The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-07-12

D.
according to the rules of his church. and Who the
passage of this act shall be regularly employed in the
discharge of his ministerial dutes superintendent
and physicians of asylums for the deaf and dumb and
blind and of the insane; editor for each newspaper
being published the time of this act and such en-
poy said editor certify on oath to be ndls-
pensabe to the publication of such newspaper the
public printer of the Confederate and State Govern
ments and such jonrneymen printers the said public
printer alcertify oath to be indispensable per-
form the public printing; one skilled apothecary in
each apohecary store who doing business as such
the 10th day of October, 1862, and has continued
said business without intermssion, since that period
all physicians over the age of thirty years, who
are and for the last years have been, in the
tual and regular practice of their profession but the
term physician shall not include dentists; ell pres-
dents and teachers of colleges theological semnaries
academies and schools, who have been regularly en-
gagged such for years next before the passage of
this acts Prorided that the benefit OF this exemption
shall extend to teachers only whose schools
composed of twenty students or more. All superin-
tendents of public hospitals established by law before
the passage of this act and such physicians and
therein such superintendent shall certify, oath,
to be indispensable TO the proper and efficient manage
ment thereof.
A. There shall be exempt person owner or
agricuturalist each farm or plantation upon which
there now and the lst day ofJanuary last
fifteen able-boded field hands, between the ages of
sixteen and fifty, upon the following conditions:
/. This exemption. shall only be granted in cases in
which there is white male adult the farm plana-
ton not liable military service, unless the person
claiming the exemption was the LIST of January 1864
either the owner and manager overseer of said pana
tom but in shall more than person be ex-
en1pted for one farm plantation
2 Such person shall first execute bond payable to the
Confederate States Of Amerca in such form and with such
security, and in such penalty the Secretary of War
may prescribe conditioned that he will deliver to the Gov
eminent Railroad depot such other place
places may be designated by the Secretary of War,
within II months next ensuing, 100 pounds OF bacon or,
the election OF the Government its equivalent in pork,
pounds of nett beef (sad beef be delivered
foo for each abeboded slave said farm plantation
within the above said ages whether said slaves used in
the field not which said bacon pork and beef shall
be paid for by the at the prices fixed by the
Commissioners of the State under the mpressmeht act
Provided that when the person thus exempted shall pro
duce satisfactory evidence that it has been impossible for
him. by the exercise of proper diligence TO furnish the
amount Omeat thus contracted for and leave adequate
supply for the subsstencof those living the said farm
plantation, the Secretary of War shall direct
taon of the to the extent of wOhirds thereof in
grain other provisions to be delivered by such person
aforesaid at equivalent rates.
s. Such person shall further bind himself to sell the
marketable surplus Of provisions and grain hand,
and which he may raise from year to year while his ex-
enptiOn continues, to the government the families
Of soldiers at prices fixed by the commissioners of the State
under the impressment act Provided that any person
empted aforesaid, shall be entitled to a credit of 25 per
cent any amount of meat which he may deliver within
three months from the passage of this act Provided fur
thr that persons coming within the provisions of this
emptOn shall not be deprived of the benefit thereof by
of having been enrolled since the LIST of Feb 1864
T. In addition to the foregoing exemptions the Secre
tary of War, under the direction of the President may
exempt detail such he be
ought to be exempted account of public necessity and
insure the production of grain and other provisions for
the army and the families of soldiers. He may Also grant
exemptions details such terms he may prescribe,
to such ovrseer farmers or planters as he may be salts
fed will be useful to the country in the pursuits OF
agriculture than in the military service Provided. that
such exemption shall whenever the FARMER planter
oversedr shall fail diligently employ, in good faith
his skill capital and labor exclusively in the produc
ton ogran and provisions to be sold to the government
and s Of Soldiers at Iisss not eSGGGs nese Of a
State under The impressment act.
s. The president treasurer, auditor and superintendent
ofany Railroad company engaged in transportation for
the government, and such officers and employees thereof
the president or superintendent shall certify on oath to
be Indispensable to the efficient operation of said railroad
Provided that the number of persons exempted by this
act any railroad shall not exceed person for each
mile of said road in actual for military transportaon
and said exempts shall be reported by and descrip
ton. with the Of any who may have left the
oyment OF said company, or who may cease to be ndS
pensable
g. That nothing herein contained shah be- construed
repeating the act approved April l4th 1863, entitled
act to exempt contractors for carrying the mails of the Con-
derate States and the drivers of post coaches and hacks
from military service Provided that all the exemptions
granted under this shah only continue whilst the per-
exempted are actually engaged III their respective
pursuits or occupations.
Section H. That the President be and be hereby au-
thorized to grant details, under general rules aRd regua
tons to be issued from the War Department. either of per-
sons between 40 and 80 years of age from the army in
the field in all where in his judgment justice, equi
and necessity require such details, and he revoke
such orders of detail whenever he thinks proper Provided
that the power herein granted TO the President to make
details and exemptions shall not be construed to authorize
the exemption detail of any contractor for furnishing
supplies any kind the government by of said
contract unless the head secretary of the department
making such contract shall certify that the personal
vices Of such contractor indispensable to the
ton ofsaid contract Provided further, that when any
such contractor shall fail diligently and faithfully to pro-
coed with the execution of such contract his exemption
detail shall cease.
Sec. y. That in appointing local boards of Surgeons
for the examination of persons liable to military service,
member composing the shall be appointed from
the county enrolling district in which they required
to l.ake such examination.
adopted in February, 1864