Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-08-23
Regulations Concerning Freedmen.
NsraucTIoNs or sEcRErARY rkssENpEN


Tue Secretary Of the Treasury has issueC
regulations Providing for the employment ant
general welfare Of all persons within the line d
national military occupation within usurrec
lionary sta les formerly held as slaves, who have
or shall become free. These regulations will be
carried into effect BY the same agcats and under
the same supervision as are provided under the
regulations concerning commercial intercourse.
Freedmen's Homo Colonies are to be es.
tabllshed m each special agency, at which all
/ freed persons within the agency may be received
ahd provided Tor. a superintendent of freed
men VIII be employed for each colony to make
necessary arrangements to provide shelter aud
care Tor persons received, and TO obtain working
animals and implements Tor the economical
conduct Of the establishment. Registry of
births, marriages, deaths and departures, and
all circumstances relating to each freedmen,
are 10 h1 kept.
HE superintendent shall classify all freedmen
capable of labor as follows |. Sound persons
over Is and under 49, , Sound persons over
II and under Is, aud over 10 and under So. 3.
Sound persons over II and under Ia, and over
% Othcr persons able to work shall be clsssed
as the superintendent shall deem proper Mini.
mum rate Of wages Males-lst class, S25 per
month II, So Sd, SIS. Females S. LIST class
SIS pee month, "a, Sl4; "a, $40
All persons who are received registered aud
classified, shall be promptly provided with en-
p'oyment, leaving none in idlenoss who are
capable OF labor. Applications for their labor
shall be received by the superintendent.
Written agreements shall be made between
employers and Iaborcrs, stpulating in addition
10 The wages, that the employers Shall furnish
without charge sufficient quarters lor the labor
ers, separate tenement for each family, an
acre Of ground also fuel, medical attendance.
schools tor children. One bali the monthly
wlses shall be paid to the aborer during the
month, aud the remainder ut tho end of the
term oil employment. 10 case laborer does
not lulh hls contrac, the reserved half of his
wages shall DO forfeited, htlf to his employer
ana nail to the government. Interest IN the
p'ohs OF labor may be given instead OF wages
II 10 agreed, with the approval of the superin-
tendent.
Aged and inirm freed persons and children
under twelve, and others unit for labor, shall
be provided for by the superintendent also,
medical attendance and schools.
Home COLONIES may be assigned to the care
aud charge Of associations having for their pur.
pose to improve the condition OF freedmen.
labor colonies may also DO found
with superintendents, and land shall be reserved
aud assigned for their use Th,se colonies NAV
also be assigned to associations Schools must
be established IN The colonies for the education
81 children under twelve years oil age.
la case that the lessees and others employed
BY them lttreat freedmen, the contract for labor
'hail be alnuled.
All expenses must be Authorized and approx.
d by The secretary Of the Treasury. Each su.
lerintendent al tue commencement Of every
month must furnish the Secretary with copies