The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-10-04

D.
according to the rules of his church, and who the
passage of this act shall be regularly employed in the
discharge of mis- ministerial duties; superintendent
and physicians of asyums for the deaf and dumb and
blind and of the fnsane editor for each newspaper
being published at the time of this act and such en-
plo, said editor may certify oath to be indis
pensable to the publication of such newspaper the
public printer of the Confederate and State Govern
ments and such onrneymen printers the said public
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 intermssion, since that period
all physicians the age of thirty years. who
are, and for the last years have been in the
ual and regular practice of their profession but the
term physician shall not include dentists; ell presi-
dents and teachers of colleges theological seminares
academies and schools, who have been regularly
gagged such for years next before the passage of
this Prorided, that the benefit of this exemption
shall extend to 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 and such physicians and
therein such superintendent shall certify on OATH
to be indispensable to the proper and efficient manage
ment thereof.
4. There shall be exempt one person as owner
agricuuralist each farm plantation upon which
there now and the St day of January last,
fifteen abie-boded 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 panta-
ton not liable to military service unless the person
claiming the exemption the st OF January 1864,
either the and manager of said panta-
ton; but in shall than person be
empted for one farm plantation
2 Such person shall first execute bond, payable to the
Confederate States of America in such form and with such
security and In such penalty, the Secretary of War
may prescribe conditioned that he will deliver to the Gov
Railroad depot >or such other place or
places may be designated by the Secretary of War.
within ~ months next ensuing, 100 pounds of bacon
the election OF the Government its equivalent pork
and 100 pounds of nett beef ad beef to be delivered
foot for each ableboded said farm plantation
"A
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 impressment act
Provided, that when the person thus exempted shall pro
duce satisfactory evidence that il has been impossible for
amount of meat thus contracted for and leave adequate
supply for the subsistence of those living the said farm
plantation, the Secretary of War shall direct
tation of the same to the extent of wohirds thereof in
grain other provisions to be delivered by such person
aforesaid at equivalent rates
B. Such person shall further bind himself to sell the
marketable surplus of provisions and grain hand
and which he may raise from year year while his
empon continues, to the government the families
of soldiers at prices fixed by the commissioners of the State
under the mpressmen act: Provided that any person
empted as aforesaid shall be entitled credit of % per
cent any amount of meat which he may deliver within
three months from the passage OF this act Provided fur
ther that persons coming within the provisions OF this
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 Sccrc-
ary 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
to 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
such overseers farmers planters he may be salts
fed 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 employ, in good faith
his skill capital and labor exclusively in the produc
ton and provisions to be sold to the government
and families OF soldiers at prices not exceeding those fixed
the time for like articles by the commissioners of the
State under the impressnlent act.
5. The president treasurer, auditor and superintendent
OF any Railroad company engaged i'll transportation for
the government and such officers and employees thereof
the president supcrnttnd shall certify oath to
be indispensable the efficient operation of said raoad
Provided that the of persons exempted by this
act any railroad shall not exceed person for each
mile of said road in actual for military Interpretations
and said exemps shall be reported by and dcscrp
ton. with the names of any who may have left the
ployment Of said company or who may cease to be nds
pensable.
6. That nothing herein contained shall be construed
repeating the approved April l4th 1863, entitled
act to exempt contractors for carrying the mails of the Con
eerae States and the drivers of post coaches and hacks
from military service: Provided that all the exemptions
granted under this act shall only continue whilst the per-
sons exempted are actually engaged in their respective
pursuits or occupations
Section H. That the President be and be hereby
horzed to grant Details under general rules and regua
tons to be issued from the War Department either of per-
between As and so years of age from the army in
the field, in all where in his Judgment, justice equ
and necessity require such details, and he may revoke
such orders of detail whenever he thinks proper Provided
that the power herein granted to the President to make
details and exemptions shall be construed to authorize
the exemption detail of any contractor for furnishing
supplies of any kind to the government by Of said
contract 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 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. H. That in appointing local boards of Surgeons
for the examination of persons liable to 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.