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WAR DEPARTMENT
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ApJurASr AND INSPECTOR GENERALS OFFICE !
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GENERAL OIDRRs,

RICHMOND, May IL, 1862.
GENERAL OEDERs,
No. 81.
The following Act and Regulations in reference there
TO- published for the information Of all concerned:
An act TO tre7pt cTGin from enrolment for
rice in the Arnies of The Confederate States:
Section l. Tie Congress of the C6nfederdte States Of
AnercG do ea That all persons who shall be held to be
unit for military service under rules TO be prescribed BY
the Secretary of War; all The service employ of the
Confederate Staes ali judicial and executive officers Of
Confederate State governments the members Of both
houses of the Congress- and Of the Legislatures of the
era States and their respective officers all clerks of the
officers of the State and Confederate governments allowed
by law; all engaged in carrying the mails all errymeu
on post Ioutes all pilots and persons engaged in the
rne service and in actual service river and railroad
routes of transportation; telegraph operators and minis
tiers OF religion III the regular discharge of ministerial du
ties; all engaged in working in iron mines and furnaces
all iourneymen printers actually employed in printing
all presidents and professors of colleges and
academies and all teachers having many twenty
scholars; superintendent of the public hospitals unac
asyums and the regular nurses and attendants therein
and the teachers employed in the institutions for the deaf
and dumb and blind in each apothecary store esab
shed and doing business apothecary in good stand
ing who practical druggist superintendens and ope-
ratves in wool and cotton factories who be exempted
by the Secretary of War; shall be and hereby exempted
from military service in the armies of the Confederate
States Approved April 81, 1852
H. BY the above act of Congress- the following classes of
exempt from enrolment for military servce
Justices OF the peace shers and deputy shers clerks
and deputy clerks allowed by law masters and commits
snner chancery district and State attorneys attorneys
general postmasters and deputy postmastes and clerks
allowed commissioners revenue ana foreigners,
who have not acquired Omc in the Confederate States
Ill. The following are not exempt:
Militia officers not in actual service persons exempt BY
Stale raws but not BY the above foreigners who have
acquired domicil in The Confederate States.
". No persons other than those expressly named or
properly implied in the above act be exempted except
by furnishing substitute exempt from military service
in conformity with Regulations already published General
Orders No 29 and such exemption 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 COM
panes ;he commandants of camps BY whom the sub
stutes have been accepted Other certificates of exemp
ton will be granted by the enrolling officers only who will
receive full instructions in regard to the conditions and
mode of exemption. Applications for exemption cannot
therefore be considered BY the War Department.
By command of the Secretary of War.
s. COOPER
Adjutant and Inspector General.
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