Selected Correspondance of Abraham Lincoln 1865 Order To Make Corrections In The Draft
by Abraham Lincoln
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON CITY, February 6, 1865
Whereas complaints are made in some localities respecting the
assignments of quotas and credits allowed for the pending call of
troops to fill up the armies: Now, in order to determine all
controversies in respect thereto, and to avoid any delay in
filling up the armies, it is ordered,
1. That the Attorney-General, Brigadier-General Richard Delafield, and
Colonel C. W. Foster, be, and they are hereby constituted, a board to
examine into the proper quotas and credits of the respective States
and districts under the call of December 19, 1864, with directions,
if any errors be found therein, to make such corrections as the
law and facts may require, and report their determination to the
Provost-Marshal-General. The determination of said board to be final
and conclusive, and the draft to be made in conformity therewith.
2. The Provost-Marshal-General is ordered to make the draft in the
respective districts as speedily as the same can be done after the
fifteenth of this month.
