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32. Muster and descriptive roll of detachment of men drafted and mustered into the service of the United States.

33. Descriptive list of drafted men called into the service of the United States.

34. Enrollment list of all persons (except as required in Form 35) subject to do military duty in sub-districts.

35. Enrollment list of persons held to service and subject to do military duty in sub-districts.

36. Consolidated list of all persons subject to do military duty in Congressional districts.

37. Notice to men who have been drafted to report.

38. Tri-monthly report of the state of the draft.

39. Substitute volunteer enlistment.

40. Abstract of exemptions granted to drafted persons.

41. Statement of substitutes accepted and enlisted in Congressional districts.

APPENDIX.*

EXTRACTS FROM GENERAL REGULATIONS OF THE ARMY.

ARTICLE XLI.- Public property, money, accounts, and contracts.

995. Any officer who shall, directly or indirectly, sell or dispose of, for a premium, any Treasury note, draft, warrant, or other public security in his hands for disbursement, or sell or dispose of the proceeds or avails thereof without making returns of such premium and accounting therefor by charging it in his accounts to the credit of the United States, will forthwith be dismissed by the President. (Act August 6, 1846.)

996. If any disbursing officer shall bet at cards or any game of hazard, his commanding officer shall suspend his functions, and require him to turn over all the public funds in his keeping, and shall immediately report the case to the proper bureau of the War Department.

1000. No officer disbursing or directing the disbursement of money for the military service shall be concerned, directly or indirectly, in the purchase or sale, for commercial purposes, of any article intended for, making a part of, or appertaining to the department of the public service in which he is engaged, nor shall take, receive, or

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*The following resolution and acts of Congress (here omitted) were published as part of this appendix: "A resolution amendatory of the joint resolution "to supply in part deficiencies in the appropriations for the public printing and to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for bounties to volunteers,"" approved January 16, 1864, published in General Orders, No. 26, Adjutant- General's Office, January 19, 1864, p.38 ante; "An act to prescribe an oath of office, and for other purpose," approved July 2, 1862, published in General Orders, No. 80, Adjutant- General's Office, July 16, 1862, Vol. II, this series, p.227; "An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1863, published in General Orders, No. 73, Adjutant-General's Office, March 24, 1863, Vol. III, this series, p.85; "An act to amend an act entitled "Ann act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1863," approved February 24, 1864, published in General Orders, No. 75, Adjutant-General's Office, February 25, 1864, p.128 ante; "An act to provide for the efficiency of the Navy," approved July 1, 1864, published in General Orders, No. 245, Adjutant-General's Office, August 12, 1864, p.612; "An act further to regulate and provide for the enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes," approved July 4, 1864, published in General Orders, No. 224, Adjutant-General's Office, July 6, 1864, p.472 ante.

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