The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-04-03
Official Circular--TO the Freedmen
of Nashville.
BUREAU REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND
ABANDONED LANDS,
STATES OF KENTUCKY AID TENNESSEE,
ASSISTANT CoNHIssIoEER's OFFICE.
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| ABANDONED LANDS,
STATES or KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE.
ASSISTANT COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
NASHVILLE, April 2, 1866.
It is the opinion of physicians that the
Asiatic cholera will make its way to Nash
vile within a few weeks. L has beer
steadily travelling from its home in the fal
East, westward; and, if it reaches Nrsh.
vile, it will in all probability find among
the colored population large number o.
| its victims.
To prevent, if possible, the Introduction
| OF the disease, or its prevalence among The
cOlored people should L nd its way here, I
am directed by BreYet Major General Gin
ton B. Fisk, Assistant Commissioner, to or
der and enforce the following regulations
and provisions;
l. Within the first fifteen days of April,
every house inhabited by freedmen in
Nashville and Edgefeid, within one mile Of
| the city limits, must be well whitewashed
the small board and plank houses inside
aud out.
II. All garbage and filth of every kind
must be cleared away, privies cleaned,
white-washed and lined, and the premises
put in good sanitary condition. Strict at
tention must also be given to personal clean
illness and diet, and TO ventilation Of dwell
ings.
III. As this disease may be very readily
checked in its first stages, it is q matter OF
the first importance that the freedmen have
at hand, and ready at a minutes notice
should the scourge make its appearance, q
simple and effectual remedy TO check it it
once.
Dr.. Robert McNeilly, Assistant Surgeon
Of the U. s. A, will prepare an excellent
remedy of this kind. he may be found at
the Dispensary of the Bureau at this Office
~. As another precautionary and pre-
paratory measure, Sanitary Commission
has been appointed, consisting OF the fol-
lowing colored gentlemen: William Sum-
ner, Pres't., Henry Harding, Vice Pres't.,
Rev. Ransom Harris, Sec'y., John J. Carey.
Treas, P. Lowry, Rev. Daniel Watkins,
VIM. Lawrence, And. TAFT, F. Parish, W.
B. Scott, Rev. A. 9. Merry, A. Menefee, C. |
W. Napier, VIM. Miller, w. Tyree, A.
Buchanan, D. Brown, D. S. Lapsley, Welson
Walker, J. stothard and S. Boyd. This
Commission will assess and collect tax of
one dollar upon each colored person over |
eighteen and under sixty years old, residing |
within the city, or within one mile Of its |
limits. They will appoint and pay COM
petent assessors and collectors, who will |
make assessments, collections and returns |
in business-like way. The tax will be
collected prior to the first day of May, and |
will be deposited in the Nashville Freed |
mems Savings Bank, to be controlled by the /
and used for hospital and
charitable purposes in any emergency that
may occur.
V. All good citizens are earnestly invited /
10 aid in the prompt enforcement of these
regulations. Thousands of lives and I'M
ltterable suffering may be saved thereby.
AHd they 10iH be enforced. My orders are
Imperative, and good viii to the freedmen
.equires they be rigidly obeyed.
VI. On the sixteenth day of April I shall
end inspectors, accompanied by sufficient
police force, into every part Of the city and
Is suburbs, with orders TO arrest any and all
persons who shall have disregsrded these
equations, and I will punish them Sc
-erely.
VII. 1t viii afford me pleasure to cO-ope-
ate with the civil authorities in any and
IL measures calculated TO promote the
ealth Of the city.
JOHN LAWRENCE,
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