All the young men whose names appear in the lists have next to appear before a _Conseil de Revision_ (Revising Commission). This Commission consists of: The Prefect of the Department, who is ex-officio President. A Conseiller de Préfecture. A Member of the Conseil Général. A Member of the Conseil d'arrondissement. A General or Field Officer appointed by the military authority. An Intendant militaire (Commissariat officer). The chief Recruiting Officer of the district. A military Surgeon, or a Doctor, is appointed by the military authorities to make a medical examination of all the conscripts, and upon his report the Commission decides by vote whether each individual conscript shall serve or not. It should be added that the minimum height is 5 feet 0½ inch. The Commission also decides upon claims of exemption made by sons of foreigners, and upon the claims of those entitled to a service of one year only.[2] Each conscript subsequently receives his _feuille de route_, stating the regiment he must join, and the date on which he must join it, and making an allowance for his journey to the town where he is to be quartered.[3] From the moment conscripts receive their _feuilles de route_ they are under military law, and can only be tried by court-martial for any crimes or offences they may commit. Men while serving for a month in the reserve, or for a fortnight in the territorial army, are also exclusively under martial law for the time being. Even in the case of a soldier who has finished his service the fact of his assaulting one of his former superiors (from a Corporal upwards) renders him liable to be tried by court-martial "should such assault be considered the result of revenge for a punishment received during his service."--(Art. 223 and 224 of the Code of Military Justice.) So that a man who has been abominably treated during his time of service and who gives a good hiding to one of his former officers ten or twenty years later, is liable to be tried by the military authorities. I may add here that the act of striking a _supérieur_, meaning any man superior in rank to one's self, from a Corporal upwards, is punished with DEATH, _even in time of peace_. Two instances occurred while I served. In the first instance a private had struck a Corporal who had bullied him in a most shameful way; in the second instance a Corporal had struck an officer who had called his mother by a vile name. Both men were found guilty and publicly shot in the presence of their regiment on special parade. It very seldom occurs that a man who has struck even a Corporal is reprieved. In each subdivision of every military district is kept a register in which are inscribed the names of all the men in that subdivision who are serving, or have served.