Delaware State journal and statesman., 1865-03-17

WAR DEPARTMENT.,
PfopOh Marshal Generals O6ies,
WAsHiEdToA ID. q
Circular, March II, 1896
No. 6.
In conformity with the Proclamation Of the
President herewith published, all officers and
employees of this Bureau are instructed to give
prompt attention to the receiving and forward
ing OF such deserters as present themselves 10
accordance with It's provisions.
BT THH PRESIDENT OF THR UNITED srArss OF
AMERICA.
PROCLAMATIOH
Whereas, the tWenty-frst section Of the act of
Congress, approved on the 50 inst, entitled Hao
act to amend the several acts heretofore passed.
to provide for the enrolling and calling out Of
the national forces, and for other purposes, re
quires that, in addition to the other lawful pen
altles Of the crime OF deaertion from the military
or naval service, "Rll persons who have desert
ef the military or naval service Of the United
States, who shall not return to said service.
or report themselves to Provost Marshal, with
in sixty days after the proclamation hereinafter
mentioned, shall be deemed and taken to have
voluntarily relinqushed and forfeited their
rights Of citizenship and their rights to become
citizens, and such deserters shall be forever
incapable of holding any ofice Of trust or
erciSing any rights of citizens thereof; and
all persons who shall hereafter desert the mill
tary or naval service, and oil persons who, be-
ing duly enrolled, shall depart the Jurisdiction
OF the district in which he is enrolled, or 20 be.
yond the limits Of the United States with in.
tent to avoid any draft into the military or ma
val service duly ordered, shall be liable to the
penalties Of this section. And the President is
hereby authorized and required forthwith on
the passage Of this act TO issue his proclamation
setting forth the provisions Of this section, 10
which proclamation the President is requested
to notify all deserters returning within sixty
days, as aforesaid, that they shall be pardoued
on condition Of returning to their regiments and
companies, or to such other organiSat ons as they
may be assigned to, until they shall have
served for period Of time equa to their original
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 recurring ali
deserters to return to tfeir proper posts
sni do hereby notify them that all de-
serters who SHALL within sixty days from the
date OF this proclamation viz, on or before the
tenth day Of May, 1865, return to service, or
report themselves to provost marshal, shall be
pArdoned on condition that they return to their
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ganlsations as they may be assigned to, and
serve the remainder OF their original terms of
enlistment, and in addition thereto a period
equal to the time lost by desertion
10 testimony whereof have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed.
Done at the city Of Washington this llth day
Of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty Eve, and of the indie
pendenoe Of the United States the eighty-ninth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President
WILLIAM h. SEWARD, Secretary Of State.
The records and returns of these deserters
WIN be made up in the same manner as is pro-
rlded for in other cases by existing regulations.
except that it will be noted on the book Of de-
serters arrested, opposite the name Of the de-
serter, the fact Of his having voluntarily sur
rendered himself in conformity with the Presi.
dents Proclamation and the number thus sur.
rendering themselves to be separately stated on
the report to this office.
The Secretary Of War directs, that no reward
be paid for the arrest of deserters who NAV b,
arrested subsequent to the receipt of this orde,
by the District Provost MarRhals