Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-11-25


larger return profit than it allows and that exemption
Is not sought for larger number of persons than aos
utey necessary for the prosecution OF the bns
g. The foregoing afdavits shall be made before some
Justice of the other persons authorized oy law 70
administer oaths and If such Justice other person be
not personally known TO the enrolling officer TO be what ne
purports to be- his official character and his right to adj
minister oaths mnst be certified by the Clerk OF some
court of record, under the seal Of his court.
The adavts shall be returned to the Commandant OF
ing officer IL however he suspect false swearing mis-
take be shall then refuse the exemption and refer the case
the Commandan Of Conscripts who shall dispose of it
Ii at time the enrolling officer have cause 10 suspect
false swearing mistake in the foregoing ahdavs ne
shall report the fact Commandment Of Conscrts and
if the said commandant be satisfied after due investigation
that larger number than
is necessary that larger profit than the law allows Is
received either directly Indirectly he shall order the en-
rolment ofthe parties exempted upon The said amda'
TX Details.
Citizen employees and mechanics who are employed in
establishments of the by contractors with
the government in the manufacture Of arms ordnance
ordnance stores and other munitions of saddles har
and army supplies will be enrolled sud returned to
their work: Provided The Chief of the Ordinance Bureau
or some ordinance officer authorized by MIN for the Pur
pose shall certify that the number Of operatives required
by the officer in charge of such establishment or by sucn
contractors for government work. is reasonable and not ex
cesslve Such certificate will be presented to the enrong
officer who will thereupOn make the detail of the men spe-
Gifted for period exceeding sixty days. and return the
certificate to the Commandan of Conscrpts At the ex
pration OF such DETAIL the officer charge of the govern
men shop the contractor in whose employment said
c0nscrpts shall said certificate be renewed or
return the conscrpts to the camp of instruction
IL the certificate be not renewed the cOnscrpts be not
returned other detail shall be granted to such esab-
shment contractor In all cases of details contrac
tors, the party requesting the detail shall make affidavit
that the persons detailed will not be employed on any
other than government work. which affidavit shall be re-
that at any time such detailed conscpts employed by
said contractors upon work for private individuals the de-
Paragraph General Orders No 50, current series, is
hereby revoked.
4 To 'OhOn Applications for Exemption must be ad-
dressed.
Applications for exemption must, in all cases. be made
to the Enrolling officer from whose decision appeal may
be taken to the Commandaut of Conscpts The Depart
ment will not consider the application until it has been
ferred BY the latter officer.
Al Substitutes
]. When person claims exemption the ground that
he has put substitute in service he exhibit he
enrolling officer discharge from some company signed
by the commanding officer of the regiment command
which the said company belongs then belonged, (see
mandant of Conscrpts And if the said discharge
emrOn do not show that granted consideration
substitute having been furnished such fact must be
titled in writing by the commanding officer Of the regiment
or command to which the company belongs by the Com
mandant ofConscripts. us the case may be-
But within all arising within thirty DAYS from the
date OF this ORDER the enrolling officer may grant the
empon upon satisfactory proof that the party urnsheda
substitute who actually received into the service of
the Confederate States for three war; and the
substitute is not liable to military service such exemp-
ton may at any time be Cancelled if fraud mistake be
discovered
9. Paragraph H. General Order No O. current SERIES is
hereby revoked No under eighteen years of age
or not dOnced in the Confederate States of good
moral character who is liable under the existing order
to enrolment as conscrpt shall be received subssi-
tute.
And in all cases in which substitute becomes subject 10
military service the exemption of the principal BY
OF the substitution shall expire.
Any person subject to enrolment who desires to furnish
substitute may at any time before the enrolment be-
fore he Is assigned TO company and sent from the camp
Of Instruction. present substitute at such CAMP And If
capable be O
moral character and within the prohibited classes he
shall be received and the principal shall be exempt from
military service.
III Tolunteerin0.
All persons liable to CONSUMPTION may before enrolment,
1852. But after enrolment, they volunteer
can they ut any time volunteer in companies received into
service since the 10th 4y pf April ,PI 1859
J. All mpressments of men by regimenta, battalion
company commanders under any pretence whatever,
prohibited it being the design of the Department sup
ply the army exclusively through the officers appointed BY
this act.
2 All the laws and regulations applicable to deserters
shall be applied To such couscps fail to repair TO the
place OF rendezvous for enrolment who shall desert az
Ter enrolment.
g. All the agencies employed for the apprehension and
confinement of deserers and their transportation to the
commands Of their respective commanders shall be app
cable to persons liable duty conscrpts who shalt fail
to repair to the place of rendezvous after the publication
of the call. S. COOPER
Adjutant and Inspector General.
An ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT TO FURrH.
Err PROVIDE FOR THE Public DEFENCE" APPROVED 18TH
ArRTL, $50, AND THE Acr TO AMEND SANE, AP-
PROVED SEPTEMBER 27TH, 1862.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do en-
act That all persons subject enrolment for military
vice. be enrolled under instructions from the War De-
parment, and reported by the enrolling officer wherever
found whether within the State county of their residence
or not and when enrolled shall be subject the prn-
visions of law as fully if enrolled within the county and
State of which they be reSdents Provided That this
act shall not extend to member of military organic.
ton under any State law, while he remains in actual
vice without the limits of his State And provided further
That the President is authorized to suspend the execution
Of this act regards the residents If any locality where he
may find it mpraccable execute the act entitled an
act TO further provide for the public defence approved
April IT, 1882 and the act to amend the last toned act
approved September %, 1869.
Approved October s, 1862.
An ACT RENDEZVOUS FOR THE EXAM
NATION OF ENROLLED MEN,
The Congress of the Cnted.-ats States of Ana>rica do
enact That there shall be established in each county,
ish district and in any city in cuunty parish dis
persons in said county, district parish city enrolled
military duty in the field, who shall be there examined BY
Surgeons to be employed by the government
to be assigned that duty by the President on day Of
which ten days notice shall be given by said Surgeons
and from day to day next thereafter until all who shall be
in attendance for the purpose of examination shall have
been examined and the decision Of said Surgeon under
regulations be established by the Secretary War;
to the physical and mental capacity of person for mil
itary duty the field shall be final and those only thus
ascertaned to be t for military duty in the field shall be
required to assemble at camps of instruction.
SEC. 3 There shall be assigned to each Congressional
District in the several States three Surgeons who shall
constitute Board of Examination in such district for the
purpose specified in the foregoing section any
of whom may act at any place of rendezvous in said dis
trict.
SEC. g. When il shall appear to any Surgeon attending
such place of rendezvous by the certificate of respectable
physician resident in that county district parish city
in county, parish district that any enrolled person
therein unable to attend of Sickness il shall
be the duty of said Surgeon to file said certificate with the
commandart Of the nearest camp of Instruction. and If
the person named therein shall not within reasonable
time report himself for examination at said camp of in
structiOn, his continued disability certified by the
tcate of respectable physician of his csunty city, dis
rct parish. he shall be held liable absent without
leave of his commanding officer.
Approved Oct II, 1862.
STATE OF NORTH-CAROLINA.
Civil Department.