Washington telegraph., 1863-01-07
ENROLLING ORDER, NO. >.
HEADQU ARTEKs, DIV. No 4,
G1mfen. III. Dec. IL. 1870

Camden, Ark, Dec. Il. 1852.
GENERAL ORDER No. 1 is hereby revoked
VI AMI the following General Order sabstitu
ted thernfor:
H. Each Enrolling Officer will cause 70 be
enrolled all white male persons in his county
between Is and 40 years Of age, and will
cause to be entered a roll prepared for
that purpose. the names, ages, occupation.
place Of nativity, and time Of enrolment Of
their leaving their homes for The Camp Of
Instruction.
? As soon a. the Enrolling Officer shall
have completed his enrolment for his county,
he will cause the men 20 enrolled. to be col
lected AZ some convenient place, thence TO be
forwarded to this Camp Of Instruction, and
delivered with his enrolment list, fully and
properly made cut.
g. Each county Enrolling Officer will make
timely acquisitions 10 this Camp Of InstrIc-
ton. for transportation and subsistence FOR
the men, fro1a the coansy rendezvous TO the
Camp of Instruction
4. All consoripts capable of bearing arms,
will be received.
> Blindness, excessive deafness, and per
manent lameness. great deformiiy, are obvi
Gus reasons for exemption.
y. Confirmed consumption, large ineurahis
ulcers, aud chronic contagious diseases Of the
SKIN. causes Tor exemption.
7. Single reducible hernia, the loss If an
eye. or several fingers, will not incapacitate
the subject for the performance u military
duty.
s. A certificate of disability of conscript,
given by a private physician, will not be con-
sidered. unless affidavit Is made that the con
script is confined to bed, or that his health
and life would be endangered by removal TO
the place Of enrolment Or Camp Of Instruction
.. But when a conscrIpt l. incapacitated
BY temporary sickness. he must present him
self, as soon as recovered, 20 the Enrolling
Officer. or to the Camp Of Instruction.
10 No previous discharge, certificate, or
exemption from any source, will be acknow-
lodged.
N. Officers Who heretofore held commits
sions il the army, aud have lost their com
mand. are subject 10 CONSUMPTION.
IL. The exemption act is prospective in its
operations.
II County Enrolling Officers will rscog-
nize no orders ia the discharge Of their duty.
except such As emanite from tine commandant
Of this division.
H. Tie three surgeons in this III vision will
consfinute a Board of EKlmina ton; and one
or more of them may set at any place Of rem
iezvou. therein. 1hey viii be stationed,
severally, as follows: Washington, Hemp
stead county: Princeton, Dallas county;
AMI Mlrfreesboro', Pike county. Arkansas.
There win also be stationed a Medical Er-
amner at ths Camp If Instruction.
Is. The Enrolling Officer OF the county shall
attend Al such examination, and enroll and
send 10 the Camp Of Instruction, such persons
~ are examined, and found capable of bearing
arms: the standard Of bodily capacity being
a. before given.
Is Persons deemed incapable Of bearing
arms. shall be reported by the Examining Sur
gcon to the Board of Examination, who shall
determine the question Of examination, aud
grant certificates thereof.
H. All certificates from private physicians,
stating the inability Of person 10 attend the
enrolment. must be forwarded b. the E1amin-
ing Surgeon TO this Camp of Instruction
Is. All applications for discharges must
state fully the grounds upon which the party
makes the application. and must be sworn to
before a justice Of the peace, or some other
person authorized by law to administer Oaths.
10. The application and affidavit must be
sent to this Camp Of instruction. and e1emp-
ton granted by the Enrolling Officer
20. Citizen employees and mechanics who
are in the establishments Of the government,
or by contractors with the government in the
manufacture Of drugs, ordnance, ordnance
stores. and other munitions Of war; saddles,
harness, ami army supplies, will be enrolled
and retained TO their work provided the
Chief Of the Ordnance Bureau. or some ord
nance officer, authorized by him for the pur
pose, shall certify that the number of opera
tTes required by the officer in charge Of such
establishment. i reasonable and not exces-
sivc Such certificate will be presented 70 the
Enrolling Officer. who will thereupon make
the detail Of the men specified Tor a period
not exceeding sixty days, and return the Ger
tifclte TO the Commandant of Conscripts in
this division. AT the expiration of such detail,
/ the officer in charge Of the government shop,
shall cause such certificate to be renewed, or
return the conscrpts to this Camp of Instruc-
/ ton. In ali cases Of detail for contractors,
the party returning the detail shall make Aft
davit that the person SO detailed will net be
employed on any other than government work:
the affidavit to be sent TO the commandant OF
this division. No other details viii be allowed.
81. Applications must, in all cases, be made
TO the Enrolling Officer Of the county, from
whose decision appeal may be taken TO the
commanlant of Conscripts.
p. Persons claiming sn exemption on the
grounds of having a substitute in the service,
must exhibit 10 the enrolling officer dis
charge from some company. signed by the
commanding officer o. the regiment or com
mand to which the said company belongs or,
then belonged. But the Enrolling officer may
grant the exemption upon satisfactory proof
that the party furnished substitute who was
actually received into the service Of the Con-
federate States, for three years, or the war,
and the substitute is not liable TO military
service: and in all cases where substitute
becomes subject to military service, the
| emptio IN Of the principal, by means Of the sub
stitution. shall expire.
| 23 All the Laws and regulations applicable
to deserters shall be applied to such conscripts
| as fail to report to, and repair to the place of
rendezvous for enrolment, or who shsll desert
| after enrolment.
JAS THOS. ELLIOTT, Major,
Com Camp Of Inst, 4th Division