Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-10-06
DEsERTER CANNoT VOTE.

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SEC. 81. .Arad be further enacted, That
in addition to the other lawful penalties of
the crime of desertion from the military
or naval service, all persons who have de-
serted from the military or naval service
of the United States, who shall not return
to said service, or report themselves to a
Provost Marshal within sixty days after
the proclamation heretofore mentioned,
shall be deemed and taken to have volun-
tarily relinquished and forfeited their rights
of citizenship, and their rights to become
citizens; and such deserters shall be for
ever incapable of holding any Office Of trust
or profit under the United States, or exer-
cising the rightof citizens thereof; and all
persons who shall hereafter desert the mil
itary or naval service; and all persons who,
being duly enrolled, shall depart the juris-
diction of the district in which he is en-
rolled, or go beyond the limits of the
United States with intent to avoid any
draft into the military or naval service,
duly ordered, shall be liable to the penal
ties of this section. And the Presidents
hereby authorized and required forthwith,
on the passage of this act, to issue his
proclamation, setting forth the provisions
of this section, in which proclamation the
President is requested to notify all desert
ers returning within sixty days aforesaid,
that they shall be pardoned on condition
of their returning to their regiments and
companies, or to such other organizations
as they may be assigned to, until they
may be assigned to, until they shall have
served for period of time equal to their
original term Of enlistment. M
The following is the law of Ohio, tuch-
ing the same offence. It is entitled Gan
act to punish persons who leave their
places of residence for the purpose of
avoiding conscription."
SECTION l. Be 1T enacted by the Gener-
al assembly of the State Of Ohio, That il
any person subject to be drafted or con-
scripted into the military service of the
United States, under the laws thereof,
shall absent himself from the township,
ward or election district of his residence,
with intent to avoid any draft ordered to
be made by the United States or by this
state; or if any person subject to be draft
ed or conscripted, as aforesaid, who now
is absent from the township, ward or elec-
ton district of his residence, shall remain
absent therefrom with the intent afore-
said; or if any person subject to be draft
ed or conseripted, as aforesaid, shall con-
eeal himself with the intent aforesaid,
shall, after being drafted into the military
service of the United States, or of this
state, willfully fail or neglect to report and
submit to the proper authorities, every
person so offending in either of the fore
going respects, shall, on conviction there
Of, be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and
on conviction thereof, shall be i'm
prisoned in the penetentiary, and kept
at hard labor not more than six months,
and shall be deemed incompetent to
be an elector, juror or witness, or to
hold any Office of honor, trust or profit,
within this state; provided that the provis-
ions Of this act donot apply to any person
who shall absent himself from the town
ship, ward or election district of his resi-
dence, and who shall enlist within this
state in the military service of the United
States before he shall have been drafted.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from
and after its passage.
JOHN JOHNSTON,
Speaker Of tie House Of Representatives.
s. HUMPHREVILLE,
President, pro tenn, Of the Senate.
March 90, 1855.
By order of Congress the President was
directed to issue a proclamation calling
upon deserters to return to their duty.
Accordingly the proclamation was issued
on the 18th day of March, as follows:
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, the twenty-frst section of the
act of Congress approved on the Sd in
slant, entitled .An act to amend the sew
eral acts heretofore passed to provide for
the enrolling and calling out the national
forces and for other purposes" requires
that, in addition to the other penalties of
the crime of desertion from the military
or naval service, all persons who have de-
serted the military or naval service of the
United States who shall not return to said
service or report themselves to provost
marshal within sixty days after the procla-
nation herein after mentioned, shall be
deemed and taken to have voluntarily re-
linquished and forfeited their citizenship
and their right to become citizens, and
such deserters shall be forever incapable
of holding any Office of trust or profit un-
der the United States, or of exercising any
rights of citizens thereof; and all persons
who shall hereafter desert the military or
naval service, and all persons who, being
duly enrolled, shall depart the jurisdiction
of the district in which they are enrolled,
or go beyond the limits of the United
States with intent to avoid any draft into
the military or naval service duly ordere d
shall be liable to the penalties of this sec
ton; and the President is hereby author
tied and required forthwith on the pas
sage of this act to issue his proclamation,
setting forth the provisions Of this section,
in which proclamation the President is re-
quested to notify all deserters returning
within sixty days as aforesaid that they
shall be pardoned on condition of return
ing to their regiments and companies, or
to such other organizations as they may
be assigned to, until they shall have serv-
ed for a period of time equal to their orig
inal term of enlistment:
Now therefore, be it known that l,
Abraham Lincoln, President of the United
States, do issue this my proclamation as
required by said act, ordering and requir-
ing all deserters to return to their proper
posts; and I do hereby notify them that
all deserters who shall within sixty days
from the date of this proclamation, viz,
on or before the 10th day of May, 1885,
return 70 service or report themselves to a
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