The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1862-07-02
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Adjutspt and Inspector Generals Office
RicuMoND Nav 10 1859

RICHMOND, May 10, 1862.
GENERAL ORDER NO. 81.
I. The following Act and Regulations in
reference thereto are Published for the in.
formation Of all concerned:
An Act 10 Exempt Certain Persons from
Enrolment for Service in the Armies Of
the Confederate States.
SEC. !. The Congress of the ConIederai.
States Of America do enact, That all persons
who shall be held TO be unfit for mitarv.
service under rules to be prescribed by the
Secretary Of War: All in the service or
employ of the Confederate States; all Judi.
ciRland executive officers Of Confederate
or State Governments; the members Of
both Houses Of Congress and Of the legs-
latures Of the several States, and their re
spective officers all clerks OF the State and
Confederate Governments allowed by law
all engaged in carrying the mails all fer.
rymen on post routes and pilots and per.
sons engaged in the marine service aud IN
actual service on river and railroad routes
Of transportation telegraphic operators and
ministers Of religion in the regular discharges
Of ministerial duties; all engaged in work
ing iron mines, furnaces and boundaries all
journeymen printers actually employed iu
printing newspapers, ali presidents and pro-.
fessors Of colleges and academies, and all
teachers having AS many as twenty schol.
ars; superintendents Of the public hospitals.
lulatic asylums and the regular nurses and
attendants therein, and the teachers en-
pioyed 10 the institution for the deaf and
dumb and blind; in each apothscary store
now established and doing business, ono
apothecary in good standing who j.. prac
tical druggist; superintendent and opera
tivss in WOOL aud cotton factories, who NAV
be exempt 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
ii. BY the above Act Of Congress the
following classes Of persons nre exempt
from enrolment for military service:
Justlce Of the peace ; sheriff, and deputy
sheriffs clerks and deputy clerks, allowed
by law masters and commissioners in
chancery; district and State ATTORNEYS;
attorneys general postmasters and deputy
postmssters and clerks, allowedby iaw;
commissioners OF revenue, and foreigners,
who have not acquired domici! in the Con.
federate States.
Ill. The following are not exempt:
Militia officers not in actual service ;per.
sons exempt by State laws, but not by the
above Act ; foreigners, who have acquired
domicil in the Confederate States.
Nv. No person other than those expressly
named or properly implied in The above
Act, can be exempted, except by furnishing
substitute, exempt from military service,
In conformity with Regulations already
published, General Orders No. 800 and
such exemption is valid only so long 40 tho
said substitute Is legally exempt.
v. Persons who have furnished substi,
tutes will receive their certificates Of ex.
emplion from the captains of companies or
the c"mmandants Of camps, by ~'hom the
substitutes have been accepted. Other cer-
tiicates Of exemption will be granted by
!hs enrolling ofsisers only, who vii! receive
Toll 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.
=. COOPER,
Adiutant and Inspector. General.