Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1918 — When Exempt From Duty. [ARTICLE]

When Exempt From Duty.

Section 59 of the army law now in force reads: “The vice president of the United States, the officers, judicial and executive, of the government of the United States and of the several states and territories; pereons in the military or naval service of the United States; customs house clerks; persons employed by the United States in the transmission of the mail; artificers and workmen employed in the armories, arsenals and navy yards of the United States; pilots; marines actually employed in the sea service of any citizen or merchant within the United States shall be exempt from militia duty without regard to age; and all persons who, because of religious belief, shall claim exemption from military service, if the conscientious holding of such belief by such person shall be established under such regulations as the president shall prescribe, shall be exempted from militia serv ice in a combatant capacity; but no person so exempted shall be exempt from militia service in any capacity that the president shall declare to be noncombatant”