The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-03-16
From tho Cincinnati Gazotto.
The Amended Enrolment Law.

IOTesb.
Sections one to twelve do not relate
to the enlistment Of troops, and are,
omitted. Section l3 pro-
vides that whore any revised enroll
ment of u district or sub district has
been made previous to any actual
drawing Of names, the quota may be
revised and re-adjusted to the revised
Sections. II provides that
all persons hereafter mustered into
service as volunteers, substitutes or
representatives, shall be credited to
their actual residence, if they have any
in the United States, and that no dis
tricL, hereafter, shall have credit except
for men actually furnished by such dis
trict and mustered into the military
service on its quota. We quote Sec
tions Is and 16 in full
SEC. 10. And be it further enacted,
That in computing quotas hereafter,
credit shall be given TO the several
States, districts and sub-districts, for
all men furnished by them, respect
lively, and not heretofore credited, du-
ring the present rebellion, for any Pc
riod Of service of not less than three
months, calculating the number OF
days for which such service was fur
nished, and reducing the same to years.
Prorided, That such credits shall not
be applied to the call Tor additional
troops made by the President on the
2lst day Of December, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-four.
SEC. IL. And be ii further enacted,
That persons who have been or may
hereafter be drafted, under the pro
visions of the several acts to which
this il an amendment, for the term OF
ono year, and who have actually fur
aished, or may actually furnish, ac-
ccptable esubstitutes (not liable TO dratt)
for the term OF thrco years, shall be
exempt from military duty during the
time for which such substitute shall
not be liable to dreft not exceeding the
time for which such substitute shall
have been mustered into the service,
anything in the act of February TWEEN
ty-lou.th, eighteen hundred and sixty
four, to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Section II fines or imprisOns, or sub
iects 10 both penalties all substitute
brokers, recruiting agents or others
who knowingly enlist minors, under
the age Of sixteen on any condition,
those between sixteen and eighteen,
without the consent of their parents,
insane or intoxicated persons, or per-
sons under Indictment or held to bail
tor a felony. Section Is provides::for
the dismissal Of the officer who know.
ingly musters in such improper sub.
sttutcs.
Sections ] 0 and 20 make the prnci.
pal in certain cases liable Tor the char
acter Of his substitute. We quote
them entire: ........
SEC. 49, And be ii further enacted
That in every case where n substitute
| is furnished to take tho place Of ar
enrolled or drafted man, and it il shown
bv evidence that shall be satisfactory
to tho Secretary Of War, that such SUBJ
stitute was, nj the time of his enlist
mcnt, known by the party furnishing
him to be non c0mp0S mentiS, or in q
condition Of intoXication, or under
conviction or Indictment for any Of
fensc of the grade Of felony at the com
mon law, or to have been guilty OF a
previous act of dcscition unsatisfied
by pardon or punishment, or by rca'
son of any existing indrmity or all
mcnt. physically incapable Of perform
ing the ordinary duties of n soldier in
actual service in the ranks, or mino:
between tho ages of sixteen and eigh-
teen years, without tho consent OF his
parent or guardian, or minor under
the agc of sixteen years, it shall be the
duty Of the Provost Marshal General
on advice of the fact, to report the
same to the Provost Marshal of the
proper district and If such person SC
enlisted and incapable, shall have
been since tho passage Of this act mus
tered into tho service as substitute
for II person liable to draft, and not ac'
tualy drafted the name of the person
so liable who furnished such substitute
shall be again placed on the list, and
he shall be subject to draft thereafter
as though no such substitute had been
furnished by him; and if such sub
stitutc, so enlisted and incapable as
aforesaid, shall have been, since the
passage of this net, mustered into tho
service as u substitute for person
actually drafted, then It shall be Tho
duty Of the Provost Marshal Genera
to direct the Provost Marshal of the
district to notify tho person who fur
nishcd such substitute that he is helC
to service in the place Of such substi
tute, and he shall stand in the same
relation and be subject to the Same Ii
ability as before the furnishing ofsucl
substitute.
SIC. 90. And be It farther enacted
That in case any substitute shall dc
sort from the army, and it shall ap
pear by evidence satisfactory to th'
Secretary Of War, that tho party fur
nishing such substitute shall have, il
any way, directly or indirectly, aide'
or cbcttcd such desertion, or to hav,
been privy to any intention, on tn
part of such substitute to desert, thel
such persons shall bo immediatcl,
placed in tho army, and shall serv
tor the period for which he was lia9I
to draft, such service to commence a
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