Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-07-09
WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUrAHr AND INSPECTOR GENERAL's OFFICE,
RrcuNtnNn Nav 1880

R1cHhoSD, May II. 1862.
GENERAL OrDERs
l. The following Act and Regulations in reference there
to- are published the information OF all concerned
IN act to Tenpt certain perS'nS from earons"t J0' ser
rice in the Arnnies of tie Confederate States:
SECrIoN l. The Congress Of tie CCJederdte States or
c do enact That all persons who shall be held to be
unh for military service under rules to be prescribed by
the Secretary of War; all in the service employ OF tn
Confederate States; ali judicial and executive olcers OF
Confederate State governments the members OF ooth
houses the Congress- and of the Legislatures OF The sew
era States and their respective officers all clerks OF the
officers of the State and Confederate governments allowed
by law; all engaged in carrying the mails all ferrymen
on post routes all pilots and persons engaged in the ma
rine service and in actual service on river and railroad
routes of transportation; telegraph operators and minis
tiers of religion the regular dScharge OF Ministerial du-
ties all engaged in working in iron mines and furnaces
all journeymen printers actually employed IN printing
newspapers all presidents and professors oil colleges ana
academies, and all teachers having as many as twenty
scholars superntendents of the public hospitals uuatIc
asyums and the regular and atendents therein
and the teachers employed in the institutions for the deaf
and dumb and blind in each apothecary store now esa6
ished and doing business apOhecary in good stand
ing who is practical druggist; suPern,endenis and "pe
ratveS in wool and cotton factories VINO may oe exempted
by the Secretary of War; shall be and are hereby exempted
from military service in the armies of the Confederate
States TApproved April 81, 1852.
H. By the above of Congress- the following classes OF
persons are exempt from enrolment for military service:
Justices of the peace sherifs and deputy sherS clerks
and deputy clerks allowed BY law masters and commits
chancery and State attorneys attorneys
general postmasters and deputy postmaSerS and clerks
who have acquired dgmc in the Confederate States.
Ill. The following not exempt:
Militia officers in actual service persons exempt by
Stale ,aws but by the above foreigners who have
acquired domic in the Confederate States
iV No persons other than these expressly named or
properly implied the above act be exempted except
by furnishing substitute exempt from military service
in conformity with Regulations alread published General
Orders No. 90 and such exemption is valid only so long
as the said substitute is legally exempt.
v Persons who have furnished substitutes VIII receive
their certificates of exemption from the captains of COM
panes she commandants of camps. by whom the sub
ton will be granted by the enrolling officers only. who will
receive full instructions regard to the conditions and
mode of exemption Applications for exemption cannot
therefore be considered by tn? War Department.
BY command Of the Secretary Of War.
s. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector General.
July !, 1862. 5a-h