The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-08-15
General Headquarters, State OF Min esota
ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
ST. PAUL, Min, Aug. IL. 1862.

| ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
| ST. PAUL, Min, Aug. IL, 1862.
| GENERAL ORDERS NO. TWENTY. FIvE.1
1. In pursuance of General Orders from the
War Department, No. 80. Fort Smelling is here.
| by designated as the place of general rendez.
vous for the drafted militia and volunteer re.
giments of the State OF Minnesota, now being
CT to be organized.
2. Agents will be appointed by the Com
mander-in. Chief, one in each county, whose
duty it will be to visit each township in their
respective counties, and ascertain if the asses.
sor therein has performed his duties, in max
ing the proper militia returns, as directed in
orders numbered 70 and % from this office,
and in case he has not, he, the said agent, shall
at once proceed to perform said duties, and
make proper return thereof. An order an
nouncing the names of said agents will be
made tomorrow.
3. Immediately upon the completion of the
enrolment, the lists of enrolled persons must
De filed in the Offices of the Sheriffs of the
counties in which such enrolled persons reside.
4. The Commander-in.Chief will appoint
commissioner for each county of the State,
whose duty it shall be to superintend the draft.
ing, and hear and determine the excuses of
persons claiming to be exempt from military
duty.
8. The enrolling officer shall, Immediately
upon the filing of the enrolment lists notify
the said com missioner that said lists have been
| SO filed; and the commissioner shall thereupon
give notice, by handbills posted in three public
places in each township of his comfy, of the
time and place at which claims for exemption
will be received and determined by him. And
he shall fix the time, to be specified in the no.
tice aforesaid (within ten days of the filing of
the enrollment), at which the draft shall be
made; and all persons claiming to be exempt
from military duty shall, before the day fixed
for the draft, make proof of such exemption
before said commissioner, and, if found sufi.
Gent, his name shall be stricken from the list
by red line being drawn through it, leaving it
| still legible.
The Commissioner shall in like manner strike
from the list the names of all persons now in
the military service of the United States, all
telegraph operators or constructors actually
employed on the fifth day of August, eighteen
hundred and sixty.tw0 engineers of locomo.
tives on railroads, the Vice President of the
United States, the officers, judicial and exec.
utive, 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 employed in the care and conveyance
Of IF &c
United States ; all ferrymen who are employ
ed at any ferry on the post roads all pilots,
all marines actually employed in the sea SER
vice of any citizen or merchant within the
United States, all engineers or pilots of regis.
tered or licensed steamboats, or steamships,
together with the warden, deputy warden,
clerks, inspectors, physician, assistant keepers
and guards of the State Prison. The said ex.
emption to be made by said Commissioner on
sufficient evidence, or on his personal know
ledge, that said person belongs to any of the
| aforesaid classes, whether the exemption be
claimed by them or not-exemption will not
be made for disability unless it be of such per.
| manent character as to render the person unfit
! for period of more than thirty days, to be
certified by surgeon appointed by the Gov.
ernor in each county for that purpose.
6. At the time fixed as before provided, by
| the Commissioner for making the draft, the
Sheriff of the county, or in his absence such
person as the Commissioner may appoint,
shall, in the presence of said Commissioner,
| publicly place in wheel or box of like char
acter to such as are used for drawing jurors,
separate folded ballots, containing the names
of all persons remaining on said enrolment
lists not stricken off as before provided-ths
names upon the enrolment list of each town.
ship in the county being however placed
! in the said wheel or box separately
and drawn from separately--and
proper person appointed by the said
Commissioner and blindfolded, shall there.
upon draw from said box or wheel,
a number of ballots equal to the number of
drafted men to be furnished by each of said
townships. the quota of each township to be as.
certained by the County Auditor subject to an
appeal by any citizen to the Commissioner.
The quota of each county, however, to be fix
ed by the Commander. in Chief
z. A printed or written notice of his enroll.
ment and draft, and of the place of rendezvous
of the drafted military force shall thereupon be
served by person to be appointed by the
Commissioner upon each person SO drafted,
either by delivering the same in person OR by
eaving it at his last and known place of resi-.
| dence.
8. Any person SO drafted may offer subs
stitute 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 eighteen and forty.fve years, and shall con.
sent in writing, and shall furnish the written
consent of his parents or guardian Gf a minor)
to subject himself to all the duties and oblga-
lions to which his principal would have been
subject had he personally served, he shall be
accepted in lieu of such principal.