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

%. Loss Of sufficient number of teeth
to prevent proper maSticatiOn OF food and
tearing the cartridges. q
o. Incurable deformaties or loss of part
of either jaw, hindering biting Of the cart
ridge, or proper mastication, or greatly in
juring speech; anchylosis of lower jaw.
"a. Tuners of the neck; impeding respir.
alton or deglutition; fistula of larynx OF
trachea; torticulis, if of long standing anc
well marked. ~ 81 $50
Is. Deformity of the chest sufficient tt
impede respiration, or to prevent the car
rying of arms and military equipments
carries of the ribs. q. ~ 1ssf~
rs. Deficient amplitude and power of ex
pansion of chest. A man five feet three in
ches minimum standard height for the reg.
ular army should not measure less thar
thirty inches in circumference Immediately
above the nipples, and have an expansive
mobility of not less than two inches.
q. Abdomen grossly protuberant; exces
sive obesity; hernia, either inguinal or fem
oral. \ . - - '.sF-s.'At5N
I %. Artificial anus; structure of the rec.
tum; proiapsus ami. Fistulo in ano is not
a positive disqualification, but may be sc
if extensive or complicated with viseeral
disease. a!s g
90. Old and liberated internal hemor-
rhoids, if in degree sufficient TO impair the
mans efficiency. External hemorrhoids
are no cause for exemptions. tt5
80. Total loss or nearly total loss of penis;
epispadia or hypospadia at the middle or
near the root of the penis.
81. Incurabie permanent organicstrieture
of the urethra, in which the urine is passed
drop by drop, or which is complicated by
disease of the bladder; urinary fistula. Re
cent or spasmodic structure of the urethra,
does not exempt. A.-
50. Incontinuance of urine, being dis
ease frequently faigned and of rare occur
renee, is not, Of itself, q cause for exemp-
ton. Stone in the bladder, ascertained by
the introduction of the metallic catheter, is
a positive disqualification.
80. Loss or complete atrophy of both tes-
ticles from any cause; permanent retention
of one or both testicles within the ingunal
canal; but voluntary retraction does not
exempt.
"a. Confirmed or malignant sarcocele, hy-
rodrocele, if complicated with organic dis
case Of the testicle. Varicocele and criso-
cete are not, in themselves disqualifying.
+ IS. Excessive anterior or posterior curve-
ture of the spine; carries of the spine.
81. Wounds, fractures, tun1ors, atrophy
of limb, or chronic diseases of the joints
or bones, that would impede marching or
prevent continuous muscular exertion.
SO. Anchylosis or irreducible dislocations
of the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee or
ankle joint. 10y
: SO. Muscular or cutaneous contractions
from wounds or burns, in degree sufficient
to prevent useful motion of a limb.
40. Total loss of thumb; loss of unequal
phalanx of thumb.
Al. Total loss Of any two fingers Of same
hand.
a. Total loss OF index finger Of right
hand +s& --ai m"
43. Loss of the first and second phalanges
of the fingers Of right hand. ,I-s s,.
A. Permanent extension or permanent
contraction of any finger except the little
finger: all the fingers adherent Or united.
40. Total loss of either great toe; loss Of
any three toes on the same foot; all the tees
Joined together.
4G The great toe crossing other toes with
great prominence of the articulation Of the
metatarsal bone and first phalanx Of the
great toe. .
~. Overriding or superposition of all the
toes.
4S. Permanent retraction of the last pha-
lanx Of one of the toes, SO that the free bor-
der Of the nail bears upon the ground; or
tiexion at a right angle Of the first phalanx
of a toe upon the second, with anchylosis
of this articulation. ..,..-..
y 4a. Club feet; splay feet, where the arch
is so far effaced that the tuberosity Of the
scaphoid bone touches the ground and the
nal border of the foot, with great promi-
nence of the innert ANGLE; but ordinary,
large, in-shaped or fiat feet do not exempt.
SO. Varicose veins of inferior extremities,
if large and numerous, having clusters Of
knots, and accompanying with chronic
swelling or alterations.
81. Chronic liberation extensive, deep,
ties.
So. No certificate of phycisian or sur
geon is to be received in support of any
point in the claim of drafted men for ex-
emptiOn from military service, unless the
facts and statements therein set forth are
or sworn to before 3 civil magis-
trate competent to administer oaths.
81. The exempts under the first provision
Of section of the act for enrolling and call
ing out the national forces, &C., will gene
rally be sufficiently we'll known to the
board to obviate the necessity of evidence
with regard to them. Should, however,
the Board consider it necessary in any
case, the commissioner or certificate of off
ice Of any person claiming exemption un-
der the provision mentioned may be re-
CURED to be shown.
second, third, fourth, fifth and Sixth pro-
visions of section 2 Of the act for enrolling
and calling out the National forces, de-, the
Board shall require the affidavits of the
persons seeking to be exempt, and of two
men (heads of families), resid-
ing in the district, that the man in question
is 1.-THE only son liable to military duty of n
widow dependent on his labor 70 support"
"the only son of aged or infrnl parent or
parents dependent on his labor for sup
port" or otherwise, according to the par
ticular provision OF the section under which
the exemption is claimed. These affidavits
will be made according to the forms here
matter prescribed, and must in all cases be
taken before civil magistrate duly author
lied to administer oaths; These forms of
affidavits shall be published by the Board
of Enrolment in the newspapers of the
district, for the information of the public,
when a draft is ordered.
So. When claim for exemption is made
under the seventh provision of section of
the act for enrolling and calling out the
forces, &c, The Board shall apply
to the Provost Marshal General tor The
necessary extracts from the official rolls in
the War Department, upon which it shall
decide the case.
80. Persons claiming exemption from en-
rollment must furnish clear proof OF their
right to such exemptions. They win be en-