Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-29

said act.
Sac. ~. And be Il further enacted, That any
person who shall forcby resist oppose any
enrollment, who shall ncite, counsel, encour-
are, or who shall conspire or confederate with
any other person or persons forcibly TO resist or
oppose any such enrolment, Sho shall aid
assist. or take any part in any orcble resistance
or opposition thereto, or who shall assault, OBJ
struct, hinder. impede or threaten any officer or
person employed Ia making or in aiding to make
such enrolment. or employed IN the performance,
or in aiding in the performance OF any service in
any way relating thereto, or in arresting or aiding
to arrest any spy or deserIer from :he military
service of the United States, shall. upon convic-
ton thereof in any court competent to try the
offense, be punished by fine not exceeding i've
thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceed
ing five years or by both of said punishments, in
the discretion of the court. And in cases where
such assauting. obstructing, hinderng or imped
ing shall produce the death OF such officer or 9TH
er person, the offender shall be deemed guilty of
murder and upon conviction thereof upon in
dictment in the Circuit Court of the United
States for the district within which the offense
was committed, shall be punished with death.
| And nothing in this section contained shall be
construed to relieve the party offending from liza
bility under proper indictment or process for any
crime against the laws of State, committed by
him while violating the provisions OF this sec
ton.
SIC. Is. And be it further ~pacted, That the
Secretary of War shall be authorized to detail or
appoint such number of additional Surgeons for
temporary duty in the examination of persons
drafted into the military service in any district,
| as NAV be necessary to secure the prompt exam
ination of all such persons, and to fix the com
pensaton to be paid Surgeons so appointed while
actually employed And such Surgeons. so de-
tailed or appointed, shall perform the same duties
as the Surgeon Of the Board of Enrolment ex-
cept that they shall not be permitted to vote or
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SIC. IA. And be it further enacted, That the
Secretary OF War is authorized, whenever in his
judgment the public interest will be subserved
thereby, to permit or require Boards of Examin
alton of enrolled or drafted men to hold their
amnatons at different points within their respect
i've enrolment districts TO be determined by him
Provided, That in all districts over one hundred
miles in extent and in snch as are composed of
over ten countless the board shall. hold their
sessions in at least two places in such district,
land at such points as are best calculated to ac-
commodate the people thereof
SEC Is And be it further enacted, That Pro-
vost Marshals. Boards Of Enrolment. OF any
member thereof. acting by authority of the board,
! shall have power to summon witnesses in behalf
Of the government, and enforce their attendance
to attachment without previous payment of fees,
in any e.fse pending before them; and the fees
allowed for witnesses attending under summons
shall be six cents per mile for mileage, counting
one way; and Ito other fees or costs shall be al
lowed under the provisions of this section; and
they shall have power to administer oaths aud
affirmations And any person who shall willfully
and corruytly swear or Affirm falsely before any
Provost Marshal OF Board OF Enrolment, or
member thereof, acting by authority of the
board, or who shall, before any civil magistrate.
willfuly aud c0rruptly swear or affirm falsely to
any affidavit to be used in any case pending be-
fore any Provost Marshal or Board of Enroll
ment shall, on conviction, be fned not exceed
ing We hundred dollars. and imprisoned not less
than SIX months nor more than twelve months.
The drafted men shall have process 70 bring in
Witnesses. but without mileage.
SEc Is And be it further enacted. That cop
les of any record of Provost Marshal or Board
of Enrolment, or of any part thereof, certified
by the Provost Marshal, majority of said
Board of Enrolment, shall be deemed and tai ken
as evidence in any civil or military court in like
manner rs the original record: Provided That il
any person shall knowingly certify any false copy
or copies of such record, 10 be used in any civil
or military court he shall be subject to the pains
and penalties o: perjury.
SEC H. Aud be il further enacted. That mem
bers of religious denominations, who shall 10y
oath or affirmation declare that they are cohsc
entously opposed to the bearing of arms. and whc
are prohibited from doing SO by the rules and AT
ticles of faith and practice of said religious de
nomination SHALL when drafted into the service o
the United States, be considered non combat
tants and shall be assigned BY the Secretary o.
War to duty in the hospitals, or to the care Vi
freedmen. or shall pay the sum OF three hundreC
dollars to such person as the Secretary OF Wa
shall designate to receive it, to be applied to thu
benefit Of sick and WOUNDED soldiers; Provided
I hi, Sc
the provisions of this section unless his declara-
ton of conscientious scrup;es shall be supporie,
by satisfactory evidence that his deportmen
has been uniformly consistent with such declara
ton.
SIC Ia. And be it further enacted. That M
person of foreg birth shall, on account OF alien
age, be exempted from the enrolment drsf
under the provisions of this act, or the act Il
which this is an amendment, who has at am
time assumed the rights of a citizen by voting a
any election held un Ter authority of the laws o
any State or Territory, of the United States
or who has held any Office under such laws o.
any of them; but the fact that any such person
of foIeign birth has voted, or held shall vot,
or hold. oiIire aforesaid. shall be taken con
elusive evidence that he is not entitled to exemp
ton account sf alienage
SEC. 10. And be il further enacted. That al
claims to exemption shall be verified by the oatl
or aInrm ttOn Oh TIE party Claiming exemption
to the truth of the facts stated. unless it shall
satisfactorily appear TO the Board of Enrollmen
that such party is for some good and suficien
reason unable TO make such oath or affirmation
and the testimony of any other party filed il
support of a claim to exemption shall also b,
made upon oath or affirmation.
Sic 90. And be il further enacted That, j
any person drafted and liable to military service
shall procure a decision of the Board of Enroll
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any fraud or false Misrepresentation praclicel b,
himself or by his procurement. such decision o.
exemption shall be of ma effect. and the person
exempted, or in whose favor the decision may b
made. shall he deemed deserter. and may b.
arrested, tried by court martial. and punished
as such, aud shall be held 10 service for the full
term for which lac was drafted, reckoning frou
the Zine OF his arrest: Provided. That the Sec
Rotary of War may order the discharge of al
persons in the military service who are under th.
age of eighteen years at the time of the applica
ton for their discharge. when il shall appear up
on due proof that such ter>0ns are in the servic'
without the consent, either expressed or implied
of their parents or guardians: And provided fur
ther, That such persons. their parents, or guard
ans, shall FIRST repay to the Governments and t
the State and local authorities, All bouE'ies anC
advance pay which may have been paid to them
anything in the act to which this l. an amend
meDt to the contrary notwithstanding.
SEc 81. And he it further enacted, That an,
person who shall procure. or attempt TO procure
false report from the Surgeon of the Board o
Enrolment concerning the physical condition o
any drafted person, decision in favor of suci
person by the Board of Enrolment upon CLAIM
to exemption. knowing the SAME to be false
shall, upon conviction in any District or Circui
Court of the United States, be punished by i'm
prisonment for the period for which the party WA
drafted.