True Democrat., 1863-04-22
A MISSOURI SOLDIER
Special Instructions to Enrolling Officers.

Special Instructions to Enrolling Officers. l. When application for exemption IS made by any shoemaker, tanner, black smith, wagon maker, miller mill engineer, mill wright, not Iii the eInDloVmtnt ot d company or establishment, but working fer himself, the party seeking exemption shall state n writing, under oath, that he was 3o yrar3 of age on the 10th ot April, l-62, that he Is skilled and actually eniplO'ed in his said trade; and was So employed on the llth day oi October, lr62 that he is habltually engaged i'll working for the public; that the products of hI5 labor, while exempt from military service, shall not be sold, exchanged or bartercd for price exceeding the cost of production and seventy fve,pcr cent. pro- fit thereon; and that he will not, by any arrange lnant, shit or cOnulyance, eNade the law, or rc ceiye d greater price reward than 1t allows.
 H. Where application i3 made to exempt super inteudents and operatives in wool and cotton fac torres and paper mills, and supcrintcndents and managers of wool carding machines, shoemakers, tanners blacksmithS, wIgonmakcrs, mlIers, mlli engineers or mill wrights, not working for them selves but n the employment oi some company or establishment, the president or some director, if the company be Incorporated If not, the pro prieOr of the business, or II there be firm, some partner therein. shall make oath in writing that the said supcrintcndentS, operatives, managers or mechanics, the case may be. are skilled and ac- tuav employed in their said vacations; that they are habiuaIly working for the public; that they are absolutely necessary for the successful prosecution of the business of the concern; that the products ot their labor shall not be sod exchanged, or barter ed, during the said exemption, for price exceed ing the cost of production and seventy hive per cent, profit thereon that shift, cOntrvance or arrange ment shall be made to eyade the law, or to secure larger return or profit than it allows; and that exemption is not sought for larger nunlber of persons than is absolutely necessary for the sue cessful prosecution of the business of the concern.
 III. The foregoing atiidayts shall be made be- fore some justice 0! the peace or other person au- thorized by law to administer oaths, and It such justice or other person be not personally known to the enrolling officer to be what he purports to be, his official character and his right to administer oahs must be certified by the clerk of some court of record, under the seal of his court.
 " The altidavits shall be returned to the Com mandant of ConscrPtS, and exemptions shall be granted by the enrolling officer. lt however, he suspect false swearing or mistake, he shall refuse the exemption, and refer the case, after first en- rolling the of the parties Ill question, to the Commandant of ConscriptS who will dispose of it. If at any time the enrolling officer have cause to suspect false swearing or mistake ill the fore going afidavitS, he shall report the fact to the Commandant of Conscripts, and if the com mandant be satisfied, after due Investg gatiOn, that a larger number of persons Is dcsgnediy employed than is necessary, or that larger profit than the law allows is received either directly indirectly, he will order the enrollment of the parties ex- empted upon the said atiidavits.
 " Applications for exemptions must in all cases be made to the Enrolling officer, from whose decision an appeal may be taken to tue Command ant of Conscripts The ComE'andant of Con- scripts will not consider application until it has heen acted on by the Enrolling officer (whose ac- ton must be endorsed on the apphcation,) and re- tered to the Commandant of Conscripts
 VI Ministers of religion making application to be exempted as such, must make oath i'll writing before some officer authorized to administer oaths that they authorized to preach according to the rules of their sect and that they were in the regu lar discharge of their ministerial duties on the l of October, 1852, and have been so continuously employed since.
 VII Persons making application for exemption for any cause, other than such as are named herein must in all cases state their age Ill the aliuaVl' upon which the application IS based.
 VIII Persons who have been exempted on ac count of vacations which they have abandoned must be put in the service at once; and mechanics who have been exempted must keep hand a sup nlv of material, necessary to keep up their shops and business, and must not exceed the charges pre- Scribed in paragraph No. l, of these instructions If they do, they forfeit their exemptions, and all such must be put in the army.
 TX. Agents, owners and overseers or plantations of twenty negroes must state in writing upon oatf made before some officer authorized to administer oats according to law, that they were 8 years o age on the 9th of April, 1862; and that there iS no other white male adult not liable to military service on the plantation under their controll
 X. Physicians claiming exemption must state 1T writing, on oath made before an officer authorized to administer oaths, that they were B years o age on the l6th of April, 1862; and that they now are and were for the last five years preceding th' llth of Oct, l662, engaged in the actual practice of their profession.
 XI. Ali exemptions heretofore granted not il conformity with these instructions, are hereby re yoked.
 B. F. DANLEY,
 Com'dt Conscrpts, District Arkansas.
 OFFICE CoWMASDANT CoNsCRIPTs,l
 Little Rock April q, 1863: