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e laws? The breach once made, where and by whom, when and how, is it to be healed? the issues important for poor decision. There is but one question, which to this. "Were the petitioners as of right, entitled to their discharge on the 16th of July, by virtue of the law of Congress and if so, could the orders of the Secretary at War divest those rights?" It is needless here to restate the provisions of the act of Congress. It is perfectly plain that the express language of the bily at War, of the Conscript Act, as promulgated by himself as to the 12 months men. In the exposition, as well as in his letter to Gov. Clark, he distinctly announced to that patriotic branch of the army that they should all be discharged on the 16th July. In general order No. 46 he authoritatively ordered that they should not be discharged until ninety days after the expiration of the period of their enlistment, and consequently they were so held to service. Before dismissing this point, al