Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-02-17
THE MILITARY ExEMPTIoN'ACT.

| SSai nv both Houses oil Congress:
Bill to exempt certain persons from military service
and 20 repeal the act entitled An act TO exempt certain
persons from enrolment for service in the army ot the 00
iederae States" approved the 2lst OF April, 1907
IxvAuDs nFFICERs GOVERNMENT, CLERKS ETC.
/ l. Tie OnQrsss of The Confederate States # 4H"sci-a DO
enact That all who shall be held unit for military
service in the field BY of bodily mental incaPac
" imbecty under rules to be prescribed oy me
reary of war the of the Confederate States
The officers judicial and executive Of the Confederate ana
State Governments, including postmasters appointed 1y
the President and confirmed by the Senate ana sucn
in their offices allowed by the POsmasterGsnera
and now employed and excluding all other posniAsers'
their assistants and clerks and except such state ocers
the several States have declared OF may heeae
declare by law to be liable militia duty the members
of both Houses of the Congress of the States
and the Legislatures of the several States and their re-
spective officers all clerks in the offices of the Con
ederate and State governments, authorized oy la" re-
| ceiVng salaries or fees.
All volunteer troops heretofore raised by any State since
the passage of the entitled An act further TO PROVIDE
for the public defence, approved April l6th 1897 whe
such troops shall be in active under State authoTl
ty provided that this exemption shall not apply to any
person who liable TO be called into service Dy virtue
! of said act of April 10th, 1862.
TRANSPORTATION TELEGRAPH COMPANIES
All pilots and persons engaged IN the meIran. rpaS
urerS chief clerks, engineers, managers station agents.
eight miles, and mechanics in the active service ana EN-
Payment of railroad companies, not TO embrace aoore
porers and engers; the president general super
tendent and operators of telegraph companies the local
superintendent and operators of said companies not to ex
coed four in number any locality but that at the seat OF
pernendentS captains engineers chief clerk and mechan
les in the actual service and employment of all companies
in river and canal navigation, and all captains OF bOas and
| engineers thereon employed
| EDITORS PRINTERS PREAcHERs
such employees as the editor proprietor may certify
upon oath be indispensable for conducting the pu6ca
ton; the public printer and those employed TO perform
public printing for Confederate aud State Govern
mens; every minister of religion authorized 10 preach ac
cordug the rules of his sect and in the regular discharge
Of ministerial duties
RELIGIOUS NON coxBArANrs
All persons who have been and members OF the
Society q" Friends and the Association Of Dunkers Naz
and MennGnsts in regular membership in their re-
sective denominations provided members OF the society
of Friends NazareneS MenRnnistS, and DunkcrS shall
furnish substitutes pay tax OF SOU each INTO the pub
lie Treasury.
All physicians who and for the last I'VE years
have been in actual practice of their profession
sHoEuASERS, TANNERS ETC.
All sbOemakerS, tanners binckSmithS. wagon makers
merS and their engineers, millwrights skilled and ac'
tuay employed their regular vocation in the said trades
haOitualy engaged in working fo: the pubic and whilst 80
actually employed provided said shall make oath
in writing that they skilled and actually employed
at the time their regular vocation in one oi he above
trades, which affidavit shall only be prnHI Lc'' evidence
of the facts therein stated.
PRovIso AGAINST ExrORrIoS.
PrOr3ed further, That the exemptions herein granted
to persons by of their peculiar mechanical or other
occupation employment not connected with the public
service shall be subject the cuudun that the products
of the labor of such exemp of the COMPANIES and
adjustments with which they connected shall be sold
and disposed Of by the prpeios at prices not exceeding
scvenyhve per cenum upon the cSt of Production or
within maximum to be liked Gv the Secretary OF War
under SSch regulations he may prescribe; and 1t is
further provided that If the prupretUTS u such manu-
featuring establishment shall be shown upon evidence 10
be submitted and judged of by the Secretary ot War Ia
have violated in manner evaded, the true intent
and spirit of the foregoing proviso the exemptions therein
granted shall longer be extended Ia them upernten
dents or operatives IN said establishments but hey ana
each and every of them, shall be forthwith enrolled
under the provisions of this act and ordered into the CON
federate army, aud shall in event be again exempted
thererOm BY of said manufacturing establishments
enployments therein.
HOSPITALS, AsYLUNS
and the regular sa8 a and endn
and the teachers emp Dyed in the institutions for the deaf
dumb and blind In each aporhecary establish
ed and doing business, apOhecary in good standing,
who is a practical apothecarv.
WOOL, COTTON, AND PAPER WAxUFACrURERs.
SupeTniendentS and operatives in wool and cotton fac
tories paper mills and superintendent and managers of
wool cardng machines who be exempted Gv the Sec
rotary of War; provided the profits Of such establishments
shall not exceed seventy five cenum upon the cost o
production to be determined upun oath Of the parties
subject The penalties for violation Of the provisions
herein contained herenbetnre provided in Of
other manufacturing and mechanical empluyments.
EDUCATIONAL EXEMPTIONS
Apresdents and teachers ofcolleges academies schools
and theological Summaries who have been regularly
gagged such for preceding the passage Of this
ARTISANS EMPLOYED on "GOyERSNEST WORK"
All artisans mechanics and employees in the establish
of the government for the manufacture of arms ord
nance ordnance stores and other munitions of who
may be certified BY the officer in charge thereof
and employees in the establishments of such persons
be engaged under contracts with the Govern
in furnishing arms, ordnance ordnance stores and
other munitions of saddles harness. and army sup
plies provided that the chief of the ordnance bureau
some ordnance officer authorized by him for the purpose
shall approve of the number of the operatives required in
such establishment; all persons employed in the manu-.
acture of arms ordnance of any kind BY the several
Sa;esS BY contractors to furnish the the
er State Governments, whom the Governor or Secretary
of State thereof may certify to be necessary TO the
all persons engaged in the construction OF ships gunbOaiS
other articles public
under the direction Of the Secretary of the Navy all
superintendent managers mechanics and miners en-
pOycd in the production and manufacture of SALT the
extent of twenty bushels day. and Of lead and rOn and
all persons engaged in making charcoal for making pig and
bar iron, TO embrace aborer messengers waguuers
and servants unless employed at works conducted under
the authority and BY the officers agents OF State or in
works employed the production OF iron for the COniede
| rate States.
| STOCK RAIsERs.
One male citizen for every head cattle for every
$50 head of horses mules and shepherd for every
500 head Of sheep of such persons engaged excu
sivey in raising stock provided there is white male
adult not liable to do military duty engaged with such per-
son in raising said stock
ovERsEERs PLANTATIONS.
To secure the proper police of the country person
either as agent owner or overseer on each plantation
which one white IS required to be kept by the laws
ordinances of any State and which there is no white
male adult not liable TO do military SERVICE and States
having no such law one person. agent owner,
each plantation of twenty negroes and on which
there is white male adult not abeto military service
and furthermore, for additional police for
groes on two or more plantations within five miles of each
other and each having less than twenty negroes and
which there is white male adult liable military
duty, person. being the Oldest of the or over
seers on such plantations.
SPECIAL EXEMPTIONS.
Also regiment raised under and BY authority of the
State of Texas for the frontier defence the service
of said State while such SERVICE and such other per-
sons the President shall be satisfied of jus
ice equity, or necessity ought TO be exempted here
by exempted from military service in the armies of the
Confederate States provided that the exemptions herein
above enumerated shall only continue whilst the persons
exempted are actually engaged their respective pursuits
occupations.
2. That the act entitled exempt certain per-
sons from enrolment for service in the the Con-
federae States approved the 2lst April 1862 is hereby
repealed.
Explanations and Instructions as to the Con-
scripIIon and Exemption Laws, by the Adj
infant General.