The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1862-11-18

them TO duty may be required, and report the
remainder by letter to the Commanding General
as not needed for such service. -.
3. Enrollments for particular regiments, squad
rons, battalions and companies in service on the
10th of April, 1862, may be made by officers, de-
tailed fer the purpose by the Commanding Cen
erai of department or an army in the field; but
spch officers m1st report to the Commandant of
Coaseripts in their respective States receive in
strctons from him, and assemble their tonscIipts
at such point he may designate. Conscripts
enrolled without reporting to such commandant
will be deemed to be enrolled for general SERVICE
and shall at any time be transferred on their own
application, or on the application of commandahts
OF corps needing conscripts, to such corps.
Exemptions.
The Exemption Act will be construed pros
pectvely and does not authorize the discharge of
any one enrolled ~or in service prior to the 18th
day of October, 1862.
Bodily and Mental Infrn,ity.
l. Questions Of bodily or mental incapacity will
be decided by Surgeons employed for the purpose,
by virtue Of the act of Congress approved the
1lth of October, 1862.
Three Surgeons in each Congressional Distrct
will be recommended by the Commandants Of
Conscripts to the Adjutant and Inspector General
for employment under the foregoing act, and the
said Commandants will establish in each county,
city, parish or district, place of rendezvous
for the examination Of conscrpts enrolled therein.
?. The three Surgeons employed in each Con-
gressional District will constitute Board of Ex-
animation for the Distsict; and one or more Of
them may act at any place of rendezvous therein.
They shall fix days for the examination Of con
scripts in each county, city, parish or district, and
give at least ten days notice thereof, by publca-
tion in one or more newspapers circulating in the
Congressional District, and by notice posted at the
principal places Of public resort -.
3. The enrolling officer for the county, city,
parish or district, shall attend at such examina-
tions and enl oil and send tc the camp OF instruc-
ton such persons as are examined and found by
the Surgeon to be capable of bearing arms. The
standard of bodily capacity shall be that establish
ed by General Order No SO, modified by the
omission of the Sd paragraph, which authorized
the enrolment of persons not equal to all military
duty. No person will be enrolled as conscript
who is not capable Of bearing arms.
4. Persons deemed incapable Of bearing arms
shall be reported by the examining Surgeon to
the Board OF Examination, who shall determine
the questions of exemption, and grant certificates
thereof. The certificates shall specify whether
the incapacty is temporary or permanent; and IT
permanent, the party shall be exempt from future
examination, unless specially ordered by the board
So soon as the Examining Board shall be organ
lied in any Congressional District, and shall enter
upon the discharge of their duties, no other mode
of examination for persons in that district will be
pursued; and the decision Of the Examining
Board will be deemed final.
5. The fact that persons have been discharged
from service for physical disability other cause
does not of itself exempt from enrolment
conscrlpt.
6. If any enrolled person is unable to attend at
the rendezvous account Of sickness, he will
send to the Examining Surgeon certificate spec-
fyng the cause Of absence, and its probable dura
ton. from some respectable physician residing in
the county, city, parish or district in which the
rendezvous is situated. The Examining Surgeon
shall send the certificate to the Commandment OF
the nearest Camp of Instruction; and If the person
mentioned therein shall not report himself for e1-
animation at the said camp within reasonable
period, or send to the Commandant of the Camp
renewal of the certificate, showing his continued
disability, he shall be deemed absent without
leaT4b
- I, A compensation Of 81 per diem, while actu
allv employed. will be allowed to each of the Ex-
amining Surgeons, aud will be paid thesr cert
fed account by the Quartermaster Of the nearest
Camp of Instruction. r
Friends, Dunkdrds, Ndzdrenes and Mnnonates.
All persons Of the above denominations, in reg
ular membership therein on the 11th day Of De-
tobcr, 1862, shall be exempt from enrolment, on
furnishing substitute or on presenting to the
enrolling officer receipt from bonded Quarter
master for the tax of five hundred dollars imposed
by Act of Congress, and an affidavit by the Blsh-
op, Presiding Elder, or other officer whose duty 1t
is to preserve the records of membership IN the
denomination to which the party belongs, setting
forth distinctly the fact that the party on the llth
day of October 1862, was in regular membership
with such denomination. The affidavit must be
taken and sworn to by Justice Of the Peace, or
other officer appointed by the law Of his State :"
administer oaths; and his authority to administer
oaths must be certified by the Clerk OF a court OF
record, under the seal of the court.
All Assistant Quartermasters, to whom the sald
tax is rendered. will receive and receipt for It, and
pay the same into the Treasury OF the Confederate
States without unreasonable delay. The enrolling
officer will receive the receipt and forward 1t to
the commaudant O.: Conscrpts, by whom 1t will be
forwarded to the Quartermaster General, who Will
charge the Assistant Qnartermaster with the
amount received by him.
Provisions against ETtortton
l. When application for exemption Is made oy
ans shoemaker. tanner. blacksmith, wagon-maker,
miller. milLenDipeer or mlwreht, not in the en-
ploynent Of any company or establishment, out
working for himself, tie party seeking exemption
shall state in writing under oath, that ne Is skled
and actually employed il his said trade; that he IS
habituailv engaged in working for the pubic; that
the PRODUCTS of his labor, while exempt from MILL
tarv service shall, not be sold, exchanged or bar
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