Washington telegraph., 1864-11-23

ohNtf kPOltT, LA, Oct. -, Oh.
GENERAL ORDERS,
No. &c.
'TNHE following order from the War Depart
i ment IS repubiished for information.
ADJ'T AND lisp T'R. GENERALS OFFICE
kiChMoND Va, August 81, 1864.
GENERAL ORDERS,
No. 81.
THE Bsreau Of Conscription will cause
E. to be delivered from proper officers of the
Bureau to the Chief Commissary in every Stat-
report containing the names of all persons in
the State, with the places of their residence.
who have obtained exemptions details as ag-
rculturlsts, owners, overseers, managers, farm
ers, planters or otherwise, as producers of grain
and provisions under the fourth paragraph of
the tenth section OF the military Act eft the 18th
of February, 1861, published in General Orders
No. 25 (current series), together with state
ment of the terms of the contract, the sureties
to the same, and with all other pertinent facts
relating to the said exemption or detail The
officors of the Subsistence Department. under
the direction of the Comulissary General and
Chief COmmissary General and Chief Commits
sary OF each State are charged with the colec-
tien of the meat which amp exempt or detailed
man may have contracted to pay, and to give
an acquittance therefor; also to make whatever
conmutation or reductions that may be author
lied by the Act whenever the conditions are es-
tablshed that justify the same; and to make ali
purchases OF the marketable surplus at the pri-
ces specified in the act, which the same author
ICES TO be made on behalf of the Government
The said Subsistence Department being clothed
with authority to represent the Government in
the enforcement OF its claims under the contracts
and obligations that the act imposes upon the
eXempIs and detailed men described therein.
II. In order that the regulation on the sub
ject of the sale of the marketable surplus of
provisions and grain to the Government, and
tatatil lies af -.lff d
have execution, the Commissaries in the differ
ent States may be instructed TO limit their pur-
chases Of grain and provisions of the market
able surplus in any District to some definite
proportion, not to exceed one-half, and to leave
the remainder for the persons who purchase ON
behalf of the families OF soldiers.
III All agents appointed by the public au-
thOrIties OF any State, county or town, to supply
food for the families Of soldiers, arc authorized
TO purchase the portion uuappropIia;ed by the
Government, ior the object OF their trust Tue
Commanders Of COnsclipts, or the Chief Com
missary OF each State or District may authepti-
cate the authority OF such agents, aud persons
selling to agents thus authenticated shall be full
ly warranted 10 do 50.
". The families OF soldiers as described in
the said act, are the families composed of the
wife wifi and children of any person who be-
longs to the army; the widow or widow and
children OF any person wEo died while in the
servire the mother and sisters of any soldier or
soldiers in the army and who reside with them
as members in the same family or wcr~ depend
ent upon their labor or support the parents or
sisters of any person belonging 10 the army,
who resided in the saline family with them ami
who derived from them support.
" Officers are authorized TO purchase nee
essary subsistence for their families under this
act.
VI. Every exempt and detailed man under
this act shall render to the Enrolling Officer in
his District, detailed statement of the market
able surplus produced and sold by hin. with
testimony that the sales were to Government or
soldiers fAInes, which statement shall be sent
TO the Commander OF Conseripts for the State.
and thcrcupon satisfaction upon his bond shall
be entered.
VII. The act of Congress aforesaid provides:
That exemptions in favor OF the classes afore-
said shall cease whenever the farmer. planter
or overseer shall fail diligently IL employ IN
geod faith his own skin, capital and labor ex-
clusively in the production OF grain aud provis-
ions, to be sold 10 the Government and the fam
lies of soldiers At prices not exceeding thcs.
Fl zed al the time tor ike articles by the Com
nIissi0neTs of the State, under the impressmcnt
act. 1t has been represented to the Department
thrt there are instances of persons exempt or
detailed under this act, who pay but little re
spect to the obligations they have contracted
1 nat they have become speculaloIs in food ana
provisions; that they age negilrnt and careless
as 10 the extont of their productions, and op, l.,
ly affirm that they do not mean TO have any
surplus. The Department is required ia all
such or similar eases, to revoke the detail, and
the performance of this duty is deyolved upon
the Bureau Of Conscription, upon proper testi-
mony being afforded to them or to their officers,
to De designated by them, to perform this duty.
By order.
S. COOPER,