Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
Richmond, January 3, 1863. 
GENERAL ORDERS. } 
No. 1. £ 
I- 1 lie following Orders are published for the information of the army; 
white male citizens of the Confederate States, between the ages 
?. 18 and 40> who are not exempt by the act of October 11th, 1862, are 
eto conscription; and all such as have been already enrolled and 
wins.cicd, held as though in service of the Confederate States, 
mtil otherwise ordered. Exemption will not take place until after enroll- 
when enrolling officers will grant certificates of exemption, in all 
ses clearly within the meaning of the act. All doubtful cases for ex- 
emption will be referred, for decision, to Commandants of Camps of In- 
struction, and if necessary, by them to the Chief of the Bureau of Con- 
scription in Richmond. Such cases will not be required to report in per- 
son to the camp 0f instruction until final action is had on the same. 
• ®nr°Hing officers are required to be vigilant in the discharge of 
tl 11 within the district confided to them, not only in respect to 
_l6 enrollment of conscripts’, but also in the apprehension and arrest of 
stiagglers and deserters from the army. Complaints having been made 
0 harsh treatment to conscripts by enrolling officers in certain localities, 
which treatment is calculated to prejudice the cause of the Confederate 
tl T encouragmg opposition to the acts of conscription, it will be 
e uty of Commandants of Camps of Instruction to report to the Se- 
ar’ or from conscript service, any officer who 
S a °fihTld in this particular. It is required of all enrolling officers to 
encourage and promote a good understanding with the people of the dis- 
o in which they may be serving: and it is impressed on them, that 
mess of purpose, tempered with kindness and forbearance, will best 
promote the objects to be attained. 
Gl- Enrolling officers will furnish to Commandants of Camps of In- 
struction, at the end of each month, a complete roll of the conscripts 
made by them during the month. Such rolls wall also embrace the names 
of persons who have been enrolled, and exempted within that period. 
Gne copy 0f these rolls will be immediately forwarded by the Comman- dants of the Camps of Instruction to the Chief of the Bureau of Con- 
scription in Richmond, for file and future reference. 
IV. All commissioned officers between the ages of 18 and 40, who 
have become disconnected with the army, by the operation of General 
Orders, Nos. 48 and 96, of 1862, or by reason of non-re-election, resigna- 
tion or dismissal, unless actually disabled (of which they must famish 
evidence), are subject to conscription; and while substitutes between the 
above ages, and who are not embraced in the provisions of the exemption 
law, will be held in service to the end of the terms for which they have 
engaged, the principals within the same ages, for whom the substitute 
may have engaged to serve, will be liable to conscription. 
order. 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
S. COOPER,