The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-08-18

hear and determine excuses of person
claiming to be exempt from military duty
Such commissioner shall receive compen
s sation of four dollars per diem for each day
he may be actually employed in the. dis
charge OF his duties as such commissions
3. The enrolling officer shall Immediate.
ly, upon the fling of.the enrolling lists, no.
thy said Commissioner that said lists have
been go FL d, and the Commissioner shall
thereupen give notice by handbills posted
In each township posted of his county ofthe
Time and place at which claims of exemp-
ton will be received aud determined by
him. and shall fix the time, to be specified
in the order aforesaid, within ten days OF
the hling of the enrolment, at which the
draft shall be made, and all persons claim
ing to be exempt from military duty shall,
before the day fixed for the draft, make
proof OF such exemption before said Com
missioner, and if found sufficient his name
snail be stricken from the list by red line
drawn through it, leaving it still legible.
The Commissioner shall in like manner
strike from the roll the names of all pt r
sons now in the military service of the UNI
tel States; all telegraph operators and con-
structors actually engaged on August 9th,
1862 all engineers of locomotives on rail-
roads, the Vice President of the United
States, the officers-judicial and Executive
of the Government of the Uuited States,
the members of both houses of Congress
and their respective officers; all custom
house officers and their clerks; all post ofh-
GERS and stage-drivers who are employed in
the care and conveyance of the mail of the
Post Office of the United States; all ferry
men who are employed at any ferry on
post road; all pilots; all mariners actually
employed in the sea service ofany citizen of
any citizen or merchant within the United
Sta'es; all engineers and pilots of register
ed and licensed Steamboats, and steamships
and all persons exempted by the laws Of the
respective States from military duty, on
sufficient evidence or on his own personal
Knowledge that said persons belong to any
the aforesaid classes, whether the exemp-
ton is claimed by them or not. Exemp-
ton will not be made for disability unless
it be of such permanent character as to
render the person unfit for service for pc
riod of more than thirty days, to be certi-
fed by surgeon appointed by The Cover
nor in ca county for this purpose $50
8 At time fixed as before provided by
the Commissioner for making the draft, the
Sheriff of The county, or in bis absence such
person as the Commissioner may appoint,
shall, ia the presence of said Commissioner,
publicly place in wheel or box of like
character to such as are used for drawing
jurors, separately folded ballots, contain
ing the names of all persons remaining on
said enrolment lists not stricken off as
before provided, and a proper person
appointed by the Commissioner, and
biindfolded, shall thererpon draw from said
box or wheel number of ballots equal 10
the number of drafted men fixed by the
g. A printed or written notice of his en- |
roilment and draft, and the place of rendez-
vous OF the drafted military force, shall
thereupon be served, by person to be ap-
pointed by the Commissioner, upon each |
person so drafted, either by delivering the |
same in person, or by leaving it at his last
kaown place of residence. -
7. Any person so drafted may cffsr a sub
stiiute at the time of the rendezvous of the
drafted militia force, and such substitute, if
he shall be an able bodied man, between
the ages of Is and As years. and shall con-
E.H
rent or guardian, if minor, to subject him.
self to all the duties and obligations to
which his principal would have been sub
ject had he personally served, shall be ac-
cepted in lieu of the principal.
8. The persons thus drafted shall assem-
BILE at the county seats of their respective
counties within i've days after the time of
drafting, whence transportation will be fur
nished them 10 the place of rendezvous.
9. As soon as the draft has been made
and the names marked on the enrolment
list, the Commissioner will send copy of
the draft to the Commandant of the rem
dezvous, and another copy of the same to
the Adiutant General of the State, who will
Immediately organize the drafted men into
companies and regiments Of infantry, by
assigning l0l men TO each company, and
ten companies to each regiment, aud send
copy of the organization to the Command
ant of the rendezvous.
10. At the expiration of the time allow
ed for the drafted men to reach the rendez-
vous the Commandant shall proceed to COM
plete tie organization of the companies and
regiments by proclaiming the names of the
regimental commissioned officers, which
sba,i be designated in accordance with the
laws of the respective States, the number
and grade being the same as in the volun-
teer service, and in case the laws of any
State shall provide for an election of Off
GERS they shall be elected under the diree-
ton of the Commandant of the rendezvous
and reported forthwith TO the Governors of
such States, in order that they may be ap-
pointed either before or after muster az the
Colonel of the regiment shall decide.
IL. As soon as the officers of the compa.
MES and regiments are designated, the mus
ter roll shall be made out under the direc-
tioa OF the Commandant of the rendezvous,
and the troops inspected and mustered into
the service of the United States by the mus
tering officer appointed for that purpose.
IL. States whera enlistments have been
made by municipalities and towns instead
CT counties, the Governors of such States
are authorized to apply the foregoing rules
of draft to such municipalities and towns
instead of counties.
Fifth: Provost Marshals will be appoint
ed by the War Department IN the se-eral
States, on the nomination of the Cover
nors thereof, with such assistants as may
be necessary to enforce the attendance oi
all drafted persons who shall fail to attend
at such places Of rendezvous.
Sixth In case any State shall not, BY
the 18th day of August, furnish the quots
of the additional 100000 volunteers called
for by the President on the 22d day o