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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, February 19, 1863.— Read 
 first and second times, and ordered to be printed, "• 
 
 [ By Mr. Miles, from Committee on Military Affairs.] 
 
 A. BILL 
 
 To exempt certain persons from military duty, and to repeal all Acts 
 heretofore passed by Congress on the same subject. 
 
 1 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do 
 
 2 enact f That certain persons, as hereinafter provided, are, and 
 
 3 shall be exempt from military service in the Provisional army of 
 
 4 the Confederate States : 
 
 5 I. Persons who shall be held unfit for military service in the 
 
 6 field by reason of mental or physical incapacity or imbecility, 
 
 7 under rules to be prescribed by the Secretary of War. 
 
 8 II. The Vice President of the Confederate States, and the 
 
 9 officers, judicial and executive of the Confederate and State 
 
 10 Governments, including postmasters appointed by the President 
 
 1 1 and confirmed by the Senate, and such clerks now employed in 
 
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 12 their offices as are allowed in writing by the Postmaster General, 
 
 13 and excluding all other postmasters, their assistants and clerks, 
 
 14 and except such State officers as the several States may have 
 
 15 declared or may hereafter declare, by law, to be liable to 
 
 16 military duty in the Provisional army of the Confederate States. 
 
 17 III. Members of both Houses of the Congress of the Confed- 
 
 18 erate States, and of the Legislatures of the several States, and 
 
 19 their respective officers. 
 
 20 IV. All volunteer troops heretofore raised by any State since 
 
 21 the passage of the act <* further to provide for the public 
 
 22 defence," approved April 16, 1862, while such troops shall be in 
 
 23 active service under State authority : Provided, This exemption 
 
 24 shall not include any person liable to military duty under said 
 
 25 last named act. 
 
 26 y. Pilots and persons actually and regularly engaged in 
 
 27 the merchant marine service. 
 
 28 VI. Captains, engineers, pilots and mechanics of boats actually 
 
 29 and regulaily employed in river or canal navigation. 
 
 so VII. Presidents, superintendents, engineers, and section-mas- 
 
 31 ters of railroads, and the artisans and mechanics regularly 
 
 32 employed in the workshops of railroad companies. 
 
 33 VIII. The president, general superintendent, and operators of 
 
 34 telegraph companies, and the local superintendent and operators 
 
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 35 of said companies, not to exceed two in number at any locality, 
 
 36 except the seat of Government of the Confederate States. 
 
 37 IX. Such printers of each newspaper now being published in 
 
 38 the Confederate States as the editor or proprietor thereof may 
 
 39 certify on oath to be indispensable for conducting the publication. 
 
 40 Also the Public Printer, and those employed to perform the 
 
 41 Public Printing for the Confederate and State Governments. 
 
 42 X. Ministers of religion authorized to preach according to 
 
 43 the rules of their sect, and in the regular discharge of minis- 
 
 44 terial duty, also, all persons who have been, and now are mem- 
 
 45 bera of the society of Friends, and the association of Dunkards, 
 
 46 Nazarines and Menonists, in regular membership in their re- 
 
 47 spective denominations: Provided, Each member of said de- 
 4S nominations shall have furnished a substitute or paid the tax of 
 
 49 five hundred dollars into the public treasury, as authorized 
 
 50 under the exemption act, approved October 11, 1662, or shall 
 
 51 hereafter pay said tax. 
 
 52 XI. Physicians who now are, and, for ihe las: five years have 
 
 53 been, in the actual practice of their profession. 
 
 54 XII. Superintendents of public hospitals, • lunatic asylums, 
 
 55 and the regular physicians, nurses and attendants therein, and 
 
 56 the teachers employed in the institutions of the deaf, dumb and 
 
 57 blitid. 
 
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 58 XIII. Presidents and teachers of colleges, academies, schools 
 
 59 and theological seminaries, who have been- regularly engaged as 
 
 60 such for two years previous to the passage of this act. 
 
 61 XIV. One practical apothecary in each drug store now estab- 
 
 62 lishcd, and regularly engaged in the sale of drugs, upon the 
 
 63 payment by said apothecary, or his employer, of five hundred 
 
 64 dollars, annually, into the the treasury of the Confederate 
 
 65 States. 
 
 6Q . XV. The regiment raised under, and by authority of the 
 
 67 State of Texas, for frontier defense, now in th^ service of said 
 
 68 State, and while in such service. 
 
 69 XVI. All artisans, mechanics and employees in the establish- 
 
 70 ments of the government for the manufacture of arms, ordnance, 
 
 7 1 ordnance stores, and other munitions of war, or army supplies, 
 
 72 who may be certified, under oath by the officer in charge thereof, 
 
 73 as indispensable to such establishments. All artisans, mechan- 
 
 74 ics, and employees in the establishments of such persons as are, 
 
 75 or may be engaged, under contracts wrh the government, in 
 
 76 furnishing arms, ordnance, ordnance stores, and other munitions 
 
 77 of war : Providtd, The Chief of the Ordnance Bureau, or some 
 
 78 ordnance officer authorized by him for the purpose, shall approve 
 
 79 of the number of operatives required in such establishments : 
 60 And provided, also, That the persons so contracting with the gov- 
 
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 81 ernment shall make oath, in writing, to be filed with the Sec- 
 
 83 rotary of War, tfkit the artisans, mechanics, and employees in 
 
 83 said establishments are indispensable thereto on account of their 
 
 84 skill in such work and labor ; and that, after diligent effort, they 
 
 85 have been unable to procure artisans, mechanics or employees, 
 
 86 who have been discharged from the Provisional Army, or who 
 
 87 are not subject to military duty. Also, all persons employed in 
 
 88 the manufacture of arms or ordnance of any kind by the several 
 
 89 States, or by contractors to furnish the same to the several State 
 
 90 governments, whom the Governor or Secretary of State thereof 
 
 91 may certify to be necessary to the same : Provided, That-said 
 
 92 last named contractors shall make oath as required in this para- 
 
 93 graph of contractors with the Confederate government. 
 
 94 XVII. All persons engaged under the authority of the Secre- 
 
 95 tary of the Navy in the construction of ships, gun-boats, engines, 
 
 96 sails, or other articles necessary to the public defense. 
 
 97 XYIII. Superintendents and operators in wool and cotton 
 
 98 factories, and paper mills, whom the Secretary of War may 
 
 99 approve as necessary for such establishments. The owners of 
 
 100 said wool and cotton factories and paper mills to make affidavit 
 
 101 in writing, to be filed with the Secretary of War, that said 
 
 102 superintendents and operators are skilled as such and indispen- 
 
 103 sable to said establishments. 
 
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 104 XIX. Superintendents, meahanics, and miners, employed in 
 
 105 the production and manufacture of lead ami iron; also, persona 
 
 106 engaged in burning coke for the smelting and manufacture of 
 
 107 iron; regular miners in coal mines, and one collier to each fur- 
 
 108 nace and forge for making blooms, and pig and bar iron, not to 
 
 109 embrace laborers, messengers, wagoners and servants, unless 
 
 110 employed at works conducted and by the officers or agents of a 
 HI State, or in works employed in the production of iron for the 
 
 112 Confederate States: Provided^ The persons interested in the 
 
 113 exemption from military duty of said superintendents, mechanics, 
 
 114 miners and colliers, shall make afiidavit in writing, that said per- 
 
 115 sons are skilled in said labor, and are indispensable to such 
 
 116 works; and that, after diligent eifort, they have been unable to 
 
 1 17 procure superintendents, mechanics, miners an*& colliers who have 
 
 1 18 been discharged from the Provisional Army, or who are not 
 
 119 subject to military duty. 
 
 120 XX. Blacksmiths, mill-wrights and the engineers of flour, 
 
 121 grist and saw mills, skilled, actually and regularly employed in 
 
 122 said trades, and regularly engaged in working for the public. 
 
 123 XXI. All exemptions herein granted to persons by reason of 
 
 124 their peculiar mechanical or other occupation or employment, not 
 
 125 connected with the.public service, shall b^ subject to the condi- 
 
 126 tion that the products of the labor of Buch exempts, or of the 
 lil7 companies and establiyhmeuts in which they are employed, shall be 
 
1 28 sold and disposed of by the proprietors thereof at prices not to 
 
 129 exceed 75 per centum' upon the cost of production, or within a 
 
 130 maximum to be fixed by the Secretary of War, under such 
 
 131 regulations as he may prescribe ; and it shall be the duty of said 
 
 132 proprietors to have at all times exhibited, in the most conspicuous 
 
 133 place in their said establishments, a list, in writing, verified by 
 
 134 affidavit, of the cost of each item entering into the production of 
 
 135 the articles or wares offered by them for sale to the public ; and 
 
 136 if it shall be made known to the Secretary of War' or any oiEcer 
 
 137 authorized to enroll such persons, that said exhibit has not been 
 
 138 made, or that any of the conditions of said exemptions, specified 
 
 139 in this paragraph, have been violated, or in any manner evaded, 
 
 1 40 by said proprietors, the exemption granted shall no longer be 
 
 141 extended to them, their , superintendents or operatives in said 
 
 142 establishments, but they and each and every of them shall be 
 
 143 forthwith enrolled and ordered into the Confederate army, and 
 
 144 shall in no event be again exempted therefrom by reason of said 
 
 145 manufacturing establishment or employment therein. 
 
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 146 XXII. In addition to the exemptions specified in the foregoing 
 
 147 paragraphs, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, and it 
 
 148 shall.be his duty, under the direction of the President, to ex- 
 
 149 empt or detail from the provisional army, upon any terms or 
 
 150 conditions he may prescribe, such other persons as he shall be 
 
 151 satisfied, with the sanction of the President, ought to be exempt- 
 
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 1 52 ed or detailed for the police of plantations cultivated exclusively by 
 
 153 slave labor and owned by widdows. minors under eighteen, lunatics 
 
 154 and persons in the service of the country; also, for the mainte- 
 
 155 nance and support of the army, the public defense, or the general 
 
 156 vital interests of the country: and it is the true intent and 
 
 157 meaning of this act that the enumeration of the exemptions in 
 
 158 the foregoing paragraphs, shall not be construed to limit or ro- 
 
 159 strain the exercise of the power herein granted. 
 
 1 Sec. 2* That the foregoing exemptions shall only continue 
 
 2 whilst the persons exempted are actually engaged in their re- 
 
 3 spective pursuits or occupations. 
 
 1 . Sec. 3. That all acts or parts of acts heretofore passed by 
 
 2 Congress to exempt persons from military service in the pro- 
 
 3 visional army of the Confederate States, are hereby repealed. 
 
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