North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-03-23


the present war and all persons who have
been exempted under the provisions Of the
second section of the act to which this is an
amendment, but who are not exempted by
the provisions of this act ; and said Boards
of Enrolment shall release and discharge
from draft all persons who, between the time
| Of the enrolment and the draft, shall have
arrived at the age of forty five years, and
shall strike the name of such persons from
| the enrolment.
Sec. I. And be it further enacted, That
any mariner or able or ordinary seaman who
shall be drafted under this act, or the act to
which this lis an amendment, shall have the
light within eight days after the notification
OF such draft, to enlist, in the naval service
as seaman, and certificate that he has so
enlisted being made out in conformity with
regulations which may be prescribed by the
Secretary of the Navy, and duly presented to
the Provost-MarShal of the District in which
such mariner or able or ordinary seaman
shall have been drafted, shall exempt him
from such draft: lrouided, That the period
for which he shall have enlisted into the na-
val service shall not be less than the period
for which he shall have been drafted into the
military service. An6 provided further,
| That the said certificate shall declare that
satisfactory proof has been made before the
naval officer Issuing the same that the said
person SO enlisting in the navy is mariner
by vocation, or an able ordinary seaman
Any person now in the military service of
the United States who shall furnish satisfac-
tory proof that he is a mariner by vocation.
or an abl e seaman, may enlist into the navy
under such rules and regulations as may be
prescribed by the President of the United
States: PrOrided, That such enlistmen,
shall not be for less than the unexpred term
of his military service nor for less than one
year. And the bounty money which any
mariner or seaman enlisting from the Army
into the Navy may have received from the
United States, or from the State in which he
enlisted in the Army, shall be deducted from
the prize money to which he may become en-
titled during the time required to complete
bis military service: And provided further,
That the whole number of such transfer en-
lstments shall not exceed ten thousand.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That
whenever any such mariner or able ordinary
seaman shall have been exempted from such
draft in the military service, by such enlist
ment into the naval service, under such due
certificate thereof, then the ward, town, town
ship, precinct, or election district or county,
when the same is not divided into wards,
towns, townships, precincts or election dis
trcts, from VIII ich such person has been draft
| ed, shall be credited with his services to all
lntents and purposes as if he had been duly
mustered in the military service under such
draft.
| SEC. 9. And be ii further enacted That
all enlistmentS into the naval service of the
| United States, or into the marine corps of
the United States, that may be hereafter
made Of persons liable to service under the
act of Congress entitled An act for enroll.
ing and calling out the National forces, and
for other purposes" approved March Sd 1863
shall be credited to the wards, towns, town.
ships, precincts, or election districts, in
which such enlisted men were or may be en-
rolled and liable to duty under the act afore-
said, under such regulations as the Provost
Marshal General OF the United States may
prescribe. .. ......
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That
the following persons be, and they are here
by, exempted from enrolment and draft un-
der the provisions of this act and of the act
TO which this is an amendment, to wit Such
as are rejected as physically or mentally un.
fit for the service, all persons actually IN the
military or naval service of the United States
at the time of draft, and all persons who
have served in the military or naval service
two years during the present war and been
| honorably discharged therefrom. And no
persons but such as are herein excepted shall
| be exempt. ...-.
Sec. IL. And be 1t further enacted. That
section third of the act entitled " An act for
enrolling and calling out the national forces
aud for other purposes" approved March 8,
1868, and as much Of section ten of said act
as provides for the separate enrolment of
each class be, and the same are hereby, re-
pealed and it shall be the, duty of the
Board of Enrolment of each district to con-
solidate the two classes mentioned in the
third section of said act. ....
SEC. II. And be 1t further enacted, That
any person who shall forcibly resist or oppose
any enrolment or who shall incite, counsel,
encourage, or who shall conspire or confeder.
ate with any other persons forcibly to resist
or oppose any such enrolment, or who shall
aid or assist, or take any part in any foreible