By order of the Secretary of War: 

E.D.  TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

EXECUTIVE MANSION,

Washington, March 14, 1864.

In order to supply the force required to be drafted for the Navy and to provide an adequate reserve force for all contingencies, in addition to the 500,000 men called for February 1, 1864, a call is hereby made and a draft ordered for 200,000 men for the military service (Army, Navy, and Marine Corps) of the United States.

The proportional quotas for the different wards, towns, townships, precincts, or election districts, or counties, will be made known through the Provost-Marshal-General’s Bureau, and account will be taken of the credits and deficiencies on former quotas.

The 15th day of April, 1864, is designated as the time up to which the numbers required from each ward of a city, town, etc., may be raised by voluntary enlistment, and drafts will be made in each ward of a city, town, etc., which shall not have filled the quota assigned to it within the time designated for the number required to fill said quotas.  The drafts will be commenced as soon after the 15th of April as practicable.

The Government bounties as now paid continue until April 1, 1864, at which time the additional bounties cease.  On and after that date $100 bounty only will be paid, as provided by the act approved July 22, 1861,

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 2, 1864.

Ordered, That the Executive order of September 4, 1863, in relation to the exportation of live stock from the United States, be so extended as to prohibit the exportation of all classes of salted provisions from any part of the United States to any foreign port, except that meats cured, salted, or packed in any State or Territory bordering on the Pacific Ocean may be exported from any port of such State or Territory.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: 

I. The governors of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin offer to the President infantry troops for the approaching campaign as follows: 

Ohio               30,000
Indiana            20,000
Illinois           20,000
Iowa               10,000
Wisconsin           5,000

II.  The term of service to be one hundred days, reckoning from the date of muster into the service of the United States, unless sooner discharged.

III.  The troops to be mustered into the service of the United States by regiments, when the regiments are rilled up, according to regulations, to the minimum strength, the regiments to be organized according to the regulations of the War Department.  The whole number to be furnished within twenty days from date of notice of the acceptance of this proposition.

IV.  The troops to be clothed, armed, equipped, subsisted, transported, and paid as other United States infantry volunteers, and to serve in fortifications, or wherever their services may be required, within or without their respective States.