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CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, 
 Bureau of Conscription, 
 
 Richmond, I'm., May 14, 1863. 
 
 Tho following Act of Congress is published for the information of all 
 concerned : 
 
 An Act to repeal certain clauses of an act entitled an act to 
 exempt certain Persons from Military Servi-e, etc., approved 
 11th October 1862. 
 
 " 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That 
 so much of the act approved October 11th, 1802, as exempts from mili- 
 tary service 'one person, either us agent, owner or overseer, on each plan- 
 tation on which one white person is required to be kept by the laws or 
 ordinances of any .State, and on which there is no white male adult not 
 liable to military service, and in States having no such law, one person., 
 as agent, owner or overseer, on each plantation of twenty negroes, and 
 on which there is no white male adult not liable to military service,' and 
 also the following clause of said act; to wit : 'and, furthermore, for ad- 
 ditional police for every twenty negroes, on two or more plantations, 
 within five miles of each other, and each having less thau twenty negroes, 
 and on which there is no white male adult not liable to military duty, 
 one person, being the oldest of the owners or overseers on such planta- 
 tion,' be and are hereby repealed. 
 
 " 2. For the police and management of slaves there shall be exempted 
 one person on each farm or plantation, the sole property of a minor, a 
 person of unsound mind, a feme sole, or a person absent from home in 
 the military or naval service of the Confederacy, on which there are 
 twenty or more slaves: prodded the person so exempted was employed 
 and acting as an overseer previous to the 10th April 1862, and there is no 
 white male adult on said farm or plantation who is not liable to military 
 duty ; which fact shall be verified by the affidavits of said person and two 
 respectable citizens, and shall be filed with the enrolling officer: and pro- 
 vided the owner of such farm or plantation, his agent or legal repiesen- 
 tative, shall make affidavit and deliver the same to the enrolling officer, 
 that after diligent effort no overseer can be procured for such farm or 
 plantation not liable to military duty: provided further, that this clause 
 shall not extend to any farm or plantation on which the negroes havo 
 
been placed by division from any other farm or plantation, since, the 11th 
 day of October 1862: provided further, that for every person exempted 
 ns aforesaid, and during the period of such exemption, there shall be paid 
 annually into the public treasury by the owners of sucB Blares the sum 
 of five hundred dollars. 
 
 "3. Such other persons shall be exempted as the President shall bo 
 satisfied ought to be exempted, in districts of country deprived of white 
 or slave labor indispensable to the production of grain or provisions, ne- 
 cessary for the support of the population remaining :;t home, and also on 
 account of justice, equity and necessity. 
 
 "4. In addition to the State officers exempted by the act of October 
 11th, 1802, there shall also be exempted all State officers whom the Go- 
 vernor of any State may claim to have exempted for the due administra- 
 tion of the government and laws thereof: but this exemption shall not 
 continue in any State after the adjournment of the next regular session 
 of its Legislature, unless such Legislature shall, by law, exempt them- 
 from military duty in the provisional army of the Confederate States." 
 
 [Approved May 1, 1863.] 
 
 G. J. RAINS, 
 Brig. Gen' I and Superintendent, 
 
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