The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-11-20

very respectfully, your ODt serYt.
| GEO. G. MEADE,
| Major General Commanding.
Brig. Gen. L. THOMAS, A. G. U. s. A.,
Washington, D. c.
THE DRAFT.
Amended List of Exemptins Diseases.
| WAR DEPARTMENT, !
PRovosr MARSHAL. Generals OFFICE,
| WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 1868.
| CIRCULAR No. 1OO.-Paragraph IS of the
| Regulations for the government of the bureau
of the Provost Marshal General of the United
States, is amended to read as follows:
IS. The following diseases and infirmities
are those which disqualify for military service,
and for which only drafted men are to be ere
jected as physically or mentally unfit for the
service, viz:
1. Manifest imbecility
| 2. Insanity. This includes well-established
recent insanity, with liability to u recurrence.
8. 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 physician Of good standing, who
| has attended him in the disease within the six
months Immediately preceding his examination
| by the Board.
| 4. Paralysis, general or of one limb, or cho-
rea; their existence to be adequately deter
mined. Decided atrophy of q limb.
5. Acute or organic diseases of the brain or
spinal cord; of the heart or lungs; of the liver
| or spleen; of the kidneys or bladder, which
have so seriously impaired his general health as
| to leave no doubt Of the mans incapacity for
military service.
6. Confirmed consumption. Incipient does
| not exempt.
Z. Cancer anuerism of the large arteries.
| 8. Inveterate and extensive disease of the
skin, such as will necessarily impair his ef1ici-
| ency as soldier.
| 9. Decided feebleness of constitution or de-
fcient size of chest sufficient in degree to leave
| no doubt of the mans unftness for military
| service.
10. ScrOfula, or constitutional syphilis,
which has SO seriously impaired his general
health as to leave no doubt of the mans inca
| pacity for service.
H. Habitual and confirmed intempemnce,
| or solitary vice. which has so materially en-
feebled the constitution as to leave no doubt
of the mans incapacity for military service.
| II. Chronic rheumatism. unless manifested
by positive change of structure, wasting of the
affected limb, or puffiness or distortion of the
joints, does not exempt. Impaired motion Of
| joints and contraction of the limbs alleged to
arise from rheumatism, and in which the nutri-
ton Of the limb is not manifestly impaired, are
| to be proved by examination while in a state of
anHsthesia induced by ether only.
| 13. Pain, whether Stimulating headache,
neuralgia in any of its forms, rheumatism,
! lumbago, or affections of the muscles, bones,
or joints is a symptom of disease so easily pre-
| tended that it is not to be admitted as o cause
J for exemption unless accompanied with mani
| fest arrangement of the general health vast
ing of limb, or other positive sign of disquali-
| flying local disease.
IA. Great injuries or diseases of the skull,
occasoning impairment OF the intellectual fac
ulties, epilepsy, or other manifest nervous or
| spasmOdic symptoms.
Is. Total loss of sight; total loss of sight of
| right eye; cataract of right eye; loss of crys-
talline lens Of right eye.
16. Partial loss of sight of both eyes, vision
being so greatly impaired as to leave no doubt
of the mans inability to perform military duty.
Serious permanent diseases of the eye or eye
lids, so manifestly affecting the use OF the eyes
| as to leave no doubt of the mans incapacity for
military service. Near-sightedness does not
exempt, if found on trial to be SO decided as to
incapacitate for field service, the man may be
transferred to the invalid corps.
H. Total loss of nose; deiormity OF nose so
great seriously to Obstruct respiration !;
Oz8na dependent on carries in progress.
10. Decided deafness. The 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 satisfactory
| CNlUCuCC. uuu ~ AuoG UV bO uCSAuOu ID w ICoVC
no doubt of the mans unfitness for military
service. Chronic purulent otorhga.
49, 1ncurable diseases or deformities of either
jaw, such as will necessarily greatly impede
mastication or speech. Anchylosis of the lower
jaw; carries of the bones of the face, if in pro-
gress; cleft palate (bony); extensive loss of
substance of the cheeks, or salivary fistula.
90. Dumbness; permanent loss of voice not
to be admitted without clear and satisfactory
proof
81. Total loss of tongue; hypertrophy, afro
ply, mutlation, or obstinate chronic liberation
of the tongue, if sufficient in degree to interfere
seriously with the use of the organ.
~. Stammering, if excessive and confirmed,
to be established by satisfactory evidence under
oath.
%. Loss of a sufficient number of teeth to
prevent mastication Of food. This applies to
those cases only where the loss of tee tn is so
great that, If the man were restricted to solid
food, he would soon become incapacitated for
military service.
| "a. TumOrs or wounds of the neck impeding
respiration or deglutitiOn, fatula or larynx or
trachea; torticollis, if long standing and well
rs. Deformity of the chest or excessive cur
carrying of arms and military equipments
carries Of the spine, ribs, or sternum.
&c. Abdomen grossly protuberant; exces-
sive Obesity.
~. Hernia.
70. Artificial anus; structure of the rectum;
prolapsus ani-Fistula in ano is not positive
disqualification, but may be so, if extensive or
complicated with visceral disease.
20. Old and liberated internal hemOrrhOids,
if in degree sufficient to impair the mans eff
Cheney. External hemorrhOids are Nc cause
for exemption.
30. Total loss or nearly total loss of penis;
epispadia or hyspospadia at the middle or near
the root of the penis.
81. Incurable permanent organic structure Of
the uretha, in which urine is passed drop by
drop, or which is complicated by disease Of
the bladder; urinary hstula. Recent or spad-
motto structure of the uretha does not exempt
80. Incontinence of urine, being disease
frequently feigned and of rare occurrence, ID
not, of itself, cause for exemption. Stone in
the bladder, ascertained by the Introduction o.