Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-06
A DRAFT FINALLY Ordered.

The President has ordered a CONSUMPTION of
1895 as amended at the recent session of Con
gress. In day or two the Secretary of War
will furnish instructions to the manner of ell
rolling and drafting, doubtless naming those who
will be exempt from military duty We published
the law in full in our daily issue OF the 22d OF
July. and readers are probably familiar with
its details. The first three sections of the law
embrace all that refers to drafting under the call
of the President, and as matter of general in
terest we reproduce them:
SEcrIox 1. That whenever the President of
the United States shall call forth the militia of
the States. To be employed in the service of the
United States, he may specify in his call the pc
Rod Tor which such service will be required, not
exceeding nine months; and the militia called
shall be mustered in and continue to serve for
and during the term SO specified, unless sooner
discharged by command OF the President. Ii by
reason OF defects in existing LAWS. or in the exc
,ution of them, in the several States, or any of
them, il shall be found necessary to provide for
enrolling the militia aud otherwise putting this
act into execution. the President is authorized in
such cases to make all necessary rules and regu
lstions; and the enrolment of the militia shall in
cases include all able bodied male citizens between
the ages of eighteen and forty five, and shall be
apportioned among the States according to repre-
sentative population.
SIC. , And be IL further enacted. That the
militia, when called into service shall be or
ganized in the mode prescribed by law for vol
unteers.
SIC. 3. And be il further enacted. That the
President be. and he Is hereby authorized, in ad
aition To the volunteer forces which he Is au
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airy number of volunteers not exceeding one hun
dred thousand, as infantry. for a period of nine
months, unless sooner discharged. And every
soldier who shall enlist under the provisions OF
this section shall receive his first months pay and
also So as bounty. upon the mastering OF his
company or regiment into the service of the
United States, for three years or during the war,
except in relation TO bounty, shall be, and the
same extended 10. and are hereby declared to
embrace the volunteers 10 be raised under the
provisions Of this section.
From n contemporary we take the following in
regard to who are exempt from military service:
The following compiled from an official source.
will serve to answer very many questions that
are being propounded just at this time:
L. Physical debility is good ground of ex-
empton, and should, in all case of doubt. be es-
tabiished TO the satisfaction OF the enrolling Off
Ger. by a physicians certificate. as well as the at
hdavit OF the party The following imperfec
tons are proper causes OF disability: Wounds of
the head. which impair the faculties or cause con
WILSON'S; serious impairment OF hearing speech
vision: anchylosis. or active disease of any of
the larger joints; the presence of pulmonary dis
ease or organic disease OF the heart: irreducible
hernia: hstula in The ano. varicose veins which
extend above the knee, the loss of limb, or
thumb and forefnger the right hand. or
any two fingers on either hand; the loss Of the
great toe: any marked physical imperfection
which would unfit for active service.
2. The following persons exempt under the
laws of the United States: 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. with their clerks, all
postofsicers and stage drivers who are employed
in the care and conveyance of the mail of the
postoffices Of the United States. ferry men EN-
ployed at any ferry on the post road all inspec
tors of ports all pilots all mariners actually sm
ployed in the service of any citizen or mer-
chant within the United States.
3 F.remen in active service and those who
have served as fremen are exempt, except in case
OF lnsnrection or invasion.
liz appears from the law that large discretion
is left With the President. and be may regard. as
the Secretary of War has already done with ref