Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-12-30
IMPORTANT TO the PUBLIC.
STATE OF IOWA.
ADyurANr GENERALS OFFICE, !
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STATE OF IOWA.
ADyurANT GENERALS OFFICE,
ID - 7 Davenport, Now rs, 1864.
CIRCULAR No. "a. ( 20 g
" HEREAs, The enrolment in the Proves /
Marshars department. is much larger in som
Sub-districts OF this state than the actual mum
Der Of men between the ages of ~ and As years
capable Of bearing arms: and ETY.
WHEREAS, BY this increased enrolment thu
quota assigned TO certain sub-districts Lss been
disproportionately large; and
WHEREAS, Authority and directions have now
Deen gwen Tor the correction aud revision o
said enrolment, for the reason given in Circu
lar No. 49, War Department, Provost Marsha
1884 which is hereto attached:
II is urged upon all our citizens to aid tn
Board OF Enrolment OF the respective district
In Sald correction and revision. 1851
The citizens OF this State should understand
that It Is plainly for the interest of each sub
district to have stricken from the lists all tn
names Improperly enrolled, because an exces
OF names increases the quota called Tor iron
such sub-district; and that it is equally for tn
district to place upon the lists all persons In tn
sub-district liable to do military duty, becaus
the greater number to be drawn FROM the les
the chance that any particular individual wi
be drawn. 1t is the personal interest of ever
enrolled man that the quota III which he is con
cerned shall not be made too large, and thai hi
own chances for draft shall not be upjustiy in
creased. Both these objects will be attained
all parties will aid in striking out the wron
~ Is this the interest of those drafted men viii
by putting in substitutes themselves liable d
draft, have secured exemption, which by tn
term OF the law holds good only until the pref
emit enrolment is exhausted In their sub-di.
trlcts. Men who are over 45 years Of age, an
in consequence excused by law from the pel
formance of duty in the field, owe 1t to the cans
and to the country, TO take jealous and activ
part in the correction of the enrolment lists
military service of the first Importance.
The law requires that quotas shall be assign
ed In proportion to the enrolment, and the TAI
ness and justice OF this mode Of determiniil
the amount of military service due fir IN eac
and every section OF The country cannot u
doubted, If the enrolment is made as near
perfect as it is practicable to make it, M
amount of service due to the nation from even
town or county is thus laid fairly and plain
before the citizens, and am sure that high
motive than selfish interest will prompt all
do their share in perfecting the enrolment al
securing just and efficient execution of I'll
necessary to supply them. The subject shou
receive The attention OF town, precinct an
ward meetings and committees.
The citizens OF the State are particularly r
quested notify and furnish evidence to III
A. A. Provost Marshal General of this stat
aud all District Provost MarshaIs. and ali sn
cial officers employed under them. and
Boards of enrolment Of all information rel
tive to DEATH changes of residences, enlist me-
or other caus> S which affect the enrolment.
N. b. RAKER,
Adiutant General OF low
WAR DEPARTMENT..
= PROVOST MARSHAL GENERALS OFFICE
Circular No. -. VIZ
correcting the enrolment lists in every distr
and sub-district. While the Board is respon
ble as body, for the enrolment, the Comm
sioner OF the Board will be required TO give
particular attention to the correction revisit
and preservation or the lists and to the PREF
ration OF al reports and returns il regaro
them; and he is hereby especially directed
see that monthly reports of the correcLio
made i'll the enrolment for the preceding ~ on
are promptly forwarded to this Office on or /
lore the 81 day of every month.
Circular No. n, from this office, dated June
lSd4 is r. produced and revised tor the guitar
OF all concerned. 1t Is as follows:
The attention of Boards OF Enrolment is c.
ed to section OF the Act ailenlatory OF the
rollment Act, which is in the following wor
"SEC. 6. And be itfusz2ter enacted That Boa
of Enrolment shall enroll all persons lit bic
act to which this is an amentiiA emit win
names may have been omitted by the pro-
enrolling officer; all persons VINO shall arrive
the age vi twenty years before the draft; all
lens who shall declare their intention to 6ecoI
citizens; all persons discharged from the IN
tary or naval service of the United States "
have not been in such service two years dur
the present war, and ali persons vino have b@
exempted under the provisions OF the sece
ment, but who are not exempted by the ID on
ions OF this act, and said Boards OF nroiln
shall release and discharge from draft all
and the draft, shall have arrived at the az
forty-tiye years, and shall strike the names
Attention is also called to paragraphs IS. Sc
Bureau OF the Provost Marshal eneral.
Ii is to be borne in mind by the Boards 1
their duties, in regard 70 the correction Of
Enrolment, do not cease with its revision
contrary the revision and correction of III
Lists is continuous duty, to which the lab
OF all Boards musL be directed. The names
all persons liable to military duty takii g
their residence in a sub-district, as well AZ
IN the subsdistrict, who from time to time
come liable shall be added to the Lnroilnl
lists: and the names of persons " llo enlist
the military Or naval service, or remove
manently from district. or whose liability
case of removal whenever 1t is practicable.
Board OF Enrolment OF the district to which
person removes viii be Notified, aaa he will
The Board OF Enrolment shall have copie
the Enrolment lists open to the examiila
OF the public at all proper times and Shall
public notice that any person may appenr
fore the Board and have any name stricken
the list il he can SHOW TO the satisfaction of
Board, that the person named is not prop
en- rolled, on account Of
LIST. Alienage;
I'd. NOn-residenca:
Sd. Over age;
18th. Permanent physics disability. of SUI
degree as to render the person not proper
ject for enrolment under the law and reg
tiCnS;
9Th. Having served i'll the military or III
service sr two years go during the present war,
Civil officers, clergynlen, and all other pls
nent citizens are invited to appear at ali ii
before the Board to point out errors in the
and to give such Information in their pos
sion as may aid i'll the correction aai revi
thereof.
To the duty OF hearing and actina anon cl.
for exemption, Boards of Enrolment are
Joined to devote all the time that can be spa
from other less pressing duties. They viii
port to the Provost Marshal General, for
purpose OF correcting lists on file, AT the en-
each month, upon sheets Of Consolidated
persons who have been added TO, or stric
from the rolls during the month"; They
send with each report recapltuiaiion, sho,
in concise form the number enrolled at
time of forwarding the last list, the nun
stricken from the enrolment and the nun
added to 1t since that time, and its actual Cd
Provost Marshal Gener
NoTE.-Acting Assistant Provost Mar
Generals will see that in all cases wher,
alterations have been made in the t.nroIin
lists for the month, tina. nevertheless, a .,
3fhqt toct shall be promptly made to this d
by the Commissioner, before the third I'D
the en- suing month.
Dec. 24dlt
General Sully, who is at DUBUQUE,
received dispatch from his Adult
Captain Pell, whom he left at Fl. SD
u. r., to treat with belligerent ind
who were expected at the Fort.
Captain says the Indians have com
sue for peace, and that they have ri
up Mrs. Kelly, who was taken by Il
i'll Minnesota in 1862, at the time OF
and whose fate has excites
much interest in the country.
indians are anxious for the Gene n
ratify the peace, and humbiy ask fo
usual peace present.
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A man in Fairfield, Ohio, stole S.
greenbacks. BY statute III that s.
the stealing of S35 constitutes grand
ceny, which is penitentiary often.
The very cute lawyer who defer
him pleaded that the statute con
plated $a5 in value, and as the
were worth less than the sum in
the prisoner was only guilty of
larceny. The court sustained the