Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-08-06
WAR DEPARTMENT,
ApJurAST AND INSPECTOR GENERALS OFFICE,
RIcHMoND, May l9, 1862.
GENERAL ORpERs,

RICHMOND, May lSs Iooz.
GENERAL ORDERS,
The following Act and Regulations in reference there
to- published for the information OF all Concerned:
An exempt certain persons from enrolment J0r ser
pice in the Armies Of the Confederate States:
SECTION l. The Congress Of the G|Htedey%te Sases %
unfit for military service under rules to be peScroeo oy
the Sec etary of War; all in the service or employ oil IN
Confederate Staes ali judicial and executive ocers &c S %
Confederate State governments; the members 0 ooth
houses the Congress- and of the Legislatures OF Inc sew
eal States and their respective oicers all clerks OF he
officers of the State and Confederate governments allowed
by law; all engaged in carrying the mails; all errymen
on post routes all pilots and persons engaged IN tne ma
service and in actual service on river ana afoad
roues of ransporation telegraph operators and minis
tiers of religion the regular discharge ot uu
ties all engaged in working in iron mines and furnaces
all ourueymen printers actually employed IN printing
new all presidents and professors OF colleges and
academies and all teachers having as many us twenty
Scholars superintendents of the public hoSptas unac
asylums, and the regular nurses and aehHns thersn,
and the teachers employed in the institutions for the de
and dumb and blind; in each apothecary store now esao
shed and doing business apOthecary IN good stand
inc who is practical druggist superntendenIs and ope
atives wool and cotton factories who may De
by the Secretary of War; shall be and are hereby
from military service in the armies oil Inc Ooneueae
States Approved April 81, 1852 - r
H. Bv The above act Congress- the following classes oil
nersons are exempt from enrolment for military service
Justices OF the peace; shes and deputy sherS cerks
and deputy clerks, allowed by law masters anu eolnS
siunerS chancery; district and State attorneys;
general posmasiers and deputy postmasterS ana CLERKS
allowed by law; commissioners of revenue ana
who have not acquired dDncR in the Confederate oa'eS
III. The following not exempt: l.,
Militia officers not actual service persons exempt oy
State Jaws but not bv the above foreigners who nave
acquired domicil in the Confederate States ,oa ~
iV No persons other than those expressly named OF
properly implied in the above act can be exempted eAee
by furnishing substitute, exempt from maIy SerNcei
in conformity with Regulations already pu6sh
Orders No. ~ aud such exemption is valid only so long
as the said substitute is legally exempt. IN ;.
" Persons who have furnished substitutes WIN Ieee,re
their certificates of exemption from the captains Gt com
papieS or :be commandants Of camps by whom the SUD
surs have been accented Other certificates of exemP,
ton will be granted BY the enrolling officers only who vii!
receive full Instructions in regard the conditions and
mode of exemption Applications for exemption canho'
therefore be considered by tn! War Department
BY command of the Secretary of W ar.
~ ). COOPER,
Adjuaut and Inspector General
July |, 1862. OIL