The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-01-23
General Orders No %
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE BoRDv.
Kansas CITY, No. Noyember an roc

Kansas City, Mo-, November "a. 1851
l. Loyal persons, formerly resident in d..
part of the District from which the inha0itsntS
were required to remove by General Orders NJ.
IL may obtain permits to return, and safes1n.rSE.
for persons and property, IN the manner sn5 -
the terms herein prescribed. "a
Applications for such permits and safeguards
viii be made TO the officer commanding that one
of the following stations nearest the aDpIicant's
place of residence, to-wit Wesport indeDen
denee, Hiekman's Mills, Pleasant Hill, Harr;son
vile, Trading Post and must be accompanied
With satisfactory proof Of the uniform loyal con-
duet and reputation of the applicant. Whore the
applicant is the head of family, the permit and
safeguard viii name the applicant and the non
adult children of the Family. Each adult of =
family will make separate proof, and receive a
separate permit an safeguard
The commanding officer of each of the stat;on.
named viii keep record of she names. aces ana
places of residence of persons to whom spch
permits and safeguards are issued by him. and
of the persons by whom their loyalty Is shown
and also, In like manner, a record of persons T.,
whom he refuses to issue such permits and safe
guards. Transcripts of the record will be sent
70 these Head quarters from time to time, viii
the tri-monthly reports.
Such permits and safeguards win he. in the
form hereinafter prescribed. When proof is made
in any case, to the satisfaction of the Station
commander, he win ill up carefully the blsnks
in such form and sign the permit and saferuar3
and forward the same to these Head-ouartera for
COInmRHdinU NJ
such permit and safeguard will be valid witheut
such approval endorsed upon it.
Save in exceptional instances, such perrn;ts
will not at present be given to persons OWNING
no lands or crops or having no sufficient means
of support In the district named nor, to- nenson.
living In the timber more than three miles dc
tant from any station /; nor to persons having
near relatives or connections in the rebel aerxiea
Where in their judgment such exceptions should
be made Commanders of Stations will send 20
n WI fha r
such exceptions.
II. If any person, in the military service Of
the United States, shall knowingly and wilfuIlv
commit any act of injury to the person or pro.
perty of any resident holding such safeguard he
shall be arrested and sent here for trial by court
martial, for the ofense of forcing a safeguard
which is one of the gravest in the articles of
war: II any person, not in the military service
of the United States, shall knowingly and viii
fully commit such injury, he shall be arrested
and sent here for trial by Military Commission.
When any person holding such safeguard or per
NIT shall wilfully violate any one of the condi-
tons on which 1t Is given, such person shall be
arrested and sent here by the nearest Station
Commander for trial and nunisb ment. In case
the person so offending is a woman and the head
of family, she shall be ordered out of the dis
trict by such commander and, falling to go. viii
be sent here with her family for removal.
Ill. If any person or persons shall settle In
the district named without such permission "A
writing being first regularly obtained, such per-
son or persons will be notified by the nearest
Station Commander to leave this district and,
failure to do so, will be arrested and sent here
for removal.
". The requisite authority having been OBJ
tanned, Commanders of Stations named above
will cause all men, who are allowed to return, to
be organized as far as practicable in companies
in the several neighborhoods. Each company
will consist of not less than thirty men, living
within convenient distance of the place of rem
devious, and arms. clothing and rations will be
issued to them. They will be received by the
proper authorities as militia of the State in active
service
The General commanding attempts this. early
settlement OF the depopulated district at the up
gent solicitation of many loyal men who are now
willing to try to live again at their homes. HO
Will aid them to the utmost with the troops I'M
der his cominand-and assure them that no rebel
families will be allowed to return to entce back
and support the guerrillas. But, after all, the
question whether the guerrillas can come back to
resume their ravages, depends much on the ac-
ton of the loyal Inhabitants themselves They
must return to their farms, not as non combat
ants, but thoroughly armed and organized. in
each neighbOrhood. tits chiefly by such neigh
bOrhood organization that they can hope to save
themselves and their property, keep out the gueE-
rillas, and insure permanent and prosperous re-
settlement of the border
BY order of Brig. Gen. Ewing.
Il. HAENAHS, A. 4. d. g..