Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1864-04-26
GENERAL ORDERS.
CIRCULAR.
u BUREAU OF CONSCRIPTION,
R1oHxoND, March 1s, 1854.
CIRCULAR.

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No. s.
I. General Oiders, No. 26, Adjutant and Inspector
Generals office. March lst 1864, is herewith made
part of this circular and cemmandants of Conscript
enoined to proceed to tn rapid and vigorous ex
ecuton OF its provisions, under the instructions ano
Interpretation herein prescribed.
Ii. Under the terms of the 8th section of the act o
Congress published in General Orders, No. 26, Aau
tant and Inspector Generals Office, and the terms oil
Circular No. 55, of the Bureau last SERIES comman-
dants will proceed to organize the service in their
respective States. In addition to the organization
therein provided for and further pursuance of par
agraph Ii, of the said General Orders No. 26 com.
msndants will forthwith organize in each county a
BoaTd to consist of not more than three of the
reliable and Intelligent citizens between tn ages OF
40 and 30 years. and who have been enrolled and de-
tailed for the service. These boards will be charged
with aiding the local enrolling officer in obtaining in
formation concerning all applications for exem pton
and eetai for agricultural other industrial pur-
SUITS and also in furnishing all other information
which may be needed in the duties imposed upon
the enrolling officers t+
The local and Congressional enrolling officer will
be required to supervise the action of these Boards
and promptly report to the commandant unfitness OF
dalinquences the part of the persons detailed for
them 80 long as the duties are properly performed,
the persons 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
devolved upon the enrolling officer, he will at his
dISc-eton require the written opinion of the Board
on claims for exemption Or applications for detail,
and may call on them for special Information concern
Ing matters pertinent to tie service. In every case
referred by the local Congressional district enroll
ing officer to the commaQdants, opinion as to the
merit must be endorsed or accompany the case, and
the Ike rule win be rigidiy observed by command
ants ia referring to this bureau.
LII. Commandments willerdeF the immediate enroll
men and examination OF Ei persons within the pro.
serbed ages, who found in the employment of
department OF the government, and who not spe.
caly exempted by the act of Congress; and such as
are found fit for service in the field may be detailed
until the 10th day of April next, provided appii
cation is made according to the terms of the 9Th par
agraph Of General Orders No. 2s. herein cited.
" Commandments Of conscripts will forthwith
transmit to this bureau recommendations for physi-
cians TO be s4lpoysd IN accordance with paragraph
TX, General 0rdsrs \ 2s. neren cite2, Much COM
plaint reaches this Bureau concerning
in the Medical examinations Loose irregular ex-
aminations must not be permitted and command ants
Will promptly report any well aseertaIaed denquen-
ey in the matter,
v. Forms for Consolidated reports by the commando
ants OF Conscripts will be forwarded also forms for
the records of the Congressional District, aud local
enrolling officers. These records must be accurately
kept and the reports based them must be in clear
and Ineligible form or they will be returned for re-
vision and correction.
VI Persons and classes enumeratedin in the 1st, I'd,
sd Sta 5th and 9Th articles of section 10th, except
those referred to in the latter clause of the 9Th
of the said 10th section of the act of Congress recie
shall be exempted. AL other persons Fefsrred to in
said act shall be detailed.
VII. EXEMPTIONS BIZ EXAMINING BOARDS.
l. Persons who shall be determined by the Board
of Examination to be incapable of performing active
in the 9Th section of the sand act of Congress from
causes of permanent nature, shall be exempted from
military service by the said board, who shall grant
certificates thereof WHICH shall speefy the causes Of
the ncapacty recitng in full the nature and degree
OF the disease or other ncapacty and the probable
duration of the disability caused by It'll and the par
ties shall not be subject to future examination unless
ally ordered by the board of the Congressional
District in which such parties reside Or by the COM
mandant Of conseripts for the State, or by this Bu
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2. When in the opinion of enrolling officers the
causes tor which exemption granted to person,
alter aminatQn by tne medical board, have ceased
tEey will make report to the board, stating
we name OF the person, when enrolled, when exam
az me disease or other cause of disability, with
sasazz QE believing it to have disappeared, and
t. Is capable of performing active SER
'7cen the field, or some of the duties mentioned in
the said 8th section OF the act aforesaid
The Examining Board will then order the party to
be brought before 1t for re-examination. When a
person is re-examined by the board his former certf
leate shall be surrendered and cancelled. If again
found unht for duty, new certificate of exemption
shall be issued to HIM.
g. Every certificate Of exemption granted by board
Of examination shall be approved by the Congresson
al osIict enrolling officer, which shall protect the
pelsop exempted from molestatlon by the officers of
conscriptlon, and from REORGANIZATION, unless the
Board of Examination. the Commandant of Con-
scripts or the Bureau Of Conscrption shall order the
same.
VIII. Exemption of specified CLASSES and Individuals
l. Application for exemption under the Sd and 9Th
articles of the 10th section of the aforesaid shall
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 shoald be allowed, shall issue
tfcate thereof, which must be submitted to the en-
rolling officer OF the Congressional district Tor his ap-
proval. Als
Applications for exemptions under the 5th article
of the 1Uth section of the act aforesaid shall be made
to the commandant of conscrpts for the State, who
will grant the certificate of exemption authorized by
law, TO continue during compliance with the eondi-
tons prescribed by said act ExemDtion, except for
the President, Treasurer, Aador and Superintendent
shall ot be allowed to any officers and employees of
railroad company, unless the President Superin
endent shall certify OATH that the parties applied
for are indispensable to the efficient operation of such
railroad; that the number of persons exempted on
said railroad shall not exceed one for each mile there
of in actual for military transportation that the
exempts for such road shall be reported by name and
description once month to the commandants of con-
scrpts for the State through which the road passes
or the Bureau of Conscrption together with the
names and descriptive list of any one who may leave
the employment of the railroad company or who may
cease to be Indispensable to the efficient operation of
the said road
3. The exemption of oFerseers or agriculurists or
each farm or plantation upon which there are now,
and were on 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 and
the certificate of exemption shall be by the of
cer taking the bond required by law upon being in
formed by the commandant for that State that the
bond Is approved. @
4 The bond required ID be given upon the exemp-
tion OF an overseer agrculturist under tie 4h
tce ct section 10th of the said act shall be taken by
the ling officer of the county district in which
such party resides, with the advice and assistance of
the temporary Board aforesaid. 1t shall be payable
to the Confederate States of America. in penalty
double the estimated value of tn products to be de-
lTered to the government, and conditioned for the
faithful performance of the requirements of the 4th
article OF the 10th section of the said act The value
of the said products shall be assesse by the enrolling
officer, who shall take the said bond, with the assis
tance of the said temporary Board according to the
marketvaue thereof at the time and place of assess
ment.
The said bond may be secured by deposit of the
amount10f the penalty thereof in notes issued from
the Treasury Department OF the Confederate States
with ary Of the Depos.taries of the said Treasury or
by personal security the nature of the security to be
at the option OF the principal oblgor in the said bond
Should the person so exempted elect to give person
al security the surees rendered by him shall justify
their suiciency under oath before some Justice Of the
peace, but shall be accepted unless the enrolling
officer taking the said bond under the advice of the
said temporary board, shall deem them sufficient
Such bonds sha after due execution be transmitted
to the commandment Of conseripts for the State for
hle IN Ills ohce to be surrendered to the oblipors
when the conditions thereof are fully complied with
ana the receipt OF any quartermaster conmissary,
specifying that the amount of produce required by
the bond has been duly delivered and accepted will
entltle the person to have the bond cancelled and
copies OF such receipts should be forwarded to the
commandant OF conscrpts, be by him forwarded to
the Quarter master General or the Commissary Gener-
al, through this Sureau. II
TX Erenpt9oR on account of religious faith
Persons entitled to exemption as prov ided for in
in paragraph XII, General Orders No. &c. A. ana l. G.
o., current series, will, On application, receive