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Little Rock, December 8th, 186i

General Orders i No, 45. '

I. General Order No. 41, current series, is hereby revoked, anil the following; General Order substituted therefor:

For the purpose ^f carrying into elFect the Conscript Act, as passed at the last session of the Confederate Congress, the fol- lowing regulations are adopted for the Trans-Mississippi de- partment:

1. Col. BENJAMIN F. DANLEY, is hereby appointed com- :\rANDANT of coNSCFU'TS of thc District of Arkansas, which is hereby sub-tlivided into four divisions.

2. Maj. JOHN J. HOUNER, is appointed- enrolling officer of D'.vision number 07zr, composed of the counties of Alarion, Izard, Independence, Jackson, Woodrwft', Toinsett, Mississippi, Greene, Randolph, Lawrence, Fulton, Crittenden, Craighead, Cross, St. Francis, Phillips, xMonroe and White. He will es- tablish a Camp of Instruction at Jacksonport.

3. Major JAMES H. SPARKS, is appointed enrolling offi- cer of Division number In-o, composed of the counties of Sebas- tian, Scott, Yell, Perry, Conway, ^'an Buren, Tope, Johnson, Franklin, Crawford, Washington, Madison, Newton, Searcy, Carroll and Benton. He will establish a Camp of Instruction at Dardanelle.

4. Maj. JOHNMcNALLY, is applointed enrolling officer of Division number ifircc, composed of the counties of Arkansas, Desha, Chicot, Drew, Ashley, JefiePffon, Praiiie, Pulaski aitd Saline. He will establi.-h a Camp of Instruction at Pine Bluff.

.■>. iMajor JAMES T. ELLIOTT, is appointed enrolling officer of Division number /b?^', composed of thc counties of Ouachita, Union, Calhoun, Bradley, Dallas, 'Hot Spring, Clark, Pike, Sevier, Hempstead, Columbia, Lafayette, Polk and Montgomery. He will establish a Camp of Instruction at Camden.

(». Thc several Camps of Instruction will be under the charge and direction of the several division enrolling officers, who will appoint one enrolling officer in each of tiie counties of their several divisions.

7. There shall be assigned to each division, three surgeons, wlio will constitute a board of examination for said division; and one or more of whom may act at any place of rendezvous therein. They will be stationed severally as follows:

1st Division — at Smithv'lle, Lawrence county; Mt. Olive, Izard county, and Searcy, White county, Arkansas.

2d Division — at Jasper, Newton county; Fort Smith, Sebas- tian county; and Clinton, Van Buven county, Arlcansas.

3d Division — at Little Rock. Pulaski county; Hamburg, Ash- Icy county; and South Bend, xVrkansas county, Arkansas.

1th Division — at Washington, Hempstead county; Princeton, Dallas county; and Muifreesboro, ]'ike county, Arkansa:^.

8. The county enrolling ollicer will caucc to be enrolled all white male persons, between eighteen and forty years of age, liable to perform military duly, whom he may find in his county; and will cause to be entered uj)on a roll prepared lor that pur- pose, their names, ages, {\}ne of enrollment, place of nativity, and date of their leaving their homes for the Camp of Instruc- tion. And will also note opposite the name of each one found not subject to military duty, the cause thereof; |ind forward duplicate rolls to his division enrolling officer, one of which ^vill be forwarded by the division enrolling oflicer, to the com- mandant of conscripts.

9. The county enrollingofFicers will notify the examining board, or any one of them, of the place of rendezvous fixed by them for the conscripts of their several counties, and the examining boft.rd of surgeons, or any one of them, will, by publi'-ation in eome newspaper in their division, or by notices posted up in the county, give ten days notice of the time \Vhen they will attend said rendezvous, and will then and there examine said conscripts; and such ))ersons as shall be found incapable of bearing arms, on account of mental or phytical incapacity, by such examining surgeon, shall be by him reported to the board of examination, who shall determine the (juestions of exeinp- Iton, and grant certificates thereof; .said certificates specifying whether the incapacity is temporary or permanent; and if per- manent, the party shall be exempt from future examination, unless specially ordered by the board. li\ cases where the incapacity is temporary, or where an enrolled person cannot attend the place of rendezvous on account of sickness, and f-hall send to the examining surgeon a certificate specifying the cause of absence, and its probable duration, from some respec- table physician, resident in the county in which the rendezvous is situ.Hted, the examining board or surgeon shall send such cer- tificates to the commandfmt of the camp of instruction of his division, and if the person mentioned therein sball not report liimself for examination, at the said camp, within a reasonable period, or send to the commandant of the camp a renewal of the certificate showing his continued disability, he shall be deemed ai!sf.nt avitiiout lmave.

II. The standard of bodily capacity shall be that established by General Order No. 58, Adjutant and Inspector General's office, as modified, viz:

1. Blindness, excessive deafness, and permanent lameness, or great deformity, are obvious reasons for exemption.

2. Confirmed consumption, large incurable ulcers, and chronic conta'jious di?ea.<es of the skin, are causes for exemption.

3. Single reducible hernia, the Irss of an eye or several fingers, will not incapacitate the subject for the performance oj military duty.

4. A certiHcate of disability of a con^:cript, given by a pri- vate physician, will not be considered, unless alfidavit is made that the conscrij)t is confined to bed, or that his health and life would be endangered by removal to the j)Iace of rendezvous.

III. Afttr.=uch examination shall be had by the board of examiners, the cnutity enrolling ofiicer will complete the roll by discharging all found j)ermanently, physically or mentally unable to ptrlbrm military duty by the examining board, and all wl'io may be entitled to be discharged or exempt from other causes; and will cause the men enrolled to be collected at some convenient place, thence to be forwarded to the Camp of In- stiuction of their proj)er divi.~ion. and delivered, with the dupli- cate rolls, to the counnanding olliccr.

IV. Applications for exemption must be made to the county enrolling otlicers, who will act thereon, and forvvard the same, with their action icndorsed thereon, to the commandant of con- serif) ts.

y . The exemption act does not anthori/e the discharge of any one enrolled, or in service prior to the 1 1th day of October. 18(5".2; and the fact that a pei'son has been discharged from ser-- vice for phyr=ical disability, or other cause, does not, of itself, exempt from enrollment as a conscript, except in cases of foreigners not domiciled and of those persons who have fur- nished substitutes.

VI. All the laws and regulations applicable to descrteks, shall" be applied to such conscripts as full to repair to the place of rendezvous for enrollment, or who shall desert after enrollment.

V^Il. At eAich camp of Instruction there will be statioiied an officer of the Quartermaster, Subsistence and Medical Depart- ment, who will be under, and receive orders from the com- mander of the Camp.

VIII. The county enrolling officer will moke timely requisi- tions on the cominar.dcrs of the camp of iiir^truction, for trans- portation and subsistence for their men from the coujity "(|n- de7,v6us to the camp of instruction.

IX. The commanders of the Districts of' Louisiaxa and Texas, will conform as nearly as practicable to this order, and prepare the necessary regulations to carry the same into eOect in their several districts.

By command of Major Gen"l. IJolmhs. ''

S. S. ANDERSON,

Ass'l Adfi. General.

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