American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-02-24

For third class hands per month. 90
For fourth class hands per month, W
Engineers and foreman, when faithful
in the discharge Of their duties, will be
paid 50 per month extra. This schedule
of wages may be commuted by consent of
both parties, at the rate of one-fourteenth
part of the net proceeds of the crop, to
be determined and paid at the end of the
year. Wages will be deducted in case of
sickness, and rations also, when sickness
is feigned. Incidence, insolence, disobe-
dience of orders and crime, will be sup
pressed by forfeiture of pay, and such
punishments as are provided for similar
offences by army regulations. Sunday
work will be avoided when practicable,
but, when necessary, will pc considered as
extra labor, and paid for at the rate spec
fled herein.
XIII. Laborers will be permitted to
choose their employers, but when the
agreement is made, they will be held to
their engagement for the year, under the
protection of the Government. In cases
of attempted imposition, by feigning sick
ness, or stubborn of duty they will be
turned ovar to the Provost Marshal of the
Parish, for labor upon the public works,
without pay
XIV. Laborers will be permitted to cul-
tivate land on private account, as herein
specified, as follows:
1st and I'd class hands, with families,
one acre each.
1st and ID class hands, without families,
one-half acre each.
Sd and 4th class hands, with families,
one-half acre each.
Sd and 4th class hands, without families
one-quarter acre each.
To be increased for good conduct at
the discretion of the employer. The en-
couragement of Independent industry will
strengthen all the advantages which cap
ital derives from labor, and enable the la
borer to take care of himself and prepare
for the time when he can render so much
labor for so much money, which is the
great end to be attained No exemption
will be made in this appostionment, except
upon imperative reasons, and it is dcsira-
BILE that for good conduct the quantity be
increased until faithful hands can be al
lowed to cultivate extensive tracts, return
ing to the owner an equivalent of product
for rent of soil
XIV. To protect the laborer from posi-
bic imposition, no commutation of his sup
plies will be allowed except in clothing,
which may be commgted at the rate of So
per month for frst-class hands, and in sim
liar proportion for other classes The crops
will stand pledged, whereverfo found, for the
wages of labor.
XVI. 1t is advised as far as practical
BILE, that employers provide for the current
wants of their hands, by perquisitcs for
extra labor, or byappropriation of land for
share cultivation, to discourage monthly
payments so far as it can be done without
discomfort, and to reserve till the full har-
vest the yearly wages,
XXVII. A free labor bank will be es-
tablished for the safe deposit of all accum-
ulations of wages and other savings; and
in order to avoid possible wrong to de-
positorys, by official defalcation, authority
will be asked to connect the bank with the
Treasury of the United States in this de-
partment
XVIII. The transportation of negro
families to other countries will not be ap-
proved. propositions for this privilege
have been declined, and application has
been made to other departments for sur
plus negro families for service in this de-
partment.
XIX. The last years experience shows
that the planter and the negro comprehend
therevolution. Theoverseer, having little
interest in capital, and less sympathy with
labor, dislikes the trouble of thinking and
discredits the notion that any thing new
has occurred He is a relic of the past,
and adheres to its customs. His stubborn
refusal to comprehend the condition of
things, occasioned most of the embarrass-
ments of the past year. Where such in
comprehension ischronic, reduced wages,
diminished rations, and the mild punish
ments imposed by the army and navy, will
do good.
Xxx. These regulations are based upon
the assumption that labor is public duty,
and idleness and vagrancy crime. Nc
civil or military officer of the Government
is exempt from the operations of this uni
versal rule Every enlightened commu-
nifty has enforced it upon all classes of peo-
pie by the severest penalties. 1t is espe-