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t office, he was reported to the Conscript Bureau as having left the railroad without being discharged. The letter of Mr. Harvie, reporting him, was referred to the Secretary of War, and that official endorsed upon it that if Bass had been enrolled and detailed, then he was to be taken by the conscript officers. The conscript officers, with this endorsement, arrested Bass and sent him to the conscript camp. Mr. Daniel, the counsel for Bass, took the ground that he had never been conscripted and enrolled, and was not liable to military duty, as he had a legal exemption paper when arrested. Messrs. Aylett and Argust argued that the entering of his name on the book of exempts was an enrollment, and that he was therefore, just as liable to military arrest for leaving the railroad without a discharge as if he had been entered on the enrolling list of conscripts and then detailed. The Judge, after hearing the evidence and arguments, took until Wednesday to give an opinion.