The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-08
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liable to draft and not actually drafted the name o.
the person liable who furnished such substitute shall
be again placed on the list and he shall be subjected to
draft thereafter as though no such substitute had been
furnished by him, ami such substitute enlisted and
incapable aforesaid shall have been since the passage
Of this act mustered into the service substitute for
person actually drafted then it shall be the duty OF the
marshal general to direct the provostarshal Of
the district Immediately to notify the person who FURNISH
ed such substitute that he is held to service in place OF
such substitute and he shall stand in the same relation
and be subject to the liability as before the FURNISH
ing of such substitute. tf
Sec 90 And be it further enacted, That in case any
substitute shall desert from the army, and shall appear
by evidence satisfactory to the SECRETARY OF War hat the
party furnishing uch substitute shall have in any way
directly indirectly aided or abeed such desertion Or
have been privy to any intention on the part Of stch
substitute DESERT then such person shall be immediate
placed in the army and shall serve for the period Tor
| the date of the desertion of the substitute. MI, 81
Sec q. Ani6e further enacted, That, in addition to
the other lawful penalties of the crime Of deseron from
the military naval service all persons who have de-
serted the military naval service OF the United States
who shall not return TO said service report themselves
to provostmarshal within sixty days after the proca
nation hereinafter mentioned shall be deemed and taken
to have voluntarily renqushed and forfeited their rlghts
If citizenship and their rights to become citizens, and
such deserters shall be forever incapable OF holding any
office of trust or profit under the United States or Of
exercising rights of citizens thereof and all persons
who shall hereafter desert the military or naval service and
all persons who being duly enrolled shall depart the uris
dicton of the district in which he is enrolled or go be-
yond the limits the United States with intent to avoid
any draft into the military naval service duly ordered
shall be liable to the penalties Of this section. And the
President is hereby authorized and required forthwlh,
the passage of this act to issue his proclamation SET
ting forth the provisions of this section, IN which proca.
nation the President is requested to notify all deserters
returning within sixty days aforesaid that they shall
be pardoned condition of returning to their regiments
and companies such other organizations as they may
be assigned to- until they shall have served for period
Of time equal to their original term of enlistment.
SEC [22 Aad bet further enacted That the third sec.
ton of the entitled An act rther to regulate and
provide for the enrolling and calling out the national
forces and for other purposes" approved July fourth
eighteen hundred and sixty four be. and the same is
SEC 23 A,ld be it further enacted That any person or
persons enrolled In any sub district may after notice of
ra and before the shall have taken place cause to
mustered into the service of the United States such
number of recruits not subject to draft as they may
eem expedent which recruits shall stand to the credit
Of the persons thus causing them to be mustered in and
shall be taken substitutes for such persons many
of them may be drafted to the extent Of the number Of
such recruits and in the order designated by the prn
cipals, at the time such recruits thus aforesaid
| mustered in. 20
sHc. PAL and be 1t further enacted, That section fifteen
Of the act approved February twenty fourth eighteen
hundred and sxtyfour, entitled AN act for enrolling
and calling out the national forces and for other pur-
poses be- and the same is hereby amended by inserting
,fer the words any civil magistrate the words or any
| person authorized by law to administer oaths.p
SEC l25 And belt further enacted, That the secreta.
ry Of War hereby authorized to detail more OF
the employees of the War Department for the purpose
administering the oaths required by law in the settlement
,, officers accounts for clothing camp and garrison equi-
4
hall be administered without expense the parties TAX
ny them and shall beas binding upon the persons taking
the same and falsely taken, shall subject them to the
penalties, if the same were administered by
| magistrate or justice OF the peace I.t |Is#
SEC. 1901 Aad belt further enacted That acting assist
ant surgeons contiactsurgeons and surgeons and
nissoners the enrolling boards while in the military
service OF the United States shall hereafter be exempt
from all liability to be drafted under the provisions of any
act for enrolling and calling out the national forces
SEC I'll And be it further enacted That this act shall
take effect from and after its passage: Forded, That
nothing herein contained shall operate to postpone the
pending draft interfere with the quotas assigned there
| lor. ...
Approved, March g. 1865. .- .=,irl ~. 1 t.
An Act amendatoy certain Acts imposing Duties upon
| foreign Importations. -.
Be enacted By The Senate and House of Representatires
ofHe United States Of Amey1ca IN Congress assembled
That section six OF act entitled San act to increase
the duties imports and for other purposes" approved
June thirty eighteen hundred and sixtyour, be amended
that paragraphs second, third and fourth of section
| six of said act, shall read as follows:
Second. On all manufactures of cotton Except jeans
denms, drngs, bedtckings, gnghams plads, cotton
AIDES panaloon stuff and goods of like descrption) not
beached, colored stained painted, or printed and not
exceeding hundred threads TO the square inch count
ing the warp and Filings and exceeding in weight five
ounces per square yard five cents per square yard IL
beached five cents and half per square yard fcolored
stained painted, printed, five cents and half per
square yard and in addition thereto ten per centum adj
not exceeding hundred threads to the square inch
counting the warp and filing unbleached five cents per
/
yard if coored, stained, painted printed, five and
half cents per square yard and, in addition thereto,
twenty per centum ad yalorem On goods Of light des
crpton exceeding two hundred threads to the square
inch, counting the warp and filling, unbleached, five
cents square yard If bleached five and half
per square yard If coored stained painted printed
hive and half cents per square yard and, in addition
| thereto, twenty per centum ad vaorem. ID
Third 0nal cotton jeans denims drngs, bed tckings,
gnghams paid cotonades pantaloon sus and goods Of
like description, for similar USE If unbleached and
exceeding hundred threads to the square inch count
ing the warp and filling, and exceeding five to the
square yard six cents per square ard IL beached six
cents and half per square yards If colored stained,
painted printed six cents and half per square yard
and in addition thereto ten per centum ad valorem On
finer and lighter goods of like description, not exceeding
two hundred threads to the square inch counting the warp
and filing if unbleached six cents per square yard; If
beaehed six and half cents per square yard II coored,
stained, painted. or printed, six and half cents
per square yard, and in addition thereto, fifteen
description, exceeding two hundred threads to the
square inch, counting the warpand filling, ifunbleached
seven cents per square yard beaehed seven and half
cents per square yard and in addition thereto fifteen per
centum I'D vaorem; Pr0ptded That upon all plain wo-
cotton goods not included in the foregoing schedule
unbeaehed valued at over sixteen cents per square yard
beached valued at twenty cents per square yard
colored valued at twenty-five cents per square yard
and cotton jeans denims and drngs, unbeaced valued
at over twenty cents per square yard and other cotton
twenty-five cents per square yard there shall be levied,
collected and paid duty of thfyive per centum ad
valorem; and provided further That no cotton goods
having more than two hundred threads to the square
inch counting the warp and filling, shall BIO admitted to
less rate duty than provided for goods which are of
| that number OF threads ~, =,
Fourth On spool thread Of cotton six cents per dozen
spoos containing on each spool not exceeding one hun
dred yards OF thread and in addition thereto thirty Der
centum ad valorem exceeding hundred yards for
every additional hundred yards of thread on each spool or
fractional part thereof in OF hundred wards
six cents per Dozen and thiryve per eentum ad vao.
rem. On cotton thread yarn when advanced beyond
single yarn by twisting two strands together if
not wound upon spools four ~ cents per skein hank
of eiult hundred and FORTY (SlU and thirty
| cent ad vaorenl. -st
Src.2 Aad BE- IL further enacted, That from and after
the hay when this act takes effect in addition to the
duties heretofore imposed by law the importation Of
the articles mentioned in this section, there shall be
levied, collected, and paid the following duties and
rates of duties that is say On brandy, rum, gin,
and whskey, and cordias liquors. liqueurs arrack,
spirituous beverages, fifty cents per gallon. of first
proof and less strength aud shall be increased in pro-
proton for any greater strength that than the strength
OF first proof On spun silh for filling in skins or cops
ten per centum ad vaorem. On iron bars for railroads
or inclined planes ten cents per one hundred pounds
on wrought-iron tubes, one cent. per pound. - a -
SEC g. ARd De IL further enacted That from and after
this act takes effect in lien of the duties heretofore i'm
posed by law on the mpo taton of tho articles mention.
ca III tis section, there shall be levied collected and
palu te following duties and rates of duty that is to
say uh cotton hve cents per pound. On Illuminating
OH and nHphtha, benzine and benzole refined or pro
duced from the distllaton of coal asphaIt,m sbale
stances used for ike purposes forty cents per gallon
On crude petroleum. rockoi twenty cents per gallon
on crnde coaloil, fifteen cents per gallon On Tobacco
atems, fifteen cents per pound On ready-made clothing
Of silk of which silk shall be competent material az
chief value, sixty per eentum ad valorem. On quick.