Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1864-05-03
GENERA ORDERS.
CIRCULAR.
| BUREAU OF CONsGRIPTIoN,
RIcHnosD, March 1s, 1884.
CIRCULAR, |

/. General O., ders, No. 28. Adjntant and Inspecto
Generals Office. March lst, 1854, Is herewith made
part of this circular, and csmmandants OF Conscrp
enoined to proceed TO th rapid and vigorous ex
eeaton of its provisions under the instructions AM
NSerpretation herein prescribed.
l. = Under the terms of the 9Th section OF the act
-ess published in General Orders, No. 26, Adju
%fsspecter Generals Office, and the terms 0
Ne.s5, of the Bureau, last series, comman
yoeed to organize the service in thei
.; Sta tea. In addition TO the organization
fOf end in further pursuance of par
sranb Fl Of ii. i>aid General Orders No. 26, com
will IL rthwith organize in each county,
ar sist q ct mor< than three of the mos
80 1 intelligent citizens between the seges
~ sa and who have besn enrolled and de
ts;ad fop he ssrx es. These boards will De charged
with aiding the local ..s,I;eatioas for
formation concerning all ather Industrial pur
suits. and also in furnishing all ts,nosed upol
which may be needed in the duties go =
the enrolling officers. 1T
The local and Congressional enrolling Office. W. ~,
be required to supervise the action or these Boards
and promptly report to the commandant unGtness or
denquencies the part of the persons detailed for
them So long as the duties are properly performed,
the persons 30 employed will be exempted from other
service. Care will be used the beginning to select
proper men; and in view of the grave duties herein
deVoved upon the enrolhns officer, he will, ut his
discretion, require the written opinion of the Board
elaims for exemption or applications for detail
and may call them for special information concern
Ing matters pertinent to the service In every case
referred by the local Congressional district enroll
Ing officer to the commandants an opinion IS to the
merit must be endorsed or accompany the case, and
the Ike rule will be rigidlv observed by command
ants in referring to this Bureau.
III. Commandments will order th immediate enroll.
mont and examination of all persons within the pre-
scrlbed ages who found in the employment of
department OF the government, and who ere not sps
cialy exempted by the act Of Congress- and such az
are found t tor service in the field may be detailed
khnl ,4od
cation s made according the terms of the 9Th par
agraph of General Orders No.. rs. herein cited.
w. Commandants of conscripts will forthwith
transmit to this bureau Recommendations for physi
clans to be employed IN accordance with paragraph
TX, General Orders No. 26, herein cited. Much com
pant reaches this Bureau, concerning irregularities
in the Medical examinations. Loose or irregular sx
aminations must not be permitted, and commandants
will promptly report any well ascertaled delinquen
cy in the matter.
" Forms for ccr solidated reports by the command
ants of Conscripts will be forwarded also forms for
the records of the Congressional District and local
enrolling officers These records must be accurately
kept and the reports based them must be in clear
and intelgbe form, they will be returned for re-
vision and correction.
vi. Persons and classes enumerated in the Let, I'd
3d. 4th. 9th and 9Th articles of section 10th, excep
those referred to the latter clause of the 4th artc
of the said 10th section of the act Of Congress recited
shall be exempted. All other persons referred to II
said act shall be detailed.
VII. EXEMPTIONS BIZ MANNING BOARDS
/. Persons who shall be determined by the Board
Of Examnstion TO be incapable of performing active
service IN the field, with any of the duties mentioned
the 6th section of the SAID OF Congress from
of permanent nature, shall be exempted from
military service by the said board, who shall grant
certificates thereof which shall specify the causes Of
the ncapacty, recting in full the nature and degres
of the disease or other ncapacity and the probable
duration of the disability caused byit; and the par
ties shall not be subject to future examination, unless
specially ordered by the board of the Congressional
l4uR-s 49,
mandant of conscripts for the State, by this Blu
IFeau.
Q. When in the opinion of enrolling officers the
causes Tor which exemption was granted to person
after examination by the medical board, have ceased
to exist they will make report to the board, stating
the name of the person, when enrolled, when exam
ned and the disease other cause of disability, with
the reasons for believing 1t to have disappeared ane
that the person is capable of performing active ser
vice in the field, of the duties mentioned III
the said 8th section OF the act aforesaid.
The Examining Board will then order the party tC
be brought before it for REORGANIZATION. When a
person is reexamned by the board, his former cert
icate shall be surrendered and cancelled. Ii again
found unit for duty, new certificate OF exemption
shall be issued to him.
8. Every certificate Of exemption granted by board
of examination shall be approved by the Congression
al district enrolling officer, which shall protect tbs
person exempted from molestatlon by the officers
conseription and from re-examination, unless the
Board of Examination. or the Commandant of Con
SCRIPTS the Bureau CT CONSUMPTION shall order the
same.
WILL Ersmp:sos of specified c1asses and irsigiduazs
l. Application for exemption under the Sd and 6tf
articles of the 10th section of the act Aforesaid shat
be made to the enrolling officer of the county in which
the applicant resides, who will thoroughly investi
gate the case and if satisfied by competent evidence
that exemption should be allowed shall issue GER
tfcate thereof, which must be submitted to the en-
rolling officer of the Congressional district for his ap
proya.
Applications for exemptions under the 9Th article
Of tho nth oh
to the commandant of eonscrIpts for the State, wht
will grant the Certificate of exemption authorized b,
law to continue during coI6pliance with the condi
tons prescribed by said act. ExemDtion, except fo
the President, Treasurer Auditor and Superintendent
shall not be allow to any officers and employees
railroad company, unless the President or Supern
tendent shall certify on OATH thatthe parties appee
for indispensable to the cient operation of sucl
railresd thas the number of persons exempted OF
said railroad shall not exceed for each mile there
lin actual for military transportation; that h
exempts for such road shall be reported by
description, once month to the commandants ofcon
scrIpts tor the State through which the road passes
or to the Bureau of Conscripion together with tn
names and descriptive list OF any one who may leav
the employment of the railroad company, who ma
cease to be indispensable to the efficient operation
the said road. i4.
s. The exemption of overseers agriculturists ol
each farm or plantation upon which there now
and were the first day of January last fifteen able
bodied hands between the ages of sixteen and fifty
will be allowed for the space of twelve months, ant
the certificate of exemption shall be granted by the OF
cer taking the bond required by Law, upon being IN
formed by the commandant for that State that tn
bond is approved. 9s4
| The bond required to be given upon the exemp
tion of overseer agreulturst, under tie 4th
ticle of section 10th Of the said act shall be taken
the ling officer of the county or district in wnic
such party resides with the advice and assistance
the temporary Board aforesaid. 1t shall be payabl
| 10 the Confederate States of America, Ia penalt
double the estimated value OF th products to be de
liyered to the government, and conditioned for th
faithful performance Of the requirements of the A.
article OF the 10th section of the said act The val
the said products shall be by the enrolin
offcer who shall take the said bond with the assis
tance of the said temporary Board, according to th
market value thereof at the time and place Of assess
Iment.
The said bond may be secured by deposit of tn
amount of the penalty thereof In notes issued fror
the Treasury Department Of the Confederate States
with any of the Depostaries of the said Treasury,
by personal security the nature of the security to
at the option of the principal obigor in the said bono
Should the person 80 exempted elect to give pesor
al security the sureties rendered by him shall ustf
their suffciency under oath before justice OF III
peace but shall not be accepted unless the enroln
officer taking the said bond under the advice of th
| said temporary board, shall deem them sufficient
Such bonds sha after due execution, be transmitte
to the commandant of conscripts for the State fo
file in his office, to be surrendered to the oblgor
when the conditions thereof are fulty complied with
and the receipt of any quartermaster or commissarJ
/ specifying thai the amount of produce required
the bond has been duly delivered and accepted, wi
entitle the person to have the bond cancelled an
Icopies of such receipts should be forwarded to tb
commandant of conscripts, to be by him forwarded
the Quartermaster General or the Commissary Gene
| al, through this Bureau.
TX. ErenptiOn account of religious faith.
Persons entitled to exemption as provided for
in paragraph XII, General Ordsrs Nc. 49, A. ana l.
o., current series, will application, receive Gel
tifcates thereof from the Congressional district ef