The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1865-01-31

g. Every minister of religion authorized to preach
according the rules of his church, and who, at the
massage of this act shall be regularly employed in the
discharge of his ministerial duties superintendents
physicians of asylums for the deaf and dumb and
blind and of the nsane editor newspaper
being published the time of this ACT and such
plo, said editor may certify oath to be ndis
pensable to the publication of such newspaper the
public printer of the Confederate and State Govern
and such jonrneymen printers the said public
printer shall certify oath to be indispensable to
form the public printing; skilled apothecary in
each apohecary store who was doing business as sncn
on the 10th day of October 1862 and has continued
said business without intermisson, since that period
all physicians the age of thirty years, who
are and for the last have been in the
tual and regular practice of their profession but the
term physician shall not include dentists; ell pres-
dents and teachers of colleges theological semnaries
academies and schools, who have been regularly en-
gagged such for years before the passage
this Irovided that the benefit of this exemption
shall extend to those teachers only whose schools
composed of twenty students more. All superin-
tendents of public hospitals established by law before
the passage of this and such physicians and
therein such superintendent shall certify, oath,
be indispensable to the proper and efficient manage
meEt thereof
T. There shall be exempt one person as owner or
agriculturast each farm plantation upon which
there now and the LIST 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 cases in
which there is white male adult the farm pla1ta
ton not liable to military service, unless the person
either the and manager or of said panta
ton; but in shall more than person be
| empted for one farm or plantation
Confederate States Ut America in such form and with such
security, and in such penalty, as the Secretary of War
may prescribe, conditioned that he will deliver the Gov
eminent at Railroad depot such other place
places may be designated by the Secretary of War;
within ~ 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 to be delivered
foo for each ablebodied slave said farm plantation
the field or not which said bacon or pork beef shall
be paid for by the government at the prices fixed by the
Commissioners of the State under the impressment act
Provided, that when the person thus exempted shall pro
duce satisfactory evidence that it has been impossible
him, by the exercise of proper diligence to furnish the
thus contracted for an adequate
supply for the subsistence of those living the said
plantation the Secretary of War shall direct
taton OF the same to the extent Of wohirds 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
marketable surplus of provisions and grain hand
and which he may raise from to year while his
empton continues, to the government or to the families
of soldiers prices fixed by the commissioners of the
under the mprcssment act: Provided that any person
empted aforesaid shall be entitled to credit of % per
cent amount of meat which he may deliver within
three months from the passage OF this act: Provided fur
hcr that persons coming within the provisions of this
emption shall be deprived of the benefit thereof by
of having been enrolled since the 1s of Feb 1864
4. In addition TO the foregoing exemptions the Secre-
tary of War, under the direction of the President may
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 ov"rscers farmers or planters he may be salts
hed will be more useful to the country in the pursuits of
agriculture than in the military service Provided that
such exemptions shall whenever the farmer planter
or overseer shall fail diligently to employ, in good faith
his skill capital and labor exclusively in the produc
ton ofgran and provisions be sold the government
and fies of soldiers at prices not exceeding those fixed
at the time for like articles by the commissioners of the
Efp nnfpr he lDplrp mont act
5. The president treasurer, auditor and superintendent
otany 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 railroads
Provided that the number of persons exempted by this
act railroad shall not exceed person Tor each
mile of said road in actual for military transportation
and said exempts shall be reported by and dcscrp
ton with the of any who may have left the
ployment of said company who may to be ndis
pensabe.
6. That nothing herein contained shall be construed
repeating the approved April l4th 1862 entitled
exempt for carrying the mails Of the Con-
derate States and the drivers post coaches and hacks
from military service: Provided that all the exemptions
granted under this act shall only coanue whilst the
sons exempted actually engaged i'll their respective
pursuits or occupations
Section H. That the President be and be is hereby
thozed grant Details under general rules and regula
tons be issued from the War Department. either of per-
between As and so years of age from the army
the field, in all where in his udg ment justice equ
ty and necessity require such details, and he revoke
such orders of detail whene he thinks proper Provided
that the power herein granted the President to make
details and exemptions shall not be construed to authorize
the exemption detail of any contractor for furnishing
supplies of any kind 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 ndispensabto the
ton said contract: Provided further, when any
such shall fall diligently and faithfully pro-
coed with the of such contract his exemption
detail shallcea
Sec. r. That in appointing local boards of Surgeons
for the examination of persons liable to military service,
no
the county enrolling district in which they required
to make such examination.
Adopted in February, 1864.
DIR. J. NJ. MILLER,
CharIoffe NJ e.