The loyal Georgian., 1866-02-03

their own employers but If they cons
tinue to neglect or refuse to make con.
tracts then, on and after January 10th,
1866, officers aud agents of the Bureau
will have the right, and it shall be thei-
duty to make contracts for them, in all
cases where employers offer good wages
and kind treatment unless the freed peo~
pie belong to the class above excepted,
Or can show that t'ey can obtain better
terms. Contracts so made shall be as
binding on both parties as through the
full consent of the freed people.
i " Article III, of the amendments to
the Constitution Of the United States,
gives the people the right to bear arms,
and states that this right shall not be
infrin3ed Any person, white or black,
may be disarmed if convicted of making
an improper or dangerous use of weapons;
but no military or civil officer has the
right or authority to disarm any class of
people, thereby placing them at the mercy
Of Others. All men, without distinction
of color, have he right to keep arms to
defend their homes, families or them>
selves. fstAs@
V. All persons are forbidden to tam
per with or entice laborers to leave their
employers beforethe expiration of their
contracts, either by offering higher wages
or other Inducements Officers and agents
will punish by fine or otherwise, any per-
son who may be CONVICTED of such acts. /
The public interest requires that labor
be made reliable and profitable, and SO
long as the freed laborer is well paid
and kindly treated, this Bureau will not
tolerate any interference with the rights
and interests of employers g.
4a't DAVIS TILLSON,
Brig. Gen. Vols, and Act. Asst. Com. I'D
Colonel E. Whittlesey, Assistant Com
missioner of Freedmen for North Caro-
lima, has issued the following order, im.
portant to all classes:
RALEIGH, N. c., Nov. 10, 1865. +
"All officers and agents Of this Bureau,
and teachers Of Freedmen, win publish
as widely as possible the following in
structions:
81. In view Of the fact that govern
ment aid now given to the destitute may
soon be withdrawn, freedmen now living
in camps, colonies aud towns, are direc>
ted to mo employment at once, by which
they may support themselves.
"LT. Officers and agents Of the Bureau
will issue no more ratiors to any refu.
gees or freedmen who refuse situations
where they might earn their support
While the innocent and we'll disposed
will be protected, vagrant idlers who
| try to live without any honest calling,
will be promptly arrested and punished
"lII Paupers will, as soon IS prac>
ticable, be turned over to the "Wardens
of the Poor" for support, and off
and agents will operate with such wars
dens in providing for the infrm and
helpless Until ample provision is made
by the civil authorities, such persons
will not De foroibly removed from the
plantations where they were living at
the close of the war. IT.
CIV. Orphans and children Of per.
sons who have no honest calling, or
visible means of support, and other
minors, with the consent IF their parents,
may be apprenticed to some good trade
or occupation, in accordance with the laws
of the State applying to white children.
Every effort will be made to provide in
this way good homes fol. all minors,
now dependent upon the Government,
that tn y may not become Migrants and
nailners.n L... L.-I N .HL u.