CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA,
Bureau of Conscription,
Richmond, Va., May 14, 1863.
Tlio following Ac J ofCongress 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 Service, 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, 1862, as exempts from mili-
, tary service 4 one person, either as agent, owner or overseer, on each plan-
,jtation On which one white person is required to be kept by the laws or
ordinances of auy State, aud on which there is no white male adult not
liable tp 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: 4 and, furthermore, for ad-
iditional police for every twenty negroes, on two or more plantations,
within five miles of each other, and each having less than 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tion,' be and are hereby repealed.
44 2: For the police and management of slaves there shall he 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: provided the person so'exempted was employed
and acting as an overseer previous to the 16th April 1862, and there is no
white male adult ou said farm or plantation who is not liable to military
duty; which fact shall be verified by the affidavits of said person andlwo
respectable citizens, and shall he filed with the enrolling officer: and pro~
vided the owner of such farm or plantation, his agent or legal represen-
4ative, 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 farther, that this clause
shall not extend to any farm or plantation on which the negroes have
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been placed by division from any otlier farm or plantation, since tbe 11th
day of October 1862: provided further, that for every person exempted
as aforesaid, and during the period of such exemption, there shall be paid
annually iuto the public treasury by the owners of such slaves the sum
of five hundred dollars.
" 3. Such other persons shall be exempted as the President shall be
satisfied ought to be exempted, iu districts of country deprived of white
or slave labor indispensable to the production of grain or * rovisions, ne-
cessary for the support of the population remaining at home, and also on
account of justice, equity and necessity.
" 4. In addition to the State officers exempted by the act of October
11th, 1862, 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, 1883.]
G. J. RAINS,
Brig. Gerdl and Superintendent.