The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-03-18
The Amended Enrellme.a ~

0mltteO. SectiOn ID PROVIDES that Whans
any revised enrolment of . district a.
actual drawing of names, the quota ma.
be revised and readjusted to the reyissS
enrolment. Section IA provides that ain
persons hereafter mustered into service :.
volunteers, substitutes or representative
shall be credited to their actual residence
if they have any in the United States. M
that no district, hereafter, shall have ere6is
except for men actually furnished by such
district and mustered into the niilitarv
service on its quota. We quote SectionS
Is and Is in full
SEC. Is. And be 1t further enacted. That
in computing quotas hereafter, credit shall
be given to the several States, districts
and sub-districts, for all men furnished hv
them, respectively, and not heretos,r.
credited, during the present rebellion. for
any period ofservicc or not less than three
months, calculating the number OF davs
for which such service was furnished, ana
reducing the same to years: PROVIDED,
That such credits shall not be applied t.
the cali for additional troops made By the
President on the 2lst day of December !
eighteen and sixty-four.
SEC. Is. dad be 1t further enacted, That
persons who have been, or may hereafter
be drafted, under the provisions of the ~.
eral acts to which this ia an amendment
for the term OF one year, and who nave ae.
tnally furnished, or may actually furnish.
acceptable substitutes tnct liabiessodaa1i
FOR the term of three years, shall be exempt
from military duty during the time far
which such substitute shall have been
mustered into the service, anything in the
act of February twenty.fourth. eighteen
hundred and sixty-four, to the contrary
Notwithstanding. 3-ssaA ~.
Section II fines or imprisons, or subiects
to both penalties all substitute brokers
recruiting agentso or others who knowingly
enlist minors under the age Of sixteen on
any condition, those between six teen and
eighteen, without the consent of their "a.
rents, insane or intoxicated persons, or
persons under Indictment or held to hail
for felony. Section IL provides for the
dismissal of the officer who knowingly
musters in such improper substitutes.
Sections 10 and 20 make the principal In
certain cases liable for the character Of hiB
substitute. We quote them entire:
SEC. 19. Assd be 1t further enacted, Thasil
every case where substitute is furnishsl
to take the place Of an enrolled or GRATED
man, and it is shown by evidence thst
shall be satisfactory to the Secretary ofWar
that such substitute was, at the time Of bin
enlistment, known by the party Furnishing
him to be non con,p0s nsentis, or in condi.
ton Of intoxication, or under conviction
or Indictment for any offsnse Of the grads
Of felony at the common law, or to have
been guilty of a previous act of deseftion
unsatisfied by pardon or punishment, orby
reason of any existing infirmity or ailment
physically incapable Of performing tho
ordinary duties Of \ soldier in active scr.
vice in the ranks, or minor between the
ages OF sixteen and eighteen years, without
the consent of his parent or guardian, or
minor under the age of sixteen years, it
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General, on advice OF the fact, to report tho
same to the Provost Marshal of the proper
district, and If such person so enlisted and
incapable, shall have been since the pas.
age of this act mustered into the service y
o substitute, for person liable to draft,
and not actually drafted, the name Of the
person 80 liable who furnished such sub
stitute shall be again placed on the list, and
he shall be subject to draft thereafter %
though no such substitute had beeu fur.
nished by him: and if such substitute, %
enlisted and incapable a. aforesaid, shall
have been, since the passage of this act,
mustered lnto the service as substituto
for a person actually drafted. then It shal |
be the duty OF the Provost Marshal Gener.
al to direct the Provost Marshal of the d.
trict Immediately 10 notify the person VIZ |
furnished such substitute that he ia held to
service in the place Of such substitute, and
he shall stand In the same relation, and b
subject to the same liability as before The
furnishing Of such substitute.
SEC 20. And be 1t further enacted, Thk
in case any substitute shall desert iron
the army, and it shall appear by evidence |
satisfactory to the Secretary of War, that |
the party furnishing such substitute shall ]
aided or abetted such desertion, or to have |
been privy to any intention on the part Of
such substitute to desert, then such persos /
shall be Immediately placed in the army
and shall serve for the period for which b.
was liable to draft, such service to com.
Mence at the date of the desertion Of tie
substitute.
Section q deprives of their citizenship
all deserters who do not return within six. J
.ty days after the issue of the Presidents
Proclamation, which we have already pub
llshed. Section q repeats the enrolIment|
act Of July 9TH, 1854. Section o shows bowl
any person, or association Of persons mayl
in anticipation Of draft, free themselv0I
from liability by mastering in ,recsuih
We quote: afg ~ 1880
4,;d be. It further enacted, That any perl
son or persons enrolled in any SUP district
may, after notice Of draft, and before tbe
same shall have taken place, cause to b.
mustered into the service of the United
States, such number Of recruits, not sub
iect to draft, as they deem expedient which
recruits shall stand to the credit Of the PEI.
sons thus causing them to be mustered y
and shall be taken as substitutes for such
persons, or so many Of them a. may
drafted, to the extent OF the number Of suef
recruits, and in the order designated by
principals at the time such recruits ~
thus as aforesaid mustered IN. a
Section "a amends the act OF February ~
1884, by authorizing any civil magistrate
or ether person authorized, to adminhs
oaths in connection with the law. Sectis
% provides for keeping the clothing 81
counts of recruits. Section Is exempts dr.I
commissioners, assistant surgeons, sN
contract surgeons, from liability to dnN
Section q provides that nothing in thelaS
shall operate to postpone the pending dEs
or interfere with its quotas.
AN ENaL1sH CURE FOR DRUNK ENSssI
There is famous prescription in use III
England, for the cure OF drunkenness, VI
which thousands are said to have been =
sisted in recovering themselves. Tie Il
ceipt came into noteriety through tbefI
forts of John Vine Hail, commander Of ~
Great Eastern steamship. He had faleA
into such habitual drunkenness, that y,
most earnest efforts to reclaim hinse