New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-02-02
TRANSFORMATION ADVANCED TO FREEDMEN.
How Prnater. May Obtain Laborer.

vansing transportation to freedmen from
one parish to another has recently been is
sued by the assistant commissioner
HEADQUARTERS BuaEAu REFUGEES, FREEDMEN,
No iai Julia street, New Orleans january "a 1868
Circular No 2.
Frequent applications being made to
these he. 1quarters for the transfer OF freed
men from parishes where they are unem-
ployed to parishes where they can be
| secured employment on plantations during
the year, the following Instructions are
hereby promulgated for the information
and guidance of the agents OF this bureau;
| No planter will be furnished with labor
from another parish than that in which he
is planting, unless he can pay money
wages to those whom he wishes to employ
Before taking steps to procure labOrers
| for planter the agent shall be furnished
by him, in duplicate, with full, clear, and
explicit statement of the terms on which he
proposes to engage them, the number of
freedmen wanted, and the families to be
provided fer being distinctly specified.
This statement will be accompanied by
bond obliging the planter to employ the
labOrers, and provide for the families OF
such as have families Immediately on their
arrival at the pointin the parish designated
by the nuIeau agent.
Immediately on the arrival Of the freed
men, the contracts with them shall be exc
cuted in the proper form under the super
vision of the bureau agent, and two copies
of the same fled in his office.
The expenses of transporting the freed
men from one parish to the other, including
their subsistence en- route, will be deducted
from their monthly wages and paid over to
the bureau agent in the parish in the
following manner:
The cost Of their subsistence and one
third of the cos. u transportation at the
end of first thirty days, one-third of the
cost of transportation at end of second
month, and the remainder at the end of
third month.
The bureau agent who may be called
upon to furnish the laborers required, will
then endeavor to secure the required num-
Der from the unemployed freedmen in his
parish.
He will clearly explain to them the ma
ture of the terms upon which they are 10 be
employed, and will in each case inform the
freedman OF the name of the planter desiring
to employ him, and as nearly as possible
the location of his plantation.
u SuliClChh nutubGA COuSShb dAu
agree to be thus employed, he will imme-
diately make application direct to these
headquarters for the number of pounds of
corn meal and meat necessary to feed said
freedmen, including wives and children of
those who are married, until they reach
their destination also, application for
transportation, if the same is not otherwise
provided, specifying the number of grown
persons, and the number between five and
fourteen years of age, as well as the points
from and to which the freed people are to
be transported, route, etc.
Upon receipt of said application, the nee
essary transportatic and supplies will be
furnished him, together with the cost of
rates of transportation and the cost of sup
plies, including freiget on latter.
The bureau agent will thea collect the
freed people together, taking care to have
an exact list of the names and ages of all
intended for each separate planter, issue
to them their rations, and ship them in &C.
eordance with transportation order.
At time of shipment he will place them
under charge Of some reliable person, gen
orally q representative from the planters
who have agreed to employ them, and will
give positive orders and instructions to
such person that said freed people will,
upon arrival at the point OF destination, be
turned over to the bureau agent in that
parish.
The agent shipping the freed people as
stated will communicate direct to the
other agent the fact that he has shipped
them, which will be accompanied by a
separate report of the names and number
Of freed people who have engaged to work
for each planter, specifying full cost of ra-
tons at time of issue, and stating rates and
total amount for the number transported in
each case. ..
Upon the arrival of the freed people in
the parish where they are to be employed
the bureau agent on duty in that parish will
Immediately take charge OF them, and will
ut once cause proper contracts in triplcate
to be executed with the planter for whom
they were engaged in accordance with the
agreement on Gle in his Office, special refer
ence being had to the list Of freedmen in
tended for that plantation as furnished by
the agent by whom they were engaged
The agent Will then turn over 10 the
planter the proper freed people, and will
at the same time furnish him duplicate of
the lists on which is specified the cost Of
the transportation and subsistence furnished
each Of the freed people employed by him.
Upon complying with the foregoing d.
rections, each agent will forward through
their respective snb-assistant commission
ers q complete report of all action taken.
At the end Of each month, the agent ap-
portiORing the amounts to be paid for snb-
sistence and transportation as stated will
collect from tire planters the proper
amounts as specified in the foregoing, and
will turn over the same to the proper dis
bursting officer at these headquarters.
By order of BreVet Major General R. @.
Buchanan, U. S. A., Assistant Commits
sioner- LUCIUS II. WARREN,
Captain seth U. S. Infantry, A. A. A. G..