Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-07-29

u July Is, 1858. General Orders, No Is
Notice is hereby given to Colonies of militia and to all
T. issued from this ods must not be construed as sppy
ing any person exempted as the owner or overseer Of
(2O twenty negroes under the Exemption Act approved
October llh 1862 az so much of sa act - relates
repealed BY an act approved Nay ist 1858,
To claim exemption the Of 20 negroes per-
sons must comply with conditions Of said act hereto
BY order Of Col. PETER MALLETT,
Commandant Of Conscripts for N. O.
J. W. MAILsrr, Adjutsnt.
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA,)
BuREAU OF CoSscRIr11ox, :
Tho following act of Congress is published for the inior.
nation of all concerned:
An act to repeal clauses Of entitled act to
EXEMPT certain persons from military service etc, ap-
l. 7zs c0ngrsss Of the Confederate State IT Asssriea do
enact That so much OF the act approved October 18th,
- sgen owner or overseer on each plantation which
one white person sreqared to be kept by the laws
dnsnces OF any State and which there white male
adult not liable to military service and iutases having
such law. person. agent owner or overseer on
each plantation of twenty negroes and on which there
while male adult not liable military service and also
for additional police for every twenty negroes on
more plantations within five miles OF each othe and each
having less than twenty negroes and which there is
white male adult not liable military duty one person.
being the oldest Of the On such PLAN
tatOns, be and are hereby repealed.
For the police and management Of slaves there shall
be exempted one person each farm or plantation the
sole property OF minor, peFs;a Of nps0und mind,
fame sole or person absent from home in the military or
naval service Of the Condeacy which there are
ty or more slaves provdd the person exempted
employed and acting previous the 10th
OF April, 1852, and there is white male adult on said
farm or plantation who is not liable military duty
which fact shall DO verified the adsvs of said person
and two respectable citizens. and shall be filed with the
enrolling officer and prouidsd the of such farm or
plantation, this agent legal representative shall make
affidavit and deliver the to the enrolling officer that
eer dgent effort no overseer be procured for such
farm or plantation not liable to military duty provided
Jae that this clause shall not extend to any farm
plantation which the negroes been placed by d.
vision from any other farm Plantation since the 18th
day OF October 1862; prouided 1urer that for every
person exempted aforesaid and during the period Of
such exemption there shall be paid annually the pub
nc by be owners of such slaves the sum of five
Such other persons shall be exempted the Prea-
dent shall be satisfied ought to be in district Of
country deprived of white slave labor indispensable to
the of grain provcs necessary for the
port of the population remaining home aud also on &C.
count of justice, equity and necessity.
In addition to the State ofic rs exempted BY the act
OF October lh 1852 there shall also be exempted all State
Omcers whom the Governor Of any State may claim to baye
exempted for the due administration Of the and
laws thereo but this exemption she'll continue any
State after the adjournment of tie regular session Of
its Legislature, unless such Legislature SHALL by law ex-
enpt them from military duty in The provisional army Of
the Confederate States.
lApproved May l, 1868.
G.. RAINS,
. BrigadierGe ard Superintendent.
July ~, 1858. 6i-lw.
Register, Western Democrat Fayetteville Observer
Wilmington Journal Salisbury Watchnan and Asheville
News copy one week with this paragraph.