The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-06-07

3. 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; superintendens
and physicians of asylums for the deaf and dumb and
blind and of the insane editor for eachnewspaper
being published the time of this act and such
ploy 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
ments and such onrneymen printers the said public
printer shall certify oath be indispensable to per-
form the public printing; skilled apothecary in
each apohecary store who doing business such
the 10th day of October, 1862, and has continued
said business without intermssion since that period
all physicians the age of thirty years. who now
are and for the last seven years have been in the
tual and regular practice of their profession but the
term physician shall not include dentists; ell presi-
dents and teachers of colleges theological seminaries
academies and schools, who have been regularly
gagged such for years next before the passage
this act Procded that the benefit OF this exemption
shall extend those teachers only whose schools
composed of twenty students more. All superin-
tendents of pnblic hospitals established by law before
the passage 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 as owner or
agriculturalist each farm plantation upon which
there now and the lst day of January last
fifteen bodied field hands, between the ages of
sixteen and fifty, upon the following conditions
l. This exemption shall only be granted in in
which there is no white male adult the farm panta
ton not liable military service unless the person
claiming the exemption the LIST OF January, 1864,
either the manager of said panta
ton; but in shall than person be
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 War
may prescribe, conditioned that he will deliver to the Gov
eminent at some Railroad depot or such other place or
places may be designated by the Secretary of War,
within ~ months next ensuing 100 pounds of Bacon
the election OF the Government its equivalent in pork
and 100 pounds of beef (sad beef to delivered on
Dla
within the above said ages 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
of meat thus contracted for and leave adequate
supply for the subsistence of those living the said farm
plantation the Secretary of War shall direct commu
atOn of the to the extent of twO-hrds 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 provisions and grain hand
and which he may raise from year to year while his
emption continues to the government to the families
of soldiers at prices fixed by the commissioners of the State
under the impressment act Provided that any person
empted aforesaid shall be entitled to credit of 25 per
any 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
emption shall not be deprived of the benefit thereof by
OF having been enrolled since the list OF Feb 1864
a. In addition to the foregoing exemptions, the Secre
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
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
to such oyersees farmers planters he be salts
fled 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
shall fail diligently to employ, in good faith
his own skill capital and labor exclusively in the produc
ton ogran and provisions to be sold TO the government
and families ofsoders at prices not exceeding those fixed
the time for like articles by the commissioners OF the
State under the mpressment act.
The president treasurer, auditor and superintendent
ofany Railroad company engaged in transportation for
the government and such officers and employees thereof
the president superintendent shall certify oath to
be indispensable the efficient operation of said railroads
Provided that the number of persons exempted by this
any railroad shall not exceed person for each
mile of said road in actual for military transportation
and said exempts shall be reported by and descrp
ton. with the of any who may have left the enl
poymen of said company or who may cease to be ndis
pensable
g. That nothing herein contained shall beconsrued
repeating the approved April 14th 1862 entitled
exempt contractors for carrying the mails of the Con-
ederae 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 are actually engaged i'll their respective
pursuits or occupations. ..
Section H. That the President be and be hereby
thorzed to grant details under general rules and regula
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, equ
and necessity require such details and he may
such orders of 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 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 ofsaid 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 -. That in appointing local boards of Surgeons
for the examination of persons liable to military service
member composing the shall be appointed from
the county enrolling district in which they ae required
to make such examination.
[Adopted in February, 1864.