Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-05-24

The following general order is published by au-
thority of the Secretary of War; y,
WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJ'T AND INSPECTOR GEMS OFFICE
Richmond, May 18th, 1862.
GENERAL ORDERS
|. The following act and regulations in reference
thereto, published for the information of all con-
cerned.
An Act to exempt certain persons from enroll
ment for service in the armies Of the Confederate
States.
SEC. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact, That all persons who shall be
held to be unfit for military service under rules to
be prescribed by the Secretary of War--all in the
service or employ of the Confederate Slates-all
judicial and executive officers of the Confederate or
state Governments-the members of both Houses
OF Congress and the Legislatures of the several
States and their respective ofcers-a clerks Of the
of1cerS OF the State and Confederate Governments
allowed by laval engaged in carrying the mails
all terrymen on post rOutes-all pilots and per-
sons engaged IN the marine service river and
railroad routes of opera
tors and ministers of religion in the regular discharge
OF ministerial duteS-al engaged in working iron
mines, furnaces, and foundries-all journeymen
printers actually employed in printing newspapers
all presidents and professors of coeg and aca-
denies, and all teachers having as many as twenty
neutrality-suspicious. of the public hospitals,
dants therein and the teachers employed in the III
situations for the deaf and dumb, and blind-in
each apothecary store now established and doing
business, one apothecary in good standing who is
practical druggst-superintenden and operatives
in wool and cotton factories who may be exempted
by the Secretary of War, shall be- and are hereby
exempted from military service in the armies of the
Confederate States. Approved April 81, 1862.
III. By the above act of Congress, the following
classes of persons are exempt from enrolment for
military service:
Justices Of the Peace; SheriffS and Deputy She
riffs; Clerks and Deputy Clerks allowed by law
Masters and Commissioners in Chancery; District
and State Attorneys; Attorney General; PoStmas-
tiers and Deputy POstmaSters, and Clerks allowed
by law Commissioners of Revenue and foreigners,
who have not acquired dOmicH in the Confederate
States.
I'LL The following are not exempt:
Militia Officers not in actual service; persons
cmpt by State laws, but not by theabove act for
eigners who have acquired domlcil in the Confeder-
ate States.
~. No persons other than those expressly named
properly implied in the above act can be exempt
cd, except by furnishing substitute from military
service in conformity with regulations already pub
lished Gen eral Orders No. 29;) and such exemp-
ton 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 Cap
taIns of Companies, or the Commandments of Camps,
by whom the substitutes have been accepted 9th
er certificates of exemption will be granted by the
enrolling officers only, who will receive full instruc-
lions in regard to the conditions and mode of exemp
ton. Applications for exemption cannot therefore,
be considered by the War Department
BY command of the Secretary of War.
S. COOPER,
AdIt and lnsp. General
The following are the regulations concerning sub
Stitutes, above referred to-
GENERAL ORDERS
No. %.
l. The following regulations concerning substi-
tutes in the army, published 10y the direction of
the Secretary of War.
!. Any commissioned officer or soldier not
indebted TO the government, who wishes to procure
substitute, may obtain from his Captain permit
for the proposed substitute to report himself at the
camp of the company for examination; and such
permit shall operate as passport but shall not
entte the holder to transportation at the expense
Of the government.
.. If the substitute be exempt from military
duty and on examination by a surgeon or assistant
surgeon of the army be pronounced sound and in
all respects fit for military service, he shall be en-
rolled and mustered into service for three years. I'M
less the war sooner terminate; and the non. conf
msSioned officer or soldier procuring him shall
thereupon be discharged, but shall not be entitled
TO transportation at the expense Of the government
8. If non-commissHned officer or soldier, dis
charged by reason OF a substitute. be indebted to
the government, the officer granting the discharge
shall be liable for the debt
4. All pay and allowance due to the noncommis-
stoned officer soldier discharged, shall go to the
substitute at the next pay day.
.. Substitution shall not exceed one per month
in each company, and shall be noted in the next
morning report, muster roll and monthly return.
IL. When any person liable to military duty
under the Act of Congress- but not mustered into
service in any company, desires to furnish substi
tute he shall report himself with the substitute to
the Commandant Of Camp of instruction for re-
cruts raised under the said act; and if the subst-
tute be lawfully exempt from military duty, and on
examination by surgeon or assistant surgeon, be
pronounced sound and in all respects fit for military
service he may be accepted and enrolled, and the
person furnishing such substitute may be discharged
by the Commandant of the Camp. But no substi-
tutc shall be entitled to transportation other al
lowance at the expense of the government, until
so accepted and enrolled.
May IS, 1862.