From the Raleigh Standard |
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February 8, 1865 |
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Number of Exempts |
Mr. Miles, of the military committee of
the House of Representatives, stated a few days since that the exempts
are as follows in the States this side of the Mississippi river: |
Physical debility |
61,167 |
State officers exempted by Governors |
18,785 |
Ministers |
3,086 |
Insane asylum managers and nurses |
185 |
Editors and employees of newspapers |
686 |
Apothecaries |
399 |
Physicians |
3,718 |
Teachers and professors |
1,557 |
Under the fifteen negro clause |
3,645 |
Quakers, Dunkards, &c |
893 |
Mail contractors |
479 |
Railroad employees |
4,982 |
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99,611 |
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