted, That
Boa rds of enrolment shall enrolI oil ,r.o