DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE.                   247 
e. Absentees with permission ...................... 50,352 
Without permission ......................... 34, 054 
84, 406 
Total men......................-...... -378,827 
Number remaining liable to serve............................-62,409 
(Equal, as above, to 441,236.) 
Of which have been called  in ...............................  40, 391 
Leaving subject to call-------------------------------------22,018 
The following table shows the relative percentage of the preceding statement,

compared with the average during the previous years, from 1831 to 1854: 
Average from 
1854.  1831 to 1854. 
Volunteers....------------------------------------2.82         2.46 
Serving by reason of punishment ..................... .6        .9 
Definitive  exemptions ...............................  5.04   6.40 
Temporary exemptions ...............................55.72    53.58 
Other considerations................................. 3.08    3.50 
Absentees......................................... 19.12     15.85 
Total..................................85.84      81.88 
Remain  to  be called...............................14.16   18.12 
Have been called  in................................9.15     8.84 
Remaining subject to call-----------------5.01      9.28 
Exclusions and Exemptions. 
They are definitive and temporary; certain conditions, or temporary service,

suffice, in some cases, to entitle to a furlough, with liability to be called
upon at 
any time to join their regiments. 
Those who have undergone infamous or afflictive punishments are excluded

from the army, and those who have lost civil or civic rights, if the loss
of the 
latter be temporary only, this cause of exemption is valid only until legal

rehabilitation. If not rehabilitated on attaining the twenty-third year,
such 
persons are incorporated in disciplinary companies as laborers. 
Those who wilfully disable or mutilate themselves, with the view of avoiding

service, are treated in the same manner. 
Conditional exemptions are granted to Quakers and Mennonites. 
§ 14 of the law of December 9, 1858, stipulates that those immigrating
from 
other German states shall be exempted from service, provided they have 
complied with the laws of their state on the subject; but that they shall
be, on 
becoming residents in Prussia, incorporated in the reserve, and be liable
to serve 
in the "Landwehr." 
Foreigners emigrating from other countries than German states are liable
to 
service according to their age, no matter whether they have served at their

former homes or not.