The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-07-24

duty during the time for which he had been
drafted and for which such substitute was fur
nished.
| 81. The board shall furnish discharge Qrom
| 81 from further liabilities under the particular
draft, to any drafted person who presents bona
tide receipt for the sum announced in order for
procuring substitutes, from the persons author
lied by the Secretary of War to receive it.
EXEMPTIONS AND RULES OF EVIDENCE BY WHICH
THEY ARE TO BE DETERMINED.
| 81. Section 2, Act for enrolling and calling
out the National Forces, &c., approved March
3, 1868, provides as follows: That the follow
ing persons be, and they are hereby excepted
and exempt from the provisions of this act, and
shall not be liable to military duty under the
same, to wit: such as are rejected as physically
or mentally unfit for the service; also, first, the
Vice President of the United States, the Judges
of the various Courts of the United States, the
heads of the various Executive Departments of
the Government, and the Governors of the sew
eral States. Second, the only son, liable to mil
itary duty, of widow dependent upon bis La
Dor for support. Third, the only son of an a.
| ged or infirm parent or parents dependent upon
his labor for support. Fourth, where there are
two or more sons of aged or infrm parents sub
ject to draft, the father, OF if he be dead, the
mother may elect which son shall be exempt.
Fifth, the only brother of children not twelve
years old having neither father nor mother, de-
pendent upon his labor for support. Seventh,
where there are a father and sons in the same
family and household, and two of them are in
the military service of the United States as nom
commissioned officers, musicians or privates, the
residue of such family and household, not ex-
ceeding two, shall be exempt. And no persons
but such as are herein excepted shall be exempt:
Pror,ded, hoaoerer, That no person who has been
convicted of any felony shall be enrolled or per-
mitted to serve in said forces.
! So. The following diseases and infrmities are
those which disqualify for military service, and
for which only drafted men to be ssrejected as
physically or mentally unfit for the service" viz:
l. Manifest imbecility or insanity.
2. Epilepsy. For this disability the state
ment of the drafted man is insufficient, and the
fact must be established by the duly attested af-
| fidavit of a physician of good standing, who
has attended him in convulsion.
8. Paralysis, general or of one limb, Of cho-
rea; their exiDtelaoe to be sldee~s&al date-na;s-
ed.
T. Acute or organic diseases of the brain or
spinal cord of the heart or lungs; of the stom-
ach or intestines, of the liver or spleen; of the
kidneys or bladder, sufficient to have impaired
the general health, or SO well marked as to leave
| no reasonable doubt of the mans incapacity for
military service.
5. Confirmed consumption, cancer, aneurism
of the large arteries
Inv fa an1 avfa A,oaooa of }ba
skin, which will necessarily impair his efficiency
as O soldier.
7. Decided feebleness of constitution wheth-
er natural or acquired.
8. Scrofula or constitutional syphilis, which
has resisted treatment and seriously impaired
his general health.
8. Habitual and confirmed intemperance or
solitary vice, in degree sufficient to have mate
rally enfeebled the constitution
10. Chronic rheumatism, unless manifested
by positive change of structure; wasting of the
affected limb, or pufiiness or distortion of the
joints does not exempt Impaired motion of
the joints and contraction of the limbs alleged
to arise from rheumatism, and in which the nu-
triton of the limb is not manifestly impaired,
are to be proven by examination while in state
vi dutCoLutolS iuuuCCu ny CtutI
IL. Pain, whether Stimulating headache, neu-
ralgia in any of its forms, rheumatism, lumba-
go, or affections of the muscles, bones or joints
is a symptom of disease so easily pretended that
it is not to be admitted as a cause for exemp-
ton, unless accompanied with manifest derange-
ment Of the general health, wasting of u limb,
or other positive sign of disquaifying local dis
ease.
II. Great injuries or disease of the skull,
occasioning impairment of the intellectual fac
ulties, epilepsy, or other manifest nervous or
spasmodic symptoms.
H. Total loss of sight; loss of sight of right
eye cataract; loss Of crystalline lens of right eye
a. Other serious diseases of the eye affect
ing its integrity and use, G. q. chronic ophthal-
mia, fstula, lachrymalis, ptosis, (if really ectro-
pion, enthropion, &C., Myopia, unless very de-
clded or depending upon some structural change
in the eye, is not cause for exemption.
15. Loss of nose; deformity of nose so great
as seriously to obstruct respiration, ozena, de-
pendent upon carries in progress.
16 Complete deafness. This disability must
not be admitted on the mere statement of the
drafted man, but must be proved by the exist
ence of positive disease, Or by other satsfacto-
ry evidence of Purulent Otorrhea.
18. Dumbness; permanent loss of voice;
not to be admitted without clear and satisfacto-
ry proof
81. Stammering, if excessive and confirmed |
to be established by satisfactory evidence, un-
der oath.
%. Loss Of sufficient number of teeth to
prevent proper mastication of food, and tearing
the cartridge
23. Incurable deformity or loss of part of
either jaw, hindering biting of the cartridge or
proper mastication, or greatly injuring speech |
anchyosis of lower jaw.
"a. Tumors of the neck, impeding rcspira-
tion or deglutition; fstula and larynx or ira
chea; tortoceis of long standing and well marked.
25 Deformity of the chest sufficient to inn
pede respiration or to prevent the carrying of