The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-26
Exenption Bill as, Parsed

be, held unfit for military service, by reason OF
bodily or mental incapacty or imbecility, un.
der rules obe prescribed by the Secretary Of
War: the Vice-Prcsident of the Confederate
States; the officers, judicial and executive, of
the Confederate and State Governments. except
postmasters not nominated BY the President
and confirmed by the Senate, and assistants
and clerks in any other post Office than the
general post office, and such State officers as
the seveial States may have declared by law to
DC liable to militia duty, or may hereafter be
exempted by the several States; the members
OF both Houses the Congress of the Confed.
crate States, and their respective officers; all
clerks in the Offices of the Confederate State
Governments, allowed by law; all pilots aud per-
sons engaged in the merchant marine service
and in actual service on river and railroad
routes OF transportation: the president, superin.
tendent. conductor, treasurer, chief clerk. en-
gneers, managers, station agents, section mas
tiers, two expert track hands to each section of
eight miles, and mechanics in the active service
and employment of railroad companies, not to
embrace laborers, portcrs and messengers; the
president, general superintendent and operators
OF telegraph companies, the local superintcn.
dent and operators of said companies, not to
exceed four in number at any locality but that
OF the seat of Government of the Confederate
States; the president, superintendents, captains
engineers, chief clerks, and mechanics of all
companies engaged thereon in river and canal
navigation, and all captains of boats, and en-
g'neers herein employed; all foremen, prcssmep,
and Journeymen printers actually employed in
printing newspapers having at least five hun
dred bona fde subscribers, the public printer.
and those employed to perform the public
printing for the Confederate and State Govern.
ments; every minister Of religion authorized to
preach according to tho rules of his sect and in
the regular discharge of ministerial duties; nil
persons who have been, ard now are. members
of the society of Friends and the ASSOCIATION
of Dunkards; all physicians who now are, and
have been. in the actual practice of the profess
sion for the last five years; all shoemakers, tam
ners, harness makers, saddlcrs, blacksmiths
wagon makers, millers and whecl-wriahts
skilled and actually employed at their regular
vocation in said trades, whilst so actually EN-.
ployed: Pyouided, said persons shall make oath
in writing that they are SO skilled and actually
employed at the time, at their regular vocation.
in one of the above trades, which affidavit will
only be prinaa acie evidence of the facts therein
stated; superintendents of public hospitals.
lunatic asylums, and the regular nurses and
attendeuts therein, and the teachers EMPLOYED
in the institutions for the deaf, dumb and
blind; in each apothecary store now estab-
lished and doing business, one apothccary in
good standing, who is practical apothecary.
snperintendents and operatives in wool and
cotton factories who may be exempted bv the
Secretary Of War; all residents and teachers
OF colleges, academic schools and theolopical
seminar1es, who have been regularly engaged
as such for two years preceding the passage of
this act; all artizans, mechanics and EMPLOYEES
in the establishment of the Government for the
manufacture Of arms, ordnance, ordnance
stores and other munitions Of war, who NAV
be certified by the officer in charge thereof as
necessary for such establishments; also. all ar
tisans in tho establishments of sucl, persons a.
or may be engaged under contract with the
Government in furnishing arms ordnance and
other munitions Of war; Provided, That the