Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-02-23


g. The Vice President of Confederate States,
the members and offices of Congress and OF the
several State Legislatures, and such other Oonfed''
crate and State officers as Ethe lPfesident or the
Governor of the respective, States may certify 70
be necessary for the proper admins Fation OF the
Confederateo State GeFernnontsy as the case may
be. -''t >, -. 49, ''.; o. ..-'1E1 r.t. =
- g. Every minister of religion authoriaedto preach
according the rules Of his church, and who, at the
passage of this act shall bejregularly employed in
the discharge Of his ministerial duties superin.
tendents and physicians of asyums for the deaf ana
dumb and blind and df the insane one editor Tor
each -news2aper being published at the time
Of this act and such employees as said editor may
certify on OATH TO be Indispensable tothe pn0ilca-
ton of such newspaper; the public printer OF the7
Confederate and State Governments, and SUCH
i0urneymen printers the said public printer shall
Certify On oath to be indispensable to perform the
public printing; one skilled apothecary in each
apothecary store, who was doing business az such
on the Z 9th dayof October 1852 AID has continued
said business, without inlermisSion, since that
period; all physicians over the ageyof thirty years
who, now are and for the last seven years have
been in the actual and regular practice ot their
profession but the term physician shall not include
dentists; all presidents and teachers of colleges,
theological semnaries, academies and schools, VINO
have been regularly engaged as such for two years
next before the passage Of this act Prootded That
the benefit of this exemption shall extend to those
teachers only whose schools are composed of twenty
students or more. All superintendent Of public.
hospitals, establshedby law before the passage of
this act and such physicians and nurses therein as
such superintendent shall certify, on oath, to be
indispensable to the proper and efficient manage
ment thereof .-- s,s@,. ~ - - ..-Hi- go
4. There shall be exempt one person as owner
or agricuturist on each farm or plantation upon
which there are now, and were on the -lst day OF
January last fifteen able bodied field hands, between
the ages of sixteen and fifty, upon the following
conditions: ~.-.i l-.7 F -"-.7'~ ? 4: - ~
/. This Exemption shall only be granted in in
which there is no white male adult on the farm or
plantation not liable to military service nor unless
the person claiming the exemptions was on the LIST
day Of January, 1864, either the owner and mana.
ger of said plantation butiu no case shall
more than one person be exempted for one farm or
plantation. go" g. -E .a-'.-..- r.5s. e e
Q. Such person shall first execute bond paya-
BILE 10 the Confederate States Of 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 government at some rail-
road depot or such other place or places as maybe
designated by the Secretary of War, within twelve
months next ensuing one hundred pounds OF bacon
or at the election of the government its equivalent
in pork and 100 pounds of nett beef (said beef to be
delivered foot Tor each able bodied slave on said
farm plantation, within the above said ages,
whether said slaves in the field or not, which said
bacon or pork and beef shall be paid for by the gov
eminent at the prices fixed by the Commissioners
Of the State under the impressment act; Provided,
that when the person thus exempted shall produce
satisfactory evidence that 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 iv
ing the said farm plantation the Secretary of
War shall direct Communication of the same, to the
extent of two'thirds thereof in grain other pro-
Visions 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 now
on hand, and which he may raise from year to year
while his exemption continues to the government
or to the families of soldiers at prices fixed BY the
Commissioners Of the State under the impressment
act: Proc ded, that any person exempted as afore-
said, shall be entitled to a credit of twenty five per
cent on any amount of meat which he may deliver
within three months from the passage of this act
Provided further, that persons coming within the
provisions of this exemption shall not be deprived
of the benefit thereof by reason of having been en-
rolled since the st day of Fubruary, 1864.
4 In addition to the foregoing exemptions the
Secretary of War under the direction Of the Presi
dent, may exempt or detail such other persons as
he may be satisfied ought to be exempted on account
of public necessity and to insure the production of
grain and other provisions for the army and the
families of soldiers. He NAV, Also grant exemp-
tons or details, such terms he may prescribe
to such overSeers farmers or planters as he may be
satisfied will be useful to the country in the
pursuits of agriculture than in the military service:
Pr0UiIed, that such exemption shall cease when
ever the iarmer planter oyerseers shall fail dllgen
y to employ, in good faith, his own skill, capital
and labor exclusively in the production of grain
and provisions, to be sold to the government and
the families of soldiers at prices not exceeding those
fixed at the time for like articles by the Commis-
sioners Of the State under the impressment act. -
D. Tine president treasurer, auditor and superin-s
tendent of any railroad company engaged in trans
portation for the government and such officers and
employees thereof as the president or superintendent
shall certify oath to be indispensable to the eff
cent operation of said railroad: PrOVided, that the
number of persons so exempted by this act on any
railroad shall not exceed one person for each mile
of such road in actual for military transporta
ton; and said exempt shall be reported by name
and description, with the names of any who may
have left the employment of said company, or who
may cease to be indispensable. .-. 49, ...f-
6. That nothing herein contained shall be con-
strned as repeating the act approved April the 18th,
1853 entitled an act to exempt contractors for
rying the mails of the Confederate States, and the
drivers of post coaches and hacks from military
vice. Provided, that all the exemptions granted
under this act shall only continue whilst the per-
sons exempted are actually engaged in their respec-
tive pursuits or occupations.
SECTION H. That the President be, and he is here
by, authorized to grant details under general rules
and regulations to be issued from the War Depart
ment either of persons between forty-fve and Fifty
years of age or from the army In the field, in all
cases where in his Judgment justice, equity and
necessity require such details, and he may revoke
such orders of details whenever he thinks proper:
Prooi1ed, that the power herein granted to the
President to make details and exemptions shall not
be construed to authorize the exemption or detail
Of any contractor for furnishing supplies of any kind
to the government by reason of said contract, IN
less the head secretary Of the department making
such contract shall certify that thepersonal services
of such contractor are indispensable to the execu
ton of said contract: Provided further, That when