Year: 1862

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shall appoint commissioner for each couu-
ty Of their respective States, whose duty it
shall be to superintend the drafting and
hear and determine excuses Of persons
claiming to be exempt from military duty.
Such commissioners shall receive a COM
pensation of four dollars per diem for each
day he may be actually employed in the
discharge of his duties as such commission
ers.


Exemption.


8. The enrolling officer shall immedi-
ately, upon the fling Of the enrolment,
notify said commissioners that said lists
have been SO filed, and the commissioners
shall thereupon give notice by hand bills
posted in each township Of his county of
the time and place of which claims of ex-
emption will be received and determined
by him, and shall fix the time to be speci
fed in order aforesaid within ten days of
the filing of the enrolment at which the
draft shall be made, and all persons claim.
ing to be exempt from military duty shall
before the day fixed for the draft, make
proof of such exemption before said com.
missioner, and if found sufficient, bis name
shall be stricken from the list by red
line drawn through it, leaving it still legi.
BILE. The commissioner shall in like man
ner strike from the roll the names of all
persons now in the military service OF the
United States; all telegraph operators
and contractors actually engaged on Aug.
S, 1852; all engineers on Locomotives on
railroads; the Vice President of the Uni
ted States the oficers-judicial and exc.
cutiv-of the Government Of the United
States members of both Houses of Con-
gress and their respective officers all cus-
tom house officers and their clerks; all
pest officers and stage drivers who are en-
ployed in the care and conveyance of the
mail of the post office of the United States;
all ferry men who are employed at any
ferry or post road; all pilots; all marin
ers actually employed in the sea service
of any citizen or merchant within the Uni
ted States; all engineers and pilots Of
registered or licensed steamboats, and
steamships, and all persons exempted by
the laws of the respective States from mill.
tary duty, on sufficient evidence or on per
sonal knowledge that said persons belong
to any Of the aforesaid classes, whether the
exemption is claimed by them or not
Exemption will not be made for disability
unless it be of such permanent character
as to render the person unfit for service
for period ofthirty days, to be certified
by surgeon appointed by the Governor
in each county for this purpose.


Drafting.


4. At the time fixed as bef3re provided
by the commissioner for making the draft,
the sheriff of the county, or in his absence,
such person as the commissioner may ap.
point, shall, in the presence of said COM
missioner, publicly place in wheel or box
or like character to such as are used for
drawing jurors, separately folded ballots,
containing the names of all persons re-
naming on said enrolment lists not strick.
en- off as before provided, and proper
person appointed by the commissioner,
and blindfolded, shall thereupon draw from
said box or wheel a number of ballots
equal to the number of drafted men fixed
by the Governor of each State as the prop
er quota of such county.


Notices of Draft TO be served.


5. A printed or written notice of his
enrolment, aud draft, and of the place of
rendezvous of the drafted military force,
shall thereupon be served, by person to be
appointed by the commissioner, upon each
person so drafted, either by delivering the
same in person or by leaving it at his last
known place of residence.


Substitutes.


6. Any person so drafted may offer
substitute at the time of the rendezvous of
the drafted militia force, and such substi-
tute, if he shall be an able bodied man,
between tho ages of Is and 45 years, and
shall consent in writing, with the consent
of his parent or guardian, if a minor to sub
ject himselfto all the duties aud obliga-
tions to which his principal would have
been subject had he personally served,
shall be accepted in lieu of such principal.


Assembling after The drah.
7. The persons thus drafted shall as
semble at the county seat of their respec'
/ tive counties within five days after the time
of drafting, whence transportation will be
furnished them by the Governors of the