The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-27


The Commandant of the Camp of Instruc
ton informs the persons embraced in the above
order that those who report most promptly
will secure choice of the corps and arm Of
the service to4which they desire to be attached.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUTANT & INsPEcToR-GENERAL,s OFFICE,
RICHMOND, MAY 19, 1862.
GENERAL ORDERS NO. 81.
/. The following Act and Regulations in
reference thereto are published for the infor
nation of all concerned:
IN act to Exempt Certain Persons from En-
rollment for Service en- the Arn,tes Of the
Confederate Stat r,sf gsE<i
Sec. 1. The Gorsgress Of the Confederate
States of America do enact That all persons
who shall be held to be unfit for military SER
vice under rules to be prescribed by the Secre-
tary of War! All in service or employ of the
Confederate States; all judicial and executive
officers of Confederate or State Governments;
the Members of both Houses of the Congress
and of the Legislatures of the several States,
and their respective officers; all clerks of the
officers of the State ard Confederate Govern
ments allowed by law; all engaged in carrying
the mails; all ferrymen on post routes; all pilots
and persons engaged in the marine service and
in actual service on river and railroad routes of
transportation; tecgraphic operators and min
listers of religion in the regular discharge of
ministerial duties; all engaged in working iron
mines, furnaces and foundries; all journcymen
printers actually employed in printing newspa-
pers; all presidents and professors of colleges
and academies, and all teachers having as
many as twenty scholars; supcrintendants Of
the public hospitals, luratic asylums and the
regular nurses and attendants therein, and the
teachers employed in the institution for the
deaf and dumb and blind; in each apothecary
store now established and doing business, one
apothecary in good standing who is practical
druggist; superintendents and operatives in
wool and cotton factories who may be cxemp-
ted by the Secretary of War; shall be and are
hereby exempted from military service in the
Confederate States.
APPROVED April 81, 1852.
III. BY the above Act of Congress, the fol-
lowing classes of persons arc exempt from en-
rollment for military service:
Justices of the peace; sheriffs and deputy
sheriffs; clerks and deputy clerks, allowed by
law; masters and commissioners in chancery;
district and State attorneys; attorneys general;
postrnasters and deputy postmasters and clerks,
allowed by law: commissioners of revenue, and
foreigners, who have not acquired domicil in
the Confederate States.
III. The following are not exempt:
Militia officers not in service; persons exempt
by State laws, but not by the above Act; for
eigners, who have acquired domicil in the Con-
federate States.
Nv. No person other than those expressly
named or properly implied in the above Act,
can be exempted, sxcept by furnishing a sub
stitute, exempt from military service, in con-
formity with Regulations already published,
General Orders No. 29) and such exemption
is valid only SO long as the said substitute is
legally exempt
V. Persons who have furnished substitutes
will receive their certificates of exemption from
the captains of companies or the commandants
of camps, by whom the substitutes have been
accepted. Other certificates of exemption will
begranted by the enrolling officers only, who
will receive full instructions in regard to the
conditions and mode of exemptions. Applica-
tions for exemption cannont, therefore, be con-
sidered by the War Department.
By command of the Secretary of War.
s. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector-General.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA H..