Chapter XXV. *making an Appropriation for completing the Defences of Washington, and for other Purposes.* February 13, 1862 *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the sum of one hundredAppropriation for defences of Washington. and fi
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Chap. XXV.— An Act *making an Appropriation for completing the Defences of Washington, and for other Purposes.* February 13, 1862 *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the sum of one hundredAppropriation for defences of Washington. and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for completing the defences of Washington: *Provided*, That all arrearages of debts alreadyProviso. incurred for the objects of this act shall be first paid out of this sum: *And provided, further*, Thar no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended in any work hereafter to be commenced.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the fifth section of the act ofEnlistment of minors.1850, ch. 78, § 5.Vol. ix. p. 507. twenty-eighth September, eighteen hundred and fifty, providing for the discharge from the service of minors enlisted without the consent of their parents or guardians, lie, and the same hereby is repealed: *Provided*, That hereafter no person under the age of eighteen shall be mustered into the United States service, and the oath of enlistment taken by the recruit shall be conclusive as to his age.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That no volunteers or militia fromMastering of volunteers into service, &c. any State or Territory shall be mustered into the service of the United States on any terms or conditions confining their service to the limits of said State or Territory, or their vicinities, beyond the number of ten thousand in the Slate of Missouri, and four thousand five hundred in the State of Maryland, heretofore authorized by the President of the United States, or Secretary of War, to be raised in said States.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted*, That the second section of the act340THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 25, 27, 1862 of the tenth of April, eighteen hundred and six, shall be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to read as follows: " “Sec. 2. Spies, &c., how to be punished.1806, ch. 20, § 2.Vol. ii. p. 371.*And be it further enacted*, That, in time of war or rebellion against the supreme authority of the United States, all persons who shall be found lurking as spies, or acting as such, in or about the fortifications, encampments, posts, quarters, or headquarters of the armies of the United States, or any of them, within any part of the United States which has been or may be declared to be in a state of insurrection by proclamation of the President of the United States, shall suffer death by sentence of a general court-martial.
” " Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted*, That the fifty-fifth article of the first section of aet of tenth April, eighteen hundred and six, chapter twenty, be, and the same is hereby so amended as to read as follows: " “Article Fifty-five. Whoever, belonging to the armies of the United Forcing safeguard, how punished.1806, ch. 20, § 1.Vol. ii. p. 366.States in foreign parts, or at any place within the United States, or their Territories, during rebellion against the supreme authority of the United States, shall force a safeguard, shall suffer death.
” " Approved, February 13, 1862.