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 Circular, no. 9 
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HEAD- QUARTERS RESERVE FORCES OP VIRGINIA, 
 Richmond, September 22d, 1864. 
 
 CIRCULAR/ 
 Xo. 9. \ 
 
 I. Detailed men in the employment of the Nitre and .Mining Bureau, who 
 belong to existing military companies authorized by the "War Department, 
 will not be enrolled in the Local Forces organizing under Genera] 
 
 Xo. 21, issued from these head-quarter? August 13th, 1861. All other de- 
 tailed men employed i,> the Nitre and Mining Bureau, who are lit for field 
 service, will be enrolled in the companies; but men employed at furnaces 
 a3 founders and keepers will under no circumstances be called from their 
 furnaces, while in blast, either for drill or any other duty. 
 
 II. Men detailed as provost and conscript guard3 will be enrolled; but, 
 whenever practicable, the men detailed for such duly, in a couuty or cor- 
 poration, will be organized into a company by the addition of 
 
 site number of other detailed men thereto for the purpose. 
 
 III. Men detailed for duty in hospitals, in the Ordnance, Quartern) 
 and Commissary departments, for the benefit of railroad and other compa- 
 nies and corporations, as members of ambulance committees, as assessors 
 and agents of tax in kind, and all other detailed men not specially excepted 
 in orders from the War Department or from these head- quarters, will be 
 enrolled in the Local Forces; but county commandants will, in the exer- 
 cise of a sound discretion, sec that the business of the Government, ot 
 corporations and contractors, is not unnecessarily suspended or interfered 
 with by the drills and other duties required of the Local Forces. 
 
 IV. Men otherwise liable to service, who are allowed temporary exemp- 
 tions by virtue of pending applications for detail, will be required to per- 
 form service in the companies. 
 
 V. No person liable to regular field service in the Reserve Forces will 
 be either enrolled or commissioned in the Local Forces. Xone but detailed 
 men and those who are exempt from regular service in the Active and Be- 
 serve Forces will be enrolled in the Local Forces. 
 
 VI. All exempts : ges of 17 and ■> 
 
 ble of Geld service and refuse to enroll themselves in the companies, will 
 iaratcly listed, with the grounds of refusal in each case distinctly 
 1, and reported to these head-quarters. 
 
 By command of Brigadier-General Kf.mpek. 
 
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