Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-03-10
OFFICIAL.
LdtcS Of the United States Passed at the First Sss
sion Of the Thirty Eighth Congress
IPUBLIC-NO. IL

! national forces,
! for other purposes approved March third
eighteen hundred and sixty-tbree.
/ Be 1t enacted By the Senate and House of Repre-
se1tdtireS Of the United States of america in Con
grtsS assesbled, That the President of the United
States shall be authorized, whenever he shall deem
| 1t necessary, during the present war to call for
such mum Der OF men for the military service of the
United states as the public exigencies may equire
: Sec = AEd De II FURTHER enacted, That the auota
of each ward Of a city, town. town ship precinct
or election district, or of county where the conn
y is OF divided into wards, towns, townships pre-
cincts or election districts, shall be, as nearly az
possible, IN pro portion to the number of men resi-
dent therein liable TO render military service tax
ing into account. far as practicable tho r.
whch has been previously furnished therefrom
and IN asce-taIning and filing said quota there
snail De taken into account the number of men
VINO have heretofore entered the naval service OF
ehe ohlted states, and whose names are borne upou
the enrolment ests as already urned to the once
OF the Provost Marshal General of the United
States.
Sec. 8. And be If further enoctsd That if.,
tas shall not be filled within the time desiena4ed
by the President the provost marshal of the dis
trict within which any ward OF city. town town
ship. precinct, or election district or county whe-e
the same is not divided into wards, towns town
ships precincts or election districts which is de-
hcent in its quota, is situated, shall, under the
direction Of the Provost Marshal General, MAKE a
draft for the number deficient therefrom but all
volunteers who may enlist after the draft shall have
been ordered, and before it shall be actually made
shall be deducted from the number ordered to he
drafted in such ward, town, township, precinct or
election district, or county. And if the quota of
any district shall not be filed by the draft made in
accordance with the provisions of this act and the
act to which it is amendment, further drafts
shall be made, and like proceedings had, until the
quota of such district shall be filed.
Sec. f. Aad be it furtksr enacted That any person
enrolled under the provisions of the for enroll
ing and calling out the national forces, and for
other purposes, approved March third, eighteen
hundred and sixty three. who may be hereafter
so enrolled, may furnish, at any time previous to
the draft, acceptable substitute, who is not la
Bile to draft, at the time in the military or ma
val service of the United States. and such person
so furnishing substitute shall be exempt from
draft during the time for which SUCH substitute
shall OF be liable to draft. not exceeding the time
for which such substitute shall have been accepted
Sec s. and be it further enacted, That any per-
son drafted into the military of the United
States may before the time fixed for his appearance
for duty at the draft rendezvous furnish an accept
able substitute, subject to such rules aud regula-
tons as may be 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 exceeding the term for which
he was drafted; and if such substitute is liable to
draft, the name of the person furnishing Eim shall
again be placed on the roll, and shall be liable to
draft future calls but not until the present en-
rollment shall be es hausted ; and this exemption
shall not exceed the term for which such person
shall have been drafted. And any person now in
the military or naval service of the United States
not physically disqualified, who has serv ed more
than one year. and whose term of uneXpired SER
vice 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 enlist
ed and if any drafted person hall hereafter pay
money tor the procuration of a substitute, under
the provisions of the act to which this an amend
ment, such payment of money shall operate only
to relieve such person from draft, in filing that
quota and his name shall be retained the roll
in filing future quotas; but in instance shall
the exemption OF any person, on account of his
payment of communication money for the procura-
ton of a substitute, extend beyond one year but
ct the end of one year, in every such case, the
name of any person exempted shall be enr oiled
again. if not before returne to the enrolment list
under the provisions of this section.
Sec. 3. Ind be it further enacted That boards of
enrolment shall enroll all persons liable to draft
under the provisions of this act, and the act to
which this is amendment, whose names may
have been omitted by the proper enrolling officers
all persons who shall arrive at the age OF twenty
years before the draft all aliens who shall declare
their intention to become citizens; all persons dis
charged from the military or naval service of the
United States who have not been in such service
two years during the present war; and all persons
who have been exempted under the provisions of
the second section of the act to which this is
amendment, but who are not exempted by the pro-
visions of this act; and said boards of enrolment
shall release and discharge from draft all persons
who, between the time of the enrolment and the
draft, shall have arrived at the age of forty-fve
years, and shall strike the name OF such persons
from the enrolment.
Sec. 7. And be 1T further enacted, That any
mariner or able or ordinary seaman who shall be
drafted under this act, or the act to which this
is amen ment, shall have the right, within
eight days after the notification of such draft to
enlist in the naval service a seaman, and GER
tificate that he has enlisthed being made out
conformity with regulations which may be pre-
scribed by the Secretary of the Navy, and duly
sented 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: Prorlded, That the period for which
he shall have enlisted into the naval shall
not be less than the period for which he shall have
been drafted into the mit AIRY service And prouieed
further, That the said certificate shall declare that
satisfactory proof has been made before the naval
officer issuing the same that the said person
listing in the navy is mariner by vocation, an
able or ordinary seaman. And any person now in
the military service of the United States who shalt
furnish satisfactory proof that he is mariner by
vocation able ordinary seaman may enlist
into the navy under such rules and reg ulations
may be prescribed by the President of the United
States: Prorided, That such enlistment shall not
be for less than the unexpred term OF his military
service nor for less than one year. And the boun-
ty money which any mariner or seaman enlisting
from the army into the navy may have received
from the United States, from the State in which
he enlisted in the army, shall be deducted from the
prize money to which he may become entitled
during the tine required to complete his military
service And provided further, That the whole
number of such transfer enlistments shall not ex
coed ten thousand. ~---.- o.. .-------
Sec. s. And be 1T further enacted, That whenever
any such mariner able ordinary seaman shall
have been exempted from such draft in the military
service by such enlistment into the naval service
under such due certificate thereof, then the ward,
Ii,
county, when the same is not divided into wards,
towns, townships, precincts or election districts,
from which snch person has been drafted, shall be
credit ed with his services to all and purposes
as if he had been duly mustered into the military
service under such draft
Sec 9. And be 1T further enacted, That all enlist
ments into the naval service of the United States
into the marine corps of the United States that may
hereafter be ade of persons liable to service IN
der the act of Congress entitled EAn act for en-
rolling and calling out the national forces, and for
III az
hundred and sixty-three, shall be credited to the
ward, town. township precinct, or election district,
county, when the same is not divided into wards,
towns townships precincts, or election districts in
which su CHI enlisted men were or may be enrolled
and liable to duty under the act aforesaid, under
such regulations the Provost Marshal General of
the Unit ed States may prescribe.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the fol-
lowing persons be and they are hereby exempted
from enrolment and draft under the provisions of
this act and Of the act to which this is amend
ment, to wit: Such az rejected physically or
entaly unfit for the service, all persons actually
in the military or naval service of the United
s 5ateS at the time of the draft, and all persons
no have served in the military naval service
years during the present war and been honora-
discharged therefrom; and no persons but such
s are herein exempted shall be exempt.
Sec. IL. And be it further enacted That section
third Of the sAct for enrolling and calling out the
national forces, and for other purposes" approved
March third, eighteen hundred and sIxty-three and
SO much of section ten OF said act provides for
the separate enrolment 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
solidate the two classes mentioned in the third
section of said act.
Sec. II. And be 1t further enacted That any per-
son who shall forcibly resist oppose any enrol
ment, who shall iRcite, counsel, encourage, or
who 81 all consplre or confederate with any other
person or persons forcibly resist or oppose any
such enrolm ent, who shall aid assist, take
any part in any forcible resistance or position
thereto, who shall assault, obstruct, hinder i'm
pede, or threaten any officer other person
ployed in making in aiding to make such enrol
ment, or employed in the performance, in aiding
in the performance Of any service in any way rela
ting thereto, in arrestins aiding to arrest any
spy deserter from the military service Of the