Year: 1864

The following is a synopsis Of tho
new Conscription Law, as passed by
Congress and approved by the Presi-
dent


Section 1 authorizes the President to
call for such number of men for militia.
ry service, as he may deem necessary at
any time during the war.


See. 2 provides that the quota o f each
ward, township, &c. shall be as nearly
as possible in proportion to the number
of men liable to military service, de-
ductiug, as far as practicable, the num-
Der Of men previously furnished, and
also deducting all who shall have enter
ed the naval service, and whose names
are upon the enrolment lists already
returned to the Provost Marshal Gene
rails office.


Sec. 3 provides that whenever the
quota of any district shall not be filed
within the time designated by the Pres
ident, the Provost Marshal of the dis
trict shall proceed to make draft for
the number deficient; but all volunteers
who may enlist before the draft is actu-
ally made shall be deducted from the
number ordered to be drafted in any
ward, township, SO. And if tho quota
shall not be filled by the first draft, fur
ther drafts shall be made until it is fill
Cd.


See. / provides that any person en-
rolled under the act of March 3, 1863,
may at any time before a draft furnish
an acceptable substitute, who is not LA
bic to draft nor at the time in the mill
tary or naval service of the U. States.
"and such person go furnishing a sub
Stitute shall be exempt from draft dur.
ing the time for which such substitute
shall not be liable to draft, not exceed
ing the time for which such substitute
shall have been accepted"


See. provides that any d, afted man
may, before the time fixed for his ap.
pearance at the draft rendezvous, fur.
uish an acceptable substitute, subject to
such regulations as may be prescribed
By the Secretary of War. If such sub
stitute is not liable to draft the person
furnishing him shall be exempt in the
same manner and for the same time az
provided in section 1; but if such sub
stituto is liable to draft, "the name of
the person furnishing him shall again
be placed on the roll and he shall be IL
able to draft on future calls, but not un-
til the present enrolment shall be ex.
hausted, and this exemption shall not
exceed the term for which such person
shall have been drafted" Any person
now in tho military or naval service,
not physically qualified, who has served
moro than one year aud who at the time
of substitution has not moro than six
months to serve, may be employed as a
substitute TO serve in the troops of the
State in which he enlisted; and if any
drafted person shall hereafter pay mon
ey for the procuration Of substitute,
under the provisions of the former Con-
scription act, such payment of money
thall operate only to relieve such person
from draft in filling that quota, and his
name shall be retained on the roll in
filling future quotas; but in no instance
shall the exemption of any person by
the payment of commutation money OK
tend beyond one year, and at the end Of
that time the name of every person 80
exempted shall be enrolled again, if not


before returned to the enrolment list.


Sec. provides that boards of enroll


ment shall enroll all persons liable to


draft, whose names may have been omit


ted by the enrolling officers; all who


reach the age of twenty before the
draft; all aliens declaring their iutsn-
ton to become citizens; all discharged
soldiers and seamen who have not ssrv-


ed two years duriag the present war;
all who have been exempted under the
second section of the former Consorip-
: ton act, but who are not exempt under
the prese at act. And said boards shall
discharge from draft all who shall attain
: the age Of fOrty-fve between the time
Iof TIE enrolment aRd tho draft, aud