Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-03-02
indispensable duties in the departments or
bureaus herein mentioned.

bureaus herein mentioned.
Sec. 8. That any Quartermaster or As
sistant Quartermaster, Commisssry or Assis-
tant Commissary (other than those serving
with brigades or regiments in the field, } or
officers in the Ordnance Bureau, or Navy
Agents, or Provost Marshal, or ofisers in
the conscript service, who shall hereafter
employ or retain in his employment any
persons in any of their said departments or
bureaus, or in any of the duties mentioned
in the 9Th section of this act, in violation
of the provisions hereof, shall, on convic-
tion thereof, by court martial or military
court, be cashiered and it shall be the
duty of any department or district com.
mander, upon proof, by the oath of any
credible person, that any such officer has
violated this provision, Immediately to re-
lieve such officer from duty; and said COM
manders shall take prompt measures to have
him tried for such offeace and any COM
mander as aforesaid failing to. perform the
duties enjoined by this section, shall, upon
being duly convicted thereof, be discharged
from the service.
IN REGARD. TO EXEMPTIONS.
Sec. TO- Be it further enacted, That all
laws granting exemptions from military SER
vice be, and the same are hereby repealed,
and hereafter none shall be exempted ex.
cept the following:
/. All who shall be held unfit for militia.
ry service, under the rules to be prescribed
by the Secretary of War. ..-....
2. The Vice-President of the Confede.
rate States, the members and officers of
Congress and of the several State Legisla.
tures, and such other Confederate and State
officers as the President, or the Governor of
the respective States, may certify to be ne.
cessary for the proper administration of the
Confederate or State Governments, as the
ease may be.
8. Every minister of religion authorized
to preach according to the rules of his
church, and who, at the passage of this act
shall bo regularly employed in the discharge
of his ministerial duties ssuperintendents
and physicians of asylums for the deaf and
dumb and blind and of the insane; one
editor for each newspaper being published
at the time of this act, and such employees
as said editor may certify on oath to be in.
dispensable to the publication Of such
newspaper; the public printer of the Con-
federate and State Governments, and such
journeyman printers as the said public prin.
ter shall certify, on oath to beindispensable
to perform the public printing one skilled
apotheeary in each apothecary store, who.
was doing business as such on the 10th day
of October, 1862, and has continued said
business, without intermission, since that
period all physicians over the age of thir-
ty years, who now are, and for the last sew
en- years have been, in the actual and regu-
lar practice of their profession, but the term
physician shall not include dentists; all
presidents and teachers of colleges, theolog-
ical seminaries, 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 exemp.
ton shall extend to those teachers only
whose schools are composed of twenty stu
dents.or more. All superintendent of pub
lie hospitals, established by law before the
passage of this act, and such physicians
and nurses therein as such superintepdeDts
shall certify, on oath, to be indispensable
to the proper and efficient management
thereof.
4. There shall be exempt one person as
owner or agriculturist on each farm or plan.
tation upon which there are now, and were
on the first of January last, fifteen able
bodied field hands, between the ages of six
teen and Fifty, upon the following condi-
tions:
l. This exemption 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 the person claim
ing the exemption was, on the 1st of Janu-
ary, 1861, either the owner and manager or
overseer of said plantation; but in no case
shall more than one person be exempted for
one farm or plantation.
2. Such person shall first execute bond,
payable to the Confederate States of Amer
lea, in such form and with such security,
and in such penalty, as the Secretary Of
War may prescribe, conditioned that he will
deliver to the Government at some 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, or, at the election of the Govern
ment, its equivalent in pork, and 100 pounds
of nett beef (said beef to be delivered on
foot), for each able.bodied slave on said
farm or plantation, within the above said
ages whether said slaves are used in the
field or not, which said bacon or pork and
beef shall be paid for by the government at
the prices fixed by the Commissioners of
the State under the impressment act Pro-
vided, that when the person thus exempt
ed shall produce satisfactory evidence that
it has been impossible for him, by the exer-
else of proper diligence, to furnish the a.
mount of meat thus contracted for, and
leave an adequate supply for the subsistence
of those living on the said farm or plauta-
tion, the Secretary of War shall direct
commutation of the same, to the extent of
two.thirds tharaOf in Grain or other nrovi-