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An Act to provide Nurses for Sick Soldiers. 1861-1862 33 (1862)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0237 and id is 1 raw text is: 33 CHAPTER 35. AN ACT to provide Nurses for Sick Soldiers. SECTION 1. WHEREAS, There is at present great difficulty in procuring the necessary number of efficient servants to wait upon and attend to the sick persons in the military service of the Confederate States of America, and of this State, that are under the treat- ment of surgeons at the various hospitals, that here- tofore have been or hereafter may be established by the Military Board of this State, and it appearing that said difficulty will be increased rather than diminished, therefore Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That hereafter the Medical Director of either Division, or, in his absence, the principal surgeon of either hospital that now is or hereafter may be established by the military of this State, or Confederate States, may impress any free person of color residing in this State, for the purpose of rendering their services in either of said hospitals, by waiting upon, and attending to, persons under medical or surgical treatment: Provided, That no such free person who may have a family of children dependent upon his or her labor, shall be so impressed, said fact to be determined and certified by the Commissioners for the Poor, in his or her County: And provided further, That any such free person who may be laboring under any sufficient bodily disability, shall be exempt from such impressment, upon producing the certificate of any respectable physician as to said disability. SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, That such free person, so impressed, shall receive such compensation in like manner as do other servants at present employed in said hospitals.

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