The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-08-09

passage of this act shall be regularly employed in the
discharge of his ministerial duties;
and physicians of asyiums for the deaf and dumb and
blind and of the nsane editor for each newspaper
being published at the time of this act and such en-
plo! said editor may certify on oath to be ndis
pensable to the publication of such newspaper the
public printer of the Confederate and State Govern
ment, and such jonrneymen printers the said public
printer shall certify oath to be indispensable per-
form the public printing! one skilled apothecary in
each apothecary store who doing business such
on the 10th day of October, 1862 and has continued
said business, without intermsson, since that period
all physicians over the age of thirty years, who
are. and for the last years have BEEN in the
ual and regular practice of their profession but the
term physician shall include dentists; ell presi-
dents and teachers of colleges theological seminaries
academies and schools, who have been regularly en-
gagged such for years next before the passage
this act Provided that the benefit of this exemption
shall extend those teachers only whose schools
composed of twenty students or more All supern-
endents of 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 person as owner or
agricuaralist each farm plantation upon which
there now and the LIST day of January last
fifteen abe-boded field hands, between the ages of
sixteen and fifty, upon the following conditions:
]. This exemption shall only be granted in in
which there white male adult the farm planta
ton not liable to military SERVICE unless the perso1
claiming the exemption was, the Ist of January, 1864
either the owner and manager overseer of said panta
snail
empted for one farm plantation
g. Such person shall first bond payable the
Confederate States Of America in such form and with such
security and in such penalty the Secretary of War
may prescribe conditioned that he will deliver the Gov
eminent at some Railroad depot, such other place
places may be designated by the Secretary of War;
within II months next ensuing 100 pounds of bacon,
the election OF the Government its equivalent in pork
and 100 pounds of beef (sad beef to be delivered on
foo for 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 impressment 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
of meat thus contracted for and leave adequate
supply for the of those living the said farm
plantation the Secretary of War shall direct commu
taton of the to the extent of twohrds 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,
and which he may raise from year to year while his
empon continues, to the government to- the families
of soldiers at prices fixed by the commissioners of the State
under the mpressment act: Provided that person
empted aforesaid shall be entitled a credit of 25 per
any amount of meat which he may deliver within
three months from the passage of this act Provided fur
her that persons coming within the provisions OF this ex
empton shall not be deprived of the benefit thereof by
of having been enrolled since the LIST of Feb 1864
d. In addition to the foregoing exemptions the Secre
ary 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 for
the army and the families OF soldiers He also, grant
exemptions or details such terms he may prescribe,
such farmers planters he may be salts
fed will be useful the country in the pursuits of
such exemption shall whenever the farmer planter
shall fail diligently to employ, in good faith
his skill capital and labor exclusively in the produc
ton and provisions to be sold to the government
and families ofsodes at prices not exceeding those fixed
the time for orr LIKE articles BY the OF the
s. The president. treasurer, auditor and superintendent
any Railroad company engaged in transportation for
the government and such officers and employees thereof
the president superintendent shall certify oath
be indispensable the efficient operation of said raroad
Provided that the number of persons exempted by this
any railroad shall exceed person for each
mile of said road in actual for military transportation
and said exempts shall be reported by name and descp
tion with the names of any who may have left the
poyment OF said company or who may cease to be nds
pensabe.
g. That nothing herein contained shall be construed as
repeating the act approved April 14th 1863, entitled
act to exempt contractors for carrying the mails of the Con-
ederate States and the drivers of post coaches and hacks
from military service: Provided that all the exemptions
granted under this act shall only continue whilst the per-
sons exempted actually engaged in their respective
pursuits or occupations
Section H. That the President be and be is hereby
horzed to grant Details under general rules and regua
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 where in his judgment justice, equi
and necessity require such Details and he revoke
such orders detail whenever he thinks proper Provided
that the power herein granted to the President to 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 shall certify that the personal
vices Of such indispensable to the
ton fsad contract Provided further, that when any
such contractor shall fall diligently and faithfully to pro-
coed with the execution of such contract, his exemption
detail shall cease. :
Sec H. That n 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