Year: 1864

VINO are not exempted py The prOvls


ions of this act and said boards o.
enrolment shall release and discharge
from draft all persons who, between
the time of the enrolment and the
draft, shall have arrived at the age oi
forty-five years, and shall strike the
names Of such persons from the enrol
ment.


Sec. I. And be IL further enacted
That any mariner or able or ordinary
seaman who shall be drafted under
this act, or the act to which this is an
amendment, shall have the right,
within eight days after the notifica-
tion of such draft, to enlist in the ma.
val service as a seaman, and certifi-
cate that he has so enlisted being
made out, in conformity with regula-
tons which may be prescribed 10y the
Secretary of the Navy, and duly pre-
sentcd to the provost marshal of the
district in which such mariner or able
or ordinary seaman shall have been
drafted, shall exempt him from such
draft : Prorided, That the period for
which he shall have enlisted into the
naval service shall not be less than
the period for which he shall have
been drafted into the military service ::
Ind PT0rided furilcr, That the said ccr-
tiGcatc shall declare that satisfactory
proof has been made before the naval
officer issuing the same that the said
In
mariner by vocation, or an able or or
dlnary seaman. And any person now
In the military service of the United
States who shall furnish satisfactory
proof that he is mariner by vocation
or an able or ordinary seaman may
enlist into the navy under such rules
aud regulations as may be prescribed
by the President Of the United States ::
Pr0riaed, That such enlistment shall
not bc for less than the unexpired
term of lis military service nor for
less than one year. And tue bounty
money which any mariner or sea- an
from the army into the navy
may have received from the United
States, or from the State in which he
enlisted i'll the army, shall be deduct
cd from the prize money to which he
may become entitled during the time
required to complete his military SER
vice: lRd prcrided JHrtIr, That the
whole number Of such transfer enlist
mCnts shall not exceed ten thousand.


Sec. s. ARd be Il further enacted,
That whenever any such mariner or
able or ordinary seaman shall have
been exempted from such draft in the
military service by such enlistment in
to the naval service, under such due GER
titicate thereof, then the ward, town,
township, precinct, or election dis
trlct, or county, when the same is not
divided into wards, towns, townships,
precincts, or election districts, from
which such person has been drafted,
shall he credited with his services to
all intents and purposes as If ho had
been duly mustered into tue military
service under such draft.


Sec. Q. Aad be II farther enacted.
That all enIistments into the naval
service of the United States, or into
the marine corps of the United States,
that may hereafter be made of per-
sons liable To service under the act of
Congress entitled An act for enroll
ing and calling ont the national forces,
and for other purposes" approved
March third, eighteen hundred and
sixty-three, shall be credited to the
ward, town, township, precinct, or
election district, or county, when the
same is not divided into wards, towns,
townships, precincts, or election dis
tricts, in which such enlisted men
were or may be enrolled and liable to
duty under the act aforesaid, under
such regulations as the Provost Mar
shall General of the United States
may prescribe.


Sec. 10. And be Il FURTHER enacted,
That the following persons be and
they are hereby exempted from enroll
ment and draft under the provisions
of this act and of the act to which
this is an amendment, to wit Such
as are rejected as physically or men,
tally unfit for the service, all persons
actually in the military or naval serv-
ice of the United States at the time
of the draft. and all persons who have
served in the military or naval serv-
ice two years during the present war
and been honorably discharged there
from and no persons but such as are
herein exempted shall be exempt.


Sec IL. and be IL furtAer enacted,
That section third of the Act for en-
rolling and calling out the national
forces, and for other purposes" APP
proved March third, eighteen hundred
and sixty-three. and SO much of Sec
tion ten of said act as provides for
the separate enrolment of each class,
be and the same are hereby repealed
and it shall be the duty Of the board
Of enrolment of each district to con,
solidate the two classes mentioned in
the third section of said act


Sec. IL. And be IL further enacted
That any person who shall lorcibly re
sist or oppose any enrolment, or wht
shall incite, counsel, encourage, OF
who shall conspire or confederate witt
any other person or persons forcibly
to resist or oppose any such enrolment
or who shall aid or assist, or take any


part in any forcible resistance or op


position thereto, or who shall assault


obstruct. hinder, impede, or threaten


any officer or other person employed


in making or in aiding to make sucl


enrolment, or employed in the per


formance, or in aiding in the perform
ance of any service in any way rela
ting thereto, or in arresting or aiding


to arrest any spy or deserter from th'


military service Of the United State


shall. upon conviction thereof in any


court competent to try the offence, b


punished 10y a fine not exceeding tiv


thousand dollars. or by Imprisonment


not exceeding FIVE years, or by bot


of said punishments in the discretio


Of the court. And in cases wher


such assaulting, obstructing. hinder
ing, or impeding shall produce tn