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Imprcsxment Of Negroes.
AnJ'r. AND Issp'R. GES's. GrYrcE,
Ricnmond, Va. Dec. 6, 1854.

AnI'r. AND Issr'a. GExs. OFFICE
| Richmond, Va Dec. s, 1854.
GENERAL ORDERS, No SO.
1. The Chief OF tbs Bureau Of Con scriptioa will
continue. with all practicable dispatch, TO bring
into service the twenty thousand slaves authorised
By the act OF Congress epproyed February II, 64.
Enrulting ofhoers will prepare correct lists in du
plcate of the names, personal description and as
certnined value OF the saves, the county, district
or parish in which, aud the time when, each was
Impressed, the name o; the owner Of each and Of
the hnprossiSS officer. Oro of these lists will be
forwarded monthly to tho sommandant of con-
scriptioa in the State to WHICH tho slave belonx,
and the other to the superintende OF the bureau
each Of whom will cause them to be copied in some
uniferm manner convsnisnt for reference.
III. When hfty or more slaves shall have been
collected Mt my one station they will be forwarded
under the charge OF &.acrect men detailed from the
reserve forces, to sneh poips the Supcrn
OF Conscription may direct, and turned over 4,
the en- gsucer ofhcer instructed to receive them for
labor In the engineer and other departments Of
service copy of the descriptive roll of each
slave will accompany his delivery to the engineer
officer.
III. Tho chief engineer of each army or military
department viii, under the direction of the engi-
nser bureau, havs the general supervision and con
troll of the slaves, and will organize them into
gangs of one hundred men each. collecting four Of
the number rs foremen,) over whom will DO plaeed
n manager and two overseers. Every eighth gang
will constitute section for which super,ptendcnt
will be selected. Three sections will ,,zn,n.. n
force, over which will be placed a director. Two
clerks will DC employed detailed for each direc
tor, and one for each superintendent.
w. The directors, supernssndents. managers
and ovcrseers will be detailed selected by ,hv
Secretary OF War from men qualified by expert
ence i'm tho management of slaves, and who are
ftt,d for the positions by their character for pro-
bity, energy and intelligence.
" There will be assigned by orders from this
Office, purveyor 10 each force, and aa assistant
purveyor to each section, who will provide subsi,
tence clothing. and otscs necessary stores making
requisition thSrefor upon the quariermaster and
commssary departments. These will be bonded
ageutss In like manner n medical officer will bs
assigned for esch section, who will obtain supple.
for the slaves from the medical department upon
rcquisticn prescribed for surgeons aud assistant
surgeons Of the army. Provision returns and re-
QUESTIONS tor quarternasers stores will be signed
by the manager, and, when approved by the super
intendent, the purveyor of the section will make
the issue.
vi. The engineer bureau will de;ail IN officer of
the engineer service for ecah army or department
to organize, inspect and the gangs, sections
and forces and to make details Of working parties
in such number and such objects may be or
dcrId by the commanding general. In this man.
details Of slaves will be made to perform labor
in other departments of the service--it being in
tended that all such slaves shall be under the man
agement and supervision of the engineer depart
ment. When slaves detailed in other depart
ments than Gss angincer department., the manager
win send wi,G them descriptive lists, retaining
their names, however, upon his muster rolls.
n
duplicate muster and pay rolls Of the slaves on the
last day Of every even month. The first will be
transmitted to the chief of the engineer bureau
the muster and pay rolls to the auartcrmaster rem
ernl- Each will be forwarded through the su-
perintcndents, who will be- held responsible for their
correctness. The ascertained value of each slave
wild appear upon both the muster roll and the
master and pay rolls. The rate OF pay will be de-
tcrrnined by agreement with the owners, or by ap-
praiJenent, as provided by law.
VIII. The value of the slave will be zscertained
at the time Of impressment, after careful examina-
tion under rules prescribed By the surgeon general
by agreement between Gho enrolling officer and the
owner, or by appraisement under the Law regula-
ting impressmenis, that, in the event Of bis loss
while employed by the Government ''by tbs SET of
the enemy or by escape to, by death inflicted by
the enemy. OF by disease contracted while in any
service required of him. his owner may receive
full value from the Government. Slaves already
impressed AMI in service will be appraised by
boards OF disinterested shareholders, selected by
tho engineer bureau. Enrolling officers will i'm
press upon owners the propriety and advantage of
having their slaves provided with one good new
suit of clothing before they turned over the
Government, the value Of which will be estimated
In the appfnsement.
The loss Of slave from either of the causes emu
merHtedy and the time and manner of it. will be
reported in triplica;e by the manager OF the gang
to which be belongs, TO the chief of the engineer
bursau. He will, Mt ;hc Same time, note the casu-
atty upon the next mnster roll.
TX. At tho expiration of every six months, the
qpnrtermaster general will send an ofi ser to con-
venient places IN each State pay owners or their
attorneys tho hire Of their slaves, or if lost their
appraised or agseed value.
". Every effort will be made tc induce eontsnt-
meut in the slaves Their discipline will be con-
sideratc and mild for minor ofenscs. Cases OF =
grave character -l be forwarded for The determin-
alton and instructions Of the chief engineer of the
army or department, who will. in the meantime,
prepare and submit for the approval Of his CON-
mandins general a code for the government OF
managers and others in charge of the slaves.
XII. The commanding general Of each army or
department will promptly and order to the
ranks any manager or other employee having tho
suPervision of slaves, who is guilty OF cruelty to-
wards them, or inalfeasance OF malpractice, and
will impose such other penalties the otfenss
war.
BY order.
(Signed,) S. COOPER,
Adj't. and Inspr. Gcn1.
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