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 THIRTY—·EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 79, 80. 1865 491 diction of the district in which he is enrolled, or go beyond the limits of Leaving the the United States, with intent to swoid any draft into the military or £’c;;";’;1‘?€ naval service, duly ordered, shall be liable to the penalties of this section. penalty_ And the President is hereby authorized and required forthwith, on the President to passage of this act, to issue his proclamation setting forth the provisions P¤>¤1¤i¤1 *h*¤1¤W· of this section, in which proclamation the President is requested to notify all deserters returning within sixty days as aforesaid that they shall be pardoned on condition of returning to their regiments and companies or to such other organizations as they may be assigned to, until they shall have served for a period of time equal to their original term of enlistment. SEO. [22.] And be itfwrt/wr enacted, That the third section of the act P*P;”.iSSi2‘;*° entitled "An act [further] to regulate and provide for the enrolling and   2;} calling out the national forces, and for other purposes,"· approved July peeled. fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, be, and the same is hereby, 1864, ¢h· 237, repealed- § Slim, p. 319. rolled in any sub-district may, after notice of a draft, and before the same sons may cause shall have taken place, cause to be mustered into the service of the United £E;‘;;$°i:1’fo States such number of recruits, not subject to draft, as they may deem sgrvicawhen, expedient, which recruits shall stand to the credit of the persons thus &°· causing them to be mustered in, and shall be taken as substitutes for such persons, or so many of them as may be drafted, to the extent of the number of such recruits, and in the order designated by the principals, at the time such recruits are thus as aforesaid mustered in. Sec. [24.] And be it further enacted, That section fifteen of the act Penalty for approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, enti— §‘;:;ei)‘;;f51g§;°:: tled "An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for yoimnp other purposes," be, and the same is hereby, amended by inserting after 1864, ch. 13, the words " any civil magistrate," the words " or any person authorized § EM 9 by law to administer oaths." ’p` ' Sec. [25.] And be ii further enacted That the Secretary of War is hereby _O¥H_°¤' Y0 ¤d· authorized to detail one or more of the employees of the War Depart- mmmer mths' ment for the purpose of administering the oaths required by law in the settlement of otHccrs’ accounts for clothing, camp, and garrison equipage, quartermastefs stores, and ordnance, which oaths shall be administered without expense to the parties taking them, and shall be as binding upon the persons taking the same, and if falsely taken, shall subject them to the same penalties, as if the same were administered by a magistrate or justicc of the peace. Sec. [26.] And be it further enacted, That acting assistant surgeons, Qmain acting contract surgeons, and surgeons and commissioners on the enrolling ‘*"‘S“"_é Su" . . . . . . geons, c., not boards, while in the military service of the United States, ,shal1 hereafter liable to dma, be exempt from all liability to be drafted under the provisions of any act for enrolling and calling out the national forces. Sec. [27.] And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect When act takes from and after its passage: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall °H`€°°‘ operate to postpone the pending draft, or interfere with the quotas assigned therefor. Approved, March 3, 1865. Cnr. LXXX. -—An Act amendaimy of certain Acts imposing Duties upon foreign Im- March 3, 1865. P°”¤*i°"·*» ‘ 1s<s4,c1i.1iiT Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives J the United § img . . . . ., p. 208. States of America m Congress assembled, That section SIX of an act en— titled “An act to increase the duties on imports, and for other purp0ses," approved June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty—four, be amended, so Amendments. that paragraphs second, third, and fourth, of section six of said act, shall read as follows: Second. Ou all manufactures of cotton (except jeans, denims, drillings,
 * 8120.  And be it further enacted, That any person or persons en- Enrolled per.