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Proclamation By The Present

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
December
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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Washington, Doe. '20. Whertat, B.y the act of July 4, lSGt, etititled an act fnrther to regálate aml provide for enrolling and calling out national förces, and for olher purposes, it is proviiled that the President of the United States may at bis 'discretion, onytime hereafter, cali for any Dumber of men as volunteera for the respective term of one, two, or three years, for military service, and that in case the quota or any part thoreof of any town, township or ward of a city, precinct or lection district oí a county not sü sub divided, shall not be filed withia the space of fifty days after such c&ll, then the President Bt.all immediately order a draft for one year to til 1 &uuh quota, or any part thtreof which may be unülled: whereas, by the credit allowecí in aocordanee with the act of (Jon fff ets in tho cali for 500,000 men made July 18, 186-t, the fiumber of men to be obtained undor the cali was reduced to j 280,000; and whereas, the operation of the enemy in certain States have j dered it impracticable to procure frum ' them their full quotas of troops u-ntior tliis csll ; and whereas, for the foregofng j causes, but 250,000 men have beer. put into the army, navy, and marine corps, under aaid oall of july 18, 1864, leaving tt deficiency on that culi of 250,000. Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincohi, Presiient of the United States of America, i'n order to supply the aforesuid I ticieny, and to provide for casualtios in the ïüilitar)' and! naval service of the United States, do issue this, my caH ter .hree liundrud thousiinfl TOluntecr, to serve foï oer two or th-ree year. Tho quotaa oí tire States, di-tricta and I 1 8 ti iets inider thia culi will be assigned by ihe War Deparlróeilt through the : bureau if the Provost Marshal General j of the United Staten, and in case the qurrta, or any f art tiiereof, of any town, .ownship, wnrd of a city, precinct, or election district, or of a eounty not so s:ibdivided. shall not be filUd beforq the 15i h day of February, then a diaft shall be made to fiil such (juota, or auy part theroof, under this cali whiíh may ' be supplied on the I5lh day of arv, 1865. In testunonv wlrereof, I have liereunto set rnv hand and oioSod the teal of the Uniied States to be aíBxed. Done at Ihe Gity ot Washington this lOih day cf December, in the year of Diir Lord 1864, and of the independonce of' the United States oí Americíi, the 89th.

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