Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-05-27

General direct one copy to the Acting ASSls-
tant Provost Marshal General of the State,
and one will be retained by the Provost Mar
sbal.
II. Certified extracts from this descriptive
roll shall be made in duplicate by the Provost
Marshal for every party of drafted men sent
of, and sent with the party to the officer to
whom the party is to be delivered. One copy
is to be retained by this officer, and the other
is to be returned, with receipt for the party
as delivered to him on the back The re-
turned copy will accompany the Provost Mar
shal General
78. The Board shall note on the roll book
of drafted men, in the column of remarks or
posite each mans name, the disposition made
of him-whether called into service and sent
to the rendezvous, exempted by the Board,
replaced by substitute, commuted for, dc
serted, or discharged as not being required.
70. The substitute whom any drafted per
son is authorized, by Section 18th of the Err
rollment Act, to furnish, must be presented to
the Board Of Enrolment; and it shall be the
duty of the Board to examine him, and, If ac-
cepted, to place his name on the book of per-
sons drafted, with explanatory remarks His
name viii then be transcribed on the descrip-
tive rolls OF men called into service.
so. Certificates of exemption from the
draft, by reason OF having provided substi-
tute, or having paid Communication money,
shall be furnished by the Board OF Enrolment
A discharge from one draft furnishes no ex-
emption from any subsequent draft, except
that when the person drafted has furnished an
acceptable substitute. and has received a Ger
tiicate of discharge from proceeding draft,
he shall be held exempt from military duty
during the time for which he had been dr1ft-
ed and for which such substitute was furnish
ed
81. The Board shall furnish discharge
from further liabilities under the particular
draft, to any drafted person a bona fde receil I
for the sum announced in orders for proevr-
ing substitutes from the person authorized by
the Secretary of War to receive it.
RxE;;r-ioya.
On this subject append all that the rcsr
laiiOns say.
REPORTS
Eight different kinds OF reports must be
made by the Provost Marshal, most of them
tri- monthly. No less than thirty-nine differ
ent forms are furnished, giving promise that
the mere clerical labor OF the Office win prove
no sinucure.
EXEMPTIONS, AND RuLEs OF EVIDENCE BY WHICH
TuEy ARE TO BE DETERMINED.
81 Section 2, Act for enrolling and call
ing out the National forces. etc, approved
March 5, 1868, provides as follows: That
the following persons be, and they are here
by excepted and exempt from the provisions
of this act and shall not be liable to military
duty under the same, to,svit: Such as are re-
jected as physically or mentally unfit for the
service; also, first, the Fice-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 several States.
Second, the only son liable to military duty,
of widow dependent upon his labor for sup
port Third, the only son of an aged or in
firm parent OF parents dependent upon his
labor for support Fourth, where there are
two or more sons of aged or ipfrm 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 or
mother, dependent upon his labor for support
Sixth, the father of motherless children under
twelve years of age, dependent upon his la
Dor for support. Seventh, where there are a
father and sons in the same family household
and TWO of them are in the military services
fof the United States as non-commissioned
officers, musicians, or priva.es, the residue of
such family and household, not exceeding two,
shall be exempt. And no such person but
such as are herein excepted shall be exempt:
Provided, however, that no person who has
been convicted of any felony shall be enrolled
or permitted to serve in said force"
IS. The following diseases and infrmities
are those which disqualify for military ser
vice, and for which only drafted men are to
be rejected as physically or mentally unfit
for the service ;" namely,
l. Manifest imbecility or insaEity.
2. Epilepsy. For this disability the state
ment of the drafted man is insufficient, and
the fact must be established by the duly attes-
ted affidavit of physician, OF good standing,
who has attended him in a convulsion.
3. Parslysis, general or of one limb or
chorea; their existence to be adequately de-
termined
4. Acute or organic diseases Of the brain
or spinal cord; of the heart or lungs; of the
stomach 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
ipcapacity for military service.
5. Confirmed consumption; cancer; anu
erism of the large arteries.
6. Inveterate and extensive disease Of the
skin, which viii necessarily impair his eff
cheney as a soldier.
Z. Decided feebleness ofthe constitution
whether natural or acnuired
8. Scrofula or constitutional syphilis, which
has resisted treatment and seriously impaired