The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-03
ADJ'T INSP. GENERALS OFFICE }
COLUMBIA, S. c. June II, 1863.
GENERAL ORDER NC.2l.
EXTRACT.

IA. LIE fCLLOW ING ARE EXEMPTED
by Act of the General Assembly of this State
from "a!' military service, and, therefore. from
draft under General Orders No. 20, viz: The
Lieutenant Governor; the Judge of the Courts
OF Law aGd tqolty; the Ordinar;es; Clerk of
the e-urts OF General Sessions and Common
PIe;'s; Sherifts; Masters Commissioners and Reg
listers IN Equity, the Secretary of State, Surveyor
Genelai; Comp troller-General and Trcasure,s
of the State. And the following persons are
exempted by said Act from actual service he.
yond the limits OF their respective Districts
and will not he subject to sand draft viz. rbe
members OF both branches of the L,eris)atnre
and their respective officers, including the At
iornev General and the Solicitors The State.
persons In Confederate and State Military SER
wee, officers and cadets Of the State Military
Academy; regularly officiating cergymen; rcg-
ulary licensed precticing physicians over the
age OF thir'y-hNe Years; one apothecary to each
regularly established drng store of six months
standing; officers and Faculty Of the South
Carolina, College and Professors in other in
corporated Colleges and Theological Schools.
while such Colleges and Schools are in opera
ton; the Superintendent, Teachers and Stew
ard OF the Cedar Springs Asylum; Schoolmas
tcrs having under their charge not less Than
twenty scholars; all Branch Pilots: one white
man to each established ferry, toll bridge or toll
grain mill, if actually kept by such white man:
the President, Cashier and one Teller of each of
the Banks of the State; the Treasurers of Saw
ings Institutions of the State; the officers and
forty men of each Fire Company of the Fire
Department of Charleston and Columbia: the
olilcers and as many employees of each Rail
road Company us the President or Superin
lenuent may certify to be necessary to the eff
c1ent conduct of its buisness-provided that It
shall also be certified that the duties of said
employees cannot be discharged bv slaves:
the Superintendent and Keeper of the Lunat;c
Asylum ana Their assistants; Stewards or Keep
crs OF Poor Houses; the Keepers Of the Arse
nails of the State; persons holding office under
Confederate States, except Deputy Postmasters:
persons employed by the State or by the Con,
iederate States in the manufacture of arms
munitions of war and army supplies; all persons
actually engaged in the manufacture of salt on
the sea-coast; the members of the Boards Of
hehef OF Soldiers Families over forty five wears
OF age; overseers having certificates of exemn-
ton issued from this office; persons above the
age OF nifty years, and persons between the ages
OF eighteen and forty
PERSONS under the age of eighteen, through
liable to service beyond their respective Dis
trcts, viii! not be subject to this draft.
III. The commanding officers of Regiments
will regard as valid all certificates of exemption
issued from this office to overseers and to other
persons enumerated in the foregoing paragraph
OF this order, and persons not having such GER
t>tlcates, but who SHOW by proof, in writing and
on oath, that they arc clearly entitled to be ex-
empted according to the law as above stated
will not be subject to draft
~. The organization Of companies for active
service under General Orders No. 10. issued
from this office on the 18th of Febuarv last be.
ing superseded by General Orders No. 20. said
companies are hereby declared to be disbanded.
BY command ofthe Governor.
A. C.GARLINGTON.
Adjntant and lnspector-General offs. C.
June 26.