Washington telegraph., 1864-11-30
ASHlNGTON, ARKANSAS. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 80 1864
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HEAD QOAkIERS TRANSMITS. DEPT,
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GENERAL ORDERS,
No. sc.
0NHE following order from the War Depart
i ment is republished for information.
ADJ'T AND 1NsP'T'R. GENERALS OFFICE. !
RICHMOND. Va, August %, 1864.
GENERAL ORDERS,
No. g.
T THE Bureau of Conscription will caus,
1s to be delivered from proper officers of the
Bureau to the Chief Commissary in every State
report containing the names of all persons in
the State, with the places Of their residence.
who have obtained exemptions details as ag-
riculturists, 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 ef the 18th
of February, 1864. published in General Orders
No. 26 (current seTies), together with a 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 Commissary General and
Chief Commssary General and Chief Commis.
sary of each State are charged with the collrc-
ten Of the meat which amp exempt or detailed
man may have contracted to pay and to Civ.
an acquittance therefor; also to make whatever
communication or reductions that may be author
ized by the Act whenever the conditions ARE -s-
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
thr enforcement of its claims under the contracts
and obligations that the act imposes upon the
cxempts and detailed men described therein
III. In order that tn. regulation on the sub
jest Of the sale OF the marketable surplus of
provisions and grain to the Government and
the families of soldiers in tho said act, NAV
have execution the Comnissaries in tn 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 familirs of soldiers.
Ill All agents appointed by the public au-
thorties OF any State, county or town, to supply
food for the families of soldiers, authorized
TO purchase the portion unappropriaIed by the
Government, for the object OF their trust. The
Commanders of ConscTpfs, or the Chief Com
missary OF each State or District may auth-uii-
cate the authority of such agents, aud p.rsoi :
selling to agents thus authenticated shall be full
ly warranted To do
". The families of soldiers as described in
the said act, the families composed OF ihe
wife or wife and children of any person who be-
longs 10 the army the widow or widow and
children OF any person " ho d-d while in the
service; the mother and sisters of any soldier or
soldiers in the army and who reside with them
as members III the same family or depend
ent upon their labor or support; the parents or
sisters of any person b-longing 10 the army,
who resided in the same family with them aud
who rived from them support.
V. Officers are authorized to purchase nee
eSsary subsistence for their families under thi.
act.
VI. Every exempt and detailed man under
this act shall render TO the Enrolling Officer in
his District adetailed statement of the market
able surplus produced and sold by him. with
testimony that the -al-s were 10 Government or
soldiers famcs, which statement shall be sent
to the Commander OF Conseripts for the State,
and th-reupon satisfaction Upon hi. bond shall
br entered.
VII The act of Congress aforesaid provides
hat exemptions in favor OF the classes aiore-
said shall cease whenever the farmer. planter
or overs-er shall fail diligently tc employ in
good faith his skill, capital and labor ey-
clusively III the production OF grain and provs-
ions. to be sold TO the Government and the fam
lies of soldiers AT prices not exceeding those
fixed nt the time for like articles by the Com
missioners of the State. under the improvement
act Ii has been represented 10 the Department
thrt there instances OF persons exempt or
detailed under this act, who pay but little
spect 70 the obligations they have contracted
hat they have become spectators in food and
provisions; that they are negilcnf and car, less
20 the extent of their prouuctions, and op,i,
ly affirm that they do not mean to have any
surplus. Ths Department is required. in all
such or similar cases, to revoke the detail, and
the performance of this duty is dcvolyed upon
the Bureau of Conscription, upon proper tcsti-
mony being afforded to them or to their officers,
to be designated by them, TO perform thi. duty.
BY order.
:. COOPER,
Adjt and Inspector General
H. Paragraph ~. ofthe above order is amend
ed to include i'll the families entitled to purchase
the widowed mother of any soldier who may
have died in the service, and who was depend
ent upon him for support.
Ill. Any person purchasing under this order
must make affidavit, ii a soldier or citizen
or certify if officer, that the supplies are for
their family use, and NO more will be- sold at
one time than supplies for three months The
affidavit or certificate must set forth clearly the
fact that the person purchasing comes within
the requirements of this order, and that no
more is asked for than supplies for three months.
BY command of
General f.. KIRBY SMITH,
S. .. ANDERSON,