Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-05-13
The Exemption Act. Z

The following isa copy Of the Act amend;
atory of the "Exemption Act" Of last ses-
sion, as passed BY the present Congress
An act to repeal certain clauses of an Act
entitled can Act toszenpt certain per-
sons from military ssruice, !" etc, appro-
ved 11h October, 1852.
l. The Congress d T the Confederate
States of America dosaaet, Thatso much
fthe Act approved October 11th, 1862,
as exempts from mititary service aene per.
son, eithersas agent, o8aer, or oversesr, on
each plantation on which one white person
is required to be kept by the laws or ordi.
nauces of any State, and on. which there is
no white male adult not liable to military
service, and in States having no such law,
one person, as agent, owner, or overseer,
on each plantation of twenty negroes, and
on which there is no white male adult not
liable to military service,". and also the fol.
lowing clause of said Act, to wit: sand,
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 on
which there is no white male adult not Ii.
able to military duty, one person, being the
oldest Of the owners or overseers on such
plantations" be and are hereby repealed.
2 For the police and management of
slaves there shall be exempted one person
on each farm or plantation, the sole proper.
ty of minor, person Of unsound mind,
teme sole, or a person absent from home
in the military or naval service of the Con.
federacy, on which there are twenty OF
more slaves: Provided, the person so ex.
empted was employed and acting as an over
seer previous to the 10th of April, 1862,
and there is no white male adult on said
farm or plantation who is not liable to mill.
tary duty, which fact shall be verified by the
afidavits Of said person and two respectable
citizens, and shall be filed with the enroll
ing officer And Provided, the owner of
such farm or plantation, his agent orlegal
representative, shall make affidavit and de-
liver the same to the enrolling officer, that
after diligent effort no overseer can he pro.
cured for such farm or plantation not liable
to military duty: Pnouided further, that
this clause shall not extend to any farm or
plantation on which the negroes have been
placed by division from any other farm or
plantation, since the the 18th day q, Octo.
ber, 1862: Provided Jssrt1ser, that for eve
.ry person exempted as Aforesaid, and du.
ring the period of such exemption, there
shall be paid annually into the public trea.
sury by the owners Of such slaves, the sum
of FIVE hundred dollars.
8. Such other persons shall be exempted
as the President shall be satisfied ought to
be exempted, in districts of country de.
prived of white or slave labor indispensable
to the production of grain or provisions, ne.
cessary for the support of the population re-
naming at home, and also on account Of
Justice, equity, and necessity.
4. In addition to the State officers ex.
empted by the Act of October 18th, 1862,
there shall, also, be exempted all State Of
fcers whom the Governor Of any State may
claim to have exemptedfor the due admin
iatration Of the Government and laws there:
of; hut this exemption shall not continue ID
any State after the adjournment Of the next
regular session of its Legislature, unless
such Legislature shall BY law exempt them
from military duty in the Provisional Army
of the Confederate States.