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An Act to exempt certain persons from enrollment for
service in the Armies of the Confederate States. |
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| The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact, That all persons who shall be held to be unfit
for military services under rules to be prescribed by the Secretary of
War; all in the service or 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 operators, and ministers
of religion in the regular discharge of ministerial duties; all engaged
in working iron mines, furnaces, and foundries; all journeymen printers
actually employed in printing newspapers; all presidents and professors
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 dumb, and blind; in each apothecary
store now established and doing business, one apothecary in good
standing who is a practical druggist; superintendents and operatives in
wool and cotton 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. |
| Approved April 21, 1862. |
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