3. The expenses of such arrest and imprisonment will be certified to the chief clerk of the War Department for settlement and payment.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

August ---, 1862.

THE RECENT ORDERS TO PREVENT THE EVASION OF MILITARY DUTY.

These orders are designed to operate on two classes of persons, viz, those who contemplate leaving the United States for the purpose of evading their military duty, and those who leave their own State or place of residence and go into other States for the same purpose. The object is to compel every citizen of the United States subject to military duty to bear his share in supporting the Government. Instructions have been prepared, and will be issued on Monday, to military commandants, marshals, and police officers respecting the mode of executing the orders so as to interfere as little as possible with individual pursuits and business, and limit the operation of the order to cases of evasion*

SARATOGA, N. Y., August 8, 1862.

(Received 5.30 p. m.)

Honorable EDWIN STANTON,

Secretary of War, Washington, D. C.:

As we find a good deal of excitement among our employes on the subject of drafting, will you please inform me if locomotive engineers, firemen, and conductors who are essential to the running of trains, and of course transportation of the mail, are subject to draft? Please answer to this place.

SAML. SLOAN,

President Hudson River Railroad Company.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington, August 8, 1862-9.55 p. m.

SAMUEL SLOAN, Esq.,

President Hudson River Railroad, Saratoga, N. Y.:

Locomotive engineers will be exempt on the same principle with telegraph operators; no others.

By order of the Secretary of War:

C. P. BUCKINGHAM,

Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General.

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*This, in Mr. Stanton's handwriting, is addressed to the press in explanation of the orders published in General Orders, Numbers 104, August 13, 1862, p. 370.

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