The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-03-23
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lcIRrUIAR NO. 81
IUIH UIAR NO. 9.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
PRovosT MARSHAL GEg'Ls OFFICE,
NVashinotnn. ID q Manrh n I9i,b


In conformity with the Proclamation of the Presi-
dent herewith published all officers and employees
olths bureau are instructed TO give prompt attention
to the receiving and forwarding OF such deserters as
present themselves in accordance with its provisions
BIZ THE PaEsiDESr THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
"Whereas the twenty-frst section ofthe act fCon-
gress, approved on the third ins tant entitled, AN
act to amend the several acts heretofore passed to
provide for the enrolling and calling out the nation
al forces, and for other purposes, requires that IN
addition TO the other lawful penalties OF the crime of
deserIion from the military or naval service OF the
United states who shall not return to said service,
report themselves toa Provost Marshal within sixty
days aIter the proclamation hereinafter mentioned,
shall he deemed and taken to have voluntarily ren-
pushed and forfeited their rights OF citizenship and
their rights to become citizens, and such desertefs
shall be forever incapable of holding any office Of trust
or profit under the United states. or ofexerrsing any
rights ofeitizens thereof; and all persons who shah
hereafter desert the military naval service and all
persons who, being duly enrolled shall depart the
Jurisdiction of the district which he is enrolled or
70 beyond the limits of the United states with intent
to avoid any draft into the military naval service,
duly ordered, -hd be liable to the penalties OF this
section. And the President is hereby authorized and
required forthwith the massage Of this act to issue
his proclamation setting forth the provisions of this
section in which Proclamation the President is re-
qested to notify all deserters returning within sixty
days, afore said, that they shall be parfoned on
condition of returning to their regiments and compa
MES, to such other organ zatons they may be
assigned to. until they shall have served for period
of time equal to their original term of enlistment.
! Now therefore. be ii known that /, ABRAHAM LIN
President of the United states, do Issue this my
Proclamation as required by said act, ordering and
requiring all deserters to return to their proper posts;
and do hereby notify them that all desertcrs who
shall, within sixty days from the date Of this prOcla
nation, viz or before the 10th day of MAY, 1888,
return to service, report themselves to o Provost
Marshal, shall be pardoned. condition that they
return to their regiments end companies, to such
other organizations rs they may lie assigned to, and
serve the remainder of their orgnn terms of enlist
merit and in addition thereto, period equal to the
time lost by desertlon.
! In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand,
and caused the seal Of the United States to he affixed
Done Mt the Uity of Washington, this
| eleventh day Of March, in the year ofonr
| L. 8. Lord one Thousand eight hundred and
siXty-fve, and of the independence OF
the United States, the eighty ninth.
[Signed,l .. "ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
| BY the President ...
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary Of State.
The records and returns of these descrters will be
made up in the same manner rs is provided for in
other cases by existing regulations, except that II will
be noted the books of deserers arrested opposite
the of the deserer, the fact Of his having VOL
unfairly surrendered himself in conformity to the
Presidents Proclamation and the number thus sur.
rendering themselves TO he kept separately stated
the report to this office.
The Secretary Of War directs, that no reward be
paid for the arrest Of deserters who may he arrested
subsequent to the receipt Of this order by the District
| Provost Marshals.
[Signedl JAMES Il. FRY,
Provost Marshal General.