The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-03-18
The Draft---Inportant Provisions of
T.nr

the New Law
The provisions of the new amendatory ACT of
Congress, passed at the late session, in regard to
the enrolling and calling out of the national for
ces, have been published by Gen. Fry, so far as
they relate to the details and the machinery Of
the draft and to drafted men. The following is
full abstract AS the sixteenth section is i'm
portant, we give it verbatim:
REVISION OF ENROLMENT.
The law provides that quotas shall hereafter
be assigned according to enrolments revised at
any period previous to the actual drawing Of the
names, and without regard TO previous appor-
tionnents. 1t appears, however, that this provi-
sion has no reference to the draft lately ordered
NEW SYSTEM OF CREDITS
All persons mustered into the service are to he
carefully credited to the ward, township or pre-
tsinct where they actually reside. This is to pre-
veat miscellaneous and unauthorized recruiting,
and secure fair and just credits to every section
| Of the country, provided in any call for troops
| hereafter credits shall not be given except for
men actually furnished on thator on the proceed
inc call and mustered into the military OF naval
service. In computing quotas hereafter, credits
shall be given for all men furnished by them re-
spectively, and not heretofore credited during the
present REBELLION for any period of service OF not
| less than three months, calculating the number
of days for which such service was furnished,
| and reducing the same to years; provided that
| such credits shall not be applied to the call for
| additional troops made by the President on the
| 2lst of December, 1864.
! s IMPORTANT TO DRAFTED MIN.
The following section will be Interesting to =
! class Of persons drafted last summer. It was
added during the last hours Of the season
"Sec. l6. And be it enacted, Thatpersons who
have been or may hereafter be drafted, under the
provision of the several acts to which this js an
amendment, for the term of one year and who
have actually furnished or may actually furnish
acceptable substitutes mot liable TO drat) for the
term of three years, shall be exempt from militia
Try duty during the time for which substitute shall
| have been mustered into the service, anything in
the act of February twenty-fourth, eighteen hum
7dred and sixtyrfour, to the contrary notwith-
| standing" rs eHag aaeaq3 81 FAN
Under the ruling of the War Department last
year, any drafted person who put in substitute
for three years was exempted but for q single
year. The law now corrects this injustice.
ILLEGAL ENLISTsMENTs- PUNISHMENT FOR swIND-
li ~ li' siia LING RECRUITS. rec i@Ii lsf
Any recruiting agent substitute brokerJor 9TH
er person ensting, or causing to be enlisted, an
insane person or convict, or person under in
dlctment or bail for felony, or person in a state
of intoxcation, Or a deserter, Ora minor between
the ages Of sixteen and eighteen years, without
consent of his parents of guardian, or any mi
nor under sixteen years OF age, knowing him to
be such or any broker or other person who shall
defraud or illegally deprive any enlisted man of
his local. State or United States bounty shall up
ON conviction he fined from two hundred to one
thousand dolixzso OF imprisoned three months to
two years, or suffer both fine and Imprisonment,
at the discretion of the court. An officer mus
terng in any person whose enlistment is forbid
den may be dishonorably dismissed the service.
PRINCIPALS NAY BE HELD TO SERVICE PoR THEIR
.s'i ta3A 1s' SUBSTITUTES.
In cases in which persons (insane convicts, &C.
are so improperly enlisted as substitutes, after
passage of this act the names OF the principals
shall be restored tothe enrolment lists. If sub
stitute, by reason of any ailment existing at the
time of muster, and since the passage of this act,
shall be found incompetent to perform the duties
OF a soldier the principal will be held to service
as though he had Furnished no substitute. If a
man furnishing a substitute shall in any way
encourage the said substitute in deserving he shall
himself be placed in the ranks for the period for
which he was liable TO draft, dating from the
lime of the desertion of the substitute. oils
r. a4N FORFEITURE OF RIGHTS. .qents-
The law also provides for the forfeiture of the
right of citizenship or the privilege Of becoming
citizens, or Of holding office, in case of desertion
or of avoidance of the draft; and it requires the
President to issue proclamation setting forth
these provisions, and notifying deserters to- re-
turn TO their places The proclamation is already
published ~ aHQtA~
I4.a ANOTHER IMPORTANT PROVISION. q
The law providing for recruiting in rebellious
States for the benefit OF the loyal States is repeal
ed. Any person or persons enrolled IN any sub
district may, after notice OF n draft, and before
The same shall have taken place, cause to be mus
tered into the service of the United States such
number of recruits not subject to draft AS they
may deem expcdient, which recruits shall stand
to the credit of the persons thus causing them TO
be mustered in and shall be taken as substitutes
for such persons or so many OF them as may he
drafted 10 the extent of the number OF such re-
cruits, and in the order designated by the prln-
cipals at the time such recruits Az thus aforesaid
are mustered in.
lHf EXEMPTIONS. e
Acting assistant surgeons, contract surgeons,
md surgeons aud commissioners On tho enroll
ing boards, while Ia the military atfvlec ~ the
United States, ehall hereafter DO exempt nom all
liability TO be drafted under the preyia0M ~
my net for enrolling and calling cut The NeIleh'
al for0eg .
This not IL now ia effect Nothing therein ls
10 operate To postpone the pending draft 0fih,er'
itre with the quotas assigned therefor.
Tns pApea Dury Among the other bills Loaf
In the last hours of Congress, owing TO dlsN'
Rfeelnent between tile two Houses, was the one
reducing tho duty on printing paper. The House
had fixed tho duty ut the nominal figure OF per
cent. al paloren,, which was amended by the SEN
ate by increasing the rate 70 10 per cent The
House refused to accept this amendment, and ad-
hered TO the original bill. committee Of con-
ference was appointed which recommended re-
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