Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-07-22

| CErcutar No. /.
1. The undersigned having been APP
pointed Assistant Commissioner OF the
| Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen and Aban-
doned Lands, for the State Of Louisiana
announces the following named officers on
/ duty with these headquarters:
Captain II. Grear, Department of Com
plants end Information.
Lieutenant E. NJ. Wheelock, Secretary
| Board Of Education.
| lst Lieutenant d. G.. Fenno, 62d U. s. C.
| l., Acting Assistant Adjutant General.
Captain w. b, Armstrong, u. s. Vols,
| Assistant Quartermaster.
Captain Y. J. Flagg, y. s. Vols, Com
rnissary Of Subsistence.
Captain Frank II Bagley, 18th U. s. 9.
| l., Acting Assistant Quartermaster.
Captain G. W. LoSell, s0th q. s. c. T.,
Provost Marshal General of Freedmen.
Captain H. Il. Pease, Saith U. S. G. l.,
President Board of Education.
Captain j. M. Blanchard, 92d y. s, C.
l., Assistant Superintendent Home Col
ony, st. Charles Parish.
Captain Geo. +. Randolph. G5th U. s. G.
l., Assistant Superintendent Freedmen,
Home Colony, East Baton Ronge.
LIST Lieutenant q. w. Bridges, 92d y. s..
~
Clinton La, and vicinity
I'd Lieutenant L. s. Butler, 67th y. s. G.
l., Assistant Superintendent Freedmen,
Alexandria, La, aud vicinity.
I'd Lieutenant w. b. Stiekney, 99th y.
s. G. l., Assistant uperintendent Freed
men, Shreveport, La, and vicinity.
LIST Lieutenant julius G. Clark, s0th u.
8. G. l., Assistant Superintendent Freed
men, OpeioGsas, La, and vicinity.
Captain Andrew Morse, LIST Louisiana
Cavalry, Assistant Superintendent Freed
men, Home Colony, Lafourche parish.
2. The following named officers on duty
under the direction of these headquarters
in the State of Alabama, will, upon the
arrival of the Assistant Commissioner,
Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen and Aban-
doned Lands for that State, report to him
for duty -: 49,. .+
George A. Harmount, Assistant Super
intendent of Freedmen, Mobile, ala, and
vicinity.
Captain NJ. NJ. Crydenwise, 7sd U. s. @.
l., Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen,
Demopois, Ala, and vicinity.
Chaplain s. s. Gardner, 73d q. s. G. l.,
Assistant Superintendent Freedmen, Sell
ma, Ala, and vicinity.
Chaplain G. W. Buckley, Assistant Su-
y,
ALBANIA, and vicinity. All other officers
serving under the authority of these gen
tlemen at any other points, within the
State of Alabama, will, upon the arrival of
the Commissioner, consider themselves
subject to his authority.
y. All Civil Assistants, Clerks, Supern-
tendents and other persons in the employ
OF Louisiana, (and the State of Alabama,
of these Headquarters, will be discharged
as fast as detailed officers and men Of the
army can be found to take their places,
except such as may be allowed by special
authority of Major General Howard, Com
missioner of this Bureau.
4. No purchases will be made by any
officer or agent on duty under the direc-
ton of these Headquarters, without the
written authority of the Assistant Com
missioner.
5. Expenses connected with the care and
employment Of freedmen and refugees,
within this State, will be at nuec re.lced
as low rs possible. Instead OF army IA
tions, vegetables, fruit and other food Ca
pable Of being produced by those previ-
ously subsisted by the Government, will
be supplied, and no rations whatever will
be drawn for the support of any who can
be rendered self-supporting. The atten-
ton Of all officers on duty with these
Headquarters is particularly called to this
matter, as it is justice neither to the Gov
eminent nor the benefciarles themselves,
to encourage the idea that any person can
live in idleness. Any Indifference mani
tested III regard TO this matter will be re-
garded as gross neglect of duty; and to
better carry out the provisions of this or
der all sales of vegetables, fruits, or other
articles capable of being used as food by
helpless or vagrant persons on colonies, is
strictly forbidden.
6. On receipt Of this circular by officers
or agents now in the field, within the iu-
risdiction of this Office, a return will be
made, showing
First-The number Of freedmen sun
ported by them at Government expense.
Second-The number of poor white per-
sons thus supported.
Z. 1t having been reported by q multi
tude of witnesses that the former slave
owners in the country parishes of this
State are making efforts to interrupt the
schools for the education of freedmen, pro-
Vost marshais and assistant superintend-
ents are directed to defend these schools
against all persons, and in accordance with
paragraph 7, Circular No. s, from the War
Department, Bureau Of Refugees, Freed
ihoii auo abaHuouou LanQS, OF MAY Both,
1865, approved by the President of the
United States, which directs:
In all places where there is an Interrupt
ton of civil Jaw, or in which local courts.
by reason of old codes, in violation of the |
freedom guaranteed by the proclamations
OF the President and the laws of Congress,
disregard the negroes right to justice before
the law. Y The A.
sstant Commissioners will adjudicate, |
either themselves or through officers Of |!
their appointment, all difficulties arising |
between negroes themselves, or between |
negroes and whites, ETC., etc.
These schools must be maintained. and |
those who attend them protected exactly |
rs the laws protect white persons, ard ali |
parties charged with this offence will be |
arrested, tried, and if found guilty, they
will be punished.
THOMAS W. CONWAY,
Asst. Com, Bureau of Refugees,
Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.
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