War Department,
Adjutant and Inspector-General’s Office,
Richmond, Va., May 19, 1862.
General Orders, No. 37.
I. The following act and regulation in reference thereto are published for the information of all concerned.
II. By the above act of Congress the following classes of persons are exempt from enrollment for military service: Justices of the peace, sheriffs and deputy sheriffs, clerks and deputy clerks allowed by law, masters and commissioners in chancery, district and State attorneys, attorneys-general, postmasters and deputy postmasters and clerks allowed by law, commissioners of revenue, and foreigners who have not acquired domicile in the Confederate States.
III. The following are not exempt: Militia officers not in actual service, persons exempt by State laws but not by the above act, foreigners who have acquired domicile in the Confederate States.
IV. No person other than those expressly named or properly implied in the above act can be exempted, except by furnishing a substitute exempt from military service, in conformity with regulations already published (General Orders, No. 29), and such exemption is valid only so long as the said substitute is legally exempt.
V. Persons who have furnished substitutes will receive their certificates of exemption from the captains of companies or the commandants of camps by whom the substitutes have been accepted. Other certificates of exemption will be granted by the enrolling officers only, who will receive full instructions in regard to the conditions and mode of exemption. Applications for exemption cannot, therefore, be considered by the War Department.
By command of the Secretary of War:
S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector-General.