Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-05-06
TIE Exemption Act,


The following is copy of the act amendatoty Of
the exemption Act" OF last session. as passed by
Congress at Richmond:
AN ACT
To repeal certain clauses of an act entitled tan act
to exempt certain persons from military service,
etc. approved 18th October, 1862"
/. The Congress Of the Confederate States of
America do enact, That SO much of the act ap-
proved October 18th, 1862, as exempts from mill
tary service zone person, either as agent, owner,
or overseer, on each plantation on which one white
person is required to DO kept By the laws or ordi
nances OF any State, and on which there is white
male adult not liable to military service, and in
States having no snch law, one person, as 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 also the follow
ing clause Of said act, to wit: land, Furthermore,
for 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 white male adult not liable
to military duty, one person, being the Oldest of
the owners or oSerseers 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and are hereby repealed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 minor, person
Of unsound mind, Jsme sole, or person absent
from home in the military or naval service of the
Confederacy, on which there are twenty or more
slaves; proridc2, the person so exempted was
employed ana acting an overseer previous to the
10th April, 1863 and there is no white male adult
said farm plantation, who is not liable to mil
tary duty which fact shall be- verified by the ada-
Wits of said person and two respectable citizens, and
shall be FLED with tho enrolling officer; and propi.
de the owner Of such farm or plantation, his agent
legal representative, shall make affidavit and de-
liver the same to the enrolling officer that after dill
gent effort overseer can be procured for such farm
or plantation not liak!e to military duty; provided
further, 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 planta
ton since the lth lsy of October, 1862 procided
further, that for every person exempted as afore
said and during the period of such exemption there
shall, be paid annually into the public treasury by
the owners Of such slaves, the sum Of Eve hundred
dollars r..
8. Such other persons shall be exempted as the
President shall be satisfied ought to be exempted,
in districts of country deprived Of white or slave
labor indispensable to the production Of grain or
provisions, necessary for thesupport Of the popula
ton remaining at home and asa on account Of JUS
tice, equity and ne cessity.
4. In addition to the State officers exempted by
the act of October, 18th, 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 thereof;
but this exemption shall not continuefn any State
after the adjournment Of the next regular ses-
sion of its Legislature unless such Legislature shall
by law exempt them from military dutyiu the Pro.
visioual Army of the Confederate States.