...chief magistrate of the Union." § 226. During the rebellion a more comprehensive statute was passed, entitled "an act for enrolling and calling out the national forces and for other purposes," dated March 3, 1863. (12 Stat. 731.) By that statute all able-bodied male citizens of the United States,...

...3, 1863, the provision which is the subject of discussion was enacted as the thirty-fifth section of "An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces and for other purposes." This was generally known as the draft act. It was made necessary by the failure of the Government to...

...act to enable the several cities and towns of this state which have not already done so, to refund the money expended in furnishing substitutes or in...purposes,' approved March 3, 1863, and the acts amendatory thereof, while the option of commutation by the payment of three hundred dollars remained, and for...

...each person drafted from this town into the service of the "United States under an act of Congress entitled ' An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces and for other purposes,' provided such person is not otherwise exempt from the provisions of said act ; or the selectmen be...

...United States, or had commuted in lieu of such serrice, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1863, entitled, "An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces and for other purposes." The parties seeking to enforce the claims proceeded regularly under the provisions of chapter 664 of...

...act to enable the several cities and towns of this state which have not already done so, to refund the money expended in furnishing substitutes, or in...were drafted into the military service of the United States," etc. In a like manner, the act of the board of supervisors in providing for the issuing of...

...belong, under the direction of the Judge-Advocate-General. * * * Act of March 3, 1863 (12 State., 743). AN ACT for enrolling and calling out the national forces and for other purposes. * * •": SEC. 28. That the judge-advocate shall have power to appoint a reporter, whose duty it shall...

...in the United States Army, and for other purposes. SEC. 11. That the thirty-first section of an act entitled "An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes,1" approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and sixty -three, be, and the same is...

...act to enable the several cities and towns of this state which have not already done so, to refund the money expended in furnishing substitutes, or in...were drafted into the military service of the United States," etc. In a like manner the act of the board of supervisors in providing for the issuing of...

...unlike article 59 of the Articles of War, was new legislation in 1S63. It wa'? section 30 of an act entitled "An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces and for other purposes." Upon a critical examination of it, it does not seem to have any counterpart in the articles of war...