The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-03
SLAVE LABOR FOR THE COAST.
DIVISION NO. e

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IL made requisit on the State Authorities
missoncrs of the Roads and the Town Author
tiles within the Judicial Districts of Lancaster,
kershaw, Chesterfield, Marlboro, Darlington.
Marion, Sumter, Clarendon, Williamsburg, and
Horny, 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 l o o'clock a. IN. on
"Wednesday, the fiItecnth day of July proximo
5th Julyb for transportation to Charleston
for thirty days labor on the for:ificatlons.
III. Tho legislature, at the April session ex.
empted the owners ofonc road hand from liza
b,ity under tins act, those WHO own tvo or
three, or a fraction over a number dvisible by
one fourth, will send forward one hand for such
fraction OF two owners having such fractions
may unite them and send Que hand out of every
four.
III. Overseesrs at the rate of ore to every
hundred hands are allowed, to be selected bv
the owners and paid by the Confederate Gov
ernmcnt Fifty Dollars per month.
". Receipts will be given at the Depots for
the negroes. and assessments in duplicate are
maze OF the negroes before they are put to
work.
of the Commissioners at each Depot; he will
be met by an Agent authorized to receipt for
the negroes.
VI Owners are requested to furnish their
hands with spades or shovels and three days'ra-
tions the Government have promise to return
the tools, and commutation will be allowed for
the rations.
VII. Owners who hire substitutes will furn-
ish me with a copy of the receipt taken for such
substitutes. in order that the Government and
all parties concerned may be protected.
VIII. The press.ot business on the Railroads
making it difficult for the companies to furnish
transportation at given hour, the Commission
ers, &c, will cause the hands to assemble at the
hour named above and there wait the passage
of the train.
TX. The undersigned, after three months ex-
perence, take 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
owner as complying with his just and reasona-
bic expectations. but this constant rotation is
almost safeguard against camp diseases
X. The credits due being almost entirely ex-
haustcd on the last call, it is earnestly hoped
that number required of this division will be
promptly furnished; one fourth of the hands, if
sent forward, would more than supply the de-
mand. The Importance OF the work is such as
should induce US all to make 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 a prompt and full response to this
call may make it the last on this Division.
WIN. NJ. SHANNON,
Agent for the State of South Carolina.
Camden, S. G. juno 18th, 1868.
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