Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-02-24

the same are hereby repealed, and hereafter seos
l. All Who shall be held unfit for military scr.
vice under rules to be prescribed by the Secretary
of.War. T.
? Z The Vice President of the Confederate Stat4R
! the members and offices of Congress and of the
several State Legislatures, and such other Coined
erate and State. officers as the President or tho
Governor of the respective States, may certify to
be necessary for the proper administration Of the
be. :
. 8. Every minister Of religion authorized to preach
according the rues Of bis church, and who, at the
passage Of this acs shall be regularly employed in
tue u:scnafge of his ministerial duties; supern.
tendents and physicians Of assiums for the deaf and
dumb and blind and of the insane one editor for
each newspaper being published at tho time
of this act and such employees IS said editor may
certify on cath, to be indispensable to the publio
ton Of such newspaper; the public printer Of the
Confederate ms! ss,urs Governments, and sSci,
certify, on oath to he indispensable to perform the
public printing; one skilled apothscary In each
apQthecary stere, who was doing business as such
on the 10th Gay Ct October 1862 andhas continued
said business, without intermissien, since that
period; all physicians over thesge Of thirty years.
who now are, and for the last seven years have
been, in the actual and regular practice Of their
profession but the term physician shall not include
dentists; all presidents and teachers Of colleges
theological seminares, academies and schools, who
have been regularly engaged as such for two years
next before the passage of this act: Provided That
the benefit Of this exemption shall extend to those
teachers only whose schools are composed Of twenty
students or more. All supeEintendents Of public
hospitals established by law before the passage Of
this act and such physicians and nurses therein as
such superintenden:s shall certify, on oath, to be
indispensable to the proper and efficient msnage-
ment thereof g
4. There shall be exempt ono person IS owner
or agriculturist on each farm or plantation upon
which there are now, and were on the LIST day Of
January last, fifteen able. bodied field hands, between
the ages Of sixteen and fifty, upon the following
conditions:
l. Thisexemption shall only be granted in cases in
which there is no white male adult on the farm or
plantation not liable to military service, nor unless
day Of January, 1864, either the owner and mana
ger or overseer of said plantation but in case shall
more than one person be exempted for one farm or
plantation.
2. Such person shall first execute bond, paya-
Die to the Confederate States of America, in such
form, and with such security, and in such penalty
as the Secretary of War may prescribe conditioned
road depot or such other place or places may be
designated by the Secretary Of War, within twelve
months next ensuing. one hundred pounds Of bacon,
or at the election Of the government its equivalent
in pork and 100 pounds OF nett beef aid beef to be
delivered on toot Tor each able bodied slave on said
farm or plantation, within the above said ages,
whether said slaves in the field or not, which said
bacon or pork and beef shall be paid for by the gov
eminent at the prices fixed by the Commissioners
OF the State under the impressment act; Provided
that when the person thus exempted shall produce
satisfactory evidence that it has been impossible for
nm, by the exercise of proper diligence to furnish
the amount of meat thus contracted for and leave
An adequate supply for the subsistence Of those iv
ing ON the said farm or plantation, the Secretary d
War shall direct communication of the same, to the
extent OF ewothrds thereof in grain or other pro-
Visions to be delivered by such person as aforesaid
at equivalent rates.
Such person shall further bind himself to sell |
the marketable surplus Of provisions and grain now
on hand, and which he may raise from year to year
while his exemption continues, to the government !
Of to the families Of soldiers at prices 6xed BY the
Commissioners Of the State under the impressment
act: Propided, that any person exempted Is afore.
said, shall be entitled to credit of twenty five per
cent on any amount of meat which he may deliver
within three months from the passage of this act
fToc202 4rrther, that persons coming within the
Psov~ IS Of this exemption shall not be deprived
oi tne cement thereof by reason of having been en-
rolled since the !st day of Fubruary, 1864.
4. In addition to the foregoing exemptions the
Secretary Of War under the direction Of the Presi
dent may exempt or detail such other persons as
ne may be satisfied ought to be exempted account
nj public necessity, and to insure the production of
gram and other provisions for the army and the
families Of soldiers He NAV, also, grant exemp-
tions or details on such terms as be may prescribe
to such overseers, farmers planters as be may be
satisfied will be more useful to the country in the
pursuits Of agriculture than in the military service:
fror1ded, that such exemption shall cease when.
ever the iarmer planter overseers shall fail dgen:-
" to employ, in good faith his own skill, capital
and provisions, to be sold to the government and
the families of soldiers at prices not exceeding those
nxed at the time for like articles by the Commits.
s'oners Of the State under the impressment act
g. The president, treasurer, auditor and superin-
tendent of any railroad company engaged in trans
portstion for the government and such officers and
employees thereof as the president superintendent