The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-07-26

g. Every minister of religion authorized to preach
according to The rules Of his church, and who at the
passage of this act shall be regularly employed in the
discharge of his ministerial duties superintendent
and physicians of asylums for deaf and dumb and
blind and of the insane one editor for each newspaper
being published at the time of this act and such en-
ploy ees as said editor may certify oath ndis
pensable to the publication of such newspaper the
public printer of the Confederate and State Govern
mens, and such onrneymen printers as the said public
printer shall certify, oath to be indispensable to per-
form the public printing; skiliedSa pothecary in
each apothecary store who doing business such
the 10th day of October 1862, and has continued
said business, without intermission since that period
all physicians the age of thirty years, who
and for the last seven years have BEEN in the
tual and regular practice of their profession but the
term physician shall include dentists all presi-
dents and teachers of colleges, theological seminares
academies and schools, who have been regularly en-
gagged such for next before the passage of
this act Propidd that the benefit OF this exemption
shall to those teachers only whose schools
composed of twenty students more. All superin-
tendents 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.
4 There shall be exempt one person owner or
agrcuuralist on each farm plantation upon which
there now and the lst day of January last
fifteen able-boded field hands, between the ages of
sixteen and fits, upon the following conditions:
]. This exemption shall only be granted in in
which there is no white MAZE adult the farm planta
claiming the exemption was the Ist OF January 1864
either the owner and manager or overseer of said panta
on but in no shall more than one person be ex
empted for one farm plantation
g Such person shall first execute bond payable to the
Confederate States of America in such form and with such
security, and In such penalty the Secretary OF W.
may prescribe conditioned that hey deliver to the Gov
eminent at Railroad depot or such other place or
places as may be designated by the Secretary of War;
within II months next ensuing 100 pounds of bacon,
at the election of the Government its equivalent in pork
and 100 pounds of nett beef (sad beef be delivered
foot each ablebodied slave said farm plantation
within the above said whether said slaves used in
the field not which said bacon pork and beef shall
be paid for by the government at the prices fixed by the
Commissioners of the State under the mpressment 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
meat thus contracted for and leave adequate
supply for the subsistence of those living the said farm
explanation, the Secretary of War shall direct commu
taon of the to the extent of twothrds thereof in
grain other provisions to be delivered by such person
aforesaid at equivalent rates.
g. 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
empon continues, to the government or to the families
of soldiers at prices fixed the commissioners OF the State
under the mpressment act: Provided that any person
emped aforesaid shall be entitled to credit of % per
cent any amount of meat which he may deliver within
three months from the passage Of this act Provided fur
ther that persons coming within the provisions of this
empon shall not be deprived Of the benefit thereof by
of having been enrolled since the 1st of Feb 1864
A. In addition to the foregoing exemptions, the Secrc
tary of War, under the direction of the President, may
exempt detail such other persons he may be satisfied
ought to be exempted account of public necessity and
to 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
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
or overseer shall fail diligently to employ IN good fai
his skill capital and abore in the produc
ton ofgrain and provisions to be sold to the government
aud families ofsodiers at prices not exceeding those fixed
Inv
State under the mpresSment act.
s. The president auditor and superintendent
ofany Railroad company engaged in 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 any railroad shall not exceed person for each
mile of said road in actual for military transportation;
and said eXcmpts shall be reported by and descrp
ton. with the names of any who may have left the
ployment of said company who may to be ndis
pensable.
6. That nothing herein contained shall be construed as
repeating the act approved April 4th 1863 entitled an
act to exempt contractors for carrying the mails Of the Con-
from military service: Provided, that all the exemptions
granted under this act shall only continue whilst the per-
exempted actually engaged in their respective
pursuits or occupations.
Section IL. That the President be and be is hereby au-
thozed to grant Details under general rules and regua-
tons to be issued from the War Department either of per-
sons between 40 and so of age from the army in
the eld In all cases where in his Judgment justice equi
and necessity require such Details and he may revoke
olucS OF THINKS proper Pr0Vlded
that the power herein granted the President make
details and exemptions shall not be construed to authorize
the exemption detail of any contractor for furnishing
supplies of any kind to 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 ofsad contract: Provided further, that when any
such contractor shall fail, diligently and faithfully pro-
coed with the execution of such contract his exemption or
detail shall cease
Sec II. That in appointing local boards of Surgeons
examination of persons liable to military service
the county enrolling district in which they required
to make such examination.
adopted in February, f864.1