The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1864-03-02

or officer in the ordinance bureau, or ma.
w agent or provost marshall, OF officer
in the conscript service, who shall hersaf.
ter retain or employ any person subject
to military duty, as herein provided, shall
be asshiersd.
Sec. 10 rspsals all existing exemption
law, and sIemp's the following;
l. All who shall be held unfit for mil.
iary service, under rulss to be prescribed
by the Secretary OF War.
9. The Vice President Of the Conf.ae
rate S,sles; the member, and officers Of
Congress, Of the several State Lssisla-
ta'ss. and such other Confederate and
States officers ~ the President or the
Governor Of. the respective States may
certify 10 bs necessary for the propsr ad
ministration OF the Confederate or State
governmsnts, As the ease may BE-.
8. Every minister Of religion author.
lied 10 preach according to the ruler Of
his church, and who, at the passage Of
this act, shall be regularly employed in
the discharge employed in the discharge
Of his ministerial datie.; superiutendsnts
and physicians Of asy lums Of the deaf,
dunn. blind and insane; ono editor for
each newspaper being Published at the
time Of the passage Of this act, and such
employees as said editor may certify on
oath to Be indispensable to the publica.
tion OF such newspaper; the public prin.
ter OF the Confederate and State govern
ments. and such journsyrnsn printsss a.
tue ssid public printer shxli certify on
oath to be Indispensable to perform the
public printing; one skilled apothscary
in each apo,hseary store, who wa, doing
busins" As such apo.hecsry on the lo.h
day Of Ostobsr, 1862, and ha. continued
said business, without iutsrmissiou. since
that period; all physicisus over tho ag.
OF 90 ysars who are now, and have been,
for the last seven years, in the practice Of
their profession, but the term physician
shall not ipAluds dentists.
THE old law exists covers professors
and teachers.
All supsrin,snd.nts OF public hospitals
established by Law before the passage Of
this act, aud ssch employees a. the su.
psristsndsut shall certify ON oath to be
essential to the management thereof
4. There shsll bs exempt one psr.ou
a. owner or agriculture, on each farm or
plantation upon which there are now and
were on the first day Of January la.t,
fifteen able bodied 6sld haads. between
the ages Of l6 and so. upon tho follow.
ing conditions l. This exemption shall
only Be granted in cases in which there
10 no white male adult on the farm or plan
tation- not liable to military duty, cor
unless the person claiming the exemption
was on The lat day ei January, 1864,
either the swpsr and manager, or over.
seer OF said plantation, but in no ease,
shall more than one person be ed
for one farm or plantation. 2. Such per.
son shall first execute a bond, payable to
the Confederate Stsiss OF America, in
such form and with security aud such
penalty - the Secretary Of Wa, may
prescribe, conditioned that hs will deliver
TO the Government at some railroad dc
pot. 'or such other place ~ may bs dss
igns.sd BY the Secretary Of War, within
twelve months next ensuing, one hu.drsd
pounds Of bacon, or ut the election Of the
Government. its equivalent in pork, and
one hundred pounds Of nett beef (.sid
beef TO be delivered on foet.) for each
able bodied slave on said farm or plan.a.
ton within above said ages, whether said
slave are in the field or not, which said
bacon, or pork and bssfahsl be paid for
by the Government At the price fired by
ths Commissioners Of the State usG Or the
imprsssment act: Provided, that when
the person thus exempted shsli produce
satisfactory evidence that il has been i'm
possible for him, by tie exercise Of proper
diligence, to furnish the amount Of msa,
tbus contracted fer and leave an adequate
supply for the Subsistence Of those living
on said farm, the Secretary Of War shall
direct . eommutstion Of the same TO the
extent Of two thirds thsreof in grain or
other prosisisns, TO be delivered by such
- Aforesaid at equivalent rates. 8. Such
person shall furthermore bind himself to
sell the marketable surplus Of provisions
and prsiu now IN hanA and rLiHL L. ma