Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-07-16

ADJUrANT AND INSPECTOR GENERALS OFFICE,
RICHMOND, May ~, 1862.
GENERAL ORDEKs.
l. The following Act and Regulations in reference there
to- are published for the information of all cOncerned
n exempt certain persons from enrolment TOR ser
Vics in tie armies of the Confederate States:
SECTION /. The CORgresS of the CUyederde StGteS OF
America do snact That all persons who shall be held to be
for military service under rules to be prescribed oy
the Secretary of War; all in the service. or employ of tn
Confederate Staes ali judicial and executive oucers OF
Confederate or State governments the members OF both
houses the Congress- and of the Legislatures OF The sew
eraI 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 terrymen
on post outes all pilots and persons engaged in the ma
rne service and in actual service on river and railroad
routes of trausportation telegraph operators and minis
tiers religion the regular discharge of ministerial du
ties; all engaged in working in iron mines and furnaces
all iourneymen printers actually employed in printing
newspapers all presidents and professors of colleges and
academies and all teachers having many as twenty
scholars superintendent OF the pubic hospitals unatic
asyum and the regular and attendents therein
and the teachers employed in the for the deaf
and dumb and blind in each apothec"ry store now esa6
lished doing business apohecary IN good stand
ing, who is practical druggist; suPerntendents and oPe
ratves wool and cotton factories, who may be exempted
by the Secretary of War; shall be aud are hereby exempted
from military service in the armies OF the Confederate
States. Approved April q, 1862.
H. BY the above act of Congress- the following classes OF
persons exempt from enrolment for military service:
Justices OF the peace SheIiS and deputy shers clerks
and deputy clerks allowed by law masters and commits
soners chancery district and State attorneys attorneys
general postmaSters and deputy postmasers and clerks
allowed by law; commissioners revenue and foreigners,
who have not acquired oInc in the Confederate States
III. The following are not exempt: -
Militia officers not in actual service persons exempt oy
State aws but by the above act foreigners who have
ACQUIRED domic in the Confederate States.
~. No persons other than those expressly named or
propery implied in the above act be exempted except
BY furnishing substitute exempt from military service;
in conformity with Regulations already published General
Orders No. 49, and such exemption Is valid only SD long
as the said substitute is legally exempt.
" Persons who have furnished substitutes will receive
of
panies or :he commandments of camps bv whom the sub
sttues have accepted Other certificates Of exemp-
will be granted by the enrolling officers only who Will
receive full instructions in regard the conditions and
mode of exemption Applications for exemption cannot
therefore be considered by the War Department.
By command of the Secretary of War.
5 COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector General
July l, 1862. 5S-u