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    "title": "Certificate of Exemption on Account of Having Furnished a Substitute, Issued to James Dingman of Macon County, Illinois, by the Board of Enrollment for the 7th District of Illinois",
    "description": "This item is a framed certificate of exemption on account of having furnished a substitute for military service.  It was issued to James Dingman of Macon County, Illinois, by the Board of Enrollment of the 7th District at Danville, Illinois, on \"this 15th day of Nov. 23 [sic], 1864.\"",
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    "ocrText": "FORM 301.\nCERTIFICATE OF EXEMPTION ON ACCOUNT OF HAVING FURNISHED A SUBSTITUTE.\nWe, the subscribers, composing the Board of Enrollment of the 4th District of the State of Illinois\nprovided for in section 8, Act of Congress \"for enrolling and calling out the national forces,\" approved March 3, 1863. hereby\nof certify that James Dingman\n, of macon\ncounty, State\nIllinois , being properly subject to do military duty as required by said act, and the act approved Feb'y 24,\n1864, is exempt from its performance, by reason of having furnished an acceptable Substitute*\nliable to draft.\nDESCRIPTION.\nDRAFTED.\nNAME.\nHEIGHT.\nAGE.\nCom-\nWHERE,\nEYES.\nPLEXION.\nHAIR.\nWHEN.\nBY WHOM.\nPERIOD.\nFeet.\nIn.\n(Town and State.)\nJamesAngman\n7th Dear Sell\n1 year\nu\nMithin\nProvost Marshal, and President Board of Enrollment.\nDated at Danville Ju\nMember of Board of Enrollment.\nthis 15th day of nov. 22 186.4\nfor y. Miller\nyou Dirttll\nSurgeon of Board of Enrollment.\nNOTE 1.-This certificate is to be given in all cases where it is applicable, according to the acts of Congress referred to above.\nthe\nNOTE II--Where the Principal furnishes the Substitute before draft, this exemption in valid during time Substitute is not liable to draft, not exceeding the time for which the\nSubstitute in accepted.\nNOTE III-Where the Principal is drafted and furnishes Substitute not liable to draft, this exemption is valid during time Substitute is not Hable to draft, but not exceeding term\nfor which Principal was drafted.\nWhere Principal is drafted and furnishes Substitute liable to draft, the Principal is exempt until present enrollment is exhausted, not exceeding, however, the term for which\nPrincipal was drafted.\nInsert \"Not\" in cases where the Substitute is not liable to draft.\nwith on OF STATE NEW state NEW OF STATE your DUE THE N YOT the WHITE"
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