The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1865-03-21

g. Every minister OF religion authorized 10 preach
according to the rules of his church. and who at the
passage of this shall be Regularly employed in the
discharge of his ministerial duties superintendent
and physicians of asyums for the deaf and dumb and
blind and Of the insane editor for each newspaper
being published the time of this act and such en-
poy said editor may certify oath to be inds-
pensable to the publication of such newspaper the
public printer of the Confederate and State Govern
and such onrnevmen printers the said public
printer shall certify oath to be indispensable to per-
form the public printing; skilled apothecaryin
each apohecary store, who doing business such
on 10th day of October, 1862, and has continued
said business without intermission since that period
all physicians the age of thirty years. who now
are and for the last years have been, in the
tual and regular practice of their profession but the
term physician shall include dentists; oil presi-
dents and teachers of colleges theological semRares
academies and schools, who have been regularly en-
gagged such for two years before the passage
this Prorided that the benefit of this exemption
shall extend to those teachers only whose schools
composed of twenty students or more. All superin-
tendents of public hospitals established by law before
the passage of this act and such and
therein such superinteudents shall certify oath
to be indispensable TO the proper and efficient manage
ment thereof
4. There shall be exempt person owner or
agrcuturalist each farm plantation upon which
now and the 1st day of January last
fifteen able bodied 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 nor unless the
claiming the exemption the st of January, 1864
the and manager overseer Of said panta
ton; but in shall more than person be
empted for farm plantation
q 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 W ar
may prescribe conditioned that he will deiverto the Gov
eminent at some Railroad depot such other place or
places may be designated by the Secretary of War;
within IL months ensuing 100 pounds of bacon
at the election OF the Government its equivalent in pork
and 100 pounds of beef (sad beef to be delivered
oo for each ablebodied slave said farm plantation,
within the above said whether said slaves used in
the field not which said bacon pork and beef shall
be paid for by the at the prices fixed by
Commissioners of the State under the impressment act
Provided, that when the person thus exempted shall
duce satisfactory evidence that il has been impossible for
him, by the exercise of proper diligence. to furnish the
of thus contracted for leave adequate
supply for the subsistence those living the said
plantation the Secretary of War shall direct
aton of the to the extent of twohrds thereof in
grain or other provisions to be delivered by such person
as aforesaid at equivalent rates.
3. Such person shall further bind himself to sell the
and which he may raise from year to year while his
emption continues, to the government or to the families
of soldiers at prices fixed by the commissioners of the State
under the mpessmen Provided that any
empted aforesaid shall be entitled credit of 25 per
centon any amount of meat which he may deliver within
three months from the passage this act Provided fur
her that persons coming within the provisions of this
emptiOn 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 Secre-
ary of War, under the direction of the President
exempt detail such other persons he 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,
to such farmers planters he may be sats
fed 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
shall fail diligently to employ in good faith,
his skill capital and labor exclusively the produc-
ton gan and provisions to be sold to the
and families ofsodies prices exceeding those fixed
at the time for like articles by the commissioners of the
State under the impressment act.
5. The president treasurer auditor and superintendent
ofany Railroad company engaged in transportation for
the president superintendent shall certify oath to
be indispensable to the efficient operation of said railroads:
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 transportaton
and said exemps shall be reported by and descrp
ton with the names of any who may have left the en-
plOyment OF said company, who may to be inds
pensabe.
g. That nothing herein contained shall be construed
repeating the act approved April 18th, 1868, entitled an
to exempt for carrying the mails of the Con-
derate 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-
exempted actually engaged in their respective
pursuits occupations.
Section H. That the President be and be is hereby
thozed grant Details under general rules and regua
tons to be issued the War Department. either per-
between As and so years of age, from the army in
the field in all where in his Judgment justice, equi
y and necessity require such Details and he revoke
such orders Of 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 or detail of contractor for furnishing
supplies of any kind to the 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 said contract: Provided fther that when any
such contractor shall fall diligently and faithfully to 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 military service,
No aOobo he trOm
the county enrolling district in which they required
to make such examination.
Adopted in February 1864.