Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-18

THE DRAFr.-The Chicago Times publishes
the full instructions from the War Department in
relation to the enrolment and the draft as sent
to the State authorities of Wisconsin. We pre-
the Instructions to the several States do not
differ We copy from the Times the portions re-
lating to the enrollmen, and to the drawing:
3. The enrolling officer SHALL Immediately
upon the filing of the enrolment lists, notify said
commissioner that said lists have been so filed,
and the commissioner shall thereupOn give no
tice, by handbills posted in each township of mis-
county, of the time and place at which claims of
exemption will be received and determined by
him, and shall fix the time to be specified in the
order aforesaid r-ithin ten DAYS of the filing of
the enrolment, at which time the draft shall be
made, and all persons claiming 10 be exempt from
military duty shall, before the day fixed for the
draft, make proof of such exemption before said
commissioner, and, if found sufficient, his name
shall be stricken from the list by red line drawn
through it, leaving it still legible.
4. The commissioner shall in like manner
strike from the lisi the names of all persons in
the military service of the United States all tee-
graph operators and constructors actually en-
gagged OF the 9th day of August. 1862, engineers
of locomotives on railroads, the Vice President
of the United Statss, the officers judicial and ex
ecutive of the Government of the United States
the members of both Houses of Congress, and
their respective officers; all custom house Off
GERS and their clerks; all post officers and stage
drivers who are employed in the care and con-
veyance of the mail of the pOstoffices of the Uni
ted States; all ferrymen who are employed at
any ferry on the post roads; all pilots, all mari
neTs actually employed in the sea service of any
citizens or merchants in the United States; all
engineers and pilots Of registered or licensed
steamboats, and steamships and all persons ex-
empted by the laws of the respective States from
military duty on sufficient evidence or on his per-
sonal knowledge, that said persons belong to any
of the aforesaid classes. whether the exemption
is claimed by them or not. Exemption will not
be made for disability unless it be of such per-
manent character to render the person unfit
for service for period of more than thirty
days, to be certified to by surgeon appoint
ed by the Governor in each county for that
purpose.
D. AT the time fixed as before provided by the
commissioner for making the draft, the sheriff of
the county. or in his absence such persons as the
commissioner may appoint, shall in the presence
Of said commissioner publicly place in a wheel or
box of like character to such as used for
drawing jurors, separate folded ballots containing
the names OF all remaining said enrolment
lists not stricken OFF before provided, and
proper person, appointed by the commissioner
and blinded, shall thereupon draw from said box
or wheel a number of ballots equal to the num-
Der OF drafted men fixed by the Governor OF such
State the proper quota of such county.
6. printed or written notice ofhis enrolment
and draft, and of the place of rendezvous of the
drafted militia, shall thereupon be served by
person to be appointed by the commissioner upon
each person drafted, either by delivering the
same IN person or 10y leaving it at his known
place Of residence.
Z. Any person so drafted may offer substi-
tute at the time of the rendezvous of the drafted
militia force; such substitute shall be an abie-bod-
led man between the ages of eighteen and forty
five years, and shall consent IN writing, with the
consent OF his parents or guardian, to subject
himself to all the duties and obligations which
his principal would have been subject had he
personally served, shall be accepted in lieu of
such principal
8. The persons thus drafted shall assemble at
the county seat of their respective counties with
in. five days after the time OF drafting, whence
transportation will be furnished them by the Gov
errors OF the several States to the place of
devious