The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-07
THE DRAFT.
EXEMPTIONS UNDER THE ACT
Mode of Drafting.

Mode of Drafting.
Our readers and the public are deeply
interested in the proceedings now going
forward in order to the execution of the
Conscription Act. We, therefore, repub-
lish the following particulars, which show
some of the more important provisions of
the act and the mode of its execution:
EXEMPTIONS UNDER THE ACT.
Besides those who are rejected by rea-
son of mental or bodily infirmities, are,
First. The Vice President of the United
States, and Judges of the various courts
of the United States, the heads of Execu-
tive Departments of the Government, and
the Governors of States.
Second. The only son liable to military
duty OF widow dependent upon his labor
for support.
Fourth. Where there are two or more
sons of aged or infrm parents subject to
draft, the father, or if he be dead, the
mother, may elect which son shall be ex-
empt.
Fifth. The only brother of children not
twelve years old, having neither father
nor mother, depending upon his labor for
support.
Sixth. The father of motherless child
rem under twelve years of age, dependent
upon his labor for support.
Seventh. When there are a father and
sons in the same family and household,
and two OF them are in the military SER
vice OF the United States as non-commis-
stoned officers, musicians, or privates, the
residue of such family or household not
exceeding two, shall be exempt.
Prorided, hOwecer, That no person
who has been convicted of any felony
shall be enrolled or permitted to serve in
in said forces.
Then all persons who will pay $500 or
find substitute. The payment of the
money exempts from that draft only The
person who has paid once is liable to pay
a second time, or as often as draft is or
dered. Ii a substitute is furnished the
person furnishing him is exempt for the
time the substitute is mustered into serv-
ice; and the substitute while in service
cannot be drafted
If a person claims exemption by reason
of physical disability, and his claim is re-
jected, he retains the privilege of either
paying the communication or of furnishing
a substitute.
1t must be understood that no exelnp-
ton OR finding of substitute under any
State militia law, is release under the
act of Congress-.
Men, who, on the third Of March, 1868,
were in the military service of the United
States, as substitutes, under the draft of
1862, and whose terms of service have
since expired, are not liable to the pres
ent draft but the persons for whom they
were substitutes are liable to draft, the
same as though they had not been drafted,
and furnished substitutes under the draft
of last year.
Certificates OF exemption from the draft
by reason of having provided substitute,
or having paid Communication money!. shall
be furnished by the Board of Enrolment.
TAe character and amount OF evidence
requisite to decide the question of disqual-
ification on account of age, must be deter
mined by the Board of Enrolment. Such
disqualification must be clearly and fully
proved to the Board before exemption is
granted under this plea. The following
rules should be carefully regarded, viz:
The affidavit of the person claiming ex-
emption mast in all cases be required, sup
ported by as much of the following testi-
mony as can be obtained Or may be.deem-
ed requisite :.
l. BY an authenticated extract from the
legal registry Of births, if there be any
such registry.
2. By any other autheRticated doeu
mentary evidence tending 10. establish the
fact of age.
3. By tho affidavit of parents.
4. BY the affidavits of sach other res.
pectable persons (not less than twol as are
most likely to be informed On the sabject.
Tie amount of evidence herein requi-
red to- establish claim to exemption is
the least which the Board should except,
and if in any case the Board has reason to
doubt the character or sufhcieney of the
evidence presented, it should decline
granting the exemption unless such addi-
tional proof as it may require be produced
in time to be considered without delaying
the business of the draft.
All persons 'diseharged," after the re-
quired number OF able-bOdied men shall
have been obtained shall be furnished by
the Board with certificate
The drafted men are numbered as their
names are drawn from the wheel or box.
If there is surplus, after all the legal ex-
empts are excluded, the highest numbers,
or names last dr0Wq, are stricken off
By decision at Washington, those thus
stricken off are exempt for the term ofthe
draft, to wit: three years.
MODE OF GRATING.
The Board of Enrolment is to make an
exact and complete roll of the names Of
the persons drafted, and of the order in
which they were drawn, so that the first
drawn may stand first on the said roll, and
second may stand second, and SO ON. The
draft shall take place at the headquarters
of the district.
Provost Marshals will cause the name
of each person of the first class enrolled
(married men between twenty and thirty
five, and single men between twenty and
forty-fve), to be written on a card as soon
as the enrolment lists are completed.
These cards must be uniform in size, shape
and color.