General Orders, No. 82.
XI. Substitutes.
1. When a person claims exemption on the ground that he has put a substitute in service, he must exhibit to the enrolling officer a discharge from some company, signed by the commanding officer of the regiment or command to which the said company belongs, or then belonged (see General Orders, No. 26), or an exemption signed by the commandant of conscripts; and if the said discharge or exemption do not show that it was granted in consideration of a substitute having been furnished, such fact must be certified in writing by the commanding officer of the regiment or command to which the company belongs or by the commandant of conscripts, as the case may be. But in all cases arising within thirty days from the date of this order the enrolling officer may grant the exemption upon satisfactory proof that the party furnished a substitute who was actually received into the service of the Confederate States for three years or the war, and the substitute is not liable to military service. Such exemption may at any time be canceled if fraud or mistake is discovered.
2. Paragraph II, General Orders, No. 29, current series, is hereby revoked. No person under eighteen years of age or not domiciled in the Confederate States, or not of good moral character, or who is liable under the existing order to enrollment as a conscript shall be received as a substitute. And in all cases in which a substitute becomes subject to military service the exemption of the principal, by reason of the substitution, shall expire. Any person subject to enrollment who desires to furnish a substitute may, at any time before enrollment or before he is assigned to a company and sent from the camp of instruction, present a substitute at such camp; and if the substitute be capable of bearing arms and be of good moral character and not within the prohibited classes he shall be received, and the principal shall be exempt from military service.
By order:
S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector-General.