Washington telegraph., 1863-06-17
AMENDMENT OF THE EXEMPTION LAw.@Ths

AMENDMENT OF THE EXEMPTIONS LAw--The
following is copy Of the Act amendatory Of
the Exemption Act Of last session, 'as passed
by the Congress on Thursday:
An lc; 10 repeal certain clauses Of an Act en-
titled IAN Act to exempt certain persons
from military service" approved 18th Octo-
Der. 1862.
The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact That so much OF the Act
approved October 18th, 1862, as exempts from
military service, some person, either as agent,
owner or overseer, on each plantation on which
one white person il required to be kept by the
laws or ordinances Of any State, and on when
there is no white male adult not liable TO mill
tary service, ana IN States having NO such law
one person as agent. owner or Overseer, On
each plantation Of twenty negroes, and On
which there i no male adult not liable 20 mill
tarr service" and also the following clause OF
said act. to-wit: s'and, furthermore, for add
tional police for every twenty negroes, on two
Or more plantations within five miles Of each
ether. and each having less than twenty ne
~roe. and on which there j. no white male
adult not liable 10 military duty, one person
being the oldest of the owners or overseers on
such Plantations, . be and they are hereby re-
| pealll-
=. For the police and management Oh
4 saves. AAEIH SNAIL De HXemIlFl pAt INAN-"
on each farm or plantation, the sole property
Of minor person If unsound mind, rene
sole, OF person absent from home in the mill
| tary or naval service of the COnfeieracv, on
| which there are twenty or more slaves; Pro-
ruled, The person SO exempted was employed
| and acting as an Overseer previous 70 the 10th
April. 1852, and there Is no white male adult
on said farm or plantation who is not liable TO
military iuty, which facs shall be verified By
| the affidavit of said person and two respectable
J citizens and shall be filed with the enrolling
officer; Ind yrorided The owner of such farm
| OF plantation. his agent or legal representa-
| tive, shall make affidavit and deliver the same
10 ihe enrolling officer, that after diligent effort
no oveE>eer can he procured for such farm or
plantation not liable 20 military duty; Prorided
| farfter. That this clause shall not extend 10
| any farm or plantation on which the negroes
| have been placed by division frOm any other
farm on plantation since the llth day Of Octo-
| Der, 1862; Prorided further. That for every
person exempted as aforesaid, and during the
period o. such exemption, there shall be paid
annually into tbs public treasury by the owner
| of said slaves, the Ct five hundred dol
lars.
such other persons shall be exempted as
the President shall be satisfied ought to be eI-
empred. in districts of country deprived Of
white or slave labor indispensable to the pro-
ductiOn Of grain or provisions, necessary 20 me
support of The population remaining at home,
and also on account Of justice, equality and
necessity.
In addition to the State officers exempted by
the Act of October 18th, 1862, there shall also
he exempted all State officers whom the Cover
ror Of any State may claim to have exempted
for tle due administration of the Government
and the laws thereof; but this exemption shall
not continue in any State after the adjournment
Of the nextregular session of it, Legislature, IN
les such Legislature shall by law exempt them
from military duty in the provisional army OF
the Confederate States.