The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-04-26


passage of this act shall be regularly employed in the
discharge of his ministerial duties superintendent
and physicians of asylums for the deaf and dumb and
blind and of the insane editor for each newspaper
being published at the time of this act, and such
ployees said editor may certify on oath to be inds
pensable to the publication of such newspaper the
public printer of the Confederate and State Govern
ments and such onrnevmen printers the said pubic
printer shall certify oath to be indispensable to per-
form the public printing; one skilled apothecary in
each apothecary store who doing business such
the 10th day of October, 1862, and has continued
said business without intermission since period
all physicians the age OF thirty years, who now
are and for the last years nave been, in the
tual and regular practice of their profession, but the
term physician shall include DENTISTS ell pres-
dents and teachers Of colleges, theological semnaries,
academies and schools, who have been regularly en-
gagged such years next before the passage of
this act Provided that the benefit of this exemption
shall extend those teachers only whose schools
composed of twenty students or more. All superin-
endents of public hospitals established by law before
the passage of this act and such physicians and
therein such superintendent shall certify, on oath,
to be indispensable the proper and efficient manage
ment thereof.
4. There shall be exempt person owner
agriculturalis each farm or plantation upon which
there now the lst day of January last
fifteen abe-bodied field hands between the ages OF
sixteen and fifty upon the following conditions:
]. This exemption shall only be granted in in
which there is white male adult the farm planta-
ton not liable to military service nor unless the person
claiming the exemption was on the lst OF January 1864,
either the and manager Oveseer OF said planta
ton; but in shall more than person be
empted for farm plantation
3 Such person shall first bond payable to the
Confederate America 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 Gov
eminent at Railroad depot such other place or
places may be designated by the Secretary OF War,
the election of the Government its equivalent in pork,
and 100 pounds of nett beef sad beef to be delivered
foo for each ableboded slave said farm plantation
within the above said ages whether said slaves used
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 il has been impossible for
him, by the exercise of proper diligence to furnish the
amount of meat thus contracted for and leave an adequate
supply for the subsistence of those living the said farm
plantation, the Secretary of War shall direct commu-
taon of the to the extent of wOhirds 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 of provisions and grain now on hand
and which he may raise from year to year while his
empon continues to the government to the families
soldiers prices fixed by the commissioners of the State
under the mpressment act: Provided that any person
emped aforesaid shall be entitled to credit of 25 per
cent any amount of meat which he may deliver within
three months from the passage OF this act: Provided fur
her that coming within the provisions OF this ex
empon 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 oveseers farmers planters he may be salts
fled will be more useful 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 skill capital and labor exclusively in the prOduc-
ton grain and provisions to be sold to the government
and families ofsodiers at prices not exceeding those fixed
at the time for like articles by the commissioners of the
State under the mpressment act.
s. The president treasurer auditor and superintendent
OF any Railroad company engaged in transportation for
the government and such officers and employees thereof
the president superintendent shall certify oath to
he indispensable the efficient operation of said railroad
Provided that the number of persons exempted by this
act any railroad shall not exceed person for each
mile of said road in actual for military transportation;
and said exempts shall be reported by name and descrp
ton with the names of any who may have left the en-
ployment of said company who may cease to be nds
pensabe.
g. That nothing herein contained shall be construed
repeating the act approved April l4th 1862 entitled an
act to exempt contractors for carrying the mails OF the Con-
deae States and the drivers of post coaches and hacks
from military service Provided, that all the exemptions
granted under this act shall only continue WILTSHIRE per-
sons exempted are actually engaged i'll their respective
pursuits or occupations.
Section H. That the President be and be hereby
thorzed grant details, under general rules and regua
tions to be issued from the War Department either of per-
between As and so of from the army in
the field in all cases where in his Judgment justice equi
and necessity require such Details and he revoke
such orders of detail whenever he thinks proper Provided
that the power herein granted to the President make
details and exemptions shall be construed authorize
the exemption detail of any contractor for furnishing
supplies of any kind to the government by of said
unless the head secretary of the department
making such contract shall certify that the personal
vices of such contractor Indispensable to the
ton of said contract Provided further, that when any
such contractor shall fail diligently and faithfully, pro-
coed with the execution OF such contract his exemption or
detail shall cease.
Sec II. That in appointing local boards of Surgeons
for the examination of persons liable 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.