Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-03-10
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That in all districts over one hundred miles in on
tent, and IN such as are composed of over ten
counties, the board shall hold their sessio rs in at
least two places in such district and at such points
as are best calculated to accommodate the people
hereof.
Sec. Is. And be 1t further enacted That provost
marshalS, boards of enrolment, or any member
thereof, acting by authority of the board shall
nave power to summon witnesses in behalf of the
Government, and enforce their attendance by at.
tachment without previous payment of fees, IL Gu v
case pending before them, either of them and
the ices allowed for witnesses attending under UNI
mons shall be six cents per mile tor mileage, count
ing one way and no other fees or costs shall be
allowed under the provisions of this section and
they shall have power to administer oaths and af-
hrmations. And any person who shall wilfuly and
corruptly swear or affirm falsely before any pro-
vost marshal, o. board of enrolment. or member
thereof acting by authority of the board, or who
shall, before any civil magistrate, wlfuly and cor
ruptiy affirm falsely TO any affidavit to be
used in any pending before any provost mar
shall or board OF enrolment, shall, conviction
be fined not exceeding FIVE hundred dollars and i'm
prisoned not less than six months nor more than
twelve months. The draft ed men shall have pro-
cess to bring in witnesses. but without mileage.
Sec. l6. Ana be 1t further enacted, That co pies
OF any record OF provost marshal or board of en-
roIment, or of any part thereof, certified by the
provost marshal. a majority of said board OF en-
rolment, shall be deemed and taken as evidence in
any civil or military court in like manner as the
original record ProridCd, That if any person
shall knowngly certify any false copy or copies of
such record, 20 be used in any civil or militar
court, he shall be subject to the pains and penal
ties of peri ury.
Sec. II. And be it further s,aoctss That members
OF religious denominations, who shall by ath or
animation declare that they conscientiously
opposed to the bearing of arms, and who are pro-
holted from doing so by the rules and articles of
faith and practice of said religious denomina atoms
snail, when drafted into the military service be
considered non-com batauts, and shall be assign
ed by the Secretary of War duty in the HOSPITALS
or TO the of freedmen, shall pay the sum of
three hundred dollars to such persons as the Sec
Rotary of War shall designate receive it, to be
applied to the benefit of the sick and wounded SOL
dlers Procided, That no person shall be entitled
to the benefit of the provisions of this section un
less his declaration conscientious scrupes against
bearing arms shall be supported by satisfactory
evidence that his department has been uniformly
consistent with such declaration.
Sec. IS 4nd be it further enacted, That no per-
son of foreign birth shall, on account of alienage
be exempted from enrolment draft under the
provisions of this act, the act to which it is an
amendment, who has at any time assumed the
rights of g. citizen by voting at any election held
under authority of the laws of any State or Terri
tory, or of the United States, who has held any
office uuder such laws or any of tkem but the
fact that any such person of foreign birth has voted
or held, or shall vote hold office aforesaid,
shall be taken as conclusive evidence that he is
entitled to exemption from military service
co unit of alienage.
Sec. 10. Ind be it further enacted That all
claims to exemption shall be verified by the oath
or affirmation of the party claiming exemption, to
the truth of the facts stated unless it shall salts
appear 10 the DOarQ OF enrolment that
such p arty is Tor some good and sufficient reason
unable to make such oath affirmation; and the
testimony of any other party filed in support of
claim to exemption shall also be made upon oath
or affirmation.
Sec. 20. And be it fatrthe,. enacted That if any
person drafted and liable to render mit ay service
shall procure decision of the board of enrolment
IN his favor upon a claim to exemption by anv
fraud or false representation practiced by himself
or by his procurement, such decision or exemption
shaLi pc OF no effect, and the person exempted, or
Ia whose favor the decision may be made, shall be
ueelned deserter, and may be arrested tried by
co urt martial, and punished such, and shall be
held to service for the full term for which he was
drafted, reckoning from the time of his arrest pro
c1ded That the Secretary of War may order the dis
charge OF all persons in the military service who
are under the age of eighteen years at the time of
the application for their discharge, when it shall
appear upon due proof that such persons are in
the service without the consent, either expressed
or implied OF their parents guardians. Aud
rrOrided further That such persons, their parents
or guardians, shall first repay to the Government
and to the State and local authorities all bounties
and advanc pay which may have been paid to them
any thing in the acS to which this is amendment
to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sec Il. and be 1T further enacted That any per-
son who shall procure, or attempt to procure a
false report from the surgeon of the board of en-
rollment concerning the physical condition of any
drafted person, decision in favor of such person
by the hoard of enrolment upon a claim to exemp-
ton knowing the same to be false, shall, upon
vcton in any district circuit court OF the United
States be punished by imprsonm ent for the period
for which the party drafted.
Sec. q. And be 1T further efaGcted, That the
fees of agents and attorneys for making out and
causing TO be executed any papers i'll support f u
claim for exemption from draft or for any services
that may be rendered to the claimant, shall not in
any case, exceed five dollars; and physicians or
surgeons furnishing certificat disability % any
claimant for exemption from draft shall noS be en-
titled to any fees or compensation therefor. And
any agent or atr rney who shall, di ectly indi-
rectly, dema and o. receive any greater compeusa-
ton for his services under this act, and any physi
clan surgeon who shall, directly or indirectly de
mand or receive any compensation for furnishing
said certlt cate of disability, and officer. clerk
Or deputy come tied with the roard of enrolment
who shall receive compensation from any drafted
IAN for any services, or obtaining the performance
of such service required from any emit Der of said
board by the provisions of this act shall be deem
ed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and, upon convic-
ion, shall, for every such offence, be fined not ex-
eeeding five undred dollars, to be covered upon
information or Indictment before any court OF com
oetent Jurisdiction, one half for the use any in
former who may prosecute for the same in the
lame Of tn" United States, and She other half for
The of the United States, and shall Also be sub
ect to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one
Year, at the discretion Of the court.
Sec. %. And be 1T further enacted, That no
EN- Der of the board of enrolment, and o surgeon
detailed o. employed to assist the board of enrol
nent. and no clerk, assistant or employee of any
provost marshal or board of enroment shall di-
ectly indirectly, be engaged in procuring or at
tempting to procure substitute for persons draft
If the United States. And if any member of a
BOARD of enrolment, any su h surgeon, CLERK, Jas
stant, or employee, hall procure, at tempt to
procure, a substitute for any person drafted, or
liable to be drafted, as afore said he shall be deem
I'D guilpy of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon con-
7iction, be punished by not less than
thirty days, nor more than six months, and pay
inc not less than one huudred, more than
one thousand dollars, by any court competent to
Try the offence
Sec "a. And be 1T fa;rther enacted That all able
bodied male colored persons, between the ages of
twenty and forty five years, resident in the United
states, shall be enrolled according to the provis-
ons of this act and of the act which this is an
mendment, and form part of the national forces
and when slave of loyal master shall be drafted
and mustered into the service of the United States
his master shall have certificate thereof. and
thereupon such slave shall be free and the boun-
5y of one hundred dollars, payable by law for
each drafted man, shall be paid to the person to
whom such drafted person was owing service or Ia
Dor at the time of his muster into the service of
the United States. The Secretary Of War shall ap-
point commission in each of the slave States rep
resented in Congress- charged to award to each loyal
person to whom a colored volunteer may owe SER
vice, just compensation, not exceeding three hun-
ired dollars, for each such colored volunteer pay
able out of the fund derived from comm tations,
and every such colored volunteer on being mus
tered into the service shall be free. And in all ca
ses wnere men of color have been heretofore en-
list ed or have volunteered in the military service
of the United States, all the provisions of this act,
SO far the payment of bounty and
compen sation are provided, shall be equally ap-
plicable as those who may be hereafter recruit
ed. But men of color, drafted or enlisted, or who
may volunteer into the military service, while they
shall be credited the quotas of the several States
OF bdivisons of States, wherein they are respec-
lively drafted, enlisted, shall volunteer, shall
not be assigned as State troops but shall be mus
tered into regiments or companies United States
colcred troops. ar-..
Sec. Is. And be 1T further enacted, That the if
teen th section Of the act to which this is amends
tory be SO amended that it will read as follows:
That any surgeon charged with the duty of such
nspection who shall ecefye from auv arson whom
soeTer any money other valuable thing, or
agree, directly or indirectly, receive same to
his own or another's use, for making an imperfect
Or false or incorrect report, or who
snail WIfuily neglect to make faithful spection
and true report, and each member of the board of