Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1863-05-13
.TSe Exemption Act,

The following is copy Of the act amenla
tory of the Exemption act of last session, q
passed by Congress:
An Act to repeal certain clauses OF an act EN-
titled IAN act to exempt certain person:
from military service, ETC., approved ! ltl
October, 1862: -
i. The Congress Of the Confederate States
Of America do enact, That so much Of the &C
approved October llth, 1882, as e1onpts iron
military service one person, either as agent
owner, or oyereeer to each plantation on which
one white person is required to be kept BY
the laws or ordinances Of any State, and OF
which there IS no white male adult not liable
to military service, agent, owner OF overseer
on each plantation of twenty negroes, and on
which there is no white male adult'not liable
to military service" and also the following
clauses of said act, to wit "and, furthermore,
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 mot liable to military duty,
one person, being the oldest of the owners or
oversecrs 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hereby repealed.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 property of mi
nor, person Of unsound mind, Jeme sole, or
person absent from home in the military or
naval service Of the Confederacy, on which
there are twenty or more slaves; provided,
such person was employed and acting as an
overseer previous to the l6thiof April, 1862,
and .here is no white maleadul On said farm
or plantation who is not liable 10 military du-
ty, which fact shall be verified by. the af6da-
Wits OF said person, and two respectable clt-
zens, and shall be filed with the enrolling
officer and provided the owner OF said farm
or plantation, his agent or legal representa-
tive. shall make affidavit ard deliver the same
to the enrolling officer, that after diligent ef-
fort, no overseer Can be- procured for such
farm nr plantation not liable TO military duty
provided urther, 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 plantatio', since the llth
day Of October, 1862; provided further that
Tor every person exempted as aforesaid, and
during the period Of such exemption, tuere
shall be paid annually into the public treasu-
ry by the owners of such slaves, the sum OF
five hundred dollars.
3. Such other pei sons shall be exempted
as the President shall be satisfied ought to be
exempted, in districts deprived Of white er
slave labor indispensable 10 the production nt
grain or provisions, necessary for the support
nf the population remaining ct home, and
also, on account Of Justice, equity, and ne
cessity.
4. In addition to the State officers exempt
ed by the act of October llth, 1862. there
shall, also b. exempted all State officers whom
lie Governor OF any State may claim to have
exempted for the due administration of the
and laws thereof; but this eX
,mpi i'm shall not continue i'll any State alter
the adjournment OF the next regular session
of its Legislature, unless such Legislature
shabby law exempt tLem from military duty
n tue; Provisional Army Of lhc Confederate