The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-05-03

3. Every minister of religion authorized to preach
according to the rules of his church. and who at the
MASSAGE of this act shall be regularly employed in the
discharge of his ministerial duties; superintendent
physicians of asylums for the deaf and dunno and
blind and of the nsane editor for each newspaper
being published the time of this act, and such en-
ploy said editor may certify oath to be inds-
pensabe the publication of such newspaper; the
public printer of the Confederate and State Govern
ments and such ionnevmen printers as the said public
printer shall certify oath to be indispensable to per-
form the public printing; one skilled apothecary in
each apohecary 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 now
and for the last years have been in the ac
tua regular practice of their profession, but the
term physician shall include dentists; oil presi-
dents and teachers of colleges theological semnares,
academies and schools who have been regularly en-
gagged such years next before the passage of
this rropided that the benefit of this exemption
shall extend to those teachers only whose schools are
composed of twenty students or more. All superin-
tendents of public hospitals established by law before
the passage of this act and such physicians and nurses
therein such superintendent snail certify on oath,
to be indispensable the proper and efficient manage
ment thereof.
f. There shall be exempt one person as owner
agrculturast on each farm plantation upon which
there now and the lst day OF January last
fifteen ablebodied field hands, between the ages OF
sixteen and fifty, upon the following conditions:
1. This exemption shall only be granted in cases in
which there white male adult the farm planta-
ton not liable military service unless the person
claiming the exemption the st of January 1864,
either the owner and manager of said plana
ton; but in shall more than one person be eX-
empted for one farm or plantation
Such person shall first bond payable to the
Confederate States of America in such form and with such
security, and III such penalty as the secretary OF w al
prescribe conditioned that he will deliver to the Gov
eminent at some Railroad depot or such other Place or
within II months next ensuing 100 pounds OF bacon, or
at the election OF the Government its equivalent in pork
pounds of beef said beef to be delivered
oO for each abebeded slave said farm plantation
within the above said ages whether said slaves used IN
the field OF not which said bacon pork and beef shall
be paid for by the 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 1t has been impossible for
him. by the exercise OF proper diligence to furnish the
of meat thus contracted for and leave adequate
plantation, the Secretary OF War shall direct commu
taOn of the to the extent OF wohirds thereof IN
grain other provisions to be delivered by such person
aforesaid at equivalent rates.
3. Such person shall further bind himself to sell the
marketable surplus of proV and grain now on hand,
and which he may raise from year year while his
emption continues to the government to the families
Of soldiers at prices xedby the commissioners of the State
under the impressmen ac Provided that any person
empted aforesaid shall be entitled to credit of 25 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
empton shall not be deprived of the benefit thereof by
of having been enrolled since the 1S OF Feb 1864
A. In addition to the foregoing exemptions, the Secre
tary of War; under the direction of the President,
ought to be exempted account ofpubc 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,
to such overseers farmers planters he may be salts
fled will be 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 to employ in good faith
his own skill capital and labor exclusively in the produc-
ton ofgrain and provisions to be sold the government
aud families OF soldiers prices not exceeding those fixed
the time for like articles by the commissioners of the
StatA II11f1a tIpi 1,lftap or
The president. treasurer, auditor and superintendent
ofany Railroad company engaged i'll transportation for
the government and such officers and employees thereof
the president or superintendent shall certify oath to
he Indispensable to the efficient operation of said raioad
Provided that the number of persons exempted by this
act any railroad shall not exceed One person Tor each
mile of said road in actual use for military ansportaOn
and said exemp shall be reported by and descrp
ton. with the of any who may have left the
poyment of said company, who may cease to bends
pensable.
g. That nothing herein contained shall be construed
repeating the act approved April l4th 1862 entitled an
act exempt contractors for carrying the mails of the Con-
derae 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 is hereby
thorzed to grant Details under general rules and regua
tons to be issued from the War Department either of per-
sons between As and so years of or from the army in
the field in all where in his Judgment justice, equi
and necessity require such Details and he may revoke
such orders detail whenever he thinks proper Provided
that the power herein granted to the President to make
details and exemptions shall not be construed to authorize
the exemption detail of any 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 ofsad Provided further, that when any
such contractor shall fall diligently and faithfully pro-
coed with the execution of such contract his exemption
detail shall cease
Sec. r. That in appointing local boards of Surgeons
for the examination of persons liable to military service,
member composing the shall be appointed from |
the county enrolling district in which they required
to make such examination.
adopted in February, 1864.