The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1864-03-03

eiouc, dhu any PSiSch "uo Sboh "iii"i-
ly and corruptly swear or affirm falsely
before any Provost Marshal, or Board
of Enrolment, or member thereof. act
ing by authority of the Board. or who
shall before any civil magistrate, will
fully and corruptly swear or affirm falsely
to any affidavit to be used in any case
pending before any, Provost Marshal,
or Board of Enrolment, shall on con-
victiop, be fined not exceeding $500,
and imprisonment not less than
months nor more than II months. The
drafted men shall have process to bring
in witnesses. but without mileage,
Sec. l6. And be it further enacted,
that copies Of any record of Provost
Marshal, Board of Enrolment, or of
any part thereof, certified by the Pro-
vost Marshal, or majority of said
Board of Enrolment, shall be deemed
and taken as evidence in any civil, or
military court, in like manner as the
original record; provided that if any
person shall knowingly certify any false
copy or copies of such record to be
used in any civil or military court, he
shall be subject to the pains and penal
ties of perjury. q p is9
Sec. II. And be it further enacted,
that members of religious denomina-
tions, who shall by oath or affirmation
declare that they are conscientiously
opposed to the bearing of arms, and
who are prohibited from doing SO by
the rules, articles of faith, and practice
of said religious denomination, shall,
when drafted into the military service,
be considered non-combatants, and
shall be assigned by the Secretary of
War 10 duty in the hospitals, or to the
care of freedmen, or shall pay the sum
of $500 to such person as the Secreta-
ry of War shall designate to receive it,
to be applied to the benefit of the sick
and wounded soldiers, provided that
no person shall be entitled to the bene-
fit of the provisions of this section, unr
scruples against hearing arms shall be
supported by satisfactory evidence
that his deportmen. bas been uniformly
consistent with such declaration. ae
SEC. lS. Aud be it further enacted,
that no person of foreign birth on ac-
count of alienage be exempted from
enrolment or draft under the provis-
ions of this act, or the act to which it
is an amendment, who has at any time
assumed the right of citizen by vot-
ing at any election held under authori-
ty of the laws of any State or Terrific.
ry, or of the United States, or who has
held any office under such laws, or any
of them; but the fact that any5such
person of foreign birth has voted or
held, or shall vote or hold, Office, as
aforesaid, shall be taken as conclusive
evidence that he is not entitled to ex-
emption from military service on &C.
count of alienage. hHa aea
SEC. 10. And be it further enacted,
that all claims to exemption shall be
verified by the oath or affirmation of
the party claiming exemption to the
truth of the party stated. unless it shall
satisfactorily appear to the Board of
enrolment that such party, for some
good and sufficient reason, is unable to
make oath or affirmation and the testi-
mony of any other party filed in sup
port of a claim to exemption shall also
be made upon oath or affirmation.
SEC. 90. And be it further enacted,
That if any person drafted, and liable
to render military service, shall procure
a decision of the board of enrolment
in bis favor upon claim to exemption
by any fraud or false. representation,
ipracticed by himself or by his procure
ment, such deception or exemption
shall be of no effect, and the person
Exempted, or in whose favor the decis-
ion NAV be made shall be deemed a
deserter, aud may be arrested, tried by
CONT martial and punished as such and
Shall be held TO service for the full term
for which he was drafted, reckoning
from The time of his arrest: provided,
n that the Secretary of War may order
I The discharge of all persons in the mill
tary service, who are under the age Of
lS at the time of their application for
their discharge, when it shall appear
upon due proof that such persons are
in the service without the consent,
either express or implied, of their pa
rents or guardians. And provided
further. that such persons, their parents
r or guardians, shall fail to repay to the