The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-08-23

g. Every minister oF religion authorized TO preach
according to tie rules Of his church. and who the
passage of this act shall be regularly employed in the
discharge of his ministerial dutes superintendents
and physicians of asylums for the deaf and dumb and
blind insane editor for each newspaper
being published the time of thisact, and such en-
plo!ees said editor certify oath TO be lnds-
pensable the publication of such newspaper; the
public printer of the Confederate and State Govern
ments, and such ourneymcn printers the said public
printer shall certify, oath to be inds pensible
form the public printing; one skilled apohecary in
eachsapothccary who doing business such
the 10Th day of October, l062, and has continued
said business, without intermis since thai period
all physicians the age OF thirty years, who
are and for the last years have been, in the
tual and regular practice of their profession, but the
term physician shall not include dentists oil pres-
dents and teachers Of colleges theological semnarics
academies and schools, who have been regularly en-
gagged such for next before the passage Of
this PrOridcd, that the benefit of this exemption
shall extend those teachers only whose schools
composed of twenty students or more. All superin-
endents of public hospitals by law before
the passage of this and such physicians and nurses
therein rs such superintendent shall certify, oath,
to be indispensable to the proper and efficient manage
ment thereof.
a. There shall be exempt person
agriculuralis each farm or plantation upon which
there now and the lst day of January last
fifteen abe-bodied field hands between the ages of
sixteen and fifty, upon the following conditions:
/. This exemption shall only be granted in cases in
which there is white male adult the farm planta-
ton not liable to military service, unless the person
eher The and man nS or ovesee Of said pant
ton; but in shall 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 in such penalty the Secretary of War
prescribe conditioned that he will deliver the Gov
some Railroad depot, such other place
places may be designated by the Secretary of War;
within II months next ensuing 100 pounds of BACON
the election OF the Government its equivalent in pork
and 100 pounds of nett beef (sad beef to be delivered
foot for each abeboded slave said farm plantation
within the above said ages whether said slaves used
the field OF 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 impcssment act;
Provided, that when the person thus exempted shall pro
duce satisfactory evidence that has been impossible for
him, by the exercise of proper diligence. to furnish the
amount of meat thus contracted for leave an adequate
supply for the subsistence of those living the said farm
or plantation the Secretary of War shall direct
aton of the to the extent of two-hrds thereof in
grain other PROVISIONS to be delivered by such person
as aforesaid at equivalent rates.
3 Such person shall further bind himself to sell the
surplus of provisions and grain now on hand
and which he may raise from year to year while his
emption continues to the government to the families
of soldiers prices fixed by the commissioners of the State
under the impreSsment ac Provided that any person ex
empted aforesaid shall be entitled credit of IS 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 theproVisions OF this
emption shall not be deprived of the benefit thereof by
of having been enrolled since the LIST of Feb 1864
A. Tradition to the foregoing exemptions, the Secre
tary of War, under the direction of the President may
exempt or detail such other persons he may be satisfied
ought be exempted OF public necessity and
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 Ov@rseers farmers planters he may be salts
fled will be useful to the country in the pursuits of
agriculture than in the military service Provided that
such exemption shall cease whenever the farmer planter
his skill capital and labor exclusively in the produc
ton Ogran and provisions to be sold to the government
and families sol at prices not those xfd
State under the Impressment act.
5. The president treasurer auditor and superintendent
OF any Railroad company engaged in transportation tol
the government and such officers and employees thereof
as the president superintendent shall certify oath to
be Indispensable the efficient operation Of slid raroad
Provided that the number OF persons exempted by this
act any railroad shall not exceed person for each
mile of said road in actual for military transportation;
and said exempts shall be reported by and descrp
ton. with the of any who may have left the
poyment OF said company, who may to be nds
penSable.
g. That nothing herein contained shall be construed as
repeating the approved April I4th 1863 entitled
act to exempt contractors for carrying the mails of the Con-
ederae States and the drivers of post coaches and hacks
from military service: Provided that all the exemptions
granted under this shall only continue whilst the per-
sons exempted actually engaged jill their respective
pursuits occupations.
Section H. That the President be and be is hereby
horzed to grant details under general rules and regua
tons to be issued from the War Department. either of per-
between 40 and 30 years of from the in
the field in all where in his Judgment, justice, equi
y and necessity require such details and h. may revoke
such orders Vi detail whenever he thinks proper: Provided
that the power herein granted to the President make
details and exemptions shall not be construed to authorize
the exemption detail of any contractor for furnishing
supplies of 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 contract Provided further that when any
such shall fall diligently and faithfully, pro-
coed with the execution of such contract his exemption
detail shall cease.
Sec. ~ That in appointing local boards of Surgeons
or the examination of persons liable TO military service,
no member composing the shall be appointed from
he county enrolling district in which they required
20 make such examination.
TAdopted in February, 1864