Sunday, May 25, 2008

Notice.

Any person Enrolled in the 5th Congressional District of Iowa, may appear before the Board of Enrollment of said District, at their office in the City of Des Moines, on the 20th of December 1863, and claim to have his name stricken off the list if he can show to the satisfaction of the Board that he is not, and will not be, at the time fixed for next draft, liable to military duty on acct of

1st. Alienage.
2nd. Non-Residence.
3d. Unsuitableness of age.
4th. Manifest permanent physical disability.

Persons who may be cognizant [sic] of any other persons liable to military duty, whose names do not appear on the Enrollment list, are requested to notify the Board of Enrollment so that their names may be enrolled.

Lists of all the names enrolled in each Township or Ward are now being printed and will be posted for public inspection within a few days.

S. C. Brownell, J. N. Cornish, J. P. Finley
Board of Enrollm’t 5th Dist., Iowa
Des Moines, Dec. 9, 1863.–d2w.wlt..

- Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, December, 19, 1863

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