The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-12-12
Camp eff Instruction at Knoxville.
State of Tennessee.

Camp eff Instruction at Knoxville,
State Of Tennessee.
I0.~.... ........., Enrolling Officer for.......,,
l. The following extracts from the Laws pass.
ed by Congress, and approved by the President
"ith the Regulations in reference thereto are
published fer the information of Enrolling Off.
GERS under the Conscript Act.
Extracts from an Act to further prortde f,r a.
Pablo Defence.
lin view of the exigencies of the country and
the absolute necessity of keeping in the service
our gallant army, and of placing in the field a
large additional force, to meet the advancina
columns of the enemy now invading our soil:
Therefore, ~"
CSC. l. The Congress of the Confederate STATE,
81 America do enact, That the President be and
he is hereby authorized to call out and place in
the military service of the Confederate States for
three years, unless the war shall have been soon
er' ended, all white men who residents of the
Confederate State, between the ages Of Is and az
years at the time the call or calls may be made
who are net legally exempted from military ser,
vice." i@
n
CSC. 8. BE it further enacted, That for the en-.
reiiment of all persons comprehended within the
provisions of this act, who are not already in sar
vice in the armies of the Confederate Sta es II
shall be lawful for the President, with the consent
OF the Governors of the respective States to en-
ploy State officers; and on failure to obtain sucb
consent, he shall employ Confederate officers.
in accordance with the rules and regulations to he
prescribed by him.
"SEc. 5. Be It further enacted That all sea-
men and ordinary seamen in the land forces of
the Confederate States, enrolled under the pro
VISIONS OF this act, may, on application to the
Secretary of the Navy, be transferred from the
land forces to the naval service"
y
CSC. S. Be it further enacted, That each man
who may hereafter be mustered into the service
and who shall arm himself with a musket shot,
gun, rife or carbine accepted as efficient weap-
on, shall be paid the value thereof to be aseer-
tanned by the mastering officer, under such regu-
tations as may be prescribed rs the Secretary of
WAR; II he is willing to sell che same; and if he
Is not, then he shall be untitled to receive one
dollar a month for the use of said received and
approved musket, rife shotgun or carbine.
"SEc. 9. Be it fp-ther enacted, That persons
liable for duty nay be received as substitutes
for those who are, nnder such regulations as may
DO prescribed by the Secretary of War.
"SEc. Is. Be it further enacted, That all Pc
sons subject TO enrolment, who not now in
the service, under the provisions of this act shall
be permitted, previous to such enrolment, to vol
0nteer in companies now in the service. lAp-
proved April 18th, 1861
An act to exempt certain persons from Enrichment
IN the Armies Of the Confederate States,
''SEc. 2. The Congress Of the Confederate States
81 Amertct do enact That all persons who shall
to be prescribed by the Secretary of War; all in
the service or employ of the Confederate States;
all Judicial and executive officers of the Confed-
crate or State Governments; the members Of both
houses of Congress, and of the Legislatures of
the several States, and their respective officers,
oil clerks of the officers of the State and Confed
crate governments, allowed by law; all engaged
In carrying the nails all ferrymen on post routes;
all pilots and persons engaged in the marine SER
vice, and in actual service river and railroad
routes of transportation; telegraphic operators
and ministers Of religion in the regular discharge
OF ministerial duties; all engaged in working iron
mines, furnaces and foandries; all journeymen
printers actually employed in printing newspa-
pers; all presidents and professors of colleges,
and all teachers having as many twenty schOl-
ars; superintendent of public hospitals, lunatic
asylums, and the regular nurses and attendants
therein and the teachers employed in the institu-
ton for the deaf and dumb and blind; in each
apothecary store now established and doing bust
ness, one apothecary in good standing, who is
practical druggist; superintendent and opera
tives in wool and cotton factories, who NAV be
exempted by the Secretary of War, shall be and
are hereby exempted from military service in the
armies of the Confederate States. GApproyed
April 21st, 1927
II. BY the above act of Congress- the follow
ing classes of persons arc exempt from enrolment
for military service:
Justices oStHe P-aes5 si~iT- -.>a l~r~tv a. ar
IFS clerks and deputy clerks allowed by law;
masters and commissioners in chancery; district
and state attorneys; attorneys general; postmas-
tiers and deputy postmasters and clerks allowed
by law; commissioners of revenue and foreigners
who have not acquired domicil in the Confederate
States.
III. The following are not exempt:
Militia officers not in actual service; persons
exempted by State laws, but not by the above
act; foreigners who have acquired domicil in tbs
Confederate States.
". No person other than those expressly nam
ed or properly implied in the above act, can bt
exempted, except by furnishing substitute, ex
empt from military service, in conformity witt
regulations; and such exemption is valid only 81
long as the said substitute is legally exempt.
X.-SUBsrIrurEs.
IS. When any person liable to military dut,
under this act, but not yet mustered into service
in any company, desires to furnish a substitute
he shall report himself with the substitute to thu
commandant of a camp OF instruction; and i
the substitute be lawfully exempt from mllltar,
duty, and on examination by Surgeon or Assist
ant Surgeon, be pronounced sound AID in all re
spccts fit for military service, he may be accept
ed and enrolled; and the person furnishing sucl
substitute may be discharged by the commandan
of the camp. But no substitute shall be entitled
to transportation other allowance at the ex
pensc of the Government, until so accepted ant
enrolled.
XI.-ExEMPTIoNs.
10. Persons claiming exemption from militar
duty under this act, shall be required by the en-
rolling officer to make oath that they are lawful
ly exempt, and shall be furnished by him with
certificate of such exemption.
Superintendents and operatives in wool AM
cotton factories engaged in manufacturing sue
cloth may be used by the army for clothing
or material of any kind used in the service of tn
Confederate and State Governments, will be OK
empt, not exceeding, however, in any one estab
iishment the number necessary to its ef6cien
operation.
Enrolling officers will report weekly to Lieu
Colonel E. D. Blake, at Knoxville.
All enrollments will be made upon blanks (fuI
nished the enrolling officers) in duplicate. Du
plcate rolls Of all persons betw sen the ages of
and IS will be forwarded to this office. Rolls G
those between the ages of 35 and SIS to be for
1arded to the Adjutant General of the Stale.
rofs-s~rrr- os-s.ss.e-=sy-sa--------Aing o<Bpe-.
and forwarded to this Office, of all persons With
Sheir districts between the ages of Is and IS VIII
may be exempt under the first section of the &C
ef Congress, "to exempt certain persons from en-