The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1864-03-02

vest and hospital guards aud clerks, and Of
clerks, guards, agents, employees or la
berers in the Commissary and Quarter
masters Department, in the Ordnance Blu
reau, and clerks and employees Of navy
agents, as also in the execution Of the en-
rollment act, and all similar duties, shall
be performed BY persons who are within
the ages of eighteen and forty-6ve years,
and who by the report of Board Of army
surgeons shall be reported as unable to
perform active service in the field, but ca
pable Of performing some Of the above said
duties, specifying which; and when those
persons shall have been assigned to those
duties as far as practicable. the President
shall assign or detail to their performan-
ccs such bodies of troops, or individuals,
required to be enrolled under the fifth
section of this act, as may be needed for
the discharge Of such duties: Provided,
That persons between the ages Of seventeen
and eighteen shall be assigned to those du-
ties: Provided further, That nothing con-
tanned in this act shall be so construed as
to prevent the President from detailing ar
tizans, mechanics, or persons of scientific
skill, to perform indispensable duties in
the departments Of bureaus herein men
toned.
SEC. 9. That any Quartermaster. or As
sistant Quartermaster, Commissary, or
Assistant 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
officer in the conscript service,'who shall
hereafter employ or retain in his employ
ment any person in any of their said de-
partments or bureaus, or IN any OF the du-
ties mentioned in the eighth section Of this
act, in violation of the provisions hereof,
shall, on conviction thereof by court
martial or military court be cashiered and
il shall be the duty Of any department or
district commander, upon proof, by the
oath Of any credible person. that any such
officer has violated this provision, immedi-
ately TO relieve such officer from duty;
and said commanders shall take prompt
measures TO have him tried for such Of
fence; and any commander as aforesaid
failing to perform the duties enjoined by
this section, shall. upon being duly con-
waited thereof, be discharged from the SER
vice.
SEC. 10. BE II further enacted, That all
laws granting exemptions from military
service be, and the same are hereby repeal
ed, and hereafter none shall be exempted
except the following:
/. All who shall be held unfit for militia
~ service, under rules to be prescribed by
the Secretary of War.
q. The Vice President Of the Confede-
rate States, the members and officers Of
Congress and of the several State Legisla-
lures, and such other Confederate and
State officers as the President, or the Co.
vernon Of the respective States, may certi-
fy to be necessary for the proper admins
tration Of the Confederate or State Govern
ments, as the case may be.
5. Every minister Of religion authorized
10 preach according to the rules Of his
church, and who. at the passage Of this
act, shall be regularly employed in the dis
charge Of his ministerial duties; superin-
tendenu add physicians Of asylums for
the deaf and dumb and blind and OF the IN.
ans one editor for each newspaper being
vsblished at the time Of this act, and such
employees as said editor may certify on
oath, to be indispensable TO the publica-
tisn Of such newspaper; the public printer
Of the Confederate and State Governments,
md such journeyman printers as the said
public printer shall certify, on oath. 70 be
indispensable to perform the public print
ing; one skilled apoihecary in each aPoth.
scary store, whs was doing business as
such on the 10th day Of October, 1862, and
has continued said business, without inter-
mission, since that period; all physicians
over the age Of thirty years, who now are,
and for the last seven years have been. ~
the actual and regular practice Of their
profession, but the term physician shall
not include dentists; all presidents and