Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-07-19
WAR DEPARTMENT,
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ADJUrASr AND INSPECTOR GENERALS OFFICE,


RICHMOND, May ~, 1862. }
GENERAL ORDrRs
l. The following Act and Regulations iu reference there
to- are published for the information Of all concerned:
An act to exempt cfrtdtn persons from enrolment J0r ser
uics in tie Armies 0f the Confederate States: =.
SECTION l. The CpHgreSs Of the CCntederdte States OF
ericG do enG That all persons who shall be held 10 oe
unit for military service under rules to be preScr'oec 9
the Secrea of War; all in the service or employ o IN
Confederate States; ali judicial and executive rcers CT
Confederate State governments the members 0 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 errymen
on post routeS all pilots and persons engaged IN the ma
rne service and in actual service river and railroad
of transportaun; telegraph operators and minis
ters of religion in the regular discharge of ministerial du
ties all ENGAGED in working in iron mines and furnaces
all iourneymcn printers actually employed IN printing
all presidents and professors ot colleges and
academies, and all teachers having as many as twenty
scholars superntendcnts of the public hospitals lunac
aSyums and the regular nurses and attendens tnere
and the teachers employed in the institutions lor ne ae
and dumb and blind in each apothecary store now estao
lshed and doing business one apothecary IN good stand
ing who is practical druggist suPerintendens and "pe
raveS in wool and cotton factories who may be exempted
by the Secretary War; shall be and hereby exempted
from military service in the armies OF the Confederate
States. IApproved April 81, 1882
H. By the above of Congress- the following classes OF
persons are exempt from enrolment for military service
Justices OF the peace sherts and deputy sherS clerks
suners in chancerv district and State attorneys attorneys
general postmaSters aud deputy postmasteS ana clerks
allowed by law; commissioners n revenue Huu
who have acquired JltcE in the Confederate States
III. The following not exempt:
Militia officers not actual service persons exempt oy
State Iaws but by the above foreigners who have
acquired domicil in the Confederate States
iV No persons other than these expressly named or
properly implied the above act can be exempted except
by furnishing substitute exempt from military service
in conformity with Regulations already published tGenerai
Orders No. and such exemption is valid only 50 long
as the said substitute is legally exempt.
v Persons who have furnished substitutes will receive
their certificates of exemption from the captains of COM
panes or :he commandanlS Of camps bv whom the sub
stitues have been accepted Other certificates Of excm
on 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 th1 War Department.
By command OF the Secretary of War.
5. COOPER,
Adjuant and Inspector General.
July l, 1852. 0S-u.