Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-10-15
The Military Exemption Act.

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titled can act to exempt certain persons
from enrolment fof service in the army of
the Confederate States" approved the 2lst
of April, 1862.
I1NvALIDs, OFFICERS OF GOVERNMENT,
CLERKS, ETC.
l. The Congress Of the Confederate
States of america do enact, That all per.
sons who shall be held unfit for military
+ service in the field, by reason Of bodily or
mental incapacity or imbeclity, under rules
to be prescribed by the Secretary of War,
f the Vice President of the Confederate
States, the officers, judicial and executive,
of the Confederate and State Governments,
including postmasters appointed by the
President and confirmed by the Senate, aud
such clerks 10 their offices as are allowed
by the Postmaster General, and now en-
ployed, and excluding ali other postmasters,
their assistants and clerks ;and, except such
State officers as the several States may have
declared, or may hereafter declare by law
to be liable to duty; the members of both
Houses oft the Congress of the Confederate
States, and their. respective officers all
clerks now in the Offices of the Confederate
and State governments, authorized by law,
receiving salaries or fees.
VOLUNTEER TROOPS.
All volunteer troops heretofore raised by
any State since the passage of the act eu
titled sEAn act further to provide for the
public defence, approved April 10Th, 1862,
while such troops shall be in active service
under State authority, provided that this
exemption shall not apply to any person
who was liable to be called iuto service by
virtue of said act of April 10Th, 1862.
TRANSPORTATION AND TELEGRAPH COM
! -..-..r PANIES
All pilots and persons engaged in the
merchant marine service; the president,
sur erintendents conductors, treasurer, chief
clerks, engineers, managers, station agents,
two expert track hands to each section of
eight miles, and mechanics in the active
service and employment of railroad com
panies, not to embrace laborers, porters and
messengers; the presideot, general super
intendent and operations of telegraph com
paDies, the local superintendents and ope
rators of said companies, not to exceed four
in number at any locality but that at the
seat of government of the Confederate
States the president, supenntendents,
captains, engineers, chief clerk and me-
cbanics 10 the active service and en-
ployment of all companies engaged in
river and canal navigation, and, all cap
taius of boats, and engineers thereon en-
ployed.
| EDITORS, PRINTERS AND PREACHERS
One editor of each newspaper now being
published, ard such employees as the ed
tor or proprietor may certify upon oath to
be indispensable for conducting the publ.
cation; the public printer, and those EN-.
ployed to perform the public printing for
the Confederate and State Governments
every minister of religion authorized to
preach according to the rules Of his sect
and in the regular discharge of ministerial
duties.
| RELIGIOUS NON .COMBATANTs.
All persons who have been and now are
members of the Society of Friends and the
Association of Dunkers, Nazarenes, and
Mennonists, in regular membership in
their respective denominations, provided
members of the Society Of Friends, Naza.
renes, Mennonists, and DuDkers, shall fur.
nish substitutes, or pay tax Of $500 each
into the public Treasury.
. PHYSICIANS.
All physicians who now are and for the
last five years have been in actual practice
of their profession.
sHoEMAKERS, TANNERS, ETC.
All shoemakers, tanners, blacksmiths,
wagon makers, millers and their engineers,
millwrights, skilled and actually employed
as their regular vocation in the said trades
habitually engaged iu working for the pub.
lie and whilst so actually employed provi
ded said persons shall make oath in writing
that they are so skilled and actually EN-
ployed at the time as their regular vocation
in one of the above trades, which affidavit
shall only be primatacie evidence Of the
facts therein stated.
pRovISQ AGAINST EXTQRTIoN. !
Propidcd further, That the exemption
herein granted to persons b. reason of their
peculiar mechanical or other occupation or!
employment not connected with tue public
service shall be subject to the condition
that the products Of the labor of such ez-
empts, or of the companies aud establish
ments with which they are connected shall
be sold and disposed Of by the prUprIctors
at prices not exceeding seventy five peri
centum upon the cost of production, or,
within maximum to be fixed by the Sccre
tary Of War under such regulations as he
may prescribe; and it is further provided
that if the proprictors Of any such manufac
turing establishment shall be shown upon
evidence to be submitted % and Judged of by
the Secretary of War TO have violated,
or in any manner evadcd, the true iutcnt
and spirit of the foregoing prcviso; the ex-
emptions therein granted shall no longer
be extended to them, supcrintcudcnts, orr
operatives in said establishments, but they,
aud each and every one Of them, shall be-
forthwith enrolled under the provisions Of
this act, and ordered into the Confederate
army, and shall iu no event be again exemp-
ted therefrom by reason Of sa;d manufac
| tnrino establishments or emnlovmnnts there.