Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1862-05-30
General Orders,

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l. The following act and regulations in refer
ence thereto, published for the information
of all concerned. .a2
An Act to exempt certain persons from ell
rollment for service in the armies OF the Con.
federate States.
SEC. The Congress of the Confederate
States of Amerlca,do enact, That all persons
who shall be held to be unfit for military SER
vice under rules to be prescribed by the Sec
retary of W ar, all in the service or employ Of
the Confederate States; oil judicial and execu-
tive officers of the Confederate or State Gov
ernments. the members of both Houses of
Congress and the Legislatures Of the several
States and their respective officers. all clerks
OF the officers of the State and Confederate Gov
ernments allowed by law. all engaged in carry
ing the mails, all ferrymen on post routes, all
pilots and persons engaged in the marine SER
vice ON riyerand railroad routs of transpor:a~
ton telegraphic operators and ministers of
religion in the regular discharge of ministerial
duties, all engaged in working iron Mines fur
naces. aud toundries all journeymen printers
actually engaged in printing newspapers, all
presidents and professors of colleges and acade
mics, aud all teaches having many as twenty
scholars, superntendents of the public hospi-
tails. unatlc asy lnms, and the regular nurses
and attendants therein, and the teachers en-
ploy ed in the institutions for the deaf, dumb,
aud blind. in each apothecary store now estab
Iished and doing business, one apothecary in
good standing who is practical druggist, su
perintendents and operatives in wool and cot
ton factories who may be exempted by the
Secretary of War, shall be and hereby exempt
ed from military service in the armies of the
Confederate States. Approved April 2l, 1862
H. BY the above act Of Congress, the follow
ing classes Of persons are exempt from enroll
ment for military service
justices of the Peace; Sherifs and Deputy
Sheriffs Clerks and Deputy Clerks, allowed by
law Masters and Commissioners in Chancery
District and State Attorneys; Attorney Gene,
ral Post Masters and Deputy Postmasters, and
Clerks allowed by law; Commissioners of Rev
enue, and foreigners who have not acquired
donic;I in the Confederate States.
Ill The following are not exempt
Militia Officers not IN actual service per
sons exempt by State laws, but not by the a.
bove act, foreigners who have acquired domicil
in the Confederate States.
". No persons other than those expressly,
named or properly implied in the above act
eau be exempted, except by furnishing substi
tute, from military service, in conformity with
regulations already published. General Orders
NO. ~ :)snd such exemption is valid only so
long as the said substitute is legally exempt.
V. Persons who have furnished substitutes
will receive theirsf certificates of exem ption
from the Captains of Companies, or the Com
mandants Of camps, by, whom the substitutes
have been accepted. Other certificates of ex.
emPtion Will be granted by the enrolling Off
GERS only. who will receive full instructions in
regard to the conditions and mode g4of exemp-
tion.s applications for exemption <caanot there
fore, sbsssonsidered by the War Department..
S. COOPER. S.
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