The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-07-02
Hid. Qrs. Bureau of Conscription,
TRANSMITS. DEPARTMENT,
Marshall, Tefas. June 9. 1864.

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GENERAL ORDERS No. 13.
n Manufacturers of Iron, Salt, Wool, or
- Gotten cloth, Soap, or Candles, who have
been or may be detailed as such manufacturers,
or to manage and superintend their factories, OF
who have had or may have conscripts or soldiers
detailed as operators or employees in such fac
tories, will be required to make affidavit, that
they will during the continuance of their details,
sell the articles produced or manufactured at
their establishments at prices not exceeding
those fixed by the Commissioners of the State
under the Impressment Act.
II. Persons who have been or may be de-
tailed or who have had Or may have others de-
tailed in their employ, as Wool-carders or
Threshers, or cutters of wheat or other grain,
will make similar affidavit, that during the
continuance of their details they will not take or
receive by way of toll or other means of COM
pensation, higher rate of pay for cardng WOOL
or threshing or cutting grain, than was custom-
ary to be paid for such services in the localities
where rendered, before the war, and that they
win sell their surplus of the articles received by
way of toll, over sutficiency for the supply of
their fami ies at prices not exceeding those fixed
by the Commissioners of the State under the
Impressment Act.
III. Persons who have been or NAV hereafter
be detailed as Foundrymen, or who have had or
may have others detailed in their establishments
will make similar affdavits that during the con.
tinuanee of the details, they will sell the castings
produced by them at price not exceeding IS
cents per pound, from which will be deducted
the cost of the materials furnished by the pur.
chasers, at the price usually paid since the war
for them at the Foundry.
Nv. Persons who have been or may be de-
tailed as hatters, or who have had or may have
others detailed in their works for the manufacture
of hats shall also make affidavit that they will.
sell the hats manufactured at their works, at the
price paid them by the Government for hats; and
such persons so detailed, or having others de-
tailed to them, as have no Government contract
shall make affidavit that they will sell their hats
at the price paid by the Government at the near
est establishment at which hats are supplied the
Governments.
V. Persons who have been or may be detailed
as wagon,makers or wheelwrights, shall make
affidavit that they will charge for their labor not
more than at the rate of 81 per day, to which
will be added the actual cost of the articles they
may furnish.
vi. General Order No. II. current series from
this Bureau, is amended by requiring the affida.
Wits therein provided for, to be made in all cases
where details are made, whether the detailed
men be soldiers Or conscripts.
VII Any evasion of this order or of the pro. |
visions of General Order No IL, either by re-
usal to perform work or to sell for Confederate
money, or by obtaining provisions IN exchange
or work or articles manufactured, or received BY
way of toll at prices below their customary
market value in the neighborhood, or by ex-
changing work or articles manufactured or re- |
,eived for toll for provisions Or supplies for re-
ale,. will be punished by prompt revocation Of
he detail
VIII. Upon proper application and satisfac.
ory proof, one man will be detailed as superin-
endent to every nianufactory of Salt, in which |
lot less than 90 bushels are actually manufac.
ured per day. But such details will not be |
made to such manufactures as have superinten.
ents not subject to military duty.
BY command of
w. sTEDMAN, A. A. Gen.
July 2.-5-2t.