Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-03-17
TIE AHEEDATORY ENROIHENF AOT,
A COmpIete Abstract Of its new Pro-
visions.

A Complete Abstract OF its new Pro
visions.
The following abstract OF the Amends
tory Enrolment Act is from the Washing
ton Chronicle: f.
The smendstory enrolment act has Just
been officially promulgated. II provides
that where any revised enrolment In any
Congressional or draft district has been
obtained or made prior to an actual draw
ing of names from the enrolment lists, the
quota may be adjusted and apportioned to
such revised enrolment instead OF being
applied to or based upon the enrolment as
it NAV have stood before the revision.
Hereafter all persons mustered into mill
tarv or naval service shall be credited to
the State and TO the ward, township, pre-
cinct. or other enrolment sub district where
such persons belonged by actual residence;
the provost marshal to give such instruc-
tions as shall be necessary for the faithful
enforcement of this provision, to the end
that a fgir and just credit shall be given to
every section Of the country provided,
that in anv jail for troops hereafter, cred
its shall not be given except for men sctu-
sllv furnished on that or on the preceding
draft, and mustered into the military or ma
val service. In COM r7uting quotas hereat-
ter, credits shall be giveu Tor all men fur
nished BY them respective Y, and not here
tofore credited during the pre-, sent TeoeilonI
for any period of service Of MI less tnSn i
three months, calculating the unDer o.
days for which such service was fun onneul
and reducing the sane to years; pro sSl1eo
that such credits shall not be applied &c
the call for additional troops made by TIE
President on the 2lst of december, 1900.
Persons who have been or may hereafter
be drafted under the provisions OF the
several acts to which this is an amendment,
for the term Of one year, and who nave
actually furnished or may actually furnish
acceptable substitutes not liable to dratG
for the term of three years, shall be exempt
from military duty during the time for
which such substitute shall not be liable 70
draft, not exceeding the time for which
such substitute shall have been mustered
| into the service.
Any recruiting agent, substitute broker,
or other person, who, for psy OF profit,
shall enlist, or cause to be enlisted, as a
volunteer or substitute, any insane person,
or convict, or person under indictment for
q felony or who is held to bail to answer
| for felony, or person in q condition OF
intozicstion, or deseIter from the military
or naval service, or any minor between the
age of sixteen and eighteen years, without
the consent of his parents or guardian, OF
under the age eff sixteen years, knowing
him in either case before mentioned to be
such, or who shall defraud or illegally de-
prive any volunteer or substitute Of any
portion of the State, local, and United
States bounty to which he may be entitled
shall, upon conviction in any court Of COM
petent jurisdiction, be fined not exceeding
$1,000, nor less than 5000, or imprisoned
for a term not exceeding two years, and not
less than three months, or both, in the dis
cretion OF the court aforesaid.
Any officer who shall muster into the
military or naval service Of the United
States any deserter from the said service
or insane person, or person in a condition
Of intoxicstion, or any minor between the
ages Of sixteen and eighteen years, without
the consent Of his parents or guardian OF
any minor under the age of sixteen years
knowing him to be such, shall, upon con-
Viction by any court martial, be dlshonora-
bly, dismissed the service of the United
States.
In every case where substitute is fur
nished to take the place of an enrolled OF
drafted man, and it is shown BY evidence
that shall be satisfactory to the Secretary
of War that such substitute was, at the
time of his enlistment known by the par
furnishing him to be non compoS n1e71tts
/ r,F int nn1nr
conviction or Indictment for any otfense OF
the grade of felony at the common law
or 10 have been guilty of previous act OF
desertion, unsstished by pardon or punish
ment or, by reason of any existing inHr-
nifty or silment, physically incapable OF
performing the ordinary duties Of q soldier
10 actual service in the ranks; or minor be-
tween the age Of sixteen and eighteen,
without the consent of HE parent or guar
dian; or q minor under the age of sixteen
years, it shall be the duty of the Provost
Marshal General, on advice of the fact, to
report the same TO the Provost Marshal of
the proper district, and if such person, 80
enlisted aud incapable, be'mustered into the
service IS g substitute for person liable TO
draft and not actually drafted, the name of
the person so liable who furnished such
substitute shall be again placed on the LIST,
and he shall be subject to draft hereafter as
though no such substitute had been
furnished by him; and if such sub
stitute, so enlisted and incapable as
aforesaid shall have been since the pas
sage of this act mustered into the service
IS a substitute for person actually draft
ed, then it shall be the duty of the Provost
Marshal of the district to Immediately no
tify the person who furnished such substi-
tute, that he is held to service il the place
of such such substitute; and he shall stand
in the same relation and be subject to the
same liability as before the furnishing of
such substitute.
In case any substitute shall desert from
the army, and it shall appear by evidence
satisfactory to the Secretary of War that
the party furnishing such substitute shall
have, in any way, directly cr indirectly,
aided or abetted such desertion, or been
privy to any intention on the part Of such
substitute to desert, such person shall be
Immediately placed in the army, and shall
serve for the period for which he was liable
to draft, such service to commence at the
date of the desertion of the substitute.
In addition to the other lawful penalties
of the crime OF desertion from the military
or naval service, all persons who have de-
serted the military or naval service of the
United States who shall not return to the
said service, or report themselves to pro-
vost marshal within sixty days after the
proclamation hereinafter mentioned, shall
be deemed and taken to have relinquished
and forfeited their rights to citizenship and
their rights to become citizens, and such
deserters shall forever beincspable of hold
ing any Office Of trust or profit under the
United States, or Of exercising any rights
of citizens thereof; and all persons who
shall hereafter desert the military or naval
service; and al persons who, being duly