Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-02-24

in addition to 333. The present issue OF
notes to continue till the LIST of April, after
which the new issue is authorized to be
kept within reasonable imits.' Six per
cent. bonds to the amount of $500, 100000
may be issued and sold to raise money to
meet the expenses of the Government.
All duties on imports are to be paid in
specie, sterling exchange, or coupons of
these bonds. All import and export duties
are specially pledged to pay the interest on
these bonds.
The tax bill levies five per cent. on most
real, personal and mixed property, stocks,
bank bills and solvent credits, and ten to
twenty per cent on incomes, profits, ETC..
The military bill declares all between II
and so in the service during the war; all
between Is and As now in service are re.
tanned under the existing organizations and
officers all between II and lS, and 45 and
so are to be enrolled for State defence
Provost, hospital, conscript and guard duty
are to be performed by men between IL
and As unfit for the field. The exemptions
are, all unfit for the field Congress, State
Legislatures and other Confederate and
State officers; preachers regularly employ
ed !; one editor of each newspaper now pub
lished and such employees as are indispen.
sable; one apothecary to each drug store
doing business on the 10th October, 1862 ;
physicians over 80 years Of age who have
been seven years in practice; presidents
and teachers of colleges and schools teach
ing regularly for two years with twenty stu
dents; one person on a farm Of fifteen field
hands, and to give bond for security to de-
liver to the Government 100 pounds of ba-
con aud beef for every hand, and sell all
the surplus at schedule rates; officers OF
railroads as heretofore reported; and the
President and Secretary Of War are author
lied to grant exemptions as heretofore re.
ported.
RICHMOND, Feb: 1S.-The House last
night passed the bill repeating that portion
Of the late Military act which exempts one
man on farm with fifteen able bodied
field hands.
A motion to re. consider was made, and
was pending at the hour of adjournment.
The President has approved and the In
junction of secrecy has been removed from
the bill to suspend the habeas corpus
The preamble to the bill asserts that The
power to suspend shall be vested solely in
Congress, and Congress shall be the exclu-
sive judge of the necessity of exercising the
power.
1t declares it to be the opinion of Con.
gress that the public safety now requires
it, and the President has asked it. There
fore, it suspends the writ until ninety days
after the nesting of the next Congress.
In cases of arrest by order of the Presi-
dent, Secretary of War, or the General com.
manding the Trans. Mississippi Department,
to apply only to cases of treason, conspiracy,
combining to assist the enemy, attempts to
serVile insurrection, desertion, encouraging
or harboring deserters or spies, unlawful
intercourse or trading with the enemy, ad'
vising the enemy or inciting others to aban-
don the Confederate cause, burning bridges
or destroying telegraph lines, destroying or
attempting to destroy Government vessels,
arms, munitions of war, arsenals, foundries
or work shops.
During its suspension the President shall
cause every arrest to be properly investiga-
ted, and if Improperly detained, the defen-
dant shall be discharged unless he can be
speedily tried by due course of law.
The President has signed the bill to au-
thorize the impressment of meat for the use
of the army: its provisions have been here
tofore reported.