The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1862., [Electronic resource]

Resolutions Concerning Exempts, under the proclamation of the Governor, of the 10th of March, 1862.

[adopted March 14, 1862.]

1. Resolved, by the General Assembly, That it shall be the duty of the Boards of Exemptions, acting under the act of February 18, 1862, and any acts amendatory thereof, to take cognizance of all cases of exemption arising under these resolutions; and that the Governor shall cause one or more Boards, with similar powers, to be organized at the several places of rendezvous indicated by his proclamation of the 10th inst., by the Commanding Officer thereof, to be composed of such persons as such Commanding Officer may designate.
2. 2d. That the following persons shall be exempt under the said Proclamation, to wit: all officers and employees of any railroad, canal, steamboat, or telegraph company, whose services the President and Superintendent of such company, or either of them, shall certify on honor to be indispensable for conducting the operations thereof; also, such clerks as the Quartermaster-General and Paymaster-General of Virginia shall certify on honor to be necessary to conduct the business of their respective Departments; and all superintendents and operatives in the paper mills of this Commonwealth; also, all persons whose services may be deemed by the Board of Exemptions to be indispensable in mining or manufacturing lead, iron, coal, salt, oakum, saltpetre, gunpowder, firearms, or other implements or munitions of war; also, all employees in woolen and cotton mills and incorporated shoe factories, the proprietors of which are under contracts to do work for the State or Confederate Government; and all tanners and shoemakers having contracts to do work for the State and Confederate Government as long as necessary to complete such contracts; also such officers of the several Banks of circulation in this Commonwealth, and their branches, as the respective Presidents or Cashiers may certify on honor to be indispensable to the proper management of the business of the Banks, and may be so deemed by the said Board of Exemptions; also, overseers of committees of insane persons, and such millers, blacksmiths and tanners as the said Board shall deem indispensable to the comfort of the community in which they may live, or who shall be in the employment of the State or Confederate government; also, one eiditor of each newspaper now being published, and such employees as the editor or proprietor may certify on honor to be indispensable for conducting the publication of his newspaper, so long as the same is regularly published at least once a week; also, the jailor of every city, and such guard as the Hustings Court thereof may certify to be indispensable to the safe custody of prisoners, and the jailor of Henrico county and such guard as the County court thereof may certify to be indispensable to the safe custody of prisoners.
3. 3d. In each apothecary store now established and doing business, one apothecary in good standing, who is a practical druggist, shall be exempt; also, the public printer, and the printer for the State Senate, and such employees as each may certify, on honor, to be indispensable for the efficient performance of the public printing; also, one deputy sheriff for every twelve thousand inhabitants of every county: Provided; however, that every county having less than twelve thousand inhabitants shall have one deputy sheriff; and one deputy of every clerk of a court who may be deemed by the Board Incompetent, by reason of physical or mental disability, to dicharge the duties of his office, or who may be absent therefrom in the public service.
4. 4th. It shall be competent for the Board of Exemption, whenever in their judgment it may be indispensable for the police and convenience of the community, to exempt from the performance of military duty, under the Proclamation aforesaid, overseers on the farms of widows and orphans who have heretofore contracted for that service for the present year.
5. 5th. That the Professors of the University of Virginia and other incorporated Colleges are hereby declared to be exempt under the said Proclamation.
6. 6th. Whenever, by these resolutions, any class of employees or operatives are entitled to exemption on the certificate of other persons, it shall not be necessary for the applicants to appear in person before the Board, but the exemption shall be ordered by the Board on the production of the certificate alone.
7. 7. That persons claiming exemption under these resolutions, shall be entitled thereto so long only as the militia called out by the Proclamation aforesaid may remain in service, and while such exempts remain in the employment by reason of which such exemption was allowed.
8. 8. Nothing in these resolutions shall be construced to apply to, interfere with, hinder or delay the draft, under the act of February 10th, 1862, to raise the quota of Virginia to the Confederate Army, or to impair the effect of the act of February 18th, 1862, or any acts amendatory thereof, in relation to exempts.

Teste: Wm. F. Gordon, Jr.,

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