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 SENATE, FebruihCT 2<yifil63-r3^M^ and 
 
 ordered to be placed oTss^e <MJ|iP;J^:^fi| \Jl:mtVa^^ 23, 
 
 1863. Ordered t 
 
 [By Mr. Sparrow, from Committee on Military Affairs.] ., 
 
 
 A^ BILL 
 
 To be entitled an Act defining who shall be exempt from military 
 service in the armies of the Confederate States. 
 
 1 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of America do 
 
 2 enact, That the following named persons are hereby exempte,d 
 
 3 from service in the armies of the Confederate States, upon the 
 
 4 terms and conditions hereinafter stated : 
 
 5 I. Those who shall be held unfit for service in the field by 
 
 6 reason of bodily or mental incapacity, to be ascertained by a 
 
 7 surgeon of the army who is not a resident of the part of the 
 
 8 country from which those he is called upon to examine may have 
 
 9 come ; and persons declared to be unfit for duty in the field 
 
 10 under this act or under the act entitled ** An Act to establish 
 
 1 1 places of rendezvous for the examination of enrolled men," 
 
 12 approved October llth, 1862, by reason of any organic disease, 
 
 13 or permanent disability, shall not be afterwards subject 'to be 
 
 14 again examined and enrolled. 
 
 15 II. The Vice President, the officers, judicial and executive, of 
 
16 the Confederate^ud oState Gevernmeiitd, including postmasters 
 
 17 appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, and 
 
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 18 such clerks in th;e^r''*ojfti§es as argaiow allowed by the Postmaster 
 
 19 General, and were employed therein on_^thc 16th of April last; 
 
 20 excluding all other postmasters, their assistants and clerks, and 
 
 21 such State officers as the several States may have declared or 
 
 22 may hereafter declare, by law, to be liable to militia duty ; the 
 
 23 members of Congress of the Confederate States and of the 
 
 24 Legislatures of the several States, and their respective officers ; 
 
 25 all clerks in the offices of the Confederate and State Govern- 
 
 26 ments authorized by law and receiving salaries or fees fixed by 
 
 27 law : Provided, this act shall not be construed to exempt from 
 
 28 service persons appointed by the officers of the Executive 
 
 29 Departments, or by other executive authority, since tlie 16th of 
 
 30 April, 1«62, and who were liable to military service when 
 
 31 appointed, under the various acts of enrolment. 
 
 32 III. All volunteer troops heretofore raised by any State since 
 
 33 the passage of the act entitled " An Act further to provide for 
 
 34 the public defence," approved April 16, 1862, while such troops 
 
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 3.5 shall be in active service under State authority : Prmuded, That 
 
 36 this exemption shall not apply to any person who was liable to 
 
 37 be called into service by virtue of slid act of 16th April, 1862. 
 
 38 IV. All pilots and persons engaged in the merchant marine ser- 
 
 39 vice, excluding such owners of vessels as are not actually employed 
 
40 in navigating the same ; the president, and such superintendents, 
 
 41 roadmasters, station-agents, conductors, engineers and mechanics, 
 
 42 in the permanent service of railroad companies, as the President 
 
 43 thereof may, under oath, declare to be necessary; not to include 
 
 44 laborers or any other employees : Provided, That no president or 
 
 45 conductor of any railroad company, or railroad train, shall be 
 
 46 exempted from military service under this act, when such 
 
 47 president or conductor shall fail, neglect, or refuse to furnish 
 
 48 seats to such wounded or sick soldiers of the army as may desire 
 
 49 transportation over such railroad, and fresh water, for drinking 
 
 50 purposes, in such tanks or other vessels in each passenger car, 
 
 51 as may be necessary for the use of said sick and wounded, and 
 
 52 also the necessary fires to render said cars comfortable ; captains 
 
 53 of boats, and the engineers and pilots thereof, actually engaged 
 
 54 in canal and river navigation : the president of any canal com- 
 
 55 pany, the secretary, chief clerks, chief toll-gatherer, and such 
 od mechanics in the permanent service of said company, as the 
 
 57 president, under oath, shall declare to be necessary ; the presi- 
 
 58 dent, general superintendent and operators of telegraphic com- 
 
 59 panics, and the local operators of said companies, not to exceed 
 till two in number at any telegraphic office but that at the seat of 
 
 61 government of the Confederate States. 
 
 62 V. One editor of each newspaper now being published, and 
 
 63 such journeymen printers, engineers, pressmen, stenographic 
 
64 reporters and mailing clerks, as the editor or proprietor thereof 
 
 65 may certify, upon oath, to be indispensable for conducting the 
 
 66 publication ; the public printer, engineers, pressmen, and such 
 
 67 number of 'journeymen printers as he may certify, upon oath, to 
 
 68 be necessary for the discharge of his duty. 
 
 69 VI. Every minister of religion authorized to preach according 
 
 70 to the rules of his sect, and now in the regular discharge of min- 
 
 71 isterial duties, and all persons who have been since the 16th 
 
 72 April, 1862, and now are members of the Society of Friends, or 
 
 73 the Association of Dunkards, Nazarines or Menonists in regular 
 
 74 membership in their respective denominations: Provided, That 
 
 75 such members shall furnish a substitute; or pay a tax of five 
 
 76 hundred dollars each, into the public treasury. 
 
 77 VII. All shoemakers, tanners, blacksmiths, wagon makers, 
 
 78 millers and their engineers, and mill wrights, -skilled and actually 
 
 79 employed on the 16th of April last, in said trades as their regu- 
 
 80 lar vocation, and working therein for the public, and who have, 
 
 81 since said time, been so regularly employed: Provided, Said 
 
 82 persons shall make oath in writing, and present the same to the 
 
 83 enrolling officer, that they are so skilled and are, and have been 
 
 84 since the 16th of April last, actually employed in one of the 
 
 85 above trades, as their regular vocations, and working for the 
 
 86 public, which affidavit shall, however, only be prima facie evidence 
 
 87 of the facts therein stated* Also, the superintendents and 
 
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 88 operatives in wool and cotton factories, paper mills, and carding 
 
 89 machines, and in card factories, and factories for the manufacture 
 
 90 of wire for cotton and wool cards : Provided, That the 
 
 91 exemptions herein granted to persons on account of their 
 
 92 mechanical skill or occupation, shall be subject to the con- 
 
 93 dition that the products of the labor of said exempts shall 
 
 94 not exceed a fair and reasonable amount, and to be within 
 
 95 a maximum to be fixed by the Secretary of War, under such 
 
 96 regulations as he may prescribe : And provided, That in the case 
 
 97 the superintendents and operatives in wool and cotton factories, 
 
 98 paper mills, carding machines, and mechanics in these and all 
 
 99 other manufacturing establishments, the manufactured articles 
 1(10 shall be sold at a profit not to exceed thirty per centum per 
 
 101 annum upon the nett capital invested, which foot shall be ascer- 
 
 102 tainedby the oath of the president, superintendent. Or proprietors 
 
 103 of such manufacturing establishment: And provided, That if it 
 
 104 shall be shown, upon evidence to be submitted to and judged of 
 
 105 by the Secretary of War, that any manufacturing establishment 
 
 106 has violated this condition, the exemptions herein granted shall 
 
 107 no longer be extended to the persons employed in said establish- 
 
 108 ments or factories, but each of them shall be forthwith enrolled 
 
 109 and placed in the military service. 
 
 110 VIII. All presidents and teachers of schools, academies, col- 
 Ill leges and theological seminaries, who have been regularly 
 
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 112 engaged as such for the two years last preceding the 1 Ith Octo- 
 
 113 ber, 1862, or who were engaged in teaching school as a profes- 
 
 114 sion on the 1st of January, 1861, and \jho are now so engaged; 
 llo all superintendents of lunatic asylums and the regular 
 
 116 physicians, nurses and attendants therein, and all teachers reg- 
 
 117 ularly employed in the institutions for the deaf, dumb and blind. 
 
 118 IX, All physicians who now are, and have been for the last 
 
 119 five years in the actual practice of their profession; and in each 
 
 120 apothecary store now established and doing business, one prac- 
 
 121 tical apothecary in good standing as such. 
 
 122 X. . All artisans and mechanics employed in the manufacture 
 
 123 of arms or ordnance of any kind by the several States, or by 
 
 124 contractors to furnish the same to the several State Governments, 
 
 125 whom the Governor or Secretary of State thereof may certify 
 
 126 to be necessary to the same. 
 
 127 XI. All persons engaged in the construction of ships, gun- 
 
 128 boats, engines or sails, necessary to the public defence, under 
 
 129 the direction of the Secretary of the Navy. 
 
 130 XII, All superintendents and employees engaged at salt works 
 
 131 conducted under authority of any State, and all superintendents 
 
 132 of laborers engaged in the manufacture or mining of salt, to 
 
 133 the extent of twenty bushels per day: Provided, That there is 
 
 1 34 not more than one superintendent for every twenty laborers ; all 
 
 135 superintendents of laborers (not to exceed one for every twenty 
 
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 136 laborers) engaged regularly in the production of lead or iron, or 
 
 137 in burning coke for smelting or the manufacture of iron; regular 
 
 138 and skilled miners in coal mines, and colliers engaged in making 
 
 139 charcoal for making pig and bar iron. 
 
 14(J XIII. For the police of slaves, one person on each farm or 
 
 141 plantation, the sole property of a minor, a person of unsound 
 
 142 mind, a femme sole, or a person absent from home in the military 
 
 143 or naval service of the Confederacy, on which there are twenty 
 
 144 or more slaves: Provided, The person so exempted was employed 
 
 145 and acting as an overseer previous to the IGth of April last, and 
 
 146 there is no white male adult on said farm or plantation who'is not 
 
 147 liable to military duty, which fact shall be verified by the affidavits 
 
 148 of said person and two respectable citizens, and shall be filed with 
 
 149 the enrolling officer: And provided, That the enrolling officer 
 
 150 shall be satisfied that no white male adult not liable to military 
 
 151 duty can be procured by ordinary diligence, suitable for said 
 
 1 52 purpose : Providtd, further, That this clause shall not extend to 
 
 153 any farm or pla.ntation on which the negroes have been placed 
 151 by division from any other fiirm or plantation since the 11th day 
 
 155 of October, J 862. 
 
 156 XI^^ That on any farm on which resides a family of white 
 
 157 women and children not less than ten in number, who are 
 
 158 dependent for support and protection on the labor and presence 
 158 of a. white man, and on which there is uo white malo adult not 
 
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 16(1 liable to military duty, or male minor or minors capable of vrork- 
 
 161 ing said farm, there shall be exempted one person as laborer, 
 
 162 when said person shall verify the facts aforesaid by his own and 
 
 163 the affidavits of two respectable citizens, to be filed with the 
 
 164 enrolling officer, and shall also make affidavit that said person so 
 
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 165 to be exempted, designs in good faith to act in said capacity on 
 
 166 said farm ; and in the event of a failure to do so, at any time 
 
 167 thereafter, this exemption as to said person shall cease : Provided, 
 
 168 The enrolling officer shall be satisfied that a white maleadult, not 
 
 169 liable to military duty, cannot be procured suitable for said 
 
 170 purpose. • 
 
 171 XV. Such other persons as the President shall be satisfied 
 
 172 on account of justice, equity, or necessity, ought to be exempted. 
 
 1 Sec. 2. That all exemptions granted by law shall only continue 
 
 2 whilst the person is holding the office or engaged in the pursuit 
 
 3 or^ occupation by reason of which the exemption was granted, 
 
 4 and nothing in this act or any other in relation to exemptions, * 
 
 5 shall be construed so as to exempt agents, clerks, or other persons 
 
 6 employed by officers in the quartermaster, commissary or other 
 
 7 departments of the Government, unless such ag^ts or clerks are 
 
 8 allowed by law, and their fees or salaries fixed by law ; nor shall 
 
 9 anything herein contained be construed so as to authorize the 
 
 10 discharge of any one now in the military service of the 
 
 1 1 CoLfederate Government. 
 
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 1 Sec. 3. That all laws and parts of laws providing for exemption 
 
 2 from military service are hereby repealed, except as provided 
 
 3 herein ; and no person exempted under previous laws shall con- 
 
 4 tinue to be exempted unless embraced within tlie provisions, and 
 
 5 on the terms and conditions of this Act. The provisions of this 
 
 6 Act shall apply to all persons between the ages of eighteen and 
 
 7 forty-five years, not in tlie military service.