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 [IloL'St UnA , NOr- --.] . 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTA'lHYK^, Dec^ilst, 1863.— Ordered 
 to be printed. 
 
 [By Mr. Holton.] 
 
 A. BILL, 
 
 To be entitled an Act to amend tlie hiM in relation to substitutes. 
 
 1 Whereas, Through frauds perpetrated on the government under 
 
 2 the clause of the act approved April 16th, 1862, which granted 
 
 3 the privilege that persons, not liable to military duty, might be 
 
 4 received for those who were, our armies have been deprived 
 
 5 of the services of men necessary for the public defence ; there- 
 
 6 fore, 
 
 1 Skc. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States do enact. That, 
 
 2 in all cases where substitutes received under the provisions of 
 
 3 the above (or any other) law have deserted, or shall hereafter 
 
 4 desert, the obligation of the principal shall revive upon the de- 
 
 5 sertion of the substitute being established and attested under 
 
 6 regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War. 
 
 1 Sf.c. 2. In all cases where a substitute has proved unfit for the 
 
 2 discharge of the ordinary duties of a soldier, by reason of physi- 
 
 3 cal or mental incapacity, existing at the time he was received as 
 
2 
 
 4 a substitute, the obligation of the principal shall revive upon 
 
 5 such incapacity being established and attested under regulations 
 
 6 to be prescribed by the Secretary of War. 
 
 1 Sec. 3 In all cases where a man, who is a substitute, would be 
 
 2 liable to enrollment for military service under existing or future 
 
 3 laws if he were not already in the army, the principal is hereby 
 
 4 declared to be subject to such enrollment.