Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1863-05-14
The Exemption Act.

The following is copy Of the act
amsndatory Of the exemption Act"
Of last session, as passed by Congress:
AN ACT
70 repeal certain clauses of an act
| entiHed g an act to exempt certain
persons from military service, !" etc,
approved I'm October, 1862:
l. The Congress Of the Confeder-
lafe States OF America DO enact, That
so much of The act approved Octo-
Der 18th, 1862, as exempts from
military service zone person either
rs agent, owner, or ovsrseer, on each
plantation on which one white per-
son is required to be kept by the laws
or ordinances 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 per-
son, as agent, owner, or oyerseer, on
each plantation Of twenty negroes,
and on which there is no White r.ale
adnlt not li4bIe to military service
and also the following clause, Of said
act, to wit (: "and, furthermore, for
additional police for every twenty
negroes, ON two, or more plantations,
within Eve miles Of each other. and
each having less than twenty negroes
and on which there is no white male
adult not liable to military duty, one
person being the oldest oil the owners
or overseers on such plantations" be
and are, hereby repealed. E :
g. For the police and manage
ment Of slaves there shall be exemp.
ted one person on each farm or
plantation, the sole property Of a
minor, person Of unsound mind, a
-fenae sole, or person absent from
home in the military or naval service
A
OF the Confederacy, on which there
are twenty or more slaves !. prouded,
the person SO exempted was employed
and acting as an overseer previous 10
the 10th April, 1862, and the2e. is
no white male adult on said farm or
plantation who is not liable to militia
ry duty, which fact snail be Terrified
by the affidavits oi said person and
two respectable citizens, and shall be
filed with the enrolling officer; and
promded, the owner Of such farm or
plantation, bis agent or legal repre-
sentative, shall make affidavit and
deliver the same to the enrolling Of
ficer that alter diligent effortno over
seer can be procured for such farm or
plantation not liable to military duty;
Ipropiaed further, that this clause shall
not be extendto any farm or planta-
ton on whichsthe negroes have been
placed by division from any other
farm or plantation, since the nth
day of October, 1862 {; provided fur
Their, that for every person exempted
as aforesaid, and during the period
Of such exemption, there shall be
paid annually into the public treasu.
ny by the owners of such slaves, the
sum Of five hundred dollars.
8. Such other persons shall be ex.
empted as the President shall be sat
isfed ought TO be exempted, in dis
tricts Of country deprived Of white
or slave labor Indispensable to the
production Of grain necessary for the
support Of The population remaining
at home, and also, on account Of JUS
lice, equity, and necessity. 7 s''
4. In addition to the State officers
exempted by the act of October
18th, 1862, there shall, also, be ex-
empteI all State officers whom the
Governor Of any State may claim to
have exempted for The due admins
tration Of the Government aud laws
thereof; but this exemption shall
not continue in any State after the
adjournment Of the next regular ses.
sion of its Legislature, unless such
Legislature shall BY law exempt them
from military duty in the Provisional
army of the Confederate States.