The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-03-22

stlIutc LOT person liable to draft, and not
actually drafted. the maine of the person SO
liable who furnished such'substitute shall bo
again placed on the list, and be shall be sub
Ject to draft thereafter, as though no such
substitute had been furnished by him; and
II such substitute so enlisted and incapable
as aforesaid, shall have been, since the pas
sage OF this act, mustered into the service
as substitute for person actually drafted,
then 1t shall be the duty of the Provost
Martial General 10 direct the provost mar
shal of the district Immediately TO notify tho
person who furnished such substitute that
he is held to service in the place of such
substitute, and he shall stand in the same,
relation and be subject to the same liability
as before the furnishing OF such substi-
tutc.
SIC. 90 And be Il fntber enacted. That
i'll case any substitute shall desert from tho
army, and it shall appear by evidence salts
factory to the Secretary Of War, that the
party furnishing such substitute shall have,
IN any way, directly or indirectly, aided or
Allotted such desertion, or to have been
prlvy to any attention on the part of such
substitute to desert, then such person shall
be immediately placed in the army, and
shall serve Tor the period for which he was
liable to draft, such service to commence at
the date OF the deSertion of the substitute.
SEC. 81. And be 1t further enacted, That
IN addition to the other lawful penalties Of
the crime OF dcSertion from the military or
naval service, all persons who have deserted
the military or naval service of the United
States, who shall not return to said service,
or report themselves to q rovost-narshal
within sixty days after the. proclamation
hereafter mentioned, shall be deemed and
taken to have voluntarily relinquished and
forfeited their rights Of citizenship and their
rights to become citizens; and such deser-
ters shall be forever incapable Of holding
any Office OF trust or profit under the Unit.
ed States, or Of exercising any rights of cit
izcns thereof; and all persons who shall
hereafter desert the military or naval ser
vice, and all persons who being duly enroll
ed shall depart the Jurisdiction of the dis,
tlict in which he is enrolled, or go beyond
the limits Of the United States, with intent
to avoid any draft into the military or ma
val service, duly ordered, shall be liable to
the penalties of this sectiun And the Pre-
Sdent Is hereby authorized and required
forthwith, on the passage Of this act, to is
sue his proclamation setting forth the pro-
visions OF this section, in which procana-
ton the President is requested to notify ali
descrters returning within sixty days, as
aforesaid that they shall be pardoned on
condition of returning to their regiments
and companies, or to such other organiza-
tlons as they may be assigned, until they
shall have served for a period of time equal
to their original term of enlistment.
SEC. -. And be at further enacted, That
the third section Of the act entitled, AN
act further TO regulate and piovide for the
enrolling and calling out the national forces,
and for other purposes" approved July
fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-tour, be
and the same is hereby repealed.
SEC. %. And be 1t Jurther enacted, That
any person OR persons enrolled in any SUBJ
district may, after notice Of draft, and
before the same shall have taken place, and
cause to be mustered into the service Of the
United States, such number Of recruits, not
subject to draft, as they may deem expeGi-
ent, which recruits shall stand to the credit
Of the persons thus causing them to be mus
tered in, and shall be taken assubstitutcs for
such persons, or so many of them as may
be drafted, to the extent Of the number of
such recruits, and in the order designated by
the principals at the time such recruits arc
thus as aforesaid mustered in.
SEC. "a. Ind be 1t further enacted, That
section htteen OF the act approved February
"a. eighteen hundred and siXty-four emit
Titled An act for enrolling and calling out
the national forces, and for other purposes,
be and the same is hereby amended by il-
serting after the words "any civil magis
tratc, " the word ''or any person authorized
by law to administer oaths.
SEC. "a. And be At further enacted, That
the Secretary of War is hereby authorized
to detail one or more of the employees Of
the War Department for the purpose of ad-
the oath required by law in tho
settlement OF officers accounts tor clothing,
camp and garrison eqqippage, quarrternas-
ters stores, and ordnance, which oaths
shall be administered without cxpense to the
parties taking them, and shall be as binding
upon the person, taking the same, and it
talsely taken, shall subject them to the same
penalties. as if the same were administered
yy magistrate or justice of the peace sa'
SEC. 26.. And be 1t fiUther enacted, That
acting assistant surgeons contract surgeons,
md surgeons and commissioners on the en-
'olling boards, while in the military service
IF the United States, shall hereafter be ex-
,mpt from all liability to be drafted under
he provisions OF any act for enrolling and
Ealing out the national forces.
Sec. ~. And be 1t further enacted, That
his act shall take effect from and atterits pas
'age: Prorided, That nothing herein contain
ID shall operate to postpone the pending
lraft, or interfere with the quotas assigned
therefor
Approved, March 8, 1865.
Sections from one to twelve, inclusive do
not relate to this bureau, and are omittcd.l
JAMES B. FRY,