Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-09-21
An Important Order.

VI
Of the War Department. If faithfully car
ried out it will prove of inestimable advan-
tage to our brave army, and to the families
of the soldiers who compose it. It is we'll
known that many of the detailed agricultu-
rists referred to in the orders altogether ig-
more their obligations by selling their pro-
duce at market rates, instead of retaining
it for the families Of soldiers and for the
Government. We would call the especial
attention of all concerned to the penalties
provided by the order for disobedieDce to
its provisions: .%s ~ -.... "
ADJ'T AND INsP'T'R GENTS OFF1oE,
Richmond, Va, Aug. 27, 1864.
General Orders, No. SO. - ..
1. The Bureau of Consumption will cause
to be delivered from the proper officers of
the Bureau of 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 ex-
emptions or details as agriculturists, own.
ers, overseers, managers, farmers, plantersor
otherwise, as producers of grain or proVis-
ions under the fourth paragraph of the tenth
section of the military Act Of the I7th
February, 1868, published in General Or
derf No, 26, ,'(current SERIES } together with
q statement of the terms Of the contract, the
;sureties to the same, and with all other per
tinent facts relating to the. said exemption
or detail. The officers of the Subsistence
Department, under the direction of the
Commissary General and Chief Commissary
Of each State, are charged with the collec.
tion of the meat which any exempt or de-
detailed man may have contracted to pay,
and to give an acquittance therefor; Also to
make whatever combinations or reductions
that may be authorized by the act whenever
the conditions are established that justify
the same and to make all the purchases
of the marketable surplus at the prices speci-
fed in the act, which the same authorizes
to be made on behalf of the Government.
The said Subsistence Department being
hereby clothed with authority to represent
the Government in the enforcement of its
claims under the contracts and obligations
that the act imposes upon the ezempts and
detailed men described therein. =
II. In order that the regulation on the
subject of the sale of the marketable sur
plus of provisions and grain to the Govern.
ment and the families of soldiers in the
said act, may have execution, the Commits
saries in the different States may be inssruc..
ted to limit their purchases of grain and
provisions of the marketable 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
authorities of any State, county or town, to
supply food for the families Of soldiers, are
authorized to purchase the portion unappro-
priated by the Government, for the object
of their trust. The Commanders Of Con-
scripts or the Chief Commissary of each
State or District may authenticate the au-
:thority of such agents, and persons selling
to agents, thus authenticated shall befully
warranted to do SO: -
IV. The families of soldiers as described
in the said act, are the families composed
of the wife or the wife and children Of any
person who belongs to the army the widow
or the widow and children of any person
who died while in the service the mother
and sisters Of any soldier or soldiers in the
army and Who resided with them as men,
,bers of the same, family or were dependent
upon their laborfor support; the parents or.
sisters Of any person belonging to the army.
resided in the same family with them and
who derived from them support. 2.
teTV.. Officers are authorized to purchase
necessary subsistence for them. -.,55
vi. Every exempt and detailed man IN
der this act shall render to the Enrolling
Officer in the: District, detailed statement