Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1865-01-18
South. Carolina Exemption Act.

IN Act to authorize the Governor to require the
Eremption of certain State c6iesrs and other
DersOas from Confederate Service.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by tho Senate and House
of Representatires met and sitting in General
Jsssmblu, and by the authority of the same, That
the Governor be and is hereby authorized and re-
ouired to claim the exemption from Confederate
military service of the officers and members of both
branches of the General Assembly of this State,
and the following State officers, to wit: Lieutenant
Governor, Judges of the Courts of Law and EQUITY,
Attorney General and Solicitors, Secretary Of State
Comptroller. General State Auditor and two asssis-
tants, Treasurers of the Upper and Lower Division,
Adiutant and Inspector General and one assistant,
Ouartermastsr. General, Commssary. General, state
Engineer and one assistant Aides de- Camp to the
Governor (not to exceed one to each militia brgade)
Private Secretary of the Governor and his Clerk,
Sherifs, Clerks of the Court Ordinaries, Masters,
REGISTERS and Commissioners in Equity, Tax-Cof-
lectors President, Cashier, Book. keeper, and one
Teller of the Bank of the State and Of each OF its
Branches Officers and Cadets of the State Military
Academies, Professors Of the South Carolina Col
ege, Superintendent Physician, and Keepers OF the
Lunatic Asylum, and Superintendent Steward, and
Teachers Of the Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb and
Blind.
Sec. Q. That the Governor be and he is hereby
authorized, if the same be in his judgment neces-
sary, and under such regulations as be may pre-
scribe, to require the exemption Of the following
State officers and other persons, to wit: Members
of the Board for the Relief of Soldiers Families,
(who are over forty.fve years Of age) President
Cashier Book. keeper, and one Teller now in the
employment of each of the several Banks IN the
State, the Presidents and Treasurers now in the
EMPLOYMENT of the two Saving Institutions in the
State, such Deputy. .Sherfs as may he indispensable
to the execution of the laws of the State (not to
exceed one in each Judicial District) State Agent
for the supply of slave labor, one editor for each
newspaper being published at the time Of the pas
sage of this Act, and such printers and pressmen
as said editor may certify upon oath to be ndispen-
sable to the publication of said newspaper; the
Public Printer of the State government, and such
journeymen printers as said Public Printer shall
certify upon oath to be indispensable to the public
printing the Chief of the South Carolina Hospital
Bureau at Richmond and his assistant; the officers
and members of the Police and Fire Departments o
Charleston and Columbia, and such artizans me
chanics and persons of scientific skill and othel
employe yees as may be indispensable to the carrying
on of the manufactures and public works belong
ing to the State the professors and teachers OF oil
incorporated colleges in the State every minister
of religion authorized to preach according to the
rules of his church, and who was, on the first day
of May, 1861, and at the passage of this Act shall
be regularly employed in the discharge of his min
is:eral duties, and is not engaged in any traffic.
Sec 8. That for the proper police Of the country
the Governor is hereby authorized, under such re-
gulatiqps as he may prescribe, to require tn
exemption from Confederate military service o
such persons as he may adjudge indispensable fo
the government of the slaves and the protection o
the Citizens and property of the State: Provided
That such exemptions shall not exceed, in an!
District, one for every two hundred slaves in salt
District: And procided, further, That the right
ofoverseers now having both Confederate and Stat
exemptions shall not be changed nor altered by tn
provisions of this Act, nor shall such persons b
included in the estimate of the above proviso.
Sec. 4. That all officers and persons who shall b
50 required by the Governor, pursuant to the pro
visions of this Act, be and they are hereby declare
to be exempt from Confederate military ssrvic
during the period for which their exemption sha
be 40 claimed