The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1862-11-18

he will not, by any arrangement, shift or contri-
vance, evade the law, or receive greater price or
reward than it allows ..
2. Where application is made to exempt super
intendents and operatives in wool and cotton fac
tories, and paper mills, and superintendents and
managers OF wool carding machines, shoemakers,
tanners, blacksmths, wagon makers, millers mill
engineers, or mlllwrlshts, not working for them
selves, but in the employment Of some company
or establishment, the president or some director, if
the company be Incorporated if not, the proprie-
tor of the business, or If there be firm, some
partner therein, shall make oath in writing that
the said superintendent, operatives, mapagers or
mechanics, as the case may be, are skilled and 40
tually employed in their said vocations that they
absolutely necessary for the successful prose-
cution of the business of the concern; that the pro-
ducts thereof shall not be sold, or exchanged, or
bartered, during the said exemption, for a price
exceeding the cost of production and seventy five
per cent. profit thereon that no shift, contrivance
or arrangement shall be made to evade the law, or
to secure larger return of profit than it allows;
and that exemption is not sought for a larger num-
Der of persons than is absolutely necessary for
the successful prosecution Of the business Of the
concern.
3. The foregoing affdavits shall be made be-
fore Justice Of the Peace other person au-
thorized by law to administer oaths, and if such
Justice or other person be not personally known
to the enrolling officer to be what he purports to
be his official character and his right to admins
ter oaths must be certified by the Clerk of some
court Of record, under the seal of his court.
The affidavit shall be returned to the Comman-
dant of Conscripts, and exemptions shall be grant
ed by the enrolling officer. If, however, he sus-
pect false swearing or mistake, he shall then re-
fuse the exemption, and refer the case, after first
enrolling the names of the parties in question, to
the Comnandant of Couscrlpts, who shall dispose
of it. If at any time the enrolling officer has
cause to suspect false swearing or mistake in the
foregoing adavits he shall report the fact to the
Commandant of Conscri pts, and if the said com
mandant be satisfied after due investigation that a
larger number of persons is designediy employed
than is necessary, that larger profit than the
law allows is received either directly indirectly,
be shall order the enrolment of the parties ex-
en- pied upon the said afidavits.
IT," "- Details.
Citizen EMPLOYEES and mechanics who are en-
ployed in establishments of the government, or by
contractors with the government, IN the manutae-
ture of arms, ordnance, ordnance stores, and other
munitions of war, saddles, harness and army sup
plies, will be enrolled and returned to their work:
Provided, The Chief of the Ordnance Bureau, or
some ordnance officer authorized by him for the
purpose, shall certify that the number of opera
tves required by the officer in charge OF such es-
tablishment, or by such contractor for government
work, is reasonable and not excessive Such GER
tifcate will be presented to the enrolling officer,
who will thereupon make the detail Of the men
specified for period not exceeding sixty days,
aud return the certificate to the Commandant Of
Conscrpts; at the expiration of such detail, the
officer in charge of the government shop, or the
in whose employment said conscripts
arc shah cause said certificate to be renewed, or
return the conscripts to the nearest camp OF IN
struction If the certificate be not renewed, or
the conscripts be not returned, no other detail
shall be granted to such establishment or con-
tractor. In all cases of details for contractors,
the party requesting the detail shall make affidavit
that the persons so detailed will not be employed
on any other than government work, which attlda-
Wit shall be returned to the Commandant of Con-
scripts; and if it be found that at any time such
detailed conscripts are employed by said contract
ors upon work for private individuals, the detail
shall be Cancelled by the Commandant OF Con-
scripts.
Paragraph 1, General Orders No. so, current
series, is hereby revoked.
To uhona applications for Exemption must be
Addressed
APPLICATIONS fer eo1&mptior must, in all cases,
be made to the Enrolling officer, from whose de-
cision an appeal may be taken to the Commandant
of Conscripts. The Department will not consider
the application until it has been referred by the
latter officer
Substitutes. .-.
l. When person claims exemption on the
ground that he has put substitute In service, he
must exhibit to the enrolling officer a discharge
from some company, signed by the commanding
officer OF the regiment command to which the
said company belongs or then belonged, (sce Cen
crai Order No. 26,) or exemption signed by
the Commandant OF Conscrpts. And II the SAID
discharge or exemption does not show that 1t was
granted in consideration OF a substitute having
bern furnished such fact must be certified in writing
by ,hc commanding officer Of the regiment OF command
to which the company belongs, or by the Comaandant
cf Conacripts, rs the case may be-
But in all arising within thirty days from
the date of this order the enrolling officer may grant
the exemption upon satisfactory proof that the party
furns he'd a substitute who actually received in
or the war and the substitute IS not liable military
service Such exemption may at any time be Cancelled,
if fraud or mistake be discovered.
2 No person under IS years of age, not dOmciled
in the Confederate States not of good moral char
acter or who is liable under the existing order to
ro1nent conscript, shall be received as substi-
And IN all cases in which substitute becomes sub
ect military service, the exemption of the principal
by reason Of the substitution shall expire.
ANY person subject to enrolment who desires TO
furnish substitute, may at any time before the en-
r0Ilment, before he is assigned to company ana
sent from the camp OF instruction, present substitute
at such carnpt And if the substitute be capable OF
bearing arms and be of good moral character ana not
within the prohibited classes he shall be received ana