The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-01

sous shall have been assigned To
illoSe duties, as far as practicable,
lhe President shall assign or deiaiI
to their performance such bodies Of
troops, or individuals required to, be
enrolled under the fifth section of this
act, as may be needed for the discharge
of such duties Pro sided, that persons
between the ages of seventeen and
eighteen shall be assigned to those du-
ties: Provided further, that nothing in
this act shall be SO construed as to pre-
vent the President from detailing arti.
zans, mechanics, or persons of scientific
skill. to perform indispensable duties in
the departments or bureaus mentioned.
SIC. 8. That any Quartermaster, or As.
sistatt Quartermaster, COmmissary, or Assist
ant Commissary, (other than those serving
Wth brigades or regiments IN the ield) or
ofiicersl in the Ordnance Bureau, OF navy
agents, or provost marshal, or officer In the
Conscript service, who shall hereafter en-
ploy or retain in his employment any person
in any OF their said departments or bureaus,
or i'll any of the duties mentioned in the
eighth section of this act, in violation of the
provisions thereaf, shall, on conviction there
of by court martial or military corrt, be
cashiered and it shall be the duty of any
department or district commander, upon
proof by the oath of any credible person,
that any such officer has violated this provis-
ian, Immediately 20 relieve such officer
from duty; and said commander shall
take prompt measures to have him tried
for each offence; and any commander as
aforesaid failing to perform the duties enjoin-
ed by this section, shall, upon being duly
convicted thereof be discharged from the
service,
SEC. 10. Be il further enacted, That all
laws grsnting exemptions from military SER
vice be, and the same are he. cby, repealed,
and hereafter none shall be exempted except
the following:
2, The Vice-President of the Confederate
States, the members and officers af Congress,
and of the several State Legislatures, and
such other Confederate and State officers as
the President, or the Governors of the re-
spective States, may certify to be necessary
for the proper administration of the Confed.
esate or State Governments, as the case may
be.
,. Every minister of religion authorized
TO preach according to the rules fhis church,
and who, at the passage of this act, shall be
regularly employed in the discharge of his
ministerial duties; superiutendents and ply
sicians of asylums for fhe deaf, and dumb,
and blind. and of the insane one editor for
each newspaper being published at the time
of this act, and such employees as said edi-
tor may certify on oath to be indispensable
to the publication of such newspaper; the
public printer Of the Confederate and the
State Governments, and such journeYmen
printers as the said public printer shall certi-4
fy, on oath to be indispensable to perform
the public printing; one skilled apothecary
IN each apothecary store, who was doing bu-
siness as such OIL the 18th day af October,
1862, and has continued said business. With
out iutermission, since that period an physi-
clans over the age of thirty years, who now
are, and for the last seven years have been
in the actual and in the regular practice of
their profession, but the term physician shall
not include dentists; all presidents and
teachers of colleges, theological seminaries,
academies and schools, who have been regu-
larly engaged as such for two years next be-
fore the passage of this act /; Provided, That
the benefit of this exemption shall extend to
these teachers Only whose schools are CON-
posed oftwenty students or more. All su-
per:ntendents o. public hospitals, established
by law before the passage of this act, and such
physicians and nurses as such supe intend |
ents shall certify on oath, to be Indispensable |
to the proper and efficient management
thereof.
4. There shall be exempt one person as
owner or agriculturist on each farm. or plan
tation upon which there are now, and we're
on the first day of January last, fifteen able
bodied field hands, between the ages OF six
teen and Fifty, upen the following conditions:
l. This exemption shall only be granted |
in cases IL wh ch there is no white male adult
On the farm OF pi..s .s:ation not liah,o TO militia
ry duty, nor unless the person claiming the
exemption was on the 1st of January, 1864.
either Tie owner and manager, or overseer OF I
said plantation; but in no case shall more
than one person be ex empted for one farm
Or plantation.
2. Such person shall first execute bond
payable oas,.s Confederate States OF Ameri-
ca, in such form and with such security and