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Form 31

CERTIFICATE OF NON-LIABILITY TO BE GIVEN BY THE BOARD OF
ENROLLMENT.

We, the subscribers, composing the Board of Enrollment of the Ninth
District of the State of Massachusetts, provided for in section 8, Act of
Congress "for enrolling and calling out the national forces," approved March 3, 1863,
hereby certify that John A. Steinbeck, of Fitchburg,
Worcester county, State of Massachusetts, having given
satisfactory evidence that he is not properly subject to do military duty, as required by said
act, by reason of alienage, is exempt from all liability to military
duty for the term of draft of July 17, 1863.

D.H. Merriam
Provost Marshal, and President of Board of Enrollment.

Zenos W. Tszys
Member of Board of Enrollment.

E. G. Richardson
Surgeon of Board of Enrollment.

Dated at Greenfield, Mass,
this 8th day of August, 1863.

Note.—This certificate is to be given in all cases where it is applicable, according to the 2d, 3d, 13th, and 17th sections
of the act of Congress referred to above.