Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-03-12

least two places in such district and such points
best calculated to accommodate the people
| thereof.
Sec Is. And be it further enacted, That provost
| marshals, boards of enrolment, any member
thereof, acting by authority of the board, shall
| have power to summon witnesses in behalf of the
Government, and enforce their attendance by at
/ tachment without previous payment of fees, in any
case pending before them, or either of them; and
the fees allowed for witnesses attending under
shall be six cents mile TOR mileage, count
| ing one way and no other fees or costs shall be
| allowed under the provisions of this section and
they shall have power to administer oaths and af-
| frmations. And any person who shall Wilfully and
corruptly swear or affirm falsely before any pro-
| vost marshal, o. board of enrolment, or member
thereof, acting by authority of the board, or who
shall, before any civil magistrate wlfully and cor
ruptly swear or affirm falsely to any afdavt 20 De
| used in any case pending before any provost mar
shall or board of enrolment, shall, on conviction,
be Ened not exceeding five hundred dollars and i'm
prisoned not less than six months nor more than
| twelve months. The drafted men shall have pro-
cess to bring in witnesses, but without mileage.
Sec. 16. and be it further enacted, That copies
| of any record of provost marshal or board of en-
| rolment, of any part thereof, certified by the
provost marshal, a ma orty of said board of
rolment, shall be deemed and taken as evidence in
any civil or military court in like manner the
| original record Provided, That II any person
shall knowingly certify any false copy copies Of
court he shall be subject to the aims and penal
| ties of peri ury.
Sec. IL. Ind be ii further enacted, That members
of religious denominations, who shall by oath or
| Affirmation declare that they are conscientiousy
opposed to the bearing of arms, and who are pro-
hioited from doing by the rules and articles of
faith and practice of said religious denominations,
shall, when drafted into the military service, be
considered non-combatants, and shall be assign
ed by the Secretary of War to duty in the hospitals,
to the of freedmen, or shall pay the sum of
three hundred dollars to such persons as the Sec
Rotary of War shall designate to receive t, to be
applied to the benefit of the sick and wounded sol
diers Prouided, That person shall be entitled
to the benefit of the provisions ofthis section
less his declaration of conscientious scruples against
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evidence that his department has been uniformly
consistent with such declaration.
Sec. IS. Ind be it further enacted, That no per-
son of foreign birth shall, on account of alienage
be exempted from enrolment draft under the
provisions of this act, the act to which it is
amendment, who has at any time assumed the
rights OF citizen by voting at any election held
under authority of the laws of any State or Terri
tory, of the United States, who has held any
Office under such laws or any of them but the
fact that any such person of foreign birth has voted
or held, shall vote hold Office as aforesaid
shall be taken conclusive evidence that he is not
entitled to exemption from military service on &C
count OF alienage.
Sec. 19. And be 10 further enacted, That all
claims to exemption shall be verified by the oath
or affirmation of the party claiming exemption, to
the truth of the facts stated, unless it shall salts
factorily appear to the board of enrolment that
such party is for some good and sufficient reason
unable to make such oath or animation and the
testimony of any other party filed in support of a
claim to exemption shall also be made upon oath
or affirmation.
,
person drafted and liable to render military service
shall procure decision Of the board of enrolment
in his favor upon claim TO exemption " any
fraud or false representation practced by himself
or by his procurement, such decision exemption
shall be of no effect, and the person exempted, or
in whose favor the decision may be made, shall be
deemed deserter, and may be arrested, tried by
court martial, and punished as such, and shall be
held to service for the full term for which he was
drafted, reckoning from the time of his Pro
rided That the Secretary of War may order the dis
charge of all persons in the military service who
under the age Of eighteen years at the time of
the application for their discharge, when il shall
appear upon due proof that such persons are in
the service without the consent, either expressed
or implied, OF their parents guardians. ind
prorided further, That such persons their parents
or guardians, shall irst repay to the Government
and to the State and local authorities all bounties
and advance pay which may have been paid to them,
any thing in the act to which this is amendment
to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sec Il. Ind be it further enacted, That any per-
son who shall procure, or attempt to procure
false report from the surgeon of the board of en-
rollment concerning the physical condition of any
drafted person, decision in favor of such person
by the board of enrolment upon a claim to exemp-
ton knowing the same to be false, shall, upon
vcton in any district circuit court OF the United
States, be punished by imprisonment for the period
for which the party was drafted.
Sec. q. And be it further enacted, That the
fees of agents and attorneys for making out and
causing to be executed any papers in support If
claim for xemption from draft, for any services
that may be rendered to the claimant, shall not in
any case, exceed five dollars; and physicians
surgeons furnishing certificates of disability any
claimant for exemption from draft shall not be en-
titled to any fees compensation therefor. Aud
any agent or attorney who shall, dii ectly ind-
rectly, demand or receive any greater eompensa-
ton for his services under this act, and any phys-
clan surgeon who shall, directly indirectly de
mand or receive any compensation for furnishing
said certificate of disability and officer, clerk,
or deputy connected with the toard of enrolment
who shall receive compensation from any drafted
man for any services, obtaining the performance
of such service required from any member of said
board by the provisions of this act, shall be deem
ed guilty of high misdemeanor, and, upon convic-
ton, shall, for every such offence be fined not
ceeding five hundred dollars, to be recovered upon
information or indictment before any court of COM
petent jurisdiction, one-haf for the If any in
former who may prosecute for the same in the
name of thu United States, and .he other half for
the of the United states, and shall also be sub
ject to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one
year, at the discretion of the court.
Sec. %. And be it further enacted, That no
member of the board of enrolment, and no surgeon
detailed O. employed to assist the board of enroll
ment. and no clerk, assistant or employee of any
provost marshal or board of enrolment, shall, di
recty or indirectly, be engaged in procuring or at
tempting to procure substitutes for persons draft
ed or liable to be drafted into the military service
of the United States. And if any member of
board of enrolment, any su .h surgeon, clerk as
sistant, employee, shall procure, at tempt to
procure, substitute for any person drafted, or
liable to be drafted, afore said, he shall be deem
ed guilty. Of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon con-
vction, be punished by imprisonment not less than
thirty days, nor more than six months, and pay
nne not less tnan one nuuufeu, nor more tnan
one thousand dollars, by any court competent to
try the offence
Sec. "a. And be it further enacted, That all able
bodied male colored persons, between the ages of
twenty and forty five years, resident in the United
States, shall be enrolled according to the proyis-
ions of this act and of the act to which this is
amendment, and form part Of the national forces
and when a slave of loyal master shall be drafted
and mustered into the service of the United States
his master shall have certificate thereof. and
thereupon such slave shall be free aud the boun-
e h,aud hIa INV Law for
each drafted man, shall be paid to the person to
whom such drafted person was owing service or Ia
Dor at the time of his muster into the service of
the United States. The Secretary of War shall sp-
point a commission in each of the slave States rep
resented in Congress- charged 60 award to each loyal
person to whom colored volunteer may owe SER
vice. Just compensation, not exceeding three hun-
dred dollars, for each such colored volunteer, pay
able out of the fund derived from combinations,
and ev cry such colored volunteer being mus
tered into the service shall be free. And in all
ses where men of color have been heretofore en-
listed or have volunteered in the military service
Of the United States all the provisions of this act,
so far the payment of bounty and
compensation provided, shall be equally ap-
plicable to those who may be hereafter recruit
ed. But men Of color, drafted or enlisted, or who
may volunteer into the military service, while they
shall be credited the quotas of the several states
subdivisions Of States, wherein they are respec-
not be assigned as State troops, but shall be mus
tered into regiments or companies as United States
colcred troops.
Sec. IS. Aad be it further enacted, That the If
teenth section OF the act to which this is amenda
tory be so amended that it will read follows: :
That any surgeon charged with the duty of such
inspection, who shall receive from any person whom
soever any money other valuable thing, or
agree directly indirectly, to receive the to
his own another's use, for making an imperfect