Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1865-04-01

1AHSHAL MINERAL
orRc1IIAp, pnovosr Naios, d. c., Mar
No orrtcr WASH IL, 1865.
alton of the Pre-
In conformity with the Proclaim To Alo enploy'
dent herewith published, all ofict Fomp' sVte
of this Bureau are instructed to Civ VI buoh ueS'
tion TO the receiving and forwarding <oeo VIVA
tiers present themselves in accord
provisions AxnRIc.
"BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE Q. STATES OF
"a PROCLAMATION. .-t
"Whereas the twenty-first section Of the ~
Congress, approved on the third instant, cntitle
act to amend the several acts heretofore passe,
provide for the enrolling and calling out the natio.
forces, and for other purposes require. that in a,
dition to the other lawful penalties of the crime
desorton from the military naval SERVICE all per-
sons who havo deserted the military naval service
of the United States who shall return to sad
vice, report themselves to a Provost Marshal
within sixty days after the proclamation hereinafter
mentioned. shall be deemed and taken to have vol
unfairly relinquished and forfeited their rights of
citizenship and their rights to become citizens, and
such deserters shall be forever incapable OF holding
any Office of trust or profit under the United States,
of exercising any rights of citizens thereof and all
persons who shall hereafter desert the milicry or
naval service, and all persons who, being duly enroll
ed shall depart the jurisdiction OF the district in
which he is enrolled, go beyond the limits OF the
United States with intent to avoid any draft into the
military or naval service duly ordered, shall be
liaby to the penalties ofthis section And the Presi
dent is hereby authorized and required forthwith,
the passage of this act to issue his proclamation
setting forth the provisions of this secton in which
proclamation the President is requested TO notify |
all deserters returning within sixty days, ufore
said, that they shall be pardoned condition Of re-
turning to their regiments and companies, or to such
orher organizations as they may be assigned to, un
til they shall have served for period of time equal
| to their original term of enlistment.
"Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham
Lincoln President of the United States, do issue this
my Proclamation, required by said act, ordering
and requiring all dcsertcrs to return TO their proper
posts; and 1 do hereby notify them that all deser-
ters who SHALL within sixty days from the date of this
| Proclamation, viz or before the 10th day of
May 1865, return TO service report themselves to
| Provost Marshal, shall be pardoncd Oh condition
that thoy return TO their regiments and companies,
or 10 such other organizations they may bo assig
ned to, and serve the remainder Of their original
terms Of enlistment and, in addition thereto, period
| equal to the time lost by desertion.
In testimony whereof, l have hercuno set my
hand and caused the seal OF the United States 10 be
| affixed.
"Donc at the city of Washington, this elev.
! enth day of March in the year of our Lord
IL. 81 ono thousand eight hundred and sixty-iye,
. and of the independence OF tho United Sta
ties, the .ishty-nnth.
by the President:
"WILLlAA H. SEWARD,
Secretary Of State"
The records and eturns of these deserers will bo
, made up in the manner is provided for in
other cases by existing regulations except that it will
be noted ON the book of descrters arrested opposite
the of the dcSerter the fact Of his having vol
UNFAIRLY surrendered himself in conformity with the
, Presidents Proclamation; and the number thus
surrendering themselves to be separately stated on
the report to this Office.
The Secretary of War directs. that reward he
paid for the Of dcscrcrs who uay he arrested
Subsequent TO te receipt Of this order by the District
Provost Marshas. JAMES B. FRY.
Provost Marshal General.
OFFICE A. A. L. NJ. GESl..
HARRIsBuUG Pa, March Is, 1865.
District Provost Marshals IRE hereby directed to
publish this circular for week. BY command oi
: Big. Gen. +. W. KINKS.
= A A. p. NJ Gent.
: WILLIAM SAEFFLE,
L April l-3t. Capt. and A. A. a. Genl