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 THIRTY—EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 13. 1864. 7 any drafted person shall hereafter pay money for the procuration of a substitute, under the provisions of the act to which this is an amendment, Payment of such payment of money shall operate only to relieve such person from ;;’;‘;l‘;‘;“i‘$;“m draft in filling that quota; and his name shall be retained on the roll in exempt filling future quotas; but in no instance shall the exemption of any person, on account of his payment of commutation money for the procure.- tion of a substitute, extend beyond one year; but at the end of one year, in every such case, the name of any person so exempted shall be enrolled again, if not before returned to the enrolment list under the provisions of this section. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted That boards of enrolment shall en- Wim to bc roll all persons liable to draft under the provisions of this act, and the act °¤Y°ll°d· to which this is an amendment, whose names may have been omitted by the proper enrolling officers; all persons who shall arrive at the age of twenty years before the draft; all aliens who shall declare their intentions to become citizens; all persons discharged from the military or naval service of the UnitedStates who have not been in such service two years during the present war; and all persons who have been exempted under the provisions of the second section of the act to which this is an amendment, but who are not exempted by the provisions of this act; and said Names of what boards of enrolment shall release and discharge from draft all persons Persons wbé who, between the time of the enrolment and the draft, shall have arrived $;T;;f[fi§_°’u` at the age of forty-five years, and shall strike the names of such persons from the enrolment. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That any mariner or able or ordi- Seamen armed nary seaman who shall be drafted under this act, or the act to which this may F¤li¤¤.i·t is an amendment, shall have the right, within eight days after the notifi- Eiga Sem°°’ cation of such draft, to enlist in the naval service as a seaman, and a certidcate that he has so enlisted being made out, in conformity with regulations which may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, and duly presented 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 : Provided, That the period for which he shall have en- Term of enlist, listed into the naval service shall not be less than the period for which ment he shall have been drafted into the military service : And provided further, That the said certificate shall declare that satisfactory proof has _ Proof that he been made before the naval officer issuing the same that the said person ‘s “ s‘°"‘““”“· so enlisting in the navy is a mariner by vocation, or an able or ordinary seaman. And any person now in the military service of the United States, who shall furnish satisfactory proof that he is a mariner by vocation or an able or ordinary seaman, may enlist into the navy under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the President of the United States: Provided, That such enlistment shall not be for less than the unexpired term of his military service nor for less than one year. And the bounty-money which any mariner 01* seaman enlisting from the army into Bounty-money the navy may have received from the United States, or from the state in fsck? ‘§‘;;*ft°d which he enlisted in the army, shall be deducted from the prize-money to mom; which he may become entitled during the time required to complete his military service: And provided further, That the whole number of such Limit of transtransfer enlistments shall not exceed ten thousand. fer €¤H$*m°¤*$· Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That whenever any such mariner or Such enlisted able or ordinary seaman shall have been exempted from such draft in the ifggxdtfobe military service by such enlistment into the naval service, under such {own, ward, gw, due certificate thereof, then the ward, town, township, precinct, or election °¤ their ¢i¤<¤¤· district, or county, when the same is not divided into wards, towns, townships, precincts, or election districts, from which such person has been drafted, shall be credited with his services to all intents and purposes as if he had been duly mustered into the military service under such draft. i Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That all enlistments into the naval