American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date : $b embodying a history of all the political parties, with their views and records on all important questions. Great speeches on all great issues, and tabulated history and chronological events.Cooper, Thomas V. (Thomas Valentine)
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American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date : $b embodying a history of all the political parties, with their views and records on all important questions. Great speeches on all great issues, and tabulated history and chronological events.
Cooper, Thomas V. (Thomas Valentine)
Political parties -- United States; United States -- Politics and government
1864, Feb. 24—Provided for equalizing the draft by calculating the quota
of each district or precinct and counting the number previously
furnished by it. Any person enrolled may furnish an acceptable
substitute who is not liable to draft, nor, at any time, in the military
or naval service of the United States; and such person so furnishing a
substitute shall be exempt from draft during the time for which such
substitute shall not be liable to draft, not exceeding the time for
which such substitute shall have been accepted. If such substitute is
liable to draft, the name of the person furnishing him shall again be
placed on the roll and shall be liable to draft in future calls, but not
until the present enrollment shall be exhausted. The exemptions are
limited to such as are rejected as physically or mentally unfit for the
service; to persons actually in the military or naval service of the
Government, and all persons who have served in the military or naval
service two years during the present war and been honorably discharged
therefrom.
The separate enrollment of classes is repealed and the two classes
consolidated.
Members of religious denominations, who shall by oath or affirmation
declare that they are conscientiously opposed to the bearing of arms,
and who are prohibited from doing so by the rules and articles of faith
and practice of said religious denomination, shall when drafted, be
considered non-combatants, and be assigned to duty in the hospitals, or
the care of freedmen, or shall pay $300 to the benefit of sick and
wounded soldiers, if they give proof that their deportment has been
uniformly consistent with their declaration.
No alien who has voted in county, State or Territory shall, because of
alienage, be exempt from draft.
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