Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-07-09
The New ENROLMENT Law.
The law as just passed provides as fol-

The law as just passed provides as fol-
lows:
The President of the United States may,
at his discretion, at any time hereafter, call
for any number of men as volunteers, for
the respective terms of one, two or three
yeas, for military service and any such vol
unteer, or in case of draft, as hereinafter
provided, any substitute shall be credited
to the town, township, ward, or city pre-
ciuct or election district of a county, toward
the quota of which he may have volunteer
ed or engaged as substitute and every
volunteer who is engaged aud mustered in-
to the service for term of one year. unless
sooner discharged, shall receive and be
paid by the United States, a bounty of one
hundred dollars; and if for term of two
years unless sooner discharged bounty of
two hundred dollars and if for a term of
three years, unless sooner discharged,
bounty of three hundred dollars-one third
of which bounty shall be paid to the soldier
at the time Of his being mustered into the
service, one third at the expiration of one
half of his term of service, and 10 case OF
death while in the service, the residue OF
his bounty unpaid shall be paid 10 his
widow, if be shall have left a widow; If
not, 10 his children; or if there be none, to
his mother, in case she be q widow.
In case the quota, or any part thereof OF
any town, township, ward OF city, pre-
cinct or election district, or of any county
not SO subdiyided, shall not be filled with
in the space OF fifty days after such CALL
then the President shall Immediately order
a draft for one year, to fill such quota, or
auy part thereof which may be untitled,
and in case of any such draft no payment
of money shall be accepted or received by
the government, as conmutation TO release
any enrolled or drafted man, from personal
obligation to perform military service.
II shall not be lawful for the executive
of apy of the States to send recruiting
agents into any of the States declared to
he in rebellion, except the States OF Ar
kansas. Tennessee and Louisiana, aud to
| recruit volunteers under any call, under
| the provisions of this act, who shall be
credited to the State and the respective
subdivisions thereof, which may procure
/ the enlistment, 49,
Other sections provide that drafted men,
substitutes and volunteers, shall choose
which arm OF the service, aud as far as
practicable, which battery or regiment they
will enter; that persons enlisted under the
| AGE Of l6 years shall be discharged and
the recruiting officer who knowingly en-
lists such person shall be dismissed from
the service; that hundred per cent 10 Hd- d.
dition to the number of men required shall
be drafted; that drafted men shall be al
IloWed transportation TO the Rendezvous, and
when discharged, transportation to their
homes; that towns shall receive credit for
| nersous who entered the naval service and
were not enrolled prior to Feb. a. 1884
thatdrafted persons absent from home snail
| have a reasonable time in which to repoFti
and that nothing contained in this act is
| TO be construed to alter or in any way af'
feet the law relative to those conseienh.
ously opposed to bearing arms or 10 auec' ,lls,
the rights Of persous 70 procure suOs"'
tutes.