The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-10-10
The MILITARY Exemption Act.

emptlon Act, whlcn was passed by Con- |
gress on Saturday, the 4th of October in
stant
"A BILL to exempt certain persons from
military service, and to repeal the act
entitled IAN act to exempt certain per-
sons from enrolment for service in the
army of the Confederate States" APP
proved 2lst April, 1862.
Tile Congress Of the Confederate States of
america, do enact, That all persons who
shall be held unfit for military service in
the field, by reason of bodily infirmity or
mental incapacity or imbecility, under
rules to be prescribed by the Secretary of
War, the Vice-President of the Confed-
crate States, the officers, judicial and ex-
ecutive, of the, Confederate and State
Governments, including Postmasters APP
pointed by the President and confirmed
by the Senate, and such clerks in their
offices as are allowed BY the Postmaster
General, and now employed, and exclud-
ding all other postmasters, their assis-
tants and clerks; and except such State
officers as the several States have declar.
ed, or hereafter mry declare by law to be
liable to militia duty, the members of
both houses of Congress Of the Confed
crate States, and of the Legislature of the
|
GERS; all clerks now in the offices of the
Confederate and State Governments au-
thorized by law, receiving salaries or fees.
Ian volunteer troops heretofore raised
by any State since the passage of the act
entitled can 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 IN.
to service by virtue of said act of April
10th, 1862.
"All pilots and persons engaged in the
J, merchant marine service; the president,
superletendents, conductors, treasurer,
chief clerk, engineers, managers, station
agents, section masters, two expert track
hands to each section of eight miles, and
mechanics in the active service and EN-
ployment of railroad companies, not to
, embrace laborers, porters and messen.
gers; the president, general superinten.
, dent and operators of telegraph compa.
MES, the local superintendent and opera.
3 tors of said companies, not exceeding
: four in number at any one locality but
(: that at the seat of government of the
3 Confederate States; the president, super
Y intendents, captains, engineers, chic
= and employment of all companies en-
n all captains of boats and engineers there
: on employed.
"One editor of each newspaper now
g being published, and such employees as
! the editor or proprietor may certify, on
= oath, to be indispensable for conducting
/ the publication; the public printer, and
: those employed to perform the public
!. printing for the Confederate and State
: Governments; every minister of religion
t authorized to preach according to the
rules of his sect and in the regular dis
, charge of ministerial duties.
"All persons who have been and now
= are members of the society OF Friends,
: and the association of Dunkards, .Naza-
. renes, and Mennonsts, in regular mem
, bership in their respective denomina
tons, provided members of the society OF
Friends, Nazarines, Mennonists and Dun.
, kards shall furnish substitutes, or pay a
tax Of $500 each into the public treasury.
"All physicians who now are, and for
l the last five years have been in actual
practice of their profession.
"All shoemakes. tanners, blacksmiths
wagon makers, millers and their engi
neers, millwrights. skilled and actually
employed as their regular vocation in the
, said trades, habitually engaged in work
Q ing for tho public ord wiIiiet 60 @s.aail,
8 employed; provided said persons shall
make oaths in writing that they are SC
s skilled and actually employed at the
!, time as his regular vocation in one of the
I above trades, which affidavit shall only
} be ,rina facie evidence Of the facts therein
stated.
: provided further, that the exemption:
herein granted to persons by reason oil
their peculiar mechanical or other occu
5 patton or employment not connected
! with the public service, shall be subject
to the condition that the products of la
Dor ofsuch exempts, or of the companies
t 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 oil
3 production, or within maximum to be
) fixed by the Secretary of Warunder such
, regulations as he may prescribe; and 1t is
further provided, that if the proprietors
of any such manufacturing establish
ments shall be shown, upon evidence. to
S be submitted to and judged of by the
= Secretary of War to have violated, or in
, any manner evaded the true intent and
Q spirit of the foregoing proviso, the exemp
a tons therin granted shall no longer be
, extended to their superintendent and
} operatives in said establishments, but
f they and every one of them shall be
: forthwith enrolled under the provisions
of this act, and ordered into the Confed
r crate army. and shall in no event be again
, exempted therefrom by reason of said
: manufacturing establishments or employ
ments therein.
. "All superintendents of public hospit.
5 ais. lunatic asylums and the regular ply
| sicians, nurses and attendants therein
and the teachers employed in the insti
!. tutions for the deaf, dumb and blind; in
!. each apothecary store, now established
and doing business, one apothecary in
: good standing, who is practical apothe
: cary.
Superintendent in wool and cottor
factories, paper mills, and superintend
Eents and managers of wool carding ma
chimes, who may be exempted by the
Secretary of War; provided the profits Of
1such establishments shall not exceed
seventy-fve per oentum upon the cost o.
production. to be determined upon oath
OF the. parties. subject to the same penal
ties for violation of the provisions herein
, contained as are hereinbefore provided in
case of other manufacturing and mechan
) ical employments.
: san presidents and teachers of colleges
, academies, schools, and theological semi
naries who have bean regularlv en1a petl