The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1862-06-25
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Adjatant and inspector Gea .rars O6.,

RICHMOND. hay ~, 1851.
GENERAL ORDER 40. ~.
!. The folio owing Act and Regulations Ia
reference thereto are published for the ia
formation Of all concerned
An Act 10 Erenp, Certain Persons from
Enrichment for Service in he Armies .,
u< Confederate Sta,es
SEC ]. TIE Congress ofM Cs,fsdsrate
Naies Of America do enact, That all persons
who shall be held to DO unfit for militurv
service under rules 10 bs prescribed by tho
Secretary Of War: All 10 the service or
employ Of tho Confederate States; all Judi.
cisl and executive officers Of Confederate
or State Governments; the members of
both Houses Of Congress and Of the L.syis.
ls!ares of the several States, and their 70
aPeet'vs officers NIL clerks OF tho Staio and
Confederate Gt vsrnments allowed by Law ::
all eagsged 10 carrying tho mails all fer.
rymen on post routes and pilots and Der.
sons engaged IN the marine service and IN
actual service on river and railroad route.
OF trannpprta,ioo tolegraphic operators aad
ministers OF religion in the regular discharge
VI mlniateria! duiies all engaged in work.
ing iron mines, furnaces and boundaries vii
J"urceymen printers actually employed in
printing newspapers, all presidents and pro.
fss,orn Of colleges and scsdem les. and all
teachers having ~ many as twenty schol.
ars; suPsrints.d~nts OF the public hospitals,
iula,ic asy yiums aRd the regular nurses and
attendants therein, sod the teachers sn.
ployed in The institution for the deaf and
dume and blind; in cach spothscary store
oow established and doing kusiasss. ono
apothecary 10 good stsnding Who 10 = pr.c.
ticsl druggist supsrintssdsnts and opera.
tires in 40" aud eottoo facla.is., who may
10 exempt by the Secretary Of War shall
DO and are hersSy exempted from military
service IN the armies of the Confederate
States.
APPROVED April 81, 1859.
u. by the ABOVE Act Of Congress the
classes Of persons are exempt,
rom enrolment for military service:
Ju.tics Of the peace sheriff. and deputy
'heriffs clerks ana deputy clerks, allowed |
oy law masters add commissioners in
:hsncsry (; d Sirict and State sttornsys
It ornsys geos'al pc % st. 70 md deputy |
po s.ns.tsrs and clerks, alivwsioy law
OF revenue, and fore pneya,
who have not acquired domicl 10 the Con.
isdersie State.
III. The following are not exempt:
Militia officers not 10 actual service DER.
sons exempt BY State laws, but not by the
Aoove Act Foreigners, who have acquired
domicil in the COnfsdersts States.
Nv. No person other than those expressly
named or properly implied in ,hsekbovs
Act, can be exempted, except by furnishing
a substitute, exempt from military service,
in conformity with Regulations already
published, General ORDERS No. 29;) and
such exemption is valid only so long ~ the
said subs,iiuts Is legally exempt.
V. Persons who have furnished substi.
tutes will receive their certificates Of sx.
-mp,lon from the captains Of companies or
ths c"mmandants Of camps, by whom the
substitutes have been accepted. Other csr-
'iticstss of exempt ON will be granted by
the enrolling officers only, who will receive
full instructions in regard to the conditions
and mode Of exemption. Applications for
eIsupsi"n cannot, therefore. bs considered
by the War department
BY comuand Of tho SsersiaYy Of War.
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