Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-03-10
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the First session of the Thirty
Eighth Congress.

PUBLIC--No. H.
AN ACT to amend an act entitled
An act for enrolling and calling
out the national forces, aud for 9th.
er purposes" approved March third,
eighteen hundred and sixty-three.
BE 1t enacted by tie Senate and HouSe
Of Representatives. Of the United States of
America IN Congress aSscmblcd, That the
| President 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. ARd be IL further enacted
That the quota of each ward Of a city,
town, township, precinct, or election
district, or of county, where the
county is not divided into wards, towns,
townships, precincts, or election dis
tricts, shall be, as nearly as possible,
in proportion to the number of men
resident therein liable to render mill
tary service, taking into account, as
far as practicable, the number which
has been previously furnished there
from and in asccrtaiminG and filling
said quota there shall lie taken into
account the number of men who have
heretofore entered the naval service of
the United States, and whose names
are borne upon the enrolment lists as
already returned to the office of the
Provost Marshal General Of the United
States.
Sec 3. And Le Il farther enacted,
That if the quotas shall not he filed
within the time designated 10y the
President, the provost marshal of the
district within which any ward of a
city, town, township, precinct, or elcc.
ton district, or county, where the
same is not divided into wards, towns,
townships, precincts, or election dis
tricts, which is deficient in its quota,
is situated, shall, under the direction
Of the Provost Marshal General, make
a draft for the number deficient there
from but all volunteers who may en-.
list after the draft shall have bCeu or
dcred, and before it shall be actually
made, shall be deducted from the num-
Der ordered TO be drafted in such ward
town, township, precinct, or 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 it is an amendment, further
IL ftc la1 hn l.,
ings had, until the quota of such dis
| trict shall be filed.
Sec. 4. And BE Il further enacted,
That any person enrolled under the
provisions of the act for enrolling and
calling out the national forces, and
FOR other purposes, approved March
third, eighteen hundred and sixty
three, or who may be hereafter 50 en-
rolled, may furnish, at any time pre-
yious to the draft, an acceptable sub
stltute, 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 substitute shall
be exempt from draft during the time
for which such substitute shall not
be liable to draft, not exceeding the
time for which such substitute shall
have been accepted.
Sec 5. And be II fRrthsr enacted,
That any person drafted into the mill
tary service of the United States may
before the time fixed for his appear
ance for duty at the draft rendezvous
furnish an acceptable substitute, sub
ject to such rules and regulations 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 him
shall again be placed on the roll, and
shall be liable to draft on future calls,
but not uCtil the present enrolment
shall be exhausted and this exemp-
tion 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 Uni-
ted States. not physically disqualified,
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 a
substitute, under the provisions of the
act to which this is an amendment,
such payment of money shall operate
only to relieve such person from draf,
in filling that quota aad his name
shall be retained on the roll in filling
future quotas but in no instance
shall the exemption of any person, on
account Of his payment Of commuta
tion money for the procuration of a
substitute. extend beyond one year
but at the end Of one year, in every
such case, the name of any person sc
exempted shall be enrolled again, i
not before returned to the enrolment
list under the provisions Of this sec
tion.
Sec. 6. And be IL further enacted
That boards of enrolment shall enrol
. all persons liable to draft under the
9 provisions of this act, and the act tC
|, , which this is an amendment, who's,
e names may have been omitted by th'
proper enrolling officers all person,
6 who shall arrive at the age of twent,
years before the draft all aliens VIII,
shall declare their intention to becom,
!, citizens all persons discharged iron
t the military or naval service of til,
United States who have not been i,
such service two years during th,
present war /; and all persons VIII,