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TTVHE following appended orders are published
L. for all whom it may concern:
Head Quarters, Conscript District, La.
SHREVEPORT, August Is, 1864. )
GENERAL ORDERS No. l5
II IN accordance with General Orders, No..
4. II, Bureau of Conscription, T. 81. D., the
Enrolling Officers in this District will immediate.
" onroll all male free negroes and other persons
Of color, between the ages ofseighteen and fifty
years. not including those who are free under the
Treaty OF Paris of 1903 or under the Treaty of
Spain of 1919. The Enrolling Officers will
promptly forward the persons 80 enrolled to this
Post, to be turned over to Lieut.. Col. G. Soule,
Chief of Labor Bureau, Dist West La.
III. Sucl. of said persons who claim to be un.
| fit for service on account Of physical OF mental
disability, will be ssit before the Board OF Medi-
cal Examiners for Conscripts, at this Post, un-
less they present the certificate OF an army sur
eeon or the affidavit Of q respectable practicing
physician, showing that they are nuabls to per-
form the journey without seriously endangering
| life or health
| III. The Enrolling Officers will at once maks
complete lists Of all persons or partnerships who
| own. or have owned at any time since the goth
of July last five or more male slaves between
the ages of eighteen and forty.6ve; on--fii'h OF
which said slaves are required for service in &C.
cordance with the Act Of Congress, approved
February 18th, 1864, the assessment OF WHICH
fifth will be so apportioned as to require one f5m
the owner Of five slaves, two from the owner OF
nine two from the owner of fourteen, four from
| the owner of nineteen, four from the owner oi
ltwenty-four, six from the owner Of twenty nine
and so on, alternately. Slaves employed by a
firm or partnership, and owned by the individual
members thereof, will be assessed as if owned by
the firm, though the individual partners may not
each own Eve male slaves between the ages.
! w. The Enrolling Officers in the Parishes ol
Caddo, DeSoto and Sabine, will. as rapidly a,
possible, forward to this Post the one-fifth of the
said slaves between the ages as designated in the
preceding paragraph, to be turned over to Lirut
Col. G. Soule, Chief Of Labor Bureau. District
West La. They will receive none but able
bodied slaves, and will temporarily receipt to the
owners for the slaves so received, which receipt
will be exchanged for that OF the Chief Of the
Labor Bureau The slaves in the Parishes %
remain with their owners until further orders.
! V. Applications for exemption of slaves o'
free negroes on account Of justice, equity ant
necessity, or Of contracts with the Government
must be made in writing to the Enrolling OF
Ger supported by the affidavits Of the applicar
an6 at least two credible witnesses. The En-
rolling Officers will forward such application e
the Bureau OF Consumption. through these Heat
Quarters, with a full statement of the facts ani
thee opinion Of the necessity Of the case Ex
emol Overseers and detailed Agriculturists arr
not entitled to exemption of their slaves by rea
son Of the bonds they have executed.
] VI. Where owners claim to have their quoti
of slaves, or portion thereof, already in tn,
Government service, the fact will be reported b,
the Enrolling Officers, stating the number fur
nislhed and in whose employ. The receipts o
the Chief of the Labor Bureau for slaves fur
nished under the law cited in Par. Ill of tli
Order, will be respected by the Enrolling Off
GERS in making the Assessment.
BY orderof e. G. RANDOLPH,
Il Commandant Conscript District La
\ GOODWILL, 1st Lieutenant and Adjutans.
Owners Of slaves coming within the operatio,
Of this law, will report without delay to this Of
flee, and comply with the above orders. other
wise measures will be instituted to coerce thsi
attendance and compliance with the law.
BY order Of JNO. NJ. TAYLOR,
i Lisst. & Enrolimg Officer Of St. Lasdry
August "a, 1s64-13.