Exemptions under the Conscription Law of Congress.
The following Exemption Bill was passed by Congress, and signed by the
President just before the adjournment:
A Bill to be entitled ‘"An set to exempt certain persons from enrollment for service in the armies of the
Confederate States."’
Section 1.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That all persons who shall be held to be unit for military service under the rules to be prescribed by the
Secretary of War; all in the service of employ of the
Confederate States; all judicial and executive officers of Confederate or State Governments, the members of both houses of Congress and of the Legislatures of the several States and their respective officers; all clerks of the officers of the
State and Confederate Governments allowed by law; all engaged in carrying the mails; all ferrymen on post routes; all pilots and persons engaged in the marine service, and in actual service on river and railroad routes of transportation; telegraphic operatives and ministers of religion, in the regular discharge of their ministerial duties; all engaged in working iron mines, furnaces, and foundries, all journeymen printer, actually employed in printing newspapers; all
Presidents and
Professor of colleges and academies, and all teachers having as many as twenty scholars; superintendents of the public hospitals, lunatic asylums, and the regular nurses and attendants therein, and the teachers employed in the institutions for the deaf, and dump and blind.
In such apothecary store now established one apothecary in good standing, who is a practical druggist, superintendents and operatives and other factories, who may be exempted by the
Secretary of War, shall be, and are hereby, exempted from military service in the armies of the
Confederate States.
