Year: 1865

IN act to authorize the Gouern0r to require the


Exemption of certain State officers and other


persons from Confederate Service


SECTION 1. Be 1T enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives. met and sitting in General
assembly, and 6y the authority of the same That
the Governor be and is hereby authorized and re
quired 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 ofLaw and Equity,
Attorney General and Solicitors Secretary of State
Comptroller General State Auditor and two asSsis
tants, Treasurers of the Upper and Lower Division,
Adjutant and Inspector General and one assistant,
QuartermaSter General, CommisSary General, State
Engineer and one assistant Aides-de- Camp to the
Governor (not to exceed one to each militia brigadeD
Private Secretary of the Governor and his Clerk,
Sherifs, Clerks of the Court, Ordinares, Masters,
Registers, and Commissioners in Equity, Tax-Col
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
lege, Superintendent Physician, and Keepers of the
Lunatic Asylum, and Superintendent Steward, and
Teachers Of the Asylum for the Deaf Dumb and
Blind.


Sec 2. That the Governor be and he is hereby
authorized, if the same be in his judgment neces-
sary, and under such regulations as he 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 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-Sherifs as may be indispensable
to the execution of the laws of the State, (not to
exceed one in each Judicial Distriot) 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 priRters and pressmen
said editor may certify upon oath to be lndiSpen-
sable to the publication of said newspaper; the
Public Printer of the State government and such
journeymen printers as said Pablic 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 of
Charleston and Columbia, and such artizans me
chanics, and persons of scientific skill, and other
employees as may be indispensable TO the carrying
on of the manufactures and public works belong
ing to the State; the professors and teachers Of all
incorporated colleges in the State; every minister
of religion authorized to preach according to the
rules of his church, and who was, the first day
of May, 1861, and at the passage of this Act shall
be regularly employed in the discharge of his min
is.erial 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-
gulations he may prescribe, to require the
exemption from Confederate military service of
such persons as he may adjudge indispensable FOR
the government of the slaves and the protection of
the citizens and property of the State: ProUided,
That such exemptions shall not exceed, in any
District, one for every two hundred slaves in said
District: And prOUided, further, That the rights
ofoverseers now having both Confederate and State
exemptions shall not be changed nor altered by the
provisions of this Act shall such persons be
included in the estimate of the above proviso


SEC 4. That all officers and persons who shall be
so required by the Governor, pursuant to the pro-
visions of this Act be and they hereby declared
to be exempt from Confederate military service
during the period for which their exemption shall
he ao claimed.