Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-12-23
THE MILITARY EXCEPTION ACT :

81 W.
THE MILITARY EXEMPTION ACT.
The following !. oSgy Of the Exemption Act y aaa'
RlI 70 exomnt certain persons from military service,
and to repeal The M entitled act to exempt certain
from enrodment for service the army o.
hderate States y approved the 2lst of April, 1859
= IxvAL1Ds, J6pFIcsRs OF eovERSAESr, CLERKS, EIe
ne UIr1ress of tie Confederate Sltes 81 AD1ertd 40
.na Tbata persons who shall be held unit for military
service phe field reason of bodily or mental ncaPscs
~ becily under rules to be oy .Ss Ses
the 6cers judicial and executive of the Confederate ana
Safe Governments including Postmasters appointed py
In their Offices rs are allowed by the PossmasterG
and now employed and excluding all other postmasers
their assistants and cerks and except such state
as the several States may have declared may hereafter
declare by law TO be liable to militia duty the members
of both Houses of the Congress of the States
and Legislatures of the several States and their re-
spective officers all clerks in the offices of the Con.
federae and State governments, authorized oy a"' re-
ceivng salaries or fees.
All volunteer troops heretofore raised by any State since
the passage of the entitled An act further to PROVIDE
for the public defence approved April asS ,sos Mn,e
ty provided that this exemption shall not apply 70 any
person who liable to be called into service oy virtue
of said act of April 18th, 1862.
TRANSPORTATION AND TELEGRAPH COMPANIES
All pilots and persons engaged in the merchant marine
service the president superintendent conductors eas
urer chief clerks engineers managers, station agents.
section masters expert track hands to each section oil
eight miles, and mechanics in the active service and en-
porters and messehgers The president, general suPern
tendent and operators of telegraph companies the local
superintendent and operators of said companies NOT 70 e
government of the Confederate States; the presidents SUI
Dentendents captains engineers chief CLERK ana mecnan
les in the actual service and employment OF all companies
in and canal navigation and all captains oil boats ana
engineers thereon employed.
EDITORS PRINTERS AND PREACHERS:
One editor of each newspaper now being published ana
snch employees the editor proprietor may ceruy
upon oath be indispensable for conducting the pubcs
the public printing the Confederate and State Govern
mens every minister of religion authorized to preach &C
cordng the rules Of his sect and in the regular discharge
of ministerial duties.
RELIGIOUS NON coxBArXSTs
All who have been and now are members OF the
Society of Friends and the Association of Nsza
renes and Mennonist in regular membership in their
pective denominations provided members OF inc society
of Friends, NazsreneS Mennonsts, and Dunkers snaI
furnish substitutes pay tax of $50u each INTO the pup
All physicians who now are and for the last n'e years
have been in actual practice OF their profession.
sHOEMAKERs, TANNERS ETC.
All sboemakers, tanners, blacksuiths. wagon MAKERS
milers and their engineers, milwrghts skilled ana ae
uay employed their regular vocation in the said trades
habtuay engaged in working fof the public aud whist SO
actually employed; provided said persons snail make oa'n
in writing thai they are skilled aud actually employed
the time their regular vocation Up one oil me ABOVE
trades which affidavit Shall only be prina dcs evidence
''O A pRovIso AGAINST k1roar1oS
Prorided further That the exemptions herein granted
persons by Of their peculiar mechanical or other
occupation employment not connected wlththe public
service shall be subject the condition that the products
of the labor of such exempts of the companies and es
adjustments with which they connected shall be sold
and disposed of by the prOpreors at prices not exceeding
sevenyhye per centum upon the cost OF producto OF
within. maximum to be fixed by the Secretary ef war
under such regulations he may prescribe; and 1t Is
further provided that if the prupetors osny such
featuring establishment shall be shown upon evidence to
be submitted to and judged of by the OF war TO
have violated in any manner eyaded the true intent
and spirit Of the foregoing provso the exemptions therein
granted shall no longer be extended 10 them supernten
dents operatives in said establishments but they and
each and every of Them shall be forthwith enrolled
under the provisions of this act and ordered into the Con-
federate army and shall in event be again exempted
thereOm by of said manufacturing Establishments
emplOyments therein.
HOSPITALS. AsILUns sc.
All superintendent of public hospitals uIatc asvlums
and the regular PHYSICIANS nurses ana atenoanis inee
and the teachers Dyed IN the institutions for the deaf
dumb and blind In each apoihecnry store now establish
ed and doing business apothecary in good standing
who is practical apothecary.
WOOL COTTON AND PAPER yASUFACTURERs
Superintendents and operatives in wool and cotton lac
tories paper mills and suPerntendents and managers oil
wool carng machines who may be exempted Ly the Seq
Rotary of War; provided the profits OF such establishments
shall exceed seventy five per ceHum upon the cost of
production be de ermned upon oath of the pasies
subject the penalties for violation of the provisions
herein contained hereinbenrs provided in of
other manufacturing and mechanical employments.
EDUCATIONAL EXEMPTIONS
presidents and teachers of coeges academies schools
and theological semnares whJ have been regularly ell
gag such for two preceding the passage Of this
ARTISANS EMPLOYED on CONVENIENT WORK"
All artisans mechanics and EMPLOYEES in the establish
ment of the government for the manufacture Of ord
ordnance stures and other munitions Of who
may be certified by the officer in charge thereof
for such establishment; also all artisans, mechanics
and employees the establishments of such persons
may be engaged under contracts with the Govern
in furnishing arms ordnance, ordnance stores and
other munitions of saddles harness. and army sup.
plies provided that the chefOf the ordnance bureau
ordnance officer authorized by him for the purpose
shall approve of the number of the operatives required in
such establishment all persons employed in the
facture of ordnance Of any kind by the several
Saes or BY contractors furnish the same to the sew.
eal State Governments whom the Governor Secretary
Of State thereof certify TO be necessary to the
all persons engaged in the construction of ships gunboat
engines Sails other articles necessary to The public de-
under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy all
superinIendens, managers mechanics, and miners em-
POyed in the production and manufacture of SALT to the
extent OF twenty day land of lead and on aud
all persons engaged in making charcoal for making pig and
bar iron to embrace abOrers messengers wagnners
and servants unless employed works conducted under
the authority aud by the officers or agents Of State or in
works employed in the production of iron for the Conede
rate States.
STOCK nAlsERs
One male citizen for every head of CATTLE for every
$50 beadOf horses or mules and shepherd for every
500 head of sheep of such engaged excu
sively raising stock provided there is white male
son in raising said stock
ovERsEERs on PLANTATIONS.
To the proper police of the country person
either agent owner each plantation on
which white person required be kept by the laws
ordinances of State and which there white
male adult not liable to do military service and in States
having such law one person, agent owner
seer each plantation Of twenty negroes and which
there is white male adult not liable to military service
and furthermore for additional police for every twenty ne
groes two more plantations within five miles OF each
other and each having less than twenty negroes and
which there is white male adult not liable to military
duty person. beng-he oldest of the or
ssers such plantations
SPECIAL EXEMPTIONS.
Also regiment raised under and BY authority of the
State of Texas for the frontier defence in the Service
Of said State while in such servce and such other per-
the President shall be satisfied account If JUS
tce equity, necessity ought to be exempted here
by.exempted from military service in the armies of the
Confederate States provided that the exemptions herein
above enueted shall only continue whilst the persons
exempted aeclualy engaged in their respective pursuits
or occupations.
O. That the act entitled act to exempt certain per-
from enrolment for service in the Of the Con-
ederae States approved the 2st April 1862 is hereby
repealed.