The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-06-11

officers ia the Conscript service, who shall here
after employ or retain in his employment any
person in any of their said Departments or Bu-
reaux, or in any of the duties mentioned IN the
9Th section of this act, in violation OF the pro-
visions hereof, shall, on conviction thereof by
const-martial or military court, be cashered, ana
il Whal be the duty Of any Department or Dis
trN Commander, upon proof, by the oath OF any
cISlibe person, that any such officer has violated
this provision, Immediately to relieve such ofi,cer
from duty; and said commander shall take
prompt measures to have him tried for such Of
fdnce: and any commander as aforesaid falling to
rkform the duties enjoined by this section
d Jall, upon being duly convicted thereon be dis"
charged from service.
10. That all laws granting exemptions from
military service, be- and the same are hereby re-
pealed, and hereafter none shall be exempted eA.
cept the following:
/. All who shall be held unfit for military SER
vice, under rules to be prescribed by the Secre-
tary of War.
@ The Vice. President of tho Confederate
States; the members and officers Of Congress; OF
the several State Legislatures, and such other
Confederate and State officers as the President
or the Governors of the respective States may
certify to be necessary for the proper administla-
ton of the Confederate or State Governments,
as the case may be.
d.
preach according to the rules of his church, and
who, at the passage of this Act, shall be regular
~ employed in the discharge of his ministerial
duties; superintendent and physicians OF asy-
lums of the deaf, dumb, blind and insane; one
editor for each newspaper beicg published at the
time of the passage OF this act, and such EN-
ployees as said editor may certify On oath to be
indispensable to the publication Of such newspa-
per, the public printer of the Confederate and
State Governments, and such journeymen prLn-
ters as the said public printer shall certify OH
oath to be indispensable to perform the public
printing; one skilled apothecary in each apothe-
cary's store who was doing business as such
apofhecary on the 10th day Of Octnber, 1852, and
has continued said business, without intermis-
sion, since that period; all physicians over the
age of 80 years, who are now, and have been,
for the last seven years, in the practice OF their
profession, but the term physician, shall not i'll
clude dentists; all presidents and teachers Of col
leges, theological seminaries and schools who
have been regularly engaged as such for two
years next before the passage of this act: Pro-
vided, Thst the benefit Of this exemption shall
extend to those teachers only whose schools are
composed of twenty students or more AL SUI
perintendents of public hospitals established by
law before the passage of this act, and such en1-
ployees as the said superintendent shall certify
on oath TO be essential to the management
thereof.
| 4. There shall be exempt one person as over
seer or agriculturist each farm or plantation
upon which there are now. and were on the first
day Of January last, fifteen able-bodied field
hands between the ages of sixteen and fifty,
upon the following conditions: 1st, This exemp.
ton shall only be granted in cases in which
there is no white male adult the farm or plan
tation not liable to military duty, nor unless the
person claiming the exemption was on the first
| day of Januaay, 1864, either the owner and
manager or overseer Of said plantation, but in no
case shall more than one person be exempted,
| for oFe farm or plantation. I'd. Such person
shall fss execute bond, payable to the Confed-
crate Staaes of America. in such penalty as the
Secretary Of War nay prescribe, conditioned
| that he will deliver to the Government at sonne
| railroad depot, or such other place or places as
| may be designated by the Secretary Of War,
witlin twelve months next ensuing, one hum
| dred pounds of bacon, or at the election of the
/ government, its equivalent in pork, and one hum
ired pounds of net beef fsaid beef to be delivered
on fo0t) for each able-bodied slave on said farm
or plantation within the above said ages, whether
said slaves are in the field or not which said ba-
con or pork and beef shall be paid for by the
government at the price fixed by the Commissions
ers of the State under the impressment act PEo.
Yided, That when the person exempted shall
possible for him, by the exercise Of proper dill
/ gence, to furnish the amount of meat thus con
tracted for, and leave an adequate supply for the
subsistence of those living on said farm, the
4 Secretary Of War shall direct Communication Of
the same ID the extent Of tw0-thirds thereof Id
gTain Of other provisions to be delivered by such
4 persons as aforesaid at equivalent rates. A @s
Such person shall furthermore bind himself te
sell the mafketable surplus of provisions and
grain now on hand, and which he may raise from
i year to year while the exemption continues, te
tire Government OF to the families of soldiers a
I. prices fxed by Commissioners Of the State undel
i the inpressnent act Provided, That any person
exempted as aforesaid. shall be entitled to {
] credit Of twenty five per cent. on any amount O
meat which he may deliver within three month.
from the passage Of this act !: Provided further
That persons coming within the provisions o
this exemption shall not be deprived Of the bene
fits thereof by reason Of having been enrolled
since the first day Of February, 1864.
In addition to the foregoing exemptions, th,
& Secretary of War may, under the direction o
4 the President exempt or detail such other per
sons as be may be satisfied ought to be exemptet
4 On aecount of public necessity, and to insure Ia
production of grain and other provisions for Iii
army and for the families of soldiers. He ma,
i also grant exemptions or details, on such term
q as be may prescribe, to snch overseers, farmers
If Or planters, as be may be satisfied will be NOR
usefnI to the country III the pursuits Of agricul
ture than Id the military service: Provided, Tia
iauch exemption shall cease whenever the far
rner planter, or overseer shall fail diligently t
employ, In good faith bis own skill, capital, AM
labor. exclusively in the production Of grain an
Iother provisions. to be sold to the Governrnen
. and the families Of soldiers at such prices l,c
exceeding those fixed at the time for the article