The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1863-07-01
SLAVE LABOR FOR THE
COAST.
DIVISION NO. 2.

u THE General Commanding, having made
ia n rcquisition on the State Authorities for
Twenty five hundred Laborers, the Commission,
ers of the Roads and the Town Authorities
within the Judicial Districts of Lancaster, Ksr.
shaw, Chestarfed Marlboro, Darlington, MARI
on, Sumter, Clarendon, Williamsburg and
IIorry, including Upper All Saints, will forth
with summon all shareholders within their re.
spective limits to deliver one.fourth Of their
slaves liable to road duty at the Depots nearest
| the owners residence, at 10 o'clock q. IN. on
WEDNESDAY, the fifteenth day Of July proI.
18th Julyl tor transportation to Charleston
for thirty days labor OIL the Notifications.
III. The Legislature, at the April session ex-
empted the owners of one road hand from la-
bility under this Act, those who own two or
three, or a fraction over number divisible by
one. fourth, will send forward one hand for such
fraction, or Two owners having such franctious
may unite them and send one hand out of eve
ry four.
Ill. 0verseers ut the rate of one TO every
hundred hands are allowed, to be selected by
the owners and paid by the Confederate Gov
erhment Fifty Dollars per month.
w. Receipts will be given at the Depots for
the negroes, and assessments in duplicate arc
made of the negroes before they are put to
work.
V. The Act requires the attendance Of one
Of the Commissioners at each Depot he will be
met by an Agent authorized to receipt for the
negroes
hands with spades or shovels aud three days
rations; the Government have promised to re-
turn the tools, and Communication will he allowed
for the rations. =
VII. Owners who hire substitutes will furn-
ish me with a copy of the receipt taken for
such substitute, in order that the Government
and all parties concerned may be protected
VIII. The press OF business on the Railroads
making it difficult for the companies to furnish
transportation at given hour the Commits
sioners, &c, will cause the hands to assemble
at the hour named above and there wait the
passage of the train.
lH. The undersigned, after three months ex.
perience takes pleasure in assuring the slave
owners that every possible care is taken Of the
negroes their health has been good, and every
possible comfort has been provided. They are
promptly discharged at the end of the thirty
days, which is not only satisfactory to the own.
er as complying with his just and reasonable
expectations, but this constant rotation is alt
most a safeguard against camp diseases.
y. The credits due being almost entirely eN'
hausted on the last call, il is earnestly hoped
that the number required Of this division will
be promptly furnished; one fourth Of the hands,
II sent forward, would more than supply tho
demand. The importance of the work is such
as should induce US all to nike every possible
sacrifice. The call has been postponed until
the press Of the plantation work is over; it
would have been made for June but for this
motive, and prompt and full response to this
call may make it the last on this Division.
WM. n. SHANNON,
Agent for the State Of South Carolina.
Camden, 8. G., June 18th, 1858.
June ~, ls62. 2o--St