The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-08-11
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA,
BUREAU CoNsCRrPTIoN, :
Richmond Va, May IA, 1868. J
The following Act of Congress is published for the
information of all concerned:
AN ACT to repeal certain clauses of an Act entitled
An Act to Exempt certain persons from Military
Service, ETC., approved l'h October, 1862.
/. The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer
do enact That much of the act approved Octo-
Der lth 1862, exempts from military service, zone
person. either as agent, owner or oversecr, each
plantation which one white person isrequired to be
kept by the laws ordinances of any State and on
which there is white male adult not liable to mill
tary service, and in States having such law, one
person agent owner oroverseer on each plantation
of twenty negroes, and which there is no white
male adult liable to military service, and also tire
following clause of said act, to-wit: "and further
more, for additional police for every twenty negroes
plantations, within five miles of each
other and each having less than twenty negroes and
which there is white male adult not liable to
military duty one person, being the oldest of the
owners oyersecrs such Plantations, be aud are
hereby repealed.
2. For the police and management Of slaves there
shall be exempted person each farm planta
tion the sole property Of minor, person of uHsound
mind, feme SOLE person absent from hcme in the
military naval service of the Confederacy, which
there twenty slaves: ProOided the person
so exempted was employed and acting oyerseer
previous to the 10th OF APRIL 1862, and there is
white male adult said farm or plantation vino is not
liable to military duty which fact shall be verified by
the adavfts of said person and two respectable cit
zens and shall be filed with the enrolling officer and
Droyi9eH the owner. of such farm plantation his
agent or legal representative shall make affidavit and
deliver the same the enrolling officer that after dill
cent effort no overseer be procured for such rm
or plantation not liable to military duty: proUided
ft6er that this clause shall extend any farm or
Iantation on which the negroes have been placed by
division from any other farm plantation since the
11th day of October, 1862: proyded Jrter that for
overv nerson exempted aforesaid and during the
nerod of such exemption, there shall be paid annually
into the public treasury by the of such slaves
tho sam of FIVE hundred dollars
? such other persons shall be exempted as the
President shall be satisfied ought be exempted in
district country deprived of white or slave labor
INDISPENSABLE to the production of grain provisions
necessary for TIE support of the population remaining
Of home and also on account OF justice equity and
In addition to the State officers exempted by the
oct of october lb, 1862, there shall also be exempted
all state officers whom the Governor of any State may
LAIN to have exempted fer the due administration OF
Tho Government and laws thereof but this exemption
La17 not continue in any State after the adjournment
cb roisature shall, by law exempt them from mill
tar duty in the provisional army OF the confederate
SITES. GApprored May !, 1851
Brigadier-Genera and Superintendent
Aug ,, 1868 1t
REGISTER. Progress, Standard, Western Democrat,
I, o9tTeviIIe Observer, Wilmington Journal Salisbury
Waterman and Asheville News copy week with his
paragraph.