The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-07-21

According to the provisions of the act
amendatory Of the Enrolment Act, as
passed by both houses of Congress, the
President Of the United States may, at
his discretion, at any time hereafter, call
for any number of men as volunteers, for
the respective terms of one, two or three
years, for military service, and any such
volunteer, or, in case of draft, as herein
after provided, any substitute shall be
credited to the town, township, ward or
city precinct, or election district of a
county, towards the quota of which he
may have volunteered or engaged as a
| substitute; and every volunteer who is
| accepted and mustered into the service
for a term Of one year, unless sooner dis
charged, shall receive and be paid by the
United States bounty of 500, and if
for term of two years, unless sooner
discharged, a bounty of $500, and If for
term of three years, unless sooner dis
charged, $500; one-third of which bounty
shall be paid to the soldier at the time of
his being mustered into the service, one
third at the expiration of one half of his
term Of service, and one-third at the ex-
piration of his term Of service, and in case
of his death while i'll the service, then
the residue of his bounty remaining un-
paid shall be paid to his widow, if he
shall have left a widow, and if not, 20 his
children, or if there be none, to his moth
er, in case she be widow.
In case the quota of any part thereof
of any town, township, ward, precinct or
election district, or any county not So
sub-divided, shall not be filled within the
space of five days after such a call, then
the President shall Immediately order a
draft for one year to fill such quota, or
any part whereof which may be untitled
and in the case of any such draft, no
payment of money shall be accepted or
received by the government as conmuta-
ton to release any enrolled or drafted
man from personal obligation to perform
military service.
1t shall be lawful for the executive Of
any State to send recruiting agents into
any of the States declared to be in rebel
lion, except the States of Arkansas, Ten
nessee and Louisiana, and to recruit
volunteers under any call under the pro-
visions Of this act, who shall be credited
to the State and to the representative
subdivisions thereof which may procure
the enlistment.
Drafted men, substitutes and volun-
teers, when mustered in, shall be organ
;zed in or assigned to regiments, batteries,
or other organizations of their own States,
and as far as practicable shall. when as
signed, be permitted to select their own
regiments, batteries, or other organiza-
tions, from among those of their respective
States which at tbe. time of their assign
ment may not be filled to their maximum
number.
The twentieth section of the act entitled
''An act to amend an act entitled an act
for enrolling and calling out the national
forces" approved February "A, 1864,
shall be constructed 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 parents
Or guardian, such person SO enlisted or
recruited shall be Immediately and uncon-
ditlonally discharged upon the repayment
of all bounty received and such recruit
ing or mastering officer who knowingly
enlists a person under sixteen years of
age shall be dismissed the service, with
the forfeiture of all pay and allowances,
and will be subject to such further pun
ishment as a court-martial may decide
Section three of an act entitled "An
act to amend an act entitled an act for
enrolling and calling out the national