The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1863-03-06
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
February 81,

T FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE PUB
L. Lie, and as guide to tie officers commanding
companies being organized for service under the
late call of his Excellency the Governor it is hereby
made known that the following persons are exempt
from said service, to wit
/. The lieutenant Governor for the time being Judges
OF courts or law and equity; Ordinaries Clerks of
courts Of general sessions and common pleas; SherS
Masters, Commissioners and Registers in equity; the
Secretary CT State; Surveyor General; Comptroller
General Treasurcrs of the State members Of the Leg
islature andsolccrs thereof Attorney General and
Solicitors persons in Confederate and state military
service officers and cadets of State military Academy
regularly officiating clergymen regular licensed prac
ticing physicians the age Of thrty-tve years.
apothecary to each regularly established drug Of
Six months standing officers and Faculty of the South
Carolina College, and Professors in other incorporated
Colleges and Theological schools, while said Colleges
and schools are in operation; the Superintendent
Teachers and Steward in The Cedar Spring Asylum
schoomasters having under their charge not less than
twenty scholars; all branch pilots: white to
each established ferry, toll bridge toll grain mill if
actually kept b. such white man, the President, Cash
icr and one Teller of each of the Banks of the Sate
the Tcasurers OF Saving Institutions of the State the
officers and men OF the city guard and the Fire De-
parmcnt OF Charleston and Columbia the officers and
as many employees of each Railroad Company the
President or snperintendentmay certify to be necessa
ry to the efficient conduct of its business POUided
that 1t shall also be certified that the duties of said
employees cannot be discharged by slaves; the Super
ntendcnt and Keeper of the Lunatc Asylum and their
aSSlSan stewards or Keepers Ol The poor houses,
the Keepers OF the Arsenals Of the State; persons
holding Office under the Confederate States except
Deputy postmasters; persons employed by the State
or by the Confederate States in the manufacture of
| arms munitions of war and army supplies; all per-
SONS actually engaged in the manufacture of salt on
the seacoast the Members Of the Boards of Relief
Soldiers Families; overseers having certificates Of
emption issued from this office; persons under the age
of sixteen and above the age of fifty years, and per-
sons between the ages OF eighteen and forty.
III. Persons claiming under
present the evidence OF their claim in writing and
oath, to the commanding officers accompanies in which
they arc liable to service who hereby authorZd,
II the claimant be clearly entitled his exemption
mark opposite his the company roll "Ex-
empt and such person shall return the evidence of
such exemptions to the commanding officer Of the
giment when it shall have been organized, to be
vised by him. and he shall finally determine all such
cases.
III. Persons having certificates Of exemption from
this Office will not be required to produce further
proof OF their right to the same unless the commanding
officer Of the company has to believe that the
person is no longer engaged in the occupation
pioyment which was the ground of his exemption
Nv. All applications for discharges the ground
of physical disability must be made to commanding
officers of regiments (after the organization on the
certificates of the Surgeons said regiments Provided
That the commanding officers Of companies shall have
power, and are hereby authorized to from ap-
pearing in camp persons who are certified by a ply
sican of s:andingt to be unable to attend or whose
lives or health would be seriously endangered by
going to camp, and report all such the
manding officers Of their respective regiments to be
subject to his revision.
" No furloughs exemption other than for over
will be granted at this Office and all applica-
tions for furoughs must be made Ito the command
ing officers of regiments.
vi. No causes of discharges exemption other
than those herenbeore enumerated are provided for
by law.
BY command
tSigned0 A. G. DARLINGTON
Adjutant and Inspector General Of S. G.
Official G.. A. FoLLN, A. A. G..
BPapers of the State copy once.
March 6
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