Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-07-28
oEE1cE. CAMP Ho1Mns

GONSCRIPT OFFICE, CAMP HOLMES,
~ July %, 1868. General Orders, No 10. =
concerned that the rst paragraph of General Orders No
H. issued from this Office must not be construed apply
ing TO any person exempted the Of
twenty negroes under the Exemption Act, approved
octo6er llth 1882 much of said act relates
emptons Of owners and oveee of negroes has been
repealed by anact approved May.lst 1868.
To claim exemption as the overseer of 20 negroes per-
annexed.
By order of Col. PETER MAELETT,
Commandant of COnscripts for N. C.
J. w. MALLETT, Adjutant.
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AaERICA,)
BUREAU OF CONSUMPTION ,
Richmond Va. Nav IA 1853
The following act of Congress published for the nor-
nation of all concerned:
An act to repeal certain clauses of act entitled an act to
EXEMPT Certain persons from military SERVICE ETC., ap
i. Tie Congress of tie C51fedrats Suites of America do
enact That SO much OF the act approved October lth,
1861 as exempts from military one person. either
as agent owner oTerseer each plantation on which
one white person is required be kept by the laws or
dnances OF any State and which there white male
adult not liable to military service aad in States having
Sucn law one as agent owner or overseer on
eacn OF twenty negroes and on which there is
no while male adult not liable to mill ary service and also
the following clause of said act to wit: and furthermore
Tor addnona police for every twenty negroes on two
more plantations within five miles ct each other and each
naIng less than twenty negroes anil which there
wnlte male adult not liable to military duty, person,
beng the oldest Of the owners such PLAN
For the police and management of slaves there shall
,s one person each farm plantation the
tsrne O person le . Ss M SnsSHnd sou mind a
naVa service OF the Couderacy which there are en
o, more slaves Pocdet the person so exempted was
employed ana acting overserr previous To the 18th
OF APr 1862 and there ia white male adult on said
larm or plantation who is not nbe to military dntv
Wncn lact Shall be verified by the adavits of said
and two respectable citizens and shall be filed win tba
enrolling oeer; and preoidd the owner of such farm or
plantation this agent legal representative shall make
Anuavt and deliver the the enrolling officer that
6er dgent effort can be procured fr snch
Isrn or plantation not liable to- military duty aoDidsI
Iae that this clause shall not extend to apy farm or
PAn4Sn on which the negroes have been placed by d-
day of October 1862; proUided further that for sr
person exempted as aforesaid and during the neriod ~
such exemption there shall be pail annually rta fb
c treasury BY the of such slaves the sum of
hundred dollars. N ~ S" H'o
Such other persons shall be excmpted az the Prs;
dent shall be satisfied ought to be Exempted in district of
country deprived of white slaye labor to
port OF the population remaining at home and also on sc
count OF JUSTICE equity and necessity
lD aooltlnn TO the State officers exempted nv The art
oVctooer llth 1862 there Sbataso be exeDted ali State
oeers whom the Governor of State NAV claim to have
exempted Tor the due administration of the government and
nereo put tins exemption shall continue in any
ae aer The adjournment of The next regular session Of
us legislature unless such Legi stature SHALL by law ex-
epG them from military duty the provisional army of
the Confederate States. ' "
Approved May l, 1861
G.J RAINS,
. BrgadierGeneral and Superintendent.
SIL 5o !ooo. 6l-1Y.
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