The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-06-11
The Draft--The Exemption.

A pamphiet glglng instructions TO
Provost Marshals has just been issued by
the authorities at Washington, from which
we have selected few items. 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 a Provost Marshal.
| Each district shall also have Board of
Enrolment, to be composed of the Pro
vost Marshal, who shall act as President,
and two others who are appointed by the
| President of the United States, one of
whom is to be regularly licensed and
practising physician. Should they deem
it necessary, they may divide each district
| into two, and appoint an enrolling officer
over each, whose duty it shall be to enroll
all persons subject to military duty before
the first of July. This enrolment must
include all,able bodied men, between the
ages of twenty and forty-fve years, not
exempt by law, and al persons Of foreign
birth not SO exempted, who shall have
declared their intention on oath to become
citizens of the United States students OF
colleges, or scholars, teachers, apprentices,
sailors, travelling merchants and similar
classes of citizens, must be enrolled IN the
district in which they have their resi-
dences. The draft is to take place under
the direction of the Board Of Enrolment.
A discharge from one draft furnishes no
exemption from any subsequent draft =
The Judges of the various courts OF the
United States, the heads of the Executive
departments, and the Governors Of States,
ale exempt, as also the only son of a wild
ow or aged parents dependent upon him
for support where TWO or more sons are
liable the mother may choose which shall
be exempt; the only brother Of orphan
children under twelve years Of age, and
the father of motherless children Of the
same age dependent upon him for support,
are also exempt. When two or more
of one household are already in the serv-
ice, the rest liable, not exceeding two, are
exempt.
ANY Of the following diseases will be
sufficient causes for exemption epilepsy,
paralysis of one or more limbs, acute or
organic disease of the brain or spinal chord
or Of the heart, lungs, stomach, or lntes-
tines sufficient toimpair the general health,
confirmed consumption, cancer, aneurism
of the large arteries, or extensive diseases
of the skin, decided feebleness Of consti-
tuition, whether natural or acquired
scrofula, or constitutional syphilis; habi-
ual or confirmed iDtemperance, or solitary
wee great injury or disease of the skull
total loss of sight, in right eye, cataract or
serious disease of the eye, loss Of nose,
deafness, purulent storrhea, carries Of the
nasal CT palate bones, cleft palate, ezten-
siye loss Of substance of the cheeks,
dumbness, atrophy or chronic liberation,
Of the tongue confirmed stammering, loss
Of sufficient teeth to prevent proper mas
tication of focd, Or tearing of cartridge
deformity of either jaw, tumor Of neck, if
impeding respiration fstula of larnyx
or tracia, forticolis, deformity of chest, |
sufficient to prevent carrying of arms, or |
to impede res spiration deficient amplitude |
or power of expansion Of chest grossly |
protuberant abdomen, excessive obesity, |
hernia, artificial arms. structure Of rectum,
prolapsus ami, fstula in and fistula in ano,
if extensive or complicated old or ulcera-
ted hemorrhoids, epispadia, hypospadia;
urinary fistula, permanent or organic strue-
ture of the urethra, stone in the bladder,
confirmed or malignant sarcocele, hydro
cele, excessive anterior or posterior curva-
ture of the spine, loss Of arm, forearm,
hand, thigh, leg or foot, wounds or frac
ture sufficient to prevent marching; ire |
ducible 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 second joint of fingers of right |
hand, permanent extension or contraction |
oe any finger, except the little one; total
loss OF great toe, loss of any three toes,
toes all joined together, the great toe
crossing the others, overriding Of all the
toes, club feet, splay feet, varicose veins
of inferior extremities, if large or numer-
Gus; chronic ulcers, extensive or deep
cicatrices Of lower extremities.
Certificates from surgeons are to be
sworn to before Justice of the Peace
Examinations are to take place In well |
lighted room, in presence of the board of |
enrolment, and the party 20 be examined
is to be stripped.
THE RESERVE FRONTIER GUARD
Gov. Curtin has received from the Secre-
tary of War directions to form Volun-
teer force Of fifteen regiments, of which
five will be cavalry, designed, it is under
stood, as a defence for the State border |