Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1865-01-04


IN order to secure the assistance and co'op-
A. Grafton of the people in the endeavor to
keep the enrolment list continually correct.
the Enrolling Board has been directed TO
have copies of said list kept open to the ex'
animation of the public at all proper times.
and shall give public notice that any person
may appear before the Board and have any
name stricken off the list, if he can show to
the satisfaction of the Board that the person
named is not properly enrolled, on account
Of
]. Alieuage;
=. Non residence;
3. Over age;
4. Permanent physical disability, of such
degree as to render the person not proper
subject for enrolment under the law and reg.
uatiuns:
5. Having served in the military or naval
service two years during the present war and
been honorably discharged.
Especially civil officers, clergymen, and all
prominent citizens are invited to appear at
all times before the Board to point out errors
in the lists, and to give such information in
| their possession as may aid in the correction
aud revision thereof
They should understand that it is plainly
for the interest of ea b sub district to have
stricken from the lists all names improperly
enrolled, because excess of names increases
the quota called for from each sub district;
and that it is equally for the interest of each
person enrolled IN a given sub district; to
place upon the lists all persons in the sub dis
trict liable to do military duty, because the
greater the number to be drawn from, the
less the chance that any particular individual
will be drawn. 1t is the personal interest of
/ every enrolled man that the quota in which
! he is concerned shall not be mad too large,
! and that his own chances for draft shall not
/ be unjustly increased both these objects will
j be attained if all parties will aid in striking
out the wrong names and putting in the right
ones Especially is this the interest of those
drafted men who by putting in substitutes
themselves liable to draft, have secured ex~
| empton which by the terms of the law holds
good only until the present enrolment is ex-
hausted in their sub districts. Men who are
over IS years of age, and in consequence ex
cused by law from the performance of duty
! in the field, owe it to the cause and the coun-
/ try to take q Jealous and active part in the
/ correction of the enrolment lists. a military
service of the first importance. The law re-
! quires that the quotas shall be assigned in
/ proportion to the enrolment, and the fairness
and Justice of this mode of determining the
! amount of military service due from each and
every section of the country cannot be doubt
ed if the enrolment is made as nearly perfect
as it is practicable to make it. The amount
| of service due 10 the nation from every town
or county, is thus laid fairly and plainly be-
+. fore the citizens, and it is expected that
higher motive than a selfish interest will
prompt all to do their share in perfecting the
/ enrolment aud securing just and efficient
/ execution of the laws for raising troops. wher-
ever il becumes necessary to apply them.
By order Maj +. l. DODGE, A. A. p. NJ Gen.
ALEX. NJ. LLOYD,
F.! Capt. Pro. Marshal
M. S. HARR,
| Commissioner.
A. ROTHROCK,
decl4-3t. Surgeon Of Board