| From the Richmond Daily Dispatch |
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| July 23, 1861 |
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| Headquarters 19th Reg. Va. Inf. |
| July 22d, 1861 |
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| Order No. 5 |
| 1. 1st Pursuant to 6th section of chapter
29th of the Code of Virginia, a Board, consisting of captains Morgan,
Eppa and Saunders, will be in session in the office of the Inspector
of Weights and Measures, in the City Hall, on Tuesday, the 23d of
July, 1861, between the hours of 4 and 7 o'clock P. M. and on
Wednesday, the 24th between the hours of 9 A. M. and 6 P. M., to hear
and decide all questions touching exemption from Military Service
under the law of the State and the Proclamations of the Governor of
the 13th and 16th of this month. |
| 2. 2d. All persons within the corporate
limits, west of 10th street, who claim to be exempt from Military
Duty, will present their claims to exemption, with the evidence to
sustain them to the Board of Officers above mentioned. |
| 3. [2.] To save the personal appearance of
a large number of persons at the Board of Officers, let the owners or
superintendents of establishments furnish to the Board a list of the
persons in their employment in the manufacture of arms, ammunition and
other munitions of war, and of woolen goods for the troops. To this
list there must be attached "the certificate of the military
officer of department employing him or them, before the exemption will
be allowed." Let the Presidents of the Banks certify to the lists
of officers in their several Banks necessary to carry on the
operations of these institutions. Let the Presidents or
Superintendents of Railroads furnish lists to the aforesaid Board of
Officers, certifying to the names of those persons necessary to the
operation and running of railroads and the repair of their rolling
stock. Millers must furnish the Board with the certificate of a
Justice of the Peace of the city that they are necessarily and
personally employed in a grist mill. Persons who claim to be exempt on
account of physical disability, must appear in person before the
Board, whether they have the certificates of surgeons or not. |
| 4. 4th. As soon as the Board gets through
with its duties, it will furnish each person entitled to be exempt
with a written discharge. |
| By order of Col. T. J. Evans |
| S. T. Pendleton, Adj't. |
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