The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-05-12
CHARLOTTE, N. c., TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1863.
THE EXEMPTION ACT.

The following is copy of the act amendatory
OF the exemption Act" of last session, as passed
by Congress recently:
An Act to repeal certain clauses of act entitled
Gan act to exempt certain persons from military
service, etc.: =
1. The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact, That so much of the act ap-
proved October 11th, 1862, as exempts from mill
tary service Cone person, either as agent owner or
oversees, on each plantation on which one white
person is required to be kept by the laws or ordi-
nances 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, 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 the
following clause Of said act to wits "and, further
more, for additional police for every twenty ne
groes, on two or more plantations, within five miles
of each other, and each baving less than twenty
negroes, and on which there is no white male adult
not liable to military duty, one person being the
oldest of the owners overseers on such planta-
tons," be and are hereby repealed.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 minor, per-
son Of unsound mind, fenae sole, or person abb
sent from home in the military or naval service of
the Confederacy, on which there are twenty or
more slaves, provided, the person so exempted was
employed and acting overseer previous to the
10Th April, 1862, and there is white male adult
on said farm or plantation who is not liable to
military duty, which fact shall be verified by the
afdavits of said person and two respectable citi-
zens, and shall be filed with the officer and pro-
vided, the owner of such farm or plantation, his
agent or legal representative, shall make affidavit
and deliver the same to the enrolling officer that
after digent effort overseer can be procured
for such farm plantation not liable to military
duty; proUided further, that this clause shall not
negroes have been placed by division from any
other farm plantation, since the l1th day of
October, 1862; provided further, that for every
person exempted as aforesaid, and during the Pc
riod of such exemption, there shall be paid annu-
ally into the public treasury by the owners of such
slaves, the sum of five hundred dollars.
g. Such other persons shall be exempted as the
President shall be satisfied ought to be exempted,
in districts of country deprived of white slave
labor indispensable to the production of grain or
provisions, necessary for the support Of the popu
lation remaining at home, and also, account of
justice, equity, and necessity.
f. In addition to the State officers exempted by
the act of October, l1th, 1862 there shall also be
exempted all State officers whom the Governor of
any State may claim to have exempted for the
due administration of the Government and laws
tn ereof; but this exemption shall not continue in
any State after the adjournment of the next regu
lar session of its Legislature unless such Legisla-
ture shall by law exempt them from military duty
in the Provisional Army Of the Confederate States.