Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-22
EXEMPT FROM MILITARY DUTY.

The question has been asked repeat
edly of late as to what persons in this
State wonld be exempt from military
duties in case of war. Chapter % of
the code of Virginia, in section 2, con-
tains the following:
"Persons exempt from all duty by
the laws of the United States or of this
State:
"2 The following persons shall be
exempt from the performance of all
military duties whatever-to wit: The
Vice President of the United States: the
officers, judicial and executive, OF the
goverDment of the United States; the
members of both houses of Congress
and their respective officers; all custom
house officers with their clerks; all
postmssters, post-officers, post-riders,
nd stage drivers, and all other persons
employed in the care and conveyance
Of The mail of the United States; all fer
:, men employed az any ferry on any
r,slrosd; all inspectors of exports; all
lots and all mariners actually em.
u owed in the service Of any citizen or
II reliant Within the United States;
ne Secretary of the Common
wealth and mis- clerks and dooi-
Keeper of the Executive; the clerks OF
18th houses Of the General Assembly;
judges OF the Court of Appeals aud
e. cult courts--the clerks OF the said
arts and Of the circuit, county, and
corporation courts; all sherlh5 and ser
.ants of corporations; the Attorney
GENERAL; the Treasurer, two auditors,
aud Register of the Land Office, and all
~ ir clerks; all inspectors of tobacco;
all professors, tutors, aud pupils of pub
uc 5 -miDaries Of learning; all ministers
II the gospel licensed to preach accord
ing 10 the rules Of their sect; keepers of
ne county and corporation jails; super
lntendents and servants OF the public
hospitals aud lunatic asylums, and the
superintendent of the penitentiary and
Ms assistants"
Section No. 3 gives the persons to be
exempt from the ordinary duties of
militamen, but who shall be liable to be
drafte d and detailed for actual service
Tine officers of the several banks es-
tabished by Jaw, and of their respective
branches; all millers necessarily and per
sor ally employed in any grist- mill; all
terrymen in like manner employed at
any ferry established by law; the general
a :, MT and storekeeper of the peniten-
ary and his clerks; two of the clerks
III the office OF collector Of tolls on the
lower section of the James-river canal;
rhe inspectors of boats, lock-gate keep
ers aud overseers employed by the
James-river and KanawhaCompauy;' he
six lock keepers of the Dismal Swamp
Canal Company; and all toll gatherers
on any canal or turnpike company in
le State; the persons composing the
guard for the peni entiarl; the officers
snd members of all fire companies who
are entitled to exemption by the provis-
IONS of the fourth section of chapter 80;
the police in cities and towns; all school
commissioners, trustees Of district free
schools, aud, during the sitting Of the
Court of Appeals, the tipstatf and crier
thereof; also every officer of the militia
who may resign his commission after
serving seven years successfully, and
every nou-comDissioned officer or
member of uniforms d and armed vol
unteer company who shall have served
in one or more such companies for
seven successive years. of which at
least two shall have been in each CON-
pany."