The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-07-13
Important Military Order from
the AdjHtant General Of Ohio.
GEN'G. HEADQU ARTERs, STATE OF ONO,
ANITA VI EENERAL-e OEEInE


hDIUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
COLUMBUS, June II, 1864.
THNHE following information is published
for the hene4it ofall persons concerned:
The ACT to organize and discipline the
militin of Ohio,n passed March 3lSt, 1861
provides for an enrolment of ali white male
citizens, residents Ofthis State, being EIGH-
TEEN years of age and under the age of FOR
TY-FIvE years, in the militia, and that they
shall perform military duty, in accordance
With the laws of the State and tile United
States.
Certain persons are exempt from enroll
mcnt in the militia, as follows:
lst. All persons in the army or navy, or
volunteer forces OF the United States.
2d. Persons who have been or hereafter
may be honorably discharged from the army
or navy Of'the United States, in consequence
of the performance Of military duty for one
year.
Sd. Commissioned officers serving under
this act, who shall have served as such in the
militia of this State for the space Of five
years; but no officer shall be 50 exempt un-
less by his resignation after such term of
service duly accepted, or in some other law
ful manner he shall have been honorably
discharged.
4th. Every non-commiSsionedO officer. mu-
sician and private of every uniformed COM
pany, raised OF hereafter 10 be raised, since
May list, 1868, uniformed according to the
shall have performed services in such com
pany or troop for the space offive years from
the time of his enrolment therein, shall be
exempt from military duty, except in case
Of war, irsurrccton or invasion.
9th. Every person physically disabled may
be exempted from military duty, if lie flies
with the county auditor, on or before August
18th Of every year. a statement of q reputa-
bic physician or surgeon, certifying that such
person is unfit for military duty bv reason
Of such physical disability or bodily mfr
nifty, which shall be described in said state
ment. This statement must be verified by
the affidavit of said physician or surgoon.-
If any person shall knowingly or wilfully
make a false affidavit in this matter, he shall
be deemed guilty Of perjury"
In examinations under this class of eX-
emptiOn, touching persons physical ability
10 perform military duty, the same rigid eN-
animation rs is required under Z. S. Army
Regulations for soldiers in the general ser
vice must not be made The question of
physical disability comprehends only the
ability of the person to perform the ordinary
military duty required under the State laws.
This clause must not be so construed as
to allow county auditors, on the affidavit of
IA physician, to exempt from military duty
any member of the National Guard. All
such exemptions are nun and void, and will
not protect the person claiming exemption
under them from prosecution for refusal to
obey the orders of his commanding officer.
7th. All persons absolutely exempt from
enrolment under the laws Of the United
States.
This class of exemptions has given rise to
anumber of inquiries as to what persons are
exempted under the laws of the United
States. All exemptions from Military duty
under the laws eff the United States prior to
March I'd, 1858, We're set aside, and the act of
Congress known US the "CouscriptiOn Law"
81 hJf fAt,n Il
ent class of exemptions. Under the provis-
ions of the amended Transcription Law
still further cllanges were made in the class
es exempt from Military duty. Section ten
Of the Act OF Congress passed February 2i,
1864, being the act amendatory of the Con
scription Law" provides;
'''Ihat the following persons he, and they
are hereby exempted from enrolment and
draft underline provisions of this act and Of
he act to which this is an amendment, to-
wit: such as are rejected as physically or
mentally unfit for service, all persons actu
ally in the military or naval service Of the
United States at the time Of the draft, and all
persons who have served in the military or
naval service two years during the present
war and have been hOnOrably DISCHARGED
therotroin; and no persons but such as are
herein exempted, shall be exempt. .
y person who has been drafted and has
been released on payment of three hundred
dollars commutation is not thereby exempt
from the operation Of any further draft, and
will not, therefore, be exempt from enroll
nlent and the payment OF communication un-
der the lawot the State. \ person, however
who has been drafted, and has beCureleased
by reason of having furnished n substitute,
provided said substitute is not subject to
draft is exempt during the period for which
said substitute is not liable to draft, but not
exceeding the time for which said substitute
has been accepted. such person will, there