The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-04-20
Gencral Orders, No. %.
WAR DEPARTMENT,

8 Washington, FEB. II, 1863
3 The following report of the Board, appoin,
4 ted by the President of the United States tc
aexamine and correct the quotas of the several
sStatcs and Districts, under the call for Vol
suntccrs of December 8, 1864, is published foI
1.-The information of all concerned:-
WASHINGTON, d. G.
February l6, 1865.
! Ills Excellency, ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
President Of the United States,
Washington, ID. C..
I SIR The Board, convened by the follow
ding order
"EXECUTIVE MANSION
'WASHIEGToN CITY
"FeJrudry 6, 1865.
"Whcreas, complaints are made in some
| slocaliues. respecting the assignments Of quo
itas and credits allowed for the pending call
] of troops to fill up the armies, now, in order
J to determine all controversies in respect
Thereto, and to avoid any delay in filling up
1.-THE armies, it is ordered That the Attor-
,ncy General, Brigadier General Richard
3Deafield and Colonel G. w. Foster, be, and
,they are hereby, constituted Board, to ex-
famine into the proper quotas and credits Of
the respective States and Districts, under the
lcalI of December 10, 1864, with directions
.that, if any errors be found therein, to make
such corrections as the laws and the facts
'nay require, and report their determination
it, the Provost Marshal General. The de-
Termination of said Board to be final and con-
:clusive, and the draft to be made in conform
sity Herewith.
"2,-The Provost Marshal General is or
sdered to make the draft in the respective Dis
ltrcts, as speedily as the same can be done.
safter the 18th of this month. ''Signed \
ABRAHAM LINCOLN"
.havc 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
. .,nrn previously furnished by different locaIi-
lies, and the periods Of their service, shall be
scons.dered so as to equaliZe the draft.
Ile number fmen liable to military duty
! is to be determined by the enrolment lists.
The number of men which have been fur
snished by the various localities, and their
periods of service, were ascertalned, and pre-
svious 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
senlisted.
Having thus ascerfained the number OF
men enrolled or the 31st day of December
aiS64; the number of men furnished up tC
: that date; the localities from which they
come, and the periods of their service, it i;
& proposed to distribute the call for 100000
! men among the several districts, and parts OF
6districts, according to the number of men en-
rolled in each and the number of men furn
Rised, and the periods of service previously
rendered by EACH
I The rule by which this is accomplished il
las follows:
Take the whole number of years of servict
Furnished by the districts ofthe United State
Hfrom the commencement of the rebellion t.
hthe 3lst of December, 1864. From that sun
Hdeduct the whole number of men Furnished
Hfrom all the districts of the United States u
Eto that date. The remainder will be the ex
Ecess of service furnished by all the districts
II MULTIPLY lUS Cdll VI ICCNCt1pSi @"'' 49,
Hby three, to have the number OF years OF ser
Hvice upon that call, and to this add the eX
zcess, as ascertained above. Then, as tn
humber of men enrolled from the whole Uni
tied States upto the 3lst of December 1864
is to the period of service, as above ascertain
Ned, so is the number OF men enrolled III
Egiven district, TO the number of years OF SCI
Svice it is required TO furnish, including 1t
8 pro rata share of the excess.
q From this sum deduct the actual exces
Nthe district furnisbed the remainder is th
humber of years of service which the dlstrlo
His required to furnish under the call of De
scember 10, 1864, which, divided by thre
Egiyes the number of men required from til
Adistrict.
A AS this call is for 100000 men, that nun
o8ber cannot be reduced by men going in ft
( 5a period longer than one year. lneqnaliti,
J bproduced by men going in under this call Il
longer periods than one year, must be equa
Hized on future calls.
FL 1t will be perceived tha! though the a
bgregate of the excess furnished is added
1.-THE whole call, the excess of each district