Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15
VOL. XV---NO 81.
The New Enrollnent Law.

OAA-AVAAS
The following is the Enrolment act,
as passed by both Houses of Congress
AN ACT SOL
Further to regulate and provide for the enroll
ing and calling out of the national forces, and
for other purposes.
+ The President of the United States
may, at his discretion, at any time here
after, call for any number Of men as vol
unteers, for the respective terms of one,
two and three years, for military SER
vice, and any such volunteer, or, incase
of draft, as hereinafter provided, any
substitute, shall be credited to the town,
township, ward, or city precinct, or cleo
ton district of county, toward the
quota of which he may have volunteer
ed or engaged as a substitute, and every
volunteer who is accepted and mustered
into the service for term of one year,
unless sooner discharged, shall receive
and be paid by the United States boun-
ty of 500, and if for the term of two
years, unless sooner discharged, a boun-
ty of $500, and if for the term of three
years, unless sooner discharged, boun-
ty of $500; one-third of which bounty
shall be paid to the soldier at the time
one-third at the expiration of one-half
of his term Of service, and one-third at
the expiration Of his term OF service,
and in case Of his death while in the SER
vice, then the residue of his bounty un-
paid shall be paid to his widow, if he
Shall have left widow; if not, to his
children, or if there be none, to his
mother, in case she be widow. '..
In case the quota or any part thereof
of any town, township, ward of city,
precinct or election district, or of any
county not so subdivided, shall not be
filled within the space of fifty days after
such call, then the President shall inn
mediately order draft for one year to
fill such quota or any part thereof which
may be untitled; and in case of any
such draft, no payment of money shall
be accepted or received by the Govern
ment as Communication to release any en-
rolled or drafted man from personal OBJ
legation to perform military service.
1t shall be lawful for the Executive of
any of the States to send recruiting
agents into any of the States declared to
be in rebellion except the States of Ar
kansas, Tennessee and Louisiana, and
to recruit volunteers under any call un-
der the provisions of this act, who shall
be credited to the State and to the re-
| spective subdivisions thereof which
may procure the enlistment.
Drafted men, substitutes and volun-
teers, when mustered in, shall be organ
lied in or assigned to regiments, batter
| les or other organizations of their own
States, and, as far as practicable, shall,
| when assigned, be permitted to select
their own regiments, batteries or other
organizations from among those of their
respective States which at the time of
| their assignment may not be filled to
| their maximum number. .s...... .
The twentieth section of an act enti-
tied 1" An act to amend an act entitled
an act for enrolling and calling out the
national forces" approved February "a,
| 1864, shall be construed to mean that the
Secretary of War shall discharge minors
under the age of eighteen years, under
the circumstances and on the conditions
prescribed in said section; and hereafter
if any officer of the United States shall
enlist or muster into the military service
any person under the age of sixteen
years, with or without the consent of his
parent or guardian, such person so en-
listed or recruited shall be Immediately
and unconditionally discharged upon
the repayment of the bounty received;
and such recruiting or mastering officer
weo knowingly enlists a person under
sixteen years Of age shall be dismissed
from the service, with the forfeiture of
all pay and allowances, and shall be
subject to such further punishment as
court martial may decide.
| SiXth-Section three of an act enti-
tied " An act to amend an act entitled
an act for enrolling and calling out the
national forces and for other purposes,
approved February "a, 1864, shall be and
the same hereby is amended so as to au-
thorize and direct district provost mar
shals, under the direction of the Provost
| Marshal-General, to make draft forone
hundred per centum in addition to the
number required to fill the quota of any
district as provided by said section.
| Seventh-That instead of travelling
pay, all drafted persons reporting at a
place of rendezvous shall be allowed
transportation from their places of resi-
dence, and persons discharged at the
place of rendezvous shall be allowed
transportation to their places of resi-
! dence.
Eighth-All persons in the naval SER
vice of the United States, who have en-
tered said service during the present re-
bellion, who have not been credited to
the quota of any town, district, ward or
State, by reason of their being in said
service, and not enrolled prior to Febru-
ary 24th, 1864, shall ,on satisfactory proof
of their residence, made to the Secretary
of War, be enrolled and credited to the
quotas of the town, ward, district or
State, in which they respectively reside.
Ninth-f any person duly drafted,
shall be absent from home in the prose-
cution of his usual business, the Provost
Marshal of the district shall cause him
to be duly notified as soon as may be,
and he shall not be deemed deserter,
nor liable as such, until notice has been
given to him and reasonable time allow
ed for him to return and report to the
Provost Marshal of his district; but
such absence shall not otherwise affect
his liability under this act
Tenth and Eleventh.-Nothing con-
tanned in this act is to be construed to
alter or in any way affect the law rela-
tive to those conscientiously opposed to
bearing arms, or to affect the rights Of
persons to procure substitutes.
Electoral College.