Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1862-10-14


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| EDITORS, PRINTERS AND PREACHERS.
| One editor of each newspaper now being pub
lished, and such employees as the editor or pro.
prietor may certify upon oath to be indispensab bic
for conducting the publication; the public prin
ter, and those employed to perform the public
printing for the Confederate and State Govern
ments; every minister of religion authorized to
preach according to the rules of his sect and in
the regular discharge of ministerial duties.
RELIGIOUS NoN-ooNBATANTs.
All persens who have been and now are man.
bers of the Society Of Friends and the Associa-
ton of Dunkers, Nazarenes, and Mennonists. in
regular membership in their respective denomi-
nations, provided members of the Society of
Friends, Nazarenes, Mennonists, and Dunkers
shall furnish substitutes or pay a tax of $500
each into the public Treasury.
PHYSICIANS.
All physicians who now are and for the last
hve years have been in actual practice Of their
profession.
sHoEMAKERs, TANNERS, ETC.
All shoemakers, tanners, blacksmi.hs, wagon
makers, millers aad their engineers, millWrights.
skilled and actually employed as their regular
vocation in the said trades, habitually engaged
in working for the public and whilst so actually
employed : provided said persons shall make
oath in writing that they are so skilled and act
ually employed at the time as their regular vo-
cation in one of the above trades. which affidavit
shall only be prima focie evidence Of the facts
| therein stated.
| PRovIso AGAINST ExToRTIoN.
! Provided further, That the exemptions herein
granted to persons by reason of their peculiar
mechanical or other occupation or EMPLOY
ment not connected with the public service shall
be subject to the condition that the products OF
the labor of such exempts, or Of the companies
and establishments with which they are connected
shall be sold and disposed of by the proprietors
at prices not exceeding seventy five per centum
upon the cost of production, or within maxi
mum to be fixed by the Secretary of War under
such regulations he may prescribe; and it is
further provided that if the proprietors of an
such manufacturing establishment shall be shown
upon evidence to be submitted to and Judged OF
! by the Secretary of War to have violated, or in
any manner evaded, the true intent and spirit
of the foregoing proviso, the exemptions therein
granted shall no longer be extended to them
superlntendents or operatives in said establish
ments, but they, and each and every one O
them, shall be forthwith enrolled under the pro
visions Of this act, and ordered into the Confed
/ crate army, and shall in no event be again ex
empted therefrom by reason of said manufactu-
ring establishments or employments therein.
/ HOSPITALS, AsYLUMs, &c.
Ali supesintendents of public hospitals, luna
tic asylums, and the regular physicians, nurses
and attendants therin, and the teachers employ
led in the institutions Tor the deaf, dumb, and
blind. In each apothecary store now establish
ed and doing business, one apothecarYeiR~gooc
standing, who is practical apothea@
WOOL, COTTON, AND PAPER MANI
Superintendants and operatives ht
cotton factories, paper mills, and supe INT.
and managers of wool carding machines, who
may be exempted by the Secretary of War, pro
fvided the profits of such establishments shall No
exceed seventy-five per centum upon the cost 0
production, to be determined upon oath of tht
parties, subject to the same penalties for viola
ton of the provisions herein contained as arr
hereinbefore provided in case of other manufac
turing and mechanical employments.
EDUCATIONAL EXEMPTIONS.
/ All presidents and teachers of colleges, acalIe
mics, schools, and theological seminaries VIII
have been regularly engaged as such foy tw
|afs preceding the passage of this act.
lIGs EMPLOYED ON GOVERNMENT WORK.
nech2nics, and employees in th
Rernment for the manu-
ordnance stores, an
40 may be certified b
of as necessary fo
all artisans mechanics
Establishments of such per
ybe engaged under contract
yvcfnment in furnishing arms, ord
4r, saddles, harness, and army Supplies, proyi
tded that the chief of the ordnance bureau O
some officer authorized by him tor the purpose
Shall approve of the number of operatives reuuir
ed in such establishment; all persons employe,
in the manufacture OF arms, or ordnance of an
kind by the several States or by contractors t.
furnish the same to the several State Govern
ments, whom the Governor or Secretary of Stat
thereof may certify to be necessary to the same
} all persons engaged in the construction of ships
: gunboats, engines, sails, or other articles nee
essary to the public defence under the direction
, OF the Secretary of the Navy; all superintend
ants, managers. mechanics, and miners employ
ed in the production and manufacture of salt. T.
the extent of twenty bushels per day, and lea
and iron, and all persons eagaged in maxim
charcoal for making pig and bar iron, not to EN-
brace laborers, messengers, wagoners, and sci
wants, unless employed at WORKS conducted rr
der the authority and by the officers or agents
State, or in works employed in the procuctio
OF IRON Tor the Confederate States.
STOCK RAIsERs.
7 One male citizen for every 500 head Of cattle
Tor every $50 head of horses or mules, and or
shepherd Ter every 500 head of sheep, of sue
persons as are engaged exclusively in raisip
stock, provided there is no white male adult M
liable to military duty engaged with such perso
in raising said stock.
/ ovERsEERs ON PLANTATIONS.
To secure the proper police of the countr,
one person either as agent, owner, or oversee
J on each plantation on which one white person
. required to be kept by the laws or ordinances ,
. any State, and on which there is no white ma
adult not liable to do military service, and
Estates having no such law one person, as agen