Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-02-27

'iSO w NoneiuOIeu uOu-COllDhluptS' Huu
shill be assigned by the Secretary of War
to do duty in the hospitals o. TO The care
OF the freedmen, or shall pay the sum of
three hundred dollars, to be applied to
the benefit of the sick and wounded sold
iers, provided no persons shall be entitled
10 the benefit Of this section unless his de.
carasion Of conscientious scrupes against
bearing arms shall be supported by satis-
factory evidence that his department has
been uniformly consistent with such ds-
claratiops.
No person Of foreign birth shall an ac-
count of alienage be exempted from en-.
rollmeus or dralt, who has at any time as.
sumed the rights of citizen by voting at
any election held under the authority of
the laws of any State or Territory, Or of
the United States, or who has he'd any
Office under such laws, or any of theu
but the fact that such person Of fereisn
birth has voted or held or shall vote or
hold office shall be taken as conclusive
evidence that he il not entitled to excmp.
ton from military service on account of
ulienage. ..
Any person drafted and liable to render
military service, who shall procure exemp-
ton by fraud or false representation, wi IL
be deemed deserter, punished az such
and held 10 service for the full term for
which he was drafted reckoning from the
time of his arrest; provided, the Secretary
of War may order the discharge Of all
persous in the military service who are
under the age of eighteen years at the
time of the application for their discharge
when il must appear upon due proof that
such persons are in :the service with
out the concent, either express or implied
Of their parents or guardians; and provid
ed that such persons, their parents or
guardians shall first pay to the Govern
ment, and to the States and local authori-
ties, all bounties and advance pay which
may have been paid to them.
Any person who shall procure, or at.
temp to procure, false report from the
surgeon of a board of enrolment concern.
ing tho physical condition of any drafte d
person, or decision in favor of sue b
person by the board of enrolment upon a
claim to exemption, knowing the same to
be false, ohall, upon conviction iu any
district or circuit court of the United States
be punished be imprisonment Tor the per-
iod for which the party was drafted
The agents or attorneys fees for max
ing out and causing TO be executed papers
in support OF a claim for exemption from
draft, or for any service rendered to the
claimant, shall not in any case ex-
cecd five dollars; and physicians or surg
cons furnishing certiiic ates of disability
and any officer, clerk, or deputy connec
ted with the Board of Enrolment, who
shall receive compensation from any draft.
cd men for any services, or for obtaining
the performance of such service required
from any member of the Board by the
provisions of this act, shall be guilty of q
high misdemeanor, and on conviction
fued not exceeding Eve hundred dollar.
and shall also be subject to impris onmen
for term not exceeding one year, at the
discretion of the Court.
No member of the Board Of enrolment
and no nrgeon detailed or employed tc
assist the Boards of Enrolment, ant
no assistant or employee of any Pro
vost Marshall, or Board of Enrolmen,
shall directly or indirectly be engaged il
procuring or attempting to procure substi
tutes for persons drafted or liable to b'
drafted, and any surgeon making falls
or incorrect report, or shall wilfully ne
glect 10 make faithful inspection ant
true report and any members of the Boart
of Enrolment, who shall wilfully agree
to discharge any drafted man, who is no
legally and properly entitled to discharge
are to be punished by fine and imprison
mens.
All able-boded male colored person
between the ages of 20 and As years, re
sident in the United States, shall be en-
rolled according to The provisions of tn
enrolment act and of this amendatory &C
and form part of the national forces.
And when slave Of loyal maste
shall be drafted and mustered into the ser
vice Of the United States, his master shal
have a certificate thereof, and thereupo
such slave shall be free, and the bounty c
Sl60, now plyable by law for each draf.
cd man, shall be paid to the person t
whom such drafted person was owing ser
vice or labor at the time of bis muster int
the service OF the United States.
The Secretaey of War shall appoint
commissi on in each Of the States repre-
!, sented in congress charged 10 award I
+, each loyal person TO whom the colore
, volunteer may own service just com
pensation, not exceeding three hundre
dollars to each such colored volunteer
payable out OF the fund derived from con
mutations.
Every such coored volunteer, on bein
mustered into the service, shall be fret
,, and in all cases where men of color hav
been heretofore enlisted or have volunteer
ed in the military service, all the provision
of this act, so far as the payment of bour
,, ty and compensation are provided, sha
be equally applicable to those who ma
be hereafter recruited ; but men of cole
drafted or enlisted, or who may voluntee
= into tba p,;l;to m eary;na xpb;la thou oh n