The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1865-03-07

according to the rules ST his church. and who, the
passage of this act shan be regularly employed IN the
discharge of his ministerial duties; superintendent
and physicians of asylums for the deaf and dumb and
blind and of the nsane editor for each newspaper
being published at the time of this act and such en-
po, said editor may certify oathsto be indis
pensable to the publication of such newspaper; the
public printer of the Confederate and State Govern
mens and such onrnevmen printers the said public
printer shall certify, oath to be indispensable per-
form the public printing; skilled apothecary in
each apothecary store who doing business such
on the 10Th day of October 1862 and has continued
said business, without intermssion since that period
all physicians over the age of thirty years. who now
and for the last seven years have been an the
tual and regular practice of their profession, but the
term physician shall include dentists; ell presi-
dents and teachers of colleges, theological semnares,
academies and schools, who have been regularly
gagged such for two years before the passage of
this acts PE0rided, that the benefit of this exemption
shall extendo those teachers only whose schools
| composed of twenty students All superin-
endents of public hospitals, established by law before
passage of this act and such physicians and
therein such superintendent shall certify oath,
be indispensable to the proper and efficient manage
| ment thereof.
! 4. There shall be exempt person as owner or
agricuituraliS on each farm or plantation upon which
there and were the lst day of January last
fifteen abe-boded field hands, between the ages of
sixteen and fifty, upon the following conditions:
- l. 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
claiming the exemption Was the 1st of January 1854,
either the manager of said planta
tion but in no case shall more than one person be
empted for one farm plantation
Such person shall first execute bond payable to the
Confederate States Of America in such form and with such
security, and in such penalty as the Secretary of War
prescribe conditioned that he will deliver to the Gov
eminent at Railroad depot, such other place
places may be designated by the Secretary of War;
within II months next ensuing 100 pounds of bacon,
at the election OF the Government its equivalent in pork
and 100 pounds of nett beef (sad beef be delivered
foo for each abeboded slave said farm plantation
within the above said ages whsher said slaves are used in
/ q e hal
be paid for by the government at the prices fixed by the
Commissioners of the State under the mpressment 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
of meat thus contracted for and leave adequate
supply for the subsistence of those living the said farm
plantation the Secretary of War shall direct
ation of the same the of two-thr thereof in
grain other provisions, to be delivered by such
as aforesaid at equivalent rates.
g. Such person shall further bind himselfto sell the
marketable surplus of provisions and grain hand
and which he may raise from year to year while his
emption continues, to the government to the families
of soldiers at prices fixed by the commissioners of the State
under the impreSsment act Provided that person
empted aforesaid shall be entitled credit of % per
cent any amount of meat which he may deliver within
three months from the passage ofthis act Provided fur
ther that persons coming within the provisions of this
emption shall not be deprived of the benefit thereof by
of having been enrolled since the st of Feb 1864
d In addition to the foregoing exemptions, the Secrc
tary of War, under the direction of the President, may
exempt detail such other persons he may be 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 oversecrs farmers planters he may be salts
fled will be useful the country the pursuits of
agriculture than in the military service: Provided that
such exemption shall whenever the farmer planter
or oveseer shall fail diligently to employ in good faith.
his skill capital and labor exclusively in the prOduc
ton ogran and provisions to be sold to the
and families ofsolders at prices not exceeding those fixed
at the time for like articles by the commissioners of the
State under the impressment act.
s. The president treasurer, auditor and superintendent
ofany Railroad company engaged in transportation for
the government and such officers and employees thereof
the president superintendent shall certify oath to
be Indispensable to the efficient operation of said railroad
Provided that the number of persons so exempted by this
ON any railroad shall exceed person for each
mile of said road in actual for military transportation;
and said eempts shall be reported by and descrp-
ton. with the of any who may have left the
poyment Of said company OF who may cease to be inds
pensable
g. That nothing herein contained shall be construed as
repeating the act approved April 14h. 1868, entitled
act to exempt contractors for carrying the mails of the Con-
Tolerate States and the drivers post coaches and hacks
from military service Provided, that all tho exemptions
granted under this shall only continue whilst the per-
sons exempted are actually engaged in their respective
pursuits occupations.
Section / .qhat the President be and be is hereby au
thorzed to grant Details under general rules and regula
tons be issued from 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, equ
ty and necessity require such Details and he revoke
such orders ofdeta whenever he thinks proper Provided
that the power herein granted to the President to make
details and exemptions shall be construed authorize
the exemption detail of any 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 ofsad Provided further, that when any
such contractor shall fall diligently and faithfully, to pro-
coed with the execution of such contract his exemption
detail shall cease.
See IL. 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 1854.
DR. 7 N MILLER.