Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-04-28
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
nIrlTARY EMANCIPATION ILLUSTRATED.

The following army orders" regulating INC
freedom" Of the 'emancipated" blacks ~ INC
Southwest are interesting for the hight 'heS Sneu
on "the great social problem" when soine per
sons suppose to be in course Of Soiu'ion . 'A'
if not the object of the war
HArourz (Mlss FEBRUARY, L. 1854
GENERAL ORDER No. - N..
From beaceiorwsrd all contraoand negroes Oh NatcneZ
- ohiddan rom the renting of houses and living to
themselves but required to secure Legitimate employ
ment with responsible respectable persons or otherWse
ba sant Ia the coDtraband encampment IEose hlriDg
th are expected to aid 10 the enforcement of the fore
going regulations by the proper employment OF them 10
their families or messes
The congregation Of so many negroes in one house,
with their filthy lazy habits Gas the undersigned has
uad be the case,) if continued will eventually prove
fatal 10 the health OF the city.
All renters of houses are forbidden the rent
ing or renting of the contraband under
a penalty for doing Otherwise 1t will be Impossible
for the undersigned to carry out system OF sanitary egu
lations essential to the well being of The city
BY order of A. W. KELLY, Surgeon and Health Ofcer;
T. A. RALsToN, a. A. Gen. Post
NATcHEz. miss MARCH 10, 1864.
To preserve the general health Of the troops satoueu
in the city Nachez and of the inhabitants ana 10 guau
against the orignaton here and the introuucoh " P
leutial diseases the ensuing summer ana autumn ~ nPe
ratyey REQUIRES the prompt rigorous and steady enorce
Of the sanitary regulations heretofore ~
this city
that all causes tending the eDgenderng and dssemlna
ton pesena diseases here so soon as their existence
known shall be at once abated or so ia as
tcabIe 1t is TO be apprehended that serious danger To
the health of this city will result from the congregation
within limits of the large numbers of idle negroes which
tbrong the streets lanes and alleys aud over crowo
every howell Lazu and pr0figate unused to caring Tor
themselve thriitless for the present and reckessy %
provden Of the future the most of them loaf idly about
the streets and alleys prowng IN secret places ana
laziy in crowded novels, which soon become dens 81
filth the hotbeds fit TO engender and rapidly dis
seminae the most loathsome and malignant Diseases
To prevent these evil effects it j. hereby ordered
that after the first day of April, 1854 no CONTRA
band snall be allowed to remain IN the city OF Na'cheZ,
who is not employed by responsible nhue person
in SOME legitimate business and who Goes not reside
at the domci of his her employers and no contraband
will be allowed to hire any premises IN the city Tor any
purpose whatever aud other person will be allowed to
hire such for the purpose OF evadng this order
allowed to hire harbor cuntaoand VINO cannot
satisfy the health officer that he she needs the services
of said contraband in some legitimate employment All
contrabands remaining in the city 10 OF this
order after April ls will be removed to the contraband
encampment.
The word coutraband is hereby defined to all per-
formerly slaves who not in the employ oil
their former owners
Persons drawing ratons from the United States Gov
erument supposed to need any hired servants
The number allowed to each family will be determined by
the undersigned.
BY order Of A. W. KELLY, Surgeon and Health Officer
Approved:
]. NJ. FUTILE, Brig. Gen. Cong District
headguarters Of Offences,
Ne,o Oricans, March "a, 1864.
: "CtzeDs having colored people IN their employ who
are superuous or nsubordinate will be promptly relieved
of them by reporting the fact to Col Hanks" f. Supern-
tendent of Negro Labor"
e
Cfce Pr0rost Marshal,
e. Parishes Of Jsferson and ST. Charles, La.
CarroHton, March % 1864.
The Provost Marshal OF the Parish of Jefferson il
aso charged with The execution Of General Order No II
Headquarters Of OFFENCES Of New Orleans, March "a
1864 far it relates to its execution within this DIS
trict All persons within this district requested Il
report at his office the of their coored
wants Of either order ths he may givo them al
employment certificate and all coored people OF either
sex VINO shall the first Of April have such certificate
in tner possession will be considered unemployed, the
males organized into squsds and companies for labor on
th parspet and the females turned to Col Hanks
By command Of Brig Gen ROBERTS:
K SKINNER, First Lieut.
10th u. s. insanity A d. c. and A. A. G.
Il BROWN,
Colonel and Provost Marshal.