Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-07-30
CONSCRIPT OFFICE,
CAMP HOLMES, July IS, 1868.
GENERAL ORDEBs,


~ Office hereby given to Colonies of Militia and to all
concerned that the first paragraph of General Orders
No. H. issued office construed as ap,
plying airy exempted the owner
0c ith 1862 as SO much Of said act as relates to ex
empons of owners and of 20 negroes has been
repealed by act approved May lst 1863.
TO claim exemption the oveIseer of 20 negroes, per
must comply with all the conditions of sad act hereto
annexed.
BY order of
Col. PETER MALLETT,
Commandant of Conscripts for N. G.
J. w. MALLETr, Adjutant.
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICAI
BUREAU CONSUMPTION,
Richmond, Va, May IA, 1853
ENHE following act of Congress published for the nfor
L nation of all concerned:
AN ACT TO REPEAL CERTAIN CLAUSES OF AN ACT
SONS From Military TAI SERVICE, ETC, APPROVED
~ The C1nqreSs of the Confederate States of America
do enact That much of the approved October th
1852, exemps from military service one person, either
overseer each plantation on which
white is required to be kept by the laws
of any State, and which there white
adult not liable military SERVICE and in States
ing such law, person, agent oveTseer
white male adult not lab to military SERVICE,
also the following clause of sad act, towit and further
Or more plantations within five miles other
having less than twenty negroes and which there
white male adult not liable to military duty, person,
being the Oldest OF the such plana
| tions be and are hereby repealed.
For the police and management of slaves there shall
be exempted person each farm plantation, the
sole property MINOR person of unsound mind, te1e
sOLe absent from home in the military
of the COME deracy which there twenty
more slaves: prOUlded the person 80 exempted
pIoYed and actng previous to the 18th of
April 1884, and there white male adult said farm
or plantation who is liable to military duty which
fact shall be verified by the adavits said person
respectable Citizens and shall be filled with the enrol
ling officer: and pr0Uded, the of such farm plan
taton this legal representative snail MAKE ALI
dayt and deliver the tue enrolling officer, that
after dgent bs procured for such
farm or plantation la military duty pToUded
further this clause shall not extend any farm
which the negroes have been placed by dyi
SION any other farm pentaon since the llth day
exempted as aforesaid and during the period Of such
empton, there shall be paid annually into the public
treasury by the Of slaves the sum OF i've hun
| dred dollGrs. -
49, Such other persons shall be exempted as the Presi-
dent sa be satisfied ought be mpted in district OF
cuutrv deprived white slave Labor indispensable TO
the production of gram provisions necessary for the
the population remaining at h0me and also on
account CT justice, equity and necessity.
la addition the State officers exempted by the act
of IIth, 1862 there shall also be exempted all
State eff VIII the Governor OF any state clam
To have exempted due administration OF the gov
ernment laws thereof but this exemption shall not
continue any eiter the adjournment Of the
ua1 session sature unless such Legislature shall
by law exempt them from military duty ID the provisional
| army of the Confederate States.
| Improved May l, 1868
| q. J. RAlEs,
B,isadier Gansral and superintendent
July 23th, 1865. "a 81.
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