Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-29

Of any Provost Marshal or Board of Enrolment,
shall, directly or indirectly, be engaged in pro-
curing, or attempting toipr0cure. substitutes for
persons drafted or liable to be drafted into the
military service of the United States; and if any
member of a Board of Enrichment, Surgeon,
clerk. assistant. or employe. shall cure or az
tempt 10 procure a substitute for any person
drafted, or liable to be drafted Aforesaid, he
shall be deemed guilty Of misdemeanor, and
shall upon conviction be punished BY imprison-
ment not less than thirty days nor more than six
months, and pay a fine not less than one hundred
nor more than one thousand dollars, by any court
competent TO try the offense.
SEC. "A. And be il further enacted, That the
fifteenth section of the act to which this is amend
atory, be so amended that it will read as follows:
That any Surgeon charged with the duty of such
inspection. who shall receive from any person
whomsoever asy money or other valuable thing;
or agree. directly or indirectly, to receive the
same TO his own or anothers USE for making an
imperfect inspection, false or incorrect re-
port, or who shall wilfulIy neglect to make
faithful inspection and true report; and each
member of the Board Of Enrolment who shall
wiliully agree to the discharge from service of
any drafted person who is not legally and proper
ly entitled to such discharge, shall be tried by
court martial, and, on convection thereof, be
punished by a fine not less than three hundred
dollars and not more than ten thousand dollars,
shall be imprisoned at the discretion of the court
and be cashered and dismissed the service
SEC 25. And be it further enacted, That all
able-bodied male colored persons, between the
ages of twenty and forty-fve years, resident in
the United States, shall be enrolled according to
the provisions of this act, ard of the act to which
this is an amendment. and form part of the ma
tional forces; and when slave Of loyal master
shall be drafted and mustered into the service of
the United States. his master shall have certi6-
cate thereof, and thereupon such slave shall be
free; and the bounty of one hundred dollars, now
payable by law for each drafted man, shall be
paid to the person to whom such drafted person
was owing service or labor at the time of his
muster into the service of the United States.
The Secretary of War shall appoint a commits
sion in each of the slave States represented in
Congress, charged to award to each loyal person
to whom a colored volunteer may owe service a
just compensation, not exceeding three hundred
dollars. for each such colored volunteer, payable
out of the fund derived from combinations, and
every such colored volunteer, on being mustered
into the service, shall be free. And in all cases
where men of color have been heretofore enlisted,
or have volunteered in the military service ofthe
United States, all the provisions Of this act so
far as the payment of bounty aud compensation
are provided, shall be equally applicable as to
those who may be hereafter recruited. But men
of color drafted. or enlisted. or who may volun-
teer into the military service, while they shall be
cedited on the qnota of the several States or
subdivisions of States, wherein they are respect
lively drafted, enlisted or shall volunteer, shall
be assigned as State troops, but shall be mustered
into regiments or companies rs United States
colored volunteers.
SIC. % And be it further enacted That the
words 'precinct'' aud ELECTION district" as used
in this act, shall not be construed to require any
subdivision Tor purposes of enrolment and draft,
less than the wards into which any city or village
may be divided or the towns or townships into
which any county may be divided. 81
SEC. 81 Aud be it further enacted, That so
much of the act entitled ian act for enrolling
and calling out the national forces and for other
purposeS," approved on the Sd day of March
1868. as may be inconsistent with the provisions
of this act, is hereby repealed