Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-03-24


The following Act of Congress is published for
the information and guidance of all concerned
IAN ACT TO amend the sererat acts heretofore
passed to proUide for the enrolling and calling out
the national forces, andtor other purposes.
uraft district has been obrafnea 6f ifida: Hrlor %
any actual drawing of names from the enrolment
sts the quota of such district may be adjusted and
apportioned to such revised enrolement instead of
being applied to or based upon the enrolment as it
may have stood before the revision.
SECTION a. Af7 be 1T further enacted, That
hereafter all persons mustered into the military or
naval service whether as volunteers substitutes rem
resenatveS, otherwise, shall be credited to the
State, and to the ward township, precinct or other
enrolment sub-d district, where such persons belong
BY actual residence f such persons have an actual
residence within the United States and where such
persons were or shall be enrolled, (f liable TO en-
roment and it is hereby made the duty of the Pro-
vost Marshall General to make such rules and give
such instructions to the several Provost Marshalls
Boards of Enrolment, and Mastering Officers. as
shall be necessary for the faithful enforcement of
the provisions of this section to the end that fair
and Just credit shall be given to every section of the
country ProUided, That in any call for troops
hereafter no county, town, township, ward, precinct
or election district, shall have credit except for men
actually furnished on said call, or the proceeding
call, by SAID county, town. township, ward, precinct
or election district, and mustered into the military
or naval service on the quota thereof.
''SECToH Is. 4nd be 1T further enacted, That in
computing quotas hereafter, credit shall be given to
the several States districts and sub districts for all
furnished from them respectively and not here
totore credited, during the present rebellion for any
period Of service of not less than three months cal
culating the humber of days for which such service
was furnished, and reducing the same to years -
Pr0cfded, That such credits shall be applied to
the call for additional troops made by the President
on the twenty-first day OF December eighteen hun
dred and sixty four.
'SEcT1oN Is. and be it further enacted, That
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
have actually furnished, may actually furnish,
acceptable substitutes mot liable to draft for the
term of three years, shall be exempt from military
duty during the time for which such substitutes shall
have been mustered into the service ANYTHING in the
act of February twenty fourth eighteen hundred and
sixty four, to the contrary Notwithstanding.
SECTION II. And be at further enacted, That
any recruiting agent, substitute broker or other per
son who, for pay or profit shall enlist or cause to
be enlisted, volunteer or substitute any insane
person, or convict, person under indictment for
felony, or who is held to bail TO answer for fell
ony or person in a condition of intoxication or a
deserter from the military naval service, or any
minor between the ages of sixteen and eighteen
years, without the consent of his parents or guard
ian, or any minor under the age of sixteen wears
knowing him In either case before mentioned to be
such, or who shall defraud or illegally DEPRIVE any
volunteer or substitute of any portion of the State
local. or United States bounty, to which he NAV be
entitled, shall, upon conviction in any court of com
petent jurisdiction, behned not exceeding one thou
sand dollars nor less than two hundred dollars, or
imprisoned not exceeding two years, and not less
than three months or both in the discretion of the
court aforesaid.
lection IS. Ind be 1t further enacted That
any officer who shall muster into the military or ma
val service of the United States any deserter from
SAID service, or insane person. or person in condi-
tion OF lntoxicahon, or any minor between the ages
OF sixteen and eighteen years, without the consent
OF ms parents or guardian, or any minor under the
age OF sixteen years, knowing him to be such shall
upon conviction byany court martial, be dishonor-
ably dismissed the service of the United States
SECTION l9. ARd be at further enacted, That in
every case where substitute is furnished to take
the place Of an enrolled or 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 party furnish
ing him to be ROncOmp0S mentis, or in condition
OF lntoxication, under conviction or indictment
Tor any offence ofthe grade offelony at the common
law or to have been guilty of previous act of de-
seruon nnsatished by pardon punishment, or by |
reason of aIy existing inirmity or ament, physi |
caly incapable of performing the ordinary duties of
soldier In actual service in the ranks or minor be-
tween the ages of sixteen and eighteen years, with