Litchfield enquirer., 1863-06-04
The Conscription-Exemptions, sc.

The COnscription-ExemptiOns, Sc. We give below an abstract of the instruc- tions to Provost Marshals concerning the draft. The enrolment will begin as soon as the necessary blanks are prepared and distribu- ted. It will be perceived that in cases of Ger. tain specified absolute physical defects. persons are exempt, and it is of considerable impor- tance that parties who are aware at the Pro- vost Marshal's office, that their names may be stricken of before the enrolment is finally made up. The Eumber to be drafted will de. pend of course, upon the number enrolled, and every man who is entitled to, and would be, rejected if drafted. who suffers his name to go upon the enrolment. will increase the burden of his neighors. It will save the party direct Fly concerned considerable trouble, to attend to the matter at the proper time, and be an act of justice to those who may be 50 fortunate or unfortunate as not to be afflicted with any ply. sieal disability.
 In the new enrolling law the United States is divided into districts, each Congressional district of State constituting district, and over each there is to be Provost Marshall Each district shall also have Board of En- rollment, to be composed of the Provost Mar shal, who shall act as President, and two oth. CTS, who are appointed by the President of the United States-one of whom is to be regu- larly licensed and practicing physician. Shoald they deem it necessary. they may divide each district into two, and appoint an enrolling off
 Ger ever each. whose duty it shall be to enroll all persons subject to military duty. before the first of July. The enrolment must include all able-bodied men between the ages of 20 and 45 years, not exempt by law, and all persons of foreign birth not so exempted, who shall have declared their4 intention on oath to become citizens of the United States students of col leges, scholars, teachers, apprentices, sailors, travellers or travelling merchants, and similar classes of people, must be enrolled in the dis trict in which they have their residences. The draft is to take place nnder the direction of the Board of Enrolment. A discharge from one draft, furnishes DO exemption from any subsequent draft. The judges of the various courts of the United States, the heads of the executive departments, and the Governsrs of States, ale exempt-as also the only son of a widow or aged parents dependent upon him for support; where two or more sons are lia- ble, the mother may choose which shall be ex- empt; the only brother of orphan children under twelve years of age. and the father oi motherless children of the same age depen- dent. upon him for support. are also exempt.- When two or more of one household are d. ready ia the service, the rest liable, not exceed ing two, are exempt.
 Any eff the following diseases will be suffi- eient causes for exemption
 Epilepsy, paralysis of one or more limbs 1 acute or organic diseases of the brain or spi- nal chord, or of the heart, lungs, stomach or intestines, sufficient to impair tho general health confirmed consumption, cancer, a leu rsm of the large arteries, inveterate or exten- sive diseases of the skin, decided feebleness of constitution, whether natural or acquired ; scrofula, or constitutional syphilis; habitual or confirmed intemperance, or solitary vice /; great injury or disease of the skull total loss of sightin right eye, cataract or serious dis ease of the eye; loss of nose; deafness; :; bones, cleft palate, extensive loss of substance of the cheeks, dumbness, total loss, atrophy or chronic Liberation of the tongue; confirm. ed stammering, loss of sufficient teeth to pre- vent proper mastication of food, or tearing of cartridge; deformity of either jaw, tumor of neck if impeding respiration 6stula of larnyx or traca, forticollis; deformity of chest, sufi- cient to prevent carrying of arms or to impede respiration; deficient amplitude or power of expansion of the chest grossly protruberant abdomen, excessive obesity, hernia, artificial arms, st,icture of rectum, prolapsus ami, fistu- la in ano, if extensive or complicated; old or Liberated h@morrhoids, epispadia or hypospa. dia; urinary fstula, permanent or organic stricture of the urethra, stone in the bladder, confirmed or malignant sarcocele, hydroeeie, excessive anterior or posterior curvature of the spine, loss of arm, forearm, hand, thigh, leg or foot, wounds or fracture sufficient to prevent marching; irreducible! dislocation of shoulder elbow, wrist, knee, hip, or ankle joint, muscular or cutaneous contractions from burns or wounds, so as to prevent use of limbs; total loss of thumb. two fingers of right hand, index finger of right hand; loss of first or se- cond joint of right hand. permanent extension or contraction of any finger except the little one, total loss of great -toe, loss of any three toes. toes all joined together. the great toes crossing the others, overriding of all the toes, club feet. splay feet, varicose veins ot inferior extremities, if large or numerous chronic ulcers, extensive or deep eicatricices of lower extremities. 4s
 Certificates from surgeons are to be sworn