Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-09-06

We republiSh the Presidents last procla mation
for draft, in order to call attention to sin
gular errors in that document
WASHINGTON, July lS. 1864
By the President Of the United States Of America:
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas BY an act approved July 4, 1864, en-
titled can act further to regulate and provide for
the enrolling and calling out the national forces,
and for other purposes" it is provided that the
President OF the United States may az his dis
erection. at any time hereafter, call for any mum
Der OF men as volunteers, for the respective
terms of one, two and three years. for military
service, and "that in case tho quota or anv part
thereof of any town, township, ward of n city,
precinct. or election precinct of a county not
so subdivided, shall not be filled within the space
Of fffy days after such call, then the President
shall Immediately order draft for one year to
fill such quota, or any part thereof which NAV
be untitled"
And whereas, the new enrolment heretofore
ordered is so far completed as that the aforemen-
toned act of Congress may now be put in opera
ton for recruiting and keeping up the strength of
the armies in the field, for garrisons. and such
military operations as may be required for the pur-
pose ofsuppressng the rebellion and restoring
the authority of the United States Government
in the insurgent States:
Now. therefore, |. Abraham Lincoln, Presi
dent Of the United States. do issue this call for
FIVE hundred thousand volunteers for the military
service provided. nevertheless, that all credits
which may be established under section eight of
the aforesaid act, on account of persons who have
entered the naval service during the present re-
belion. and by credits for men furnished to the
military service in excess of calls heretofore
made for volunteers. will be accepted under this
call for one, two three years. they may elect.
andl twill be entitled TO the bounty provided BY
the law for the period of service for which they
enlist
And 1 hereby proclaim. order and direct that
Immediately after the 9Th day of September,
1864, being City days from the date of this call,
draft for troops to serve for one year. shall be
held in every town. township, ward of a city,
precinct, election district county not so sub
divided. TO fill the quota which shall be assigned
to il under this call, any part thereof which
may be untitled by volunteers on the fifth day of
September. 1854
In testimony whereof have hereunto set
lis my hand and caused the seal Of the
United States 10 be affixed
Done at the City of Washington this 18th day
of July in the year of our Lord, 1864. and of the
independence of the United States the s9th
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
By the President
WV II SEWARD. Secretary of State
In the first whereas" the law is quoted as d-
recting that unless the quota is filed within
Fifty days after such call. then the President
Immediately order a draft, &c
We have before us a copy Gust from the
press of The Statutes at Large" for ls63-64
carefully collated with the originals at Wash
ingtou," and published "by authority" by Little.
Brown Co, of Boston. In this copy-the
only official copy Of the laws that has been
find fba ~ IF nj A c.,
2, p 379, the following:
THAT in case the quota. or any part thereof,
of any town. township. ward of city. precint or
election district of any county not so subdivided
shall not be filed within the space Of sixtv DAYS
after such call. then tue President shall imme
diately order draft for one year. 10 fill such
quota, or any part thereof which may be IN
flled''
The language here is explicit Sixty DAYS
interval must be allowed between the call and
the draft. No draft, therefore. can legally be
made sooner than sixty days after the 18th OF
July
Even had fifty days been the legal period, the
iraft could not take place Immediately after the
9th Of September, because that day is only forty
nine DAYS from the date of the call. The 9th of
September is the fftieth dav, and the draft,
therefore, would not be due before the Eth This.
however, is a small lapsus compared with the
otner' TOT according 10 the law, the draft cannot
now be made before the 18th OF September By
that date many cities and counties will have
filled their quotas; and the outstanding differ
ences between the city of y ew York and the
War Department, we have no doubt, will have
been satisfactorily arranged
Upon the subject of the naval recruits. we
again point out the Presidents pledge lin para
graph 81 Of the proclamation that credit shall
be given son account OF all persons who have
entered the naval service during the present re
bellon IN Y Jour Of Commerce