FRIENDS’

REVIEW. 809

 

or by any other officers to be ‘appointed by such
Governors, of all able-bodied male citizens be-
tween the ages of 18 and 45 within the respec-
tive Counties, giving the name, age and occupa-
tion of each, toyether with remarks showing
whether he is in the service of the United States,
etc., and in what capacity ; or any other facts
which may determine his exemption from mili-
tary duty.” .

In accordance with this order, it is under-
stood that where the enrolments already made
embrace only persons between the ages of 21
and 45, as in Pennsylvania, another enrolment
will be made, to include all between the ages of
18‘and 45. A Commissioner for each county
in the several States is to be appointed by the
Governors, respectively, and his duty “shall be
to superintend the drafting, and hear and deter-
mine excuses of persons claiming to be exempt
from military duty.”

- The 8d article, under the head “ Manner of
Drafting,” says—“ The enrolling officer shall
immediately, upon the filing of the enrolment,
notify said Commissioner that said lists have
been so filed, and the Commissioner shall there-
upon give notice by handbills posted in such town-

ship of his county, of the time and place at which|

claims of exemption will be received and deter-
mined by him, and shall fix the time to be speci-
‘fied in the order aforesaid within ten days of the
filing of the enrolment, at which the draft shall be
made, and all persons claiming to be exempt
from military duty shall, before the day fixed for
the draft, make proof of such exemption before
said Commissioner, and if found sufficient, his
name shail be stricken from the list by a red line
drawn through “t, leaving it still legible. The
Commissioner shall in like manner, strike from
the roll the names of all persons now in the
military service of the United States; all tele-
graph operators and constructors actually en-
gaged on August 5th, 1862 ; all engineers of lo-
comotives on railroads ; ahs Vice-President of
tne United States ; the ofhcaid, judicial and exe-
cutive, of the Government of the United States ;
the members of both Houses of Congress and
their respective officers; all custom house
officers and their clerks; all post officers and
stage drivers who are employed in the care
and conveyance of the mail of the post office of
the United States; all ferrymen who are employed
at any ferry on post-roads ; all pilots; ail mari-

 

ment in that district.

ners actually etiptoyed 4 in the sea service oft any
citizen or merchant} within the United States 3
all engineers and pilots of registered or licensed
steamboats and steamships, and all persons ex-
empted by the laws of the respective States from
military 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 perma-
nent character as to render the person unfit for
service for a period of more than thirty days, to
be certified by a surgeon appointed by the Gov-
ernor in each county for this purpose.”

As the Constitution of Pennsylvania clearly
exempts from military services all who conscien-
tiously seruple to bear arms, it will be proper for
such Friends in this State as may be here en-
rolled, to present the Commissioner, appointed
by the Governor in each county, with a declara-
tion of their scruple, duly affirmed before a
magistrate, as sufficient evidence of the lawfal-
ness of their claim to exemption.

Claims to be exempted on account of physical
disability must be established by the affidavit of
the claimant and by a physician’s certificate.
Since the above was written we have received
a communication, from our friend Francis T.
King, on Drafting in Maryland, which i is inserted
on another page.

 

Davin Coopzr.—Any persons possessed of
letters written by David Cooper, or of allusions to
him in the writings of others, or of material
which would aid in the preparation of the “ No-
tices” now in course of publication, would con-
fer a kindness by forwarding them to W. J.
Allinson, Burlington, New Jersey, or to the Edi
tor of the Review.

 

Tur Freepwen or Sourn Carouwa: An Address de-
livered by J. Miller M’Kim, in Sansom Hall, Phila-
delphia, with a letter from’ the same to Stephen Col-

well, Chairman of the Port Royal Relief Commit-
This is the title of a pamphlet of 82 pages, —

containing an account of a recent visit to the

Sea Islands, of S. C., undertaken for the purpose

of obtaining accurate information as, to the con-

dition and wants of the liberated blacks, and the
progress and promise of the free labor experi-

The Relief Committee