The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-02-23

ordered, and before it shall be actually
made, shall be deducted from the number
ordered b be drafted in any ward, town,
township, precinct, election district or conn
ty. If the quota Of any district shall not
be filled by the draft made in accordanc'
with the provisions of this act and the Law
to which this is an amendment, further
draft shall be made and like proceedings
had until the quota Of such district shall be
filed. ~ E.'a
Persons enrolled may furnish at any time
previous to tho draft an acceptable substl-
tuts who is not liable, and such person:
thus furnishing substitute shall be exemp
from the draft not exceeding the time 70,
which such substitutes shall have been ac-
cepted. Any person drafted may before
the time fixed for his appearance for duty
at the draft rendezvous, furnish an accepta
bic substitute, subject to such rules ant
regulations as may be prescribed by the
Secretary of War. If any drafted person
shall hereafter pay money for the procura-
tion Of substitute, such payment shal
operate only to relieve the person from draft
On that call, and his name shall be retained
on the roll, and he shall be subject to draft
in filing that quota, and his name shall be
retained on the roll in filling future quotas
But in no instance shall the exemption o.
any person on account of bis payment Of
Communication money for the procuring Of 9
substitute extend beyond one year bu
at the end of one year in every such case
tho name Of any person SO exempted shall
be enrolled again, if not before returned to
the enrolment list under the provisions Of
this section.
Boards Of enrolment are required to on
roll all persons liable to draft whose names
may have been omitted by the proper en-
rolling 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 ser
vice of the United States, who have been
ia such service two years during the present
war, and all persons who have been exempt
ed under the provisions of the second Sec
tion of the Enrolment act, but who are not
exempted by the provisions of the present
act; and said boards of enrolment shall re-
lease and discharge from draft all persons
who, between the time of enrolment and
the draft, shall have arrived at the age of
As years, and shall strike the names Of such
persons from the enrolment. Any mariner
or able bodied seaman, who shall be drafted,
shall have right, within eight days after
the notification of such draft, to enlist in
the naval service as seaman and be ex.
empt from the draft. Any person now in
the military service of the United States
who shall furnish satisfactory proof that be
is mariner by vocation or an able seaman,
may enlist into the navy under such rules
and regulations as may be prescribed by the
President of the United States, provided
that such enlistment shall not be less than
tie unexpired term of his military service.
nor for less than one year, and the bounty
which any mariHer or seaman enlistiDg from
the army into the navy may have received
from the United States, ard from the State
in which he enlisted in the army, shall be
deducted from the prize money to which
he may be entitled during the term requir'
ed to complete Lis military service. And.
provided further, that the whole number OF
such transfer enlistments shall not exceed
ten thousand enlistments in the naval ser.
vice are to be credited to the draft.
The following persons are exempted from
the enrolment and the draft, viz.-Such as
are rejected a. physically OF mentally unit
for service; all persons actually in the mill
ta.y or naval service Of the United States
at the time of the draft; and all persons
who have served in the military and naval
service two years during the present war
and been honorably discharged. No per.
sons but such as are herein exempted shall
be exempt,
So much of the Enrolment act as pro-
yides for two classes Of enrolment are re-
pealed, and they are now consolidated.
Any person forcibly resisting or aiding to
resist or oppose the enrolment, &c, shall,
upon conviction thereof in any court COM
petent to try the offence, be punished by a
fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or
by Imprisonment not exceeding four years,
or both, in the discretion of the court In
any case where the ass lulting, obstructlng,
or impeding shall produce the
death of the officer or other person, the Of
fender shall be deemed guilty of murder
and on conviction shall be punished with
death.
The Secretary of War is authorized to
detail additional surgeons for temporary
duty in the examination of drafted persons,
and he is authorized to permit or require
boards of examination to hold their exam
ination at different points within their en-
rollment districts, to be determined by him.
Provost marsbals, boards Of enrolment, or
any member thereof have power to sum-
mon witnesses in behalf Of the government