Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-04-08
The Amendatory Enrolment Law.
WAR DEPARTMENT. /,

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WASHINGTON, ID. O., March s. 1865.
The following act of Congress is published for
| the information aud guidance OF all concerned
AN ACT 70 amend the several acts heretofore pass
ed to provide for he enrolling and calling out be
national ferces, aud for other purposes.
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Sec. Is And be il further enacted, That here
any revised enrolment in any Congressional or
draft district has been obtained or made prior to
| any actual drawing of names from the enrolment
lists, the quota OF such district may be adj listed
and apportioned TO such revised enrOllm instead
OF being applied to or based upon the enrolment
as it may have stood before the revision.
See. II. And be it further enacted, That here
after all persons mustered into the military or ma
val service, whether as volunteers, substitutes,
tatives, otherwise, shall be credited to
the State and TO the ward, township, precinct,
other enrolment sub district where such persons
belong by actual residence, or such persons have
an actual residence With the United States aud
where such persons were or shall be enrolled, Qf
liable to enrolment;) and il is hereby made the
duy of the Provost Marshal General to m axe such
rules and give such instructions the several pro-
vost mars halls, boards of enrolment, and muster
ng officers shall be necessary tor the faithful en-
forcement of the provisions of this section to the
end that fair and just tit shall be gwen every
section of the country: Prorided, That any call
for troops hereafter no county, town, towns hip.
ward, precinct election district shall have cred
1t except tor men actually furnished said call or
the preceding call by said county town, towns hip
ward, precinct, or election district and mustered
INTO the military or naval service on the quota
thereof.
putting quotas hereafter, credit shall be given to
the several States, Districts and sub-distrcts for
all men furnished from them, respectively, and
heretofore credited, during the present rebellion,
for auy period of service of not less than three
months, calculating he number of DAYS for viii .h
such service was furnished, and reducing the same
20 years. Proctded, That such credits shall not be
on f ths fE diSae 5s% made by the
eighteen hundred and sixty -four.
sec. 10. Aud be /: further enacted That persons
VINO nave been, or may hereafter be, drafted, un-
DIR the provisions of the acts to which this
is an amendment, for the term of one year and
who have actually furnished, or may ac u ally far-
nish, acceptable substitutes (not liable to draft,
for the term of three years, shall be exempt from
military duty during he time for which such sub
stitute shall not be liable to draft not exceeding
the time for which such substitute shall have been
mustered into the service. anything in the act of
February twenty-fouTth, eighteen hundred and
sixty-four, to the contrary otwi thstanding
Sec IL. And be it further enacted That any re-
cruitng agent, substitute broker, or other person
who, for pay or profit, shall enlist, or cause to
be enlisted as volunteer or substitute, any in
sane person, or convict, or person under indict-
ment for felony, who is held bail to answer
for felony, or person in a condition of intoxica-
ton, deserter from the military or naval ser
vice, or any minor between the ages of sixteen and
eighteen years, without the consent of his parents
or guardian, any minor under the age of sixteen
years, knowing him, in either case before men-
toned to be such, or who shall deraud or illegally
deprive any volunteer or substitute of any portion
OF the state, local, or United States bounty, to
which he may be entitled, shall, upon conviction
in any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined
not exceeding, one thousand dollars nor less than
two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding
two years and not less than three months, OF BOTH
in the discretion Of the court aforesaid.
Sec. Is. Aud be is further enacted That any
officer who shall muster into the military or avail
service OF the United States any deserter from said
service, or insane person. person in a condi ton
at intOxication, or any minor between the ages of
sixteen or eighteen years, without the consent of
his parents or guardian, any minor under the
age OF sixteen years. knowing him to be SUCH shall
upon conviction by any court-martial, be dishon-
orably dsm ssed the service of the United States.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That in every
case where substitute is furnished to take the
place of an enrolled or drafted man. and it is shown
by evidence that shall be satisfactory to the Secre-
tary Of War that such substitute was, at the time
of his enlistment, known by the party furnishing
him to be non compos mentis, or in a condition of
iutoXication or under conviction or Indictment for
any offence of the grade of felony at the common
law, or to have been guilty OF a previous act of
desertion unsatisfied by pardon or punishment, or
by reason of any existing inirmity ailment,
physically incapable of performing the ordinary
duties of soldier in actual service in the ranks or
minor between the ages of sixteen and eighteen
years, without the consent of his parent or guardi
an, or minor under the age 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 so enlisted and incapable shall have been,
since the passage of this acf, mustered into the
service a substitute for person liable to draft
and not actually drafted, the name of the person
so liable who furnished such substitute shall be
draft thereafter IS tnoGgn such substitute had
been furnished by him: and if such substitute so
enlisted and incapable aforesaid shall have
been, since the passage of this act, mustered into
the service substitute for person actually
drafted, then it shall be the duty of the Provost
Marshal General to direct the provost marshal of
the district Immediately to notify the person who
furnished such substitute that he is held to service
in the place of such substitute, aud he shall stand
in the same relation and be subj to the Ii
ability before the furnishing of such substitute
sec. 20. And be il further enacted, That Ia case
any substitute shall desert from the army, and it
shall appear by evidence satisfactory the Secre-
tary of War that the party Furnishing such substi-
tute shall have, in any way directly or indirectly
aided or abetted such desertion, or to have been
privy to any intention on the part of such subst-
tute to desert, then such person shall be immedi-
atey placed in the army, and shall serve for the
period for which he was liable to draft such service
to commence at the date of the deserton of the
substitute.
Sec. 81. And DE it further Enacted, That in addi-
ton the other lawful penati- of the crime of
sertion from the military or naval service all persons
who have serted he mill taTy SCI vice of the
United States, who shall not return to said service,
or report themselves to a provost marshal within
sixty days after the proclamation herein after men
tioIed, shall be deemed taken to have volunta-
rlIy rehnquished and forfeited their rights of
citizenship and their rights to become citizens !;
and such deserters shall be forever incapable of
no ding any office OF trust profit under the Uni
ted States, OF exercising any rights OF citizens
| thereof and all persons who shall hereaft er de
sert the military naval service, and ali persons
who's being duly enrolled, shall depart the jurisdIc.
ton % the district in which he is enrolled or go
beyond the limits of the United States, with intent
to avoid any draft into the military or naval SER
vice, duly ordered shall be liable to the penalties
of this section. And the President is hereby au :
thOrized and required forthwith, on the passage
of this act issue his proclamation setting forth
the provisions of this section, in which procama-
ton the President is requested to notify all deser-
tiers rot urning within sixty days as aforesaid that
| they shall be paTdoned on condition OF returning
| TO their regiments and companies such other
organizations as they may be gned to, until
they shall have served fer period OF time eq ual to
their original term o. enlistment.
Sec. q. Aud be it further enacted, That the
third section OF the act entitled San act furtter
to regulate and provide for the enrolling and cali
ing out the national forces, and Tor other purpos-
| esq approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and
SIXTY -four, be- and the same is hereby repealed.
rec 49, And be it further enacted, That person
persons enrolled in any subdistrict, may, after
/ notice OF a draft, and before the same shall
have taken place, to be mustered into the
vice of the United States, such number OF recruits
not subject to draft, as they may deem expedient,
which recruits shall stand to the credit of the
sons thus causing them to be mustered in, and
shall be taken substitutes for such persons or
SO many OF them as may be drafted, to the ex tent
of the number of such recruits, and in the order
| designated by the principals at the time such re-
| cruits are thus as aforesaid mustered in.
| Sec. "a. And be it further enacted That section
fifteen OF the act approved February twenty urth
eighteen hundred and sixty tour, entitled San act
for enrolling and calling out the national forces.
and for other purposes, be, and the same is here
| By, amended by inserting after the words "any
civil magistrates" the words, "or any person auth.
/ oTized by law to administer oaths."
| See. %. And be it further enacted, That the
| Secretary of War is hereby authorized to detail
one or more OF the employe[els of the War de-
partment for the purpose Of administering the
oaths required By law in the settlement of officers
/ accounts for clothing, camp, and garrison eauip-
age, quartermasters stores, and ordnance, which