The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-08-04

persons comply with all the conditions OF said act
hereto annexed
Ey order Of Col PETER NArLETT,
Commandant Of Conscripis for N. &C.
J. W. MALLErr, Adjutnnt.
CONFEDERATE STATES OF ANEnlCA.l
BUREAU OF CONSUMPTION
Richmond, Va, May IA, 1853. }
The following Act Of Congress is published for tho
Information OF all concerned:
AN ACT 10 repeal certain clauses OF nm Act entitled
An Act TO Exempt certain persons from Military
Service, etc. approved llth October, 1862.
!. The Congress of the Confederate States Of Amer
do enact, That much of the act approved Octo-
Der llth 1862, as exemPts from military service, ono
person, either agent, ovorseer, each
plantation which white person is required TO DO
kept by the laws ordinances OF any State and ON
which there Is white male adult not liable TO nfi
tary service, and in States having such Jaw,
person agent, owner overseer each plantation
of twenty negroes, and which there is no white
male adult liable to military service" and also the
following clause of said act to-wit "aud, further
more, 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
on which there is no white male adult not liable 10
military duty, person, being the oldest OF the
owners overseers such plantations" be and
hereby repealed.
q. For the police and management OF slaves there
shall be exempted person on each farm planta
tion the sole property OF minor, person CT uRsound
mind, feme soie person absent from home in the
military naval service Of the Confcderacy, on which
there twenty more slaves: pToVidc the person
exempted was employed and acting an oYerscer
previous to the 10th OF April, 1862 anu there IL
white male adult said farm plantation who is
liable TO military duty which fact shall be verified by
The aifdavts of said person and two respectable c-
zens, and shall be filed with the enrolling officer and
PTor'dcd the owner of such farm plantation, his
agent or legal representative shall make affidavit uut
deliver the same to the enrolling officer that after dili
gent effort no overseer can be procured for snch farm
or plantation not liable to military duty; provided,
FURTHER that this clause shall extend any farm or
plantation which the negroes have been placed by
division from any other farm plantation since the
18th day of October, 1862 proridcd fnrtlc that for
every person exempted aforesaid, aud during the
period of such exemption there shall be paid annually
into the public treasury by the owners Of such slaves
the sum of five hundred dollars.
B. Such other persons shall be exempted rs the
President shall be satisfied ought TO be exempted In
any district Of country deprived of white slave labor
indispensable TO the production Of grain provisions
necessary for TIE support of the population remaining
Mt home, and also account OF justice, equity and
necessity.
L. In addition to the State officers exempted by the
act of October llb 1862 there shall also be exempted
all State officers whom the Governor of any State may
claim 10 have exempted for the due administration OF
the government and laws thereof but this exemption
Of the next regular session of its Legislature unless
such Legislature shall, by law exempt them from mill
ary duty in The provisional army OF the Confederate
States. Approved May /, 1861
g. J. RAINS,
Brigadier-Gcneral ana Superintendent.
Aug 3, 1868 1t
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