The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-05-09

on the bloody field before Murfreesboro'.
If we ever get home we will nearly skin
him alive. / wish to God that Uncle Sam
would draft all such scamps and make
them fight in the front ranks. Their in
fernal carcasses would do to stop bullets
with. .-aa l D., A. HULINd,
% Co. A. 18th Ohio INIT.
Enforcement Of the COnscription
WASHINGTON, April 3O.-From advance
sheets of the work abstract lew points,
which, now that this all-embracing law is
on the eve of being put in operation, will be
of absorbing interest.
REPORTS.
Eight different kind of reports must be
made by the Provost Marshall, most of
them tri-monthly. No less than thirty
nine different forms are furnished, giving
promise that the mere clerical labor of the
Office will prove no sinecure.
EXEMPTIONS, AND RULES OF EVIDENCE BY
WHICH THEY ARE TO BE DETERMINED.
"a. SECTION 2, An act for enrolling aud
calling out the national forces, &C., approx
ed March 3, 1868, provides as follows -
THAT the following persons be, and they
provisions of this act, and shall not be la
BILE to military duty under the same, to-
wits z.t-, 3
Such as are rejected as physically or men
tally 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 several States. Second,
the only son liable to do military duty, of
a widow dependent upon his labor for sup
port. Third, the only son Of aged or infirm
parent or parents dependent upon his labor
for support. Fourth, where there are two
or more sons of aged or infirm parents
subject to draft. the father, or if he be dead,
the mother may elect which son shall be
exempt. Fifth, the only brother Of child
rem not twelve years old, having neither
father nor mother, dependent upon his Ia
Dor for support. Sixth, the father of moth
erless children, under twelve years of age,
dependent upon his labor for support
Seventh, where there are father and sons in
the same family and household, and two Of
them are in the service of the United States
as non-commicsioned officers, musicians or
privates, the residue of such family and
household, not exceeding two, shall be eX-
empt. And no persons but such as are
herein excepted, shall be exempt: Proui-
ded, however, That no person who has been
or permitted to serve in said forces.
IS. The following diseases or infirmities
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 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 affidavit Of a physician of
good standing, who has attended him in a
convulsion. 49,
8. Paralysis, generator of one limb, or
chorea; their existence to be adequately de-
termined.
4. Acute or organic diseases Of the brain
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 incapacity for military ser
vice.
5. Confirmed consumption; cancer; aneu-.
rism of the large arteries.
6. 1nveterate and extensive diseases of
the skin, which win necessarily impair his
efficiency as soldier.
7. Decided feebleness of constitution,
whether natural or acquired.
8. Scrofula or constitutional syphilis,
which has resisted treatment and seriously
impaired his general health.
9. Habitual and confirmed intemperance
or solitary vice, in degree sufficient to have
materially enfeebled the constitution,
10. Chronic rheumatism, unless mani
tested by positive change Of structure,
wasting of the affected limb, or puffiness or
distortion of joints and contraction of the
limbs alleged to arise from rheumatism.
and in which the nutrition Of the limb is
not manifestly impaired, are to be proved
by examination while in state of anaes-
thesia induced by ether only.
IL. Pain, whether Stimulating headache,
neuralgia in any of its forms, rheumatism,
lumbago, or affection Of the muscles, bones
or joints, is symptom Of disease so easily
pretended that 1t is not to be admitted as a
cause for exemption unless accompanied
with manifest arrangement of the general
health, wasting of limb, or other positive
sign of disqualifying local disease.
IL. Great injuries or diseases of the skull,
occaslonlng impairment of the intellectual
faculties, epilepsy, or other manifest ner
vous or spasmodic symptoms.
Is. Total loss of sight loss of right
eye; cataract; loss of crystalline lens of
right eye.
IA. Other serious diseases Of the eve af
fecting its integrity and use, G. a.: chronic
opthalmia, fistula lochrymalis, ptosis (if
real ectropion, entropion, sc. Myopia.
unless very decided 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, dependant upon carries in progress.
Is. Complete deafness. This disability
must not be admitted on the mere state
ment of the drafted man, but must be
proved by the existence of positive disease,
or by other satisfactory evidence. Puru-
lent otorrhea.
II. Carries of the superior or inferior max
lila, OF the nasal or palate bones, ii in prog
ress; cleft palate (bony); extensive loss of
substance OF the cheeks, or salivary fistula.
10. Dumbness; permanent loss of voice.
not to be admitted without clear and salts.
factory proof. 80 - r. -
49, Total loss of tongue !; mutilation or
partial loss Of tongue, provided the mutila
.ion pe extensive enough to interfere with
The necessary use of the organ.
~. Hypertrophy or atrophy of the tom
que, sufficient to impair speech or deinti-
ton; obstinate chronic liberation of the
tongue. u zEi 49, '-.- s--s
q. Stammering, if excessive and CON-
firmed; to be established by satisfactory ev-,
Hence, under oath.