The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-03-16
EXECUTIVE MANSION

"WAsHINGToE CITY
"Fe5ruasy 6, 1865
"Nhereas, complaints are made in some
localities. respecting the assignments Of quo.
tas and credits allowed for the pending call
Of troops to Eli up the armies, now, in order
to determine all controversies in respect
thereto, and to avoid any delay in filling up
the armies, it is ordered That the Attor-
ney General, Brigadier General Richard
DeIatield and Colonel c. w. Foster, be, and
they are hereby, constituted a Board, to ex-
anime into the proper quotas and credits OF
the respective States and Districts, under the
call of December 10, 1864 with directions
that, if any errors be found therein, to make
such corrections as the laws and the facts
may require, and report their determination
to the Provost Marshal General The de-
termination of said Board to be final and con-
elusive, and the draft to be made in conform
lty Herewith
''2,-The Provost Marshal General is or
dered to make the draft in the respective Dis
tricts, as speedily as the same can be done.
after the 18th of this month. 'Signed
"ABRAHAM LINCOLN" :"
have respectfully to report, as follows -
The call for 100000 men, made by the
President, on the 18th of December, 1864,
requires that that number shall be raised.
But the law requires that the number of
men previously furnished by different locaIi-
tics, and the periods Of their service, shall be
considered so as TO equalize the draft
The number ufmen liable TO military duty
is TO be determined by the enrolment lists.
The number Of men which have been fur
nished by the various localities, and their
periods Of service, were ascertained, and pre-
vious accounts having been adjusted, the ex-
cesses, were they existed, where carried for
ward under the last draft
The amount Of service furnished is deter
mined by multiplying the number of men
raised by the number Of years for which they
enlisted.
Having thus ascerfained The number of
men enrolled on the 3lst day of December,
1864; the number Of men furnished up to
that date; the localities from which they
come, and the periods of their service, it is
proposed to distribute the call for 100000
men among the several districts, and parts of
districts, according to the number of men en-
rolled in each and the number of men furn-
ised, and the periods of service previously
rendered by each.
The rule by which this is accomplished is
as follows:
Take the whole number of years of service
furnished by the districts the United States
from the commencement of the rebellion to
the 3Ist of December, 1864. From that sum
deduct the whole number of men furnished
from all the districts of the United States up
to that date. The remainder will be the ex-
cess of service furnished by all the districts.
Multiply the call Of December 18th, 1864,
by three, to have the number of years of SER
vice upon that call, and to this add the ex-
cess, as ascertained above. Then, as the
number of men enrolled from the whole Uni
ted States up to the 3lst of December 1864,
is to the period of service, as above ascertain
ed, so is the number of men enrolled IN a
given district, to the number of years OF ser.
vice it is required TO furnish, including It's
pro rata share ofthe excess.
From this sum deduct the actual excess
the district furnished; the remainder is the
number of years of service which the district
is required TO furnish under the call of De-
cember 10, 1864, which, divided by three
gives the number of men required from the
district.
AS this call is for 100000 men, that num-
Der cannot be reduced by men going'in for
period longer than one year. inequalities
produced by men going in under this call for
longer periods than one year, must be equal
lied on future calls.
1t will be perceived tina. though the ags
gregate Of the excess furnished is added to
the whole call, the excess of each district is