The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-24
FRErEpMrN's BUREAU.

FREEDMENS BUREAU.
On motion of Mr.. Trumhull the bill to enlarge
the powers of the Freedmen's Bureau was taken
up and read as amended by the Judiciary Com
mittee.
1t provides that the act to establish bureau
for the relief of freedmen and refugees approved
March, g. 1865, shall continue in force until otner
wise provided by law, and shall extend 10 reiu-
gees and freedmen in all parts OF the United
States, and the President may divide the secilons
of country containing such refugees and 1reedmen
into districts each containing one OF more states
not to excedd twelve in number, and by ana with
the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint
an assistant commissioner for each of said dis
tricts, who shall give like bond, receive the same
compensation and perform the same duties pre-
scribed by this act or said bureau may, IN the
discretion the president, be placed under q
commissioner and assistant commissioners TO De
dctailedfrom the army, in which event each oflcer
SO assigned to duty shall serve without increase
of pay or allowances ftt ts.s
Section two provides for the division of the dis
tricts into sub-districts and the appointment OF
clerks and authorizes the president OF the United
States to extend the military jurisdiction and pro-
Section three authorizes the Secretary Of, War
to issue provisions fuel, clothing, &c, for refu-
gees and freedmen. IS n ls,sl
Section four authorizes the President to reserve
for SALE or from settlement under the homestead
or presumption laws, and to set apart for the use
of freedmen and loyal refugees, unoccupied lands
in Florida, Mississippi and Arkansas, not exceed
ing in all three millions of acres of good land and
the Commissioner, under the direction OF
the President, shall cause the same from time
to time to be allotted and assigned inparcels,
not exceeding forty acres each, to be loyal
refugees and freedmen, who shall be protec-
ted in the use and enjoyment thereof for such
term of time and at such annual rent as may be
agreed on between the commissioner and such
Jr,ay "a
upon valuation of the land, to be ascertained in
such a manner as the Commissioner may, under
the direction of the President by regulation pre-
scribe at the end of such term, or sooner II the
Commissioner shall assent thereto. The occu-
pants of any parcels SO assigned may purchase
the land and receive the title thereto from the
United States, in fee, upon paying thereof the
value of the land ascertaired as aforesaid.
Section five provides that the possessor of IT,
ties granted in pursuance of Major General Sher-
mans special field ORDER dated at Savannah, JAN
uary Is, 1856 are hereby confirmed and made
valid.
Section six provides that the Commissioner
shall, under the direction of the President, pro-
cure in the of the United States, by grant or
purchase such lands, with the districts aforesaid,
as may be required for refugees and freedmen de-
pendent on the government for support; and he
Shall provide or cause to be built suitable school
asylums and schools. But no such purchase
shall be made, nor contract for the same entered
into, nor other expenses incurred, until after APP
preparations shall have been provided by Congress
for the general purpose OF this act, out OF
which payments for said lands shall be made;
and the Commissioner shall cause such lands from
time to time, to be valued, allotted assigned and
sold, in manner and form provided in the pre-
ceding section, provided always that the said
lands shall not be sold for less than thu cost
thereof to the United States.
Section seven authorizes the President to ex-
tend military protection to the freedmen in all
cases of laws making discrimination against them
on account OF color.
Section eight prescribes punishment for sub
jecting freedmen to Slavery.
The bill was, after reading, on motion of Mr..
Hendricks, postponed till Monday.
PROTECTION OF LOYAL PERSONS AGAINST M
PROPER CIVIL. SUITS AND PENALTIES IN THE
LATELY REBELLIous STATES
The following order was issued by Gen. Grant
to-day
GENERAL oRDERs-No. 3.
WAR DEPT, ADJ GENERALS OFFICE,
Washington, Jan. IL, 1866.
Military division and department commanders
whose commands embrace or are composed Ofahy
of the late rebellious States, and who have not
already done SO, viii al once issue and enforce
ders protecting from prosecution or suits in the
State or municipal courts of such States all Off
GERS and soldiers of the armies of the United
States, and all persons thereto attached or in any
wise thereto belonging subject to military au-
thority, charged with offences for acts done in
their military capacity, orpursuant to orders from
proper military authority, and to protect from
suit or prosecution all loyal citizens or persons
charged with offences done against the rebel for
ces, directly or indirectly, during the existence of
the rebellion; and all persons, their agents or en-
ployees, charged with the occupancy of aban-
do-ed lands or plantations, or the possession or
custody of any kind OF property whatever, who
occupied, used, possessed or controlled the same,
pursuant to the order of the President or any of
the civil or military departments of the govern
ment, and to protect them from any penalties or
damages that may have been or may be pronounced
or adjudged in said courts in any of such cases,
and also protecting colored persons from prose-
cutions in any of said States charged with Often
ces for which white persons are not prosecuted in
the same manner and degree.
By command of Lieutenant General GRANT.
E. D. TOWNSEND, Asst. Adj. General.
MORE TROOPS ORDERED MUSTERED OUT.
The Secretary of War has issued an order d.
recting the immediate discharge of the following
colored volunteer organizations: The 106th, 42d,
59th 6Sth, Seth, 10lst, 10th and 1880 United
States colored regiments of infantry; battery A
Second United States light artillery, and the
Fourth United States cOOred cavalry.
Hon. Thos. n. Stillwell to-day obtained an or
der from Gen. Grant, ordering the muster out of
the tlIirty-fOurth Indiana regiment, now stationed
at Brownsville, Texas, and with which regiment
Mr. Stillwell was formerly connected.
Resolutions have been introduced in the Maine
Senate and referred to the Committee on Federal
Relations, demanding that Jefferson Davis and the
principal traitors among his late colleagues in re-
bellion, ought to be brought to immediate trial,
and speedy and exemplary punishment for their
most odious crimes inflicted
"A special from Columbus, Ohio, to the Cinci-
natl Gazette, says: Gen. Sherman has written
private letter to prominent gentleman now in
this city, in which he takes strong grounds against
any interference in the Mexican imbroglio."
Mr.. Jacob B. Hanesling, a distiller, doing bu-
siness in Elm street, Newark, WAS terribly seal
ded yesterday by falling into one of his own watts
while showing one OF his friends through the dis
tillery He is not expected to recover.
The rebel rioters of Alexandria, who killed
one man and wounded seXeral Others in that city
on Christmas day, are now on trial there by mill
tary commission. Two of the counsel for the de-
fence have been excluded because they could not
take the test OATH
The military Committee of the House will re-
port favorably upon the proposition to create the
office of General of the army. The position,
when the Office is created by law, will be rendered
to General Grant, for whose promotion, as is well
known, the Office is suggested.
"A dispatch from Washington to the
Philadelphia Bulletin says:
II have authority for stating that the re-
ports of reconstruction of the Cabinet have
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