Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-07-31
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, J


Richmond Va, May a. 1868.
The following act of Congress is published for the infor
nation of all concerned:
An act to repeal certain clauses of an act entitled an act
exempt certain persons from military service etc. ap
proved 18th October 1863.
l. The Congress If tie Confederate Suites Of america do
enact That so much of the act approved October llth
1862 exemps from military service one person. either
as agen owner or oVerseer on each plantation which
one white person required to be kept by the laws or
duances oil any State and which there white male
adult not liable to military service and in States having
no such law one person. as agent owner
each plantation OF twenty negroes and which there is
while male adult not liable military service and also
the following clause of said act to w.t. and furthermore
for additional police for every twenty negroes on two or
more plantations within five miles of each other and each
having less than twenty negroes and which there is no
white male adult not liable to military duty, person.
being the Oldest of the such plan
| tatiOns, be auC are hereby repealed.
q For the police and management of slaves there shall
be exempted one person each farm plantation the
sole property OF MINOR person of unSOund mind a
tame sole person absent trCm home the military or
naval service of the COnderacy which there are
ty or more slaves proCieG the person exempted was
employed and acting previous to the 18th
of April 1862 and there is white male adult said
farm or plantation who is not liable to military duty;
which fact shall be verified by the adaTits of said person
aud two respectable citizens and shall be filed with the
enrolling officer md provided the of such farm
plantation this agent legal representative shall make
affidavit aud deliver the to the enrolling officer that
afe dgent effort be procured for such
farm plantation not liable to military duty; proUided
further, that this clause shall not extend to any farm
plantation ON which the negroes have been placed by d.
vision from any other farm plantation since the 18th
day of October 1862; provifeI further that for every
person exempted aforesaid and during the period Of
such exemption there shall be paid annually into the pub
lie treasury by the owners Of such slaves the of five
g. Such other persons shall be exempted as the Presi-
dent shall be satisfied ought to be exempted in district of
country deprived of white slave labor indispensable
the production of grain provisions necessary for the
port of the population remaining at home and also on
count of justice, equity and necessity.
In addition the State officers exempted by the act
of October th 1862 there shall also be exempted all State
officers whom the Governor OF any State may claim to have
exempted for the due administration of the government and
laws thereof but this exemption shall not continue in any
State after the adjournment of the next regular session of
its Legislature unless such Legislature SHALL by law,
enpt them from military duty the provisional army of
the Confederate States.
lApproved May l, 1863.
Brgadier.General and Superintendent.
July 90, 1868. 6l-lw.
tty Register, Western Democrat Fayetteville Observer,
Wilmington Journal, Salisbury Waterman and Asheville
News copy one week with this paragraph.
TONSCRIPT OFFICE, CAMP HOLMES,
u July 25 lS63.-The following notice is hereby pub
lished for the information OF all concerned
Col. PETER MALLETT
Comdr of COnscripts for N. c.
NOTICE.
BUREAU OF CoSscRIPrIoH, I
Richmond, Va, July 2lst, 1868.
To inquiries and to not
uncommon the following notice is published to all con-
l. Under the recent call of the President extending the
conscrpt age all substitutes have ceased to be valid
the substitute be less than 45 Years old and not other
wise exempt by law.
III. Membership, unless officer duly accepted by
the War Department of local organization for home de-
fence special service, cOnfers claim to exemption
from Confederate service neither does service in the mi
ita unless in of officers actually in commission who
have duly qualified.
III. Hereafter any furnishing a substitute will be-
come liable in his person whenever the services of the
substitute lost to the from any other
than the casualties of war.
". Application for. exemption on any ground what
must first be addressed the local enrolling officer
who if he has not power to act is in doubt will refer
them to higher authority with report of the facts. ALI
such addressed direct to higher authority will necessarily
and invariably be referred back for local examination and
report; and the applicants will thus have useessy lost
time and prolonged suspense.
Appeals against adverse decisions by local officers will
be forwarded by them for hearing, when any plausible
ground of appeal is set FORTH
" Commandments of Conscripts will give this notice
ensive circulation in the local press of their respective
States G.. w. LAY, Lit. Col, A. A. G.,
Acting Chief of Bureau
July 29 1853 6l-
tE5 Register, Western Democrat, Fayetteville Obser-
yer, Wilmington Journal! Salisbury Waterman and Ash
vile News copy until goth August next with this para
graph.