Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-10-05
CANADA skULKERs MUST NOT
VOTE.

At the Second session of the 3Sth Con-
gress, law was passed entitled "An Act
to amend the several acts heretofore passed
to provide for the enrolling and calling out
the National Forces, and for other pur-
poses" the 2lst Section of which reads as
follows:
SEC. 81. And Jet futheraaacted That,
in addition to the other lawful penalties of
the crime OF desertion from the military or
naval service, all persons who have deserted
the military or naval service of the United
States, who shall not return 10 the said
service, or report themselves to provost
marshal within sixty days after the pro.
elamation hereinafter mentioned, shall be
deemed and taken to have voluntarily
reinquished and forfeited their rights of
citizenship and their rights to become citi
zens; and such deserters shall be forever
Incapable, OF holding any Office Of trust or
profit under the United States, or of ex.
all persons who shall hereafter desert the
military or naval service, and all persons
who, being duly enrolled, shall depart the
jurisdiction OF the district in which he is
enrolled, or go beyond the limits OF tho
United States. with intent to avoid any
draft into the military or naval service, duly
ordered, shall be liable to the penalties OF
this section. And the President is hereby
authorized and required forthwith, on the
passage of this act, to issue his proclamation
setting forth the. provisions of this section,
IN which proclamation the President is re-
quested to notify all desrters returning with
in sixty days as aforsaid that they shall be
pardoned on condition of returning to their
regiments and companies or to such other
organizations as they may be assigneyko,
until they shall have served for period of
time equal to their original term of enlist
ment."
Every man who has been drafted under
any call Of the President, and ran away,
was descrter, and unless he returned un.
der the Proclamation of the President,
within sixty days after its issue, is no longer
a citizen of the United States" And
every man, who, being enrolled, left the dis
tIict in which he was enrolled, or went be-
yond the limits of the United States to
avoid tho draft is also disfranchiscd, and is
no longer citizen of the United States.
The punishment prescribed by Sec. s, of
AN act to preserve the purity ofelections,"
passed by the Legislature of Ohio, as
amended May |, 1857, for any person who
shall vote, who is not citizen of the
United States, knowing that he is not such
citizen,' is imprisonment in tho County
Jail for not more than six months nor less
than one month.
We present this matter to the Trustees
OF the several Townships, hoping that they
will take cognizance Of it, and We advise
the Union men Of the different Townships
to take this section of the law with them to
the Polls, challenge the vote of every man
who comes under the provisions of the
above law of Congress, show the law to the
Trustees, prove the desertion or absence of
the party trying to vote, and it, after you
have done this, the Trustees persist in Ia.
king the vote, keep record of every man
whose vote is taken in violation of-this law,
that they may be punished for fraudulent
voting.