Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1862-08-21
STATE OF VERMONT.

ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'L OFFICE,
WOODSTOCK, August IL, 1862.
The following instructions are issued for the
guidance of the Listers of the several towns in
this State, in making the enrolment required
by General Order No. II, dated August II,
1862:
l. The name of every able bodied citizen of
the town, between the specified ages, is to be
entered upon the roll, without regard to
whether be is exempt from enrolment or from
military duty. Unnaturazed foreigners are
not citizens.
2. Men who are not abe-bodied are not to be
entered upon the roll. But in determining
who are not able bodied the Listers are to be
guided by sound discretion and a sense of
duty to the country and to all the other citizens
OF the town; since the omission of any man
from the roll inrceases the liability to draft of
every man left upon the roll The declaration
OF man, as to his inability, should never be
taken, unless the disability is of so Obvious a
character, that it is plain to be seen by any
observer. If not plain and open to observa-
tion, the disability should be established, to the
satisfaction of the listers, both by the affidavit
OF the person claiming the disability, signed
and sworn to IN due form of law, and by the
certificate in writing Of two respectable physi-
clans, in full and active practice stating the ex-
istence and nature of the disability, its effects,
AMI the probable length of time that it will
continue And no exemption is to be made
for any disability, unless it be of such perma-
nent character as to render the person unfit for
period OF more than thirty days.
The following disease and mperfectons are
proper causes of military disability Wounds
Of the head, which impair the faculties or cause
convulsions, serious impairment of hearing,
speech, or visions anchylcsis, or active disease
OF the larger joints; the presence of pulmo-
nary disease; hernia fietula in ano; large
hemorrhoids; large and painful varocele or
varicose veins which extend above the knee
the loss of limb, or of the thumb and fore
finger on the right hand or of any two fingers
onthe right hand; any marked physical i'm
perfections, which would unfit for service
3. The age and occupation of each man are
to be entered on the roll. The age of each
man is to be determined by the listers from the
best means of information in their power.
They will not, in all cases. rely upon the decla-
ration fthe party, but will, if they have doubts,
require him to make satisfactory proof of his
age. 1t the listers have reasonable doubt as
to whether man is not in fact over eighteen.
although he represents himself younger, or
under torty-ive, although he represents himself
older, and no proof is made to their satisfaction,
it is their duty to enter the mans name upon
the roll.
4. If, from any legal cause, person whose
name is entered upon the roll is exempt from
military duty, or from enrolment, the fact which
gives him his exemption is to be entered against
his name, in the column of remarks 1t viii
not do to write, exempt" but the fact must be
stated which creates the exemptions as, that
he is "judge of the county court" "sheriff"
a "deputy sheriff." minister of the gospel"
&c.
.. The following persons are exempt from
military duty at the present time the Vice
President of the United States the officers
judicial and executive of the government of
the United States the members of both houses
of Congress and their respective officers; all
custom house officers and their clerks; all
post officers and stage drivers who are en-
ployed in the care and conveyance of the mails
of the post offices OF the United States all
ferrymen employed on any post roads all
pilots; all mariners actually employed in the
sea service of any citizen or merchant within
the United States all telegraph operators and
contractors actually engaged on the fifth of
August, 1862; all engineers of locomotives on
railroads all engineers and pilots of registered
or licensed steamboats, and steamships minis
ters of the gospel; members of the religious
denomination of Quakers; faculties of colleges;
all persons who have been commissined in the
militia of this State, or the United States, and
have been honorably discharged, previous to
to January lst 1914 all officers who have
been commissioned in the militia of this State,
since January lst, 1874, and have served under a
commission five years, and have been honorably
discharged !. officers Of any corps which has
been disbanded, and who held a commission in
such corps at the time it was disbanded and all
staff officers, heretofore appointed by the COM
manding officers of divisions, brigades and
regiments, whose commissions shall have be-
come vacant by reason of such commanding
officers having been discharged, or having va
Gated their office. Members of fire companies
are not exempt.
o. The following persons are exempted from
military duty upon the payment of two dollars
to the treasurer of the town in which they re-
speclively reside, and producing receipt there
lore TO the llsters;-Judges of the supreme and
county courts judges and registers of probatei
sherlhs ana sherih's deputies high bailiAs
cohs'aoies ana teachers actually employed in
common schools. These persons are not en-
titled to have the fact which constitutes their
exemption noted in the column of remarks,
untli they have exhibited to the listers the re-
ceipt OF the treasurer of the town for the sum
of two dollars.
!: lhe following persons are not subject to
draft, and the fact which operates the exemp-
uon should be noted against the name of each,
Wv Persons now in the seryics of the United
states, and members of Uniform Companies of
miilta, organized in pursuance of the statutes
oi TINS State, and now having an active organ
ization.
Against the names of those now in the ser
vice should be written snow in U. S. Service :"
and it should be stated in what capacty,-as,
"Soldier now in U. ). Service" or "Commis-
stoned Officer now in the U. S. Service" This