Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-02-27
The Consoription Bill.

rollment bill, as passed by both Houses of
Congress. 1t provides that the President
Of the United States shall be auth orized
whenever he shall deem it necessary du /.
ring the present war, to call for such a
number at nen for the military service as
the public exigcn cies may require.
The quota of each ward of city town,
township, precinct or election district of
county where the county is not thus
divided, shall be as nearly as possible in
proportion 10 the number of men resident
the rein liable to military service, taking
into account, as far as practicable, the
number which has been previously fur
nished
In ascertaining and filing the quota
there is to be taken into account the mum
Der Of men who have heretofore entered
the naval service of the United States,
and whose names are already returned to
the office of the Proves, Marshal General
If the quotas shall not be filed within time
designated by the President, the Provost
marshal is to make draft for the number
deficient.
But all volunteers who may enlist after
the draft shall have been ordered and be.
fore it shall bo actually made, shall be
deducted from the number ordered to be
drafted in any ward, town, township. pre-
cinct, election district or county. If the
quota of any district shall not be filled by
the draft made in accordance with the pro
visions of this act and the law to which
! this an amendment, further draft shall be
made and like proceedings had until the
quota of such district shall be filed.
Persons enrolled may furnish at any
time previous to the draft dn acceptable
substitute who is not liable, and such per.
sons thus furnishing substitute shall be
exempt from the draft not exceeding the
time for which such substitutes shall h ave
been accepted. Any persons drafted may
before the time fixed for his appearance
TO, duty at the draft or rendezvous furn.
ish an acceptable substitute, subject to
such rules and regulations as may be pre-.
serbed by the Secretary Of War.
If any drafted person shall hereafter
pay money for the procuration Of sub
sttute, such payment shall operate only
to relieve the person from draft on that
call and his name shall be returned on the
roll and he shall be subject to draft in
filling that quota and his name shall be
retained on the roll in filling future quotas
But in no instance shall the exemption
of any person, on account of his pay yment
of communication money for the procura.
ton OF substitute, extend beyond one
year; but at the end OF one year in every
such case the name of any person so ex.
cmpted shall be enrolled again, if not be.
fore returned to the enrolment list, under
the provision of this section.
Boards of Enrolment are required tc
enroll all persons liable to draft, whose
names may have been omitted by the pro
per enrolling officers all persons who
shall have arrived at the age Of twenty
years before the draft; all aliens who shall
declare their intention to become citizens
all persons discharged from the military
or naval service of the United States, who
have not been in such service during the
present war; and all persons who have
been exempted under the provisions of tn,
second section ofthe Enrolment Act, bu
who are not exempted by the provision
ofthe present act, and said boards OF en-
rollment shall release and discharge from
draft all persons who between the time o
enrolment and the draft shall have arri
vei lat the the age of forty five years ant
shal strike the names ofsuch persons from
the enrolment.
Any mariner or able bodied seaman
who shall be drafted shall have a righ
within eight days after the notification o
such draft to enlist in the naval servic,
as seaman and be exempt from the draft
Any person now in the military servic
of the United States who shall furnis
satisfactory proof that he is a mariner b,
vocation, or an able seaman, may enis
into the navy under such rules and regulu
tons as may be prescribed by the PreSi
dent Of the United States, provided tha
such enlistment shalt not be less than th
unexpred term of his military service no
for less than one year, and the bount
which any marine or seaman enlistng fror
the army into the navy may have receives
from the United States and from the Stat
in which he enlisted in the army shall b
| deducted from the prise money to whic
he may be entitled during the time requir
ed to complete his military service An
provided further that the whole number
such transfer enlistments shall not excee
ten thousand. Enlistments iu the nav,
service are to be credited to the draft.
, The following persons are exempted
from enrolment and draft, viz Such @
are rejected as physically or mentally ur
fit for service all persons actually in tn
military or naval service OF the Unite
States at the time of the draft, and a
persons who have served in the militar
or naval service two years during the pre-
sent war and been honorably discharged
No persons but such as herein exempte
shall be exempt.
So much of the Enrolment act as pre-
vides for two classes of enrolment is rt