The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-05-17

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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 te deaf and dumb and
blind and of the usane editor Tor each newspaper
being published the time of this act, AND such en-
ploy ees said editor may certify oath to beinds-
pensable to the publication of such newspaper the
public printer ofsthe Confederate and State Govern
ments, and such journ printers the said public
printer shall certify oath to be indispensable to per-
form the public printing; one skilled anothecary IN
each apothecarg store who doing business such
the 10th day of October, 1862 and has continued
said business, without intermisson, since that period
all ply Sicians 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 pres-
dents and teachers of colleges theological seminaries,
academies and schools who have been regularly en-
gagged such years next before the passage of
this Prorided that the benefit of this exemption
shall extend those teachers only whose schools are
composed of twenty students or more. All superin-
endents of public hospitals, established by law before
the passage of this act 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
agricuuralist 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 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 person
either the and manager of said Planta
ton; but in shall more than person be
enpted for farm plantation
g. Such person shall first execute bond payable to the
Confederate States Of Ameca 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 Railroad depot, such other place
places may be designated by the Secretary of War,
within IL months next ensuing 100 pounds of bacon,
and 100 pounds of nett beef sad beef be delivered
foot for each ableboded slave said farm plantation
within the above said ages whether said slaves used in
the field not, which said bacon pork and beef shall
be paid by the the prices fixed by the
Commissioners of the State under the impressmen 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
amount 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 twothds thereof in
grain other provisions to be delivered by such person
aforesaid at equivalent rates.
3. Such person shall further bind himself to sell the
marketable surplus of proys 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 mpessment act Provided that any person
empted aforesaid shall be entitled credit of % per
cent on any amount of meat which he may deliver within
three months from Che passage of this act Provided fur
ther that persons coming within the provisions of this
empton shall not be deprived of the benefit thereof by
of having been enrolled since the 1sto 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 of public necessity and
insure the production of grain and other provisions for
the army and the families of soldiers He mary Also grant
OF details such terms he prescribe,
to such overseers farmers planters he may be salts
fed will be useful to the country i'll 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 skill capital and labor exclusively i'll the produc
ton OF grain and provisions to be sold to the
he i'm, by of the
State under the impressment act.
s. The president treasurer auditor and superintendent
Of any Railroad company engaged i'll transportation for
the government, and such officers and employees thereof
the president superintendent shall certify oath to
pc indispensable Efficient operation of said railroad:
Provided, that the number Of persons so exempted by this
act any raIu", snail exceed person for each
mile Of said ID in actual use tor Military transportation
and said A"npts shall be report, by name and deselp
ton. with the names OF any who may have left the en-
pOymen OF said company, or who may cease to BE- III Ii
pensable.
g. That nothing herein contained shall be construed
repeating the act approved April l4th 1863 entitled
act TO exempt contractors for carrying the mails OF the Con-
tolerate 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 per-
sons exempted actually engaged i'll their respective
pursuits or occupations.
Section II. That the President be and be is hereby
horizcd 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
y and necessity require such details, and he may revoke
such orders of detail whenever he thinks proper Provided
that the power herein granted 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 fsaid contract Provided further, that when any
such contractor shall fail, diligently and faithfully, to pro-
coed with the execution of such contract his exemption
detail shall cease.
Sec IL. That in 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.
[4dopted in February, 1864.