The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-05-24


passage of this act, shall be regularly empoyed i'm th
discharge of his ministerial dutfes superintendent
and physicians of asyums for the deaf and dumb ane
blind and of the insane; editor for each newspaper
being published at the time of this act and such em
ployees said editor may certify on oath to be ndis
pensable to the publication of such newspaper the
public printer of the Confederate andState Govern
ments, and such printers the said publ
printer shall certify oath to be indispensable per-
form the public printing; one skilled apothecary ia
each apothecary store bro was doing business uch
on the 10th day of October, 1862, and has &C aled
said business, without intermssion since ta af.oi
all physicians the age of thirty years. VINO
are and for the last seven years have BEEN in the
tual and regular practice OF their profession, but the
term physician shall not include dentists ell presi-
dents and teachers of colleges theological semnaries
academies and schools, who have been Regularly
gagged such for years next before the passage
this act: Popdea, that the benefit of this exemption
shall extend to those teachers only whose schools
composed of twenty students or more: All superin-
tendents of public hospitals established by law before
hapassage of this act and such physicians and
therein such superintendent shall certify, oath,
to be indispensable to the proper and efficient manages
ment thereof
4. There shall be exempt one person as owner or
agriculturalist each farm plantation upon which
there now and the LIST day of January last
fifteen ablebodied field hands, between the ages Of
sixteen and fifty, upon the following conditions
l. This exemption shall only be granted in cases in
which there white male adult on the farm planta
top not liable to military service, nor unless the person
claiming the exemption the LIST of January 1894
either the owner and manager Of said planta
ton; but in shall more than one person De
empted for one farm plantation
Such person shall first execute bond payable to the
Confederate States of America in such form and with such
security, d in such penalty as the Secretary of War
ernment Railroad depot, such other place
places as may be designated by the Secretary of War;
within th r months next ensuing 100 pounds Of
and 100 pounds of nett beef sad beef be delivered
oo for each able bodied slave said farm Or plantation,
within the above said ages whether said slaves used in
be paid for by the government at the prices fixed by the
Commissioners of the State under the mpressment act
Provided that when the thus exempted shall pro
duce satisfactory evidence that has been impossible for
him, by the exercise of proper diligence to furnish the
supply for the subsistence of those living the said farm
plantation, the Secretary of War shall direct commu
taon of the same to the extent Of thereof in
grain other provisions to be delivered by such person
as aforesaid at equivalent rates.
g. Such person shall further bind himself to sell the
marketable surplus of provisions and grain hand
empon continues to the government the families
of soldiers at prices fixed by the commissioners of the State
empted aforesaid, shall be entitled to credit of IS per
cent any amount of meat which he may deliver within
three months from the passage of this act Provided fur
ther that coming within the provisions OF this ex
emption shall not be deprived of the benefit thereof by
of having been enrolled since the LIST Of Feb 1854
In addition to the foregoing exemptions, the Secre
tary of War, under the deconof the President, may
exempt detail such other persons he satisfied
ought to be exempted account of public necessity and
insure the production of grain and other provisions
the army and the families OF soldiers He may Also grant
exemptions details such terms as he may prescribe
to such overseers farmers planters 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
shall fail diligently to employ, in good faith,
his own skill capital and labor in the poduc
ton ogran and provisions to be sold to the government
and families ofsolders at prices not exceeding those fixed
at the time for like articles by the commissioners of the
State under the impressment act
s. The president treasurer auditor and superintendent
of any Railroad company engaged i'll transportation for
the government and such officers and employees thereof
the president superintendent shall certify oath
be indispensable to the efficient operation of said railroad
Provided that the number of persons exempted by this
act railroad shall not exceed person for each
mile of said road in actual for military tansportaon
and said exemps shall be reported by name aud descrp
ton. with the names of any who may have left the en-
poyment OF said company OF who may cease to h lnds
pensable.
6. That nothing herein contained shall b. ..ed as
repeating the act approved April 18th, 1866, ed an
act to exempt contractors for carrying the mas Con-
Tolerate States and the drivers of post coach ~ cks,
from military service: Provided, that all the e&en
granted under this act shall only continue whilst per-
exempted actually engaged in their respective
pursuits or occupations.
Section II. That the President be and be is hereby
thorized grant details; under general rules and regula
tons to be issued from the War Department either of per-
between As and so years of age, from the army in
the field in all cases where in his Judgment justice, equi-
and necessity require such Details and he may revoke
such orders OF detail whenever he thinks proper Provided
that the power herein granted to the President to make
the exemption detail of any contractor for furnishing
supplies of any kind the government by of said
contract unless the head secretary of the department
making such shall certify that the personal
vices of such Indispensable to- the execu
ton of said contract: Provided lther that when any
such shall fall diligently and faithfully pro-
coed vh the execution of such contract his exemption
detail shall cease.
Sec H. That in appointing local boards of Surgeons
for the examination of persons liable to military service
no member composing the shall be appointed from
the county enrolling district in which they required
to make such examination.
[Adopted in February, 1864