The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-05-15
ENFORCEMENT OF THE con-
u SCRITION LAW. }UoJ
Full and Official List Of ExemP-
tiOnS. --..

abstract few points, which, now that this
all-embracing law is on the eve OF being
put in operation, will be OF absorbing in
terest
REPORTS.
Eight different kinds of reports must be
made by the Provost Marshal, 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.
81 Section 2, an act for enrolling and call
ing out the national forces, &C., approved
March 8, 1868, provided as follows: . That
the following persons be, and they are hereby
excepted and exempt from the provisions of
this act and shall not be liable to military duty
under the same, to witt
Such as are rejected as physical y 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 sew
eral States
Second, the only son liable to military duty of
widow dependant upon his labor for support
Third. the only son of aged or infrm parent or
parents dependent upon his labor for support
Fourth where there are two or more sons of
aged or intirm 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 children not twelve years old, hay
ing neither father nor mother dependent upon
his labor for support. Sixth, the father of
motherleSS children under twelve years Ofage
dependent upon his labor for support. Sew
enth, where there are a father and sons in the
same family and household, and two of them
are in the military service of the United States
as non-commissioned officers musicians or pri-
Yates, the residue of such family and house
hold, not exceeding two, shall be exempt.
And no persons but such as are herein eXcep-
ted, shall be exempt: PrOcided, hOuecer, That
no person who has been convicted of any felo-
ny, shall be enrolled or permitted to serve in
said forces. ...
50. The following diseases or infirmities are
those which disqualify for military service and
for which only, drafted men are to be rejected
as physically or mentally unfit for the service"
viz:
1. Manifest imbecility or insanity.
> 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 CONFUSION.
). Paralysis, generator of one limb, or chO-
rea their existence to be adequately deter
mined.
/. 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
incapacity for military service.
,. Confirmed cOnsumption cancer; aneur-
ism of the large arteries.
6. Inveterate and extensive diseases of the
skin, which will necessarily impair his ineffi-
cheney soldier.
= Decided feebenesS of constitution, wheth-
er natural or acquired.
s. Scrofilla or constitutional syphilis, which
has resisted treatment and seriously impaired
his general health.
9. Habitual and confirmed intempcrance or
solitary vice, in degree sufficient to have ma
terially enfeebled the constitution.
10. Chronic rheumatism, unless manifested
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 nutri-
ton Of the limb is not manifestly impaired, are
to be proved by examination while in state of
anaesthesia induced by either only.
II. Pain. whether Stimulating headache, neu-
ralgia in any Of its forms, rheumatism, lum-
bago or affections of the muscles, bones or
Joints, is Il symptom of disease SO easily pre-
tended that it is not to be admitted as cause
for exemption unless accompanied with man.
fest arrangement of the general health, wasting
of limb or other positive sign of disqualify-
ing local disease.
IL Great injuries or diseases of the skull,
occasioning impairment Of the intellectual fac
ulties, epilepsy, or other manifest nervous or
SpasmOdic symptoms.
49, Total loss of sight loss of sight of right
eye: cataract loss OF crystalline lens of right
eye.
II. Other serious diseases of the eye affecting
its integrity and use, e. g., chronic opthalmla,
tistula, lachrymalis, ptosis, Gf reaD ectropion,
entrOpion, DC. MyOpia, unless very decided or
depending upon some structural change in the
eve is not a cause for exemption.
j.. Loss of nose; defOrmity of nose so great
as seriously to obStruct respiration; OZena de-
pendant upon carries in progress.
16. Complete deafness. This 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
evidence. Purulent Otorrh9a.
II. Carries of the superior or inferior maXilla,
of the nasal or palate bones if in progress !;
cleft palate (bony); extensive loss of substance
of the cheeks or salivary fistula.
IS. Dumbness; permanent loss of voice. not
to be admitted without clear and satisfactory
proof.
49, Total loss of tongue; mutilaton or par
tial loss of tongue, provided the mutilatOn be
extensive enough to interfere with the neces-
sary use of the organ.
sufficient in degree 90 impair speech or deglu-
tition; obstinate chronic liberation of the
tongue.
81. Stammering, if excessive and confirmed
to be established by satisfactory evidence, un-
der oath.
% Loss of sufficient number of teeth to
prevent proper mastication of food and tearing
the cartridge.
23. IncIrable deformities or loss of part of
either jaw, hindering biting of the cartridge, or
proper mastication, or greatly injuring speech
anchylosis of lower jaw.
"a. Tumors of the neck, impeding respira-
ton or deglutition, or to prevent the carrying
of arms and military equipments; carries
of the ribs.
26. Deficient amplitude and power of ex-
pansion of chest. A man five feet three inches
minimum standard height for the regular ar
NV. should not measure less than thirty inches
in circumference Immediately above the nip
plies, and have an expansive mobility Of not
less than two inches.
81. Abdomen grossly protuberant; excessive
obesity; hernia either inguinal or femoral.
%. Artificial anus; structure of the rectum
prolapsus ami. Fistuls in and is not positive
disqualification, but may be SO if extensive or
complicated with visceral disease.
29. Old and liberated internal hemOrrhoids,
if in degree sufficient to impair the mans effici-
onoy Evtornal haamOrrhOdS are no cause for