Natchitoches spectator., 1868-07-28


I Important Bureau Order.
Under date of New Orleans, July 3.
Gen. Buchanan issued the following:
In order to carry out the provisions OF
Circular No. 1, current series, from these
headquarters, the following is published
for the information and guidance OF all
concerned:
/. The District of Louisiana is divided
into two agricultural districts.
2. The following named persons are
hereby appointed factors of this bureau,
and are designated as the merchants to
whom planters, now drawing supplies
from the bureau, will forward their crops
for sale.
For the First Agricultural District
comprising the parishes of Orleans; Jei-
ferson, right bank; Orleans, left bank:
Jefferson, left bank; st. Bernard, f!a-
quemines, left bank; Piaquemlnes, rigns
bank; st. Helena, Livingston, Washlng-
ton, st. Tammany, st. Charles. st. John
Baptist, st. James, Ascension. Assump-
ton. Terrebonne, LafOurche, East Baton
Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Ibervllle,
Pointe Coupee, East Feliciana. west
Feliciana, ST. Landry, Calcasieu, Yer
million, Lafayette, st. Mary and St.
Martin
p. q. PARKER, No. "a Perdido street.
comprising the parishes of fNatchitoches,
Sabine. Rapides, Winn, Avoyelles, Un-
| ion, Morehouse, Ouachita, jackson,
Franklin, Caldwell, Catahoula, Madison,
Tensas, Concordia, Carroll, Bossier,
Caddo, DeSoto, Claiborne and Bien-
Vile
J. Fl. OGLEsBY, No. II Tchoupitoulas
street.
| Each of the above named factors will
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sureties, to be approved by the Assis-
tant commissioner, in the sum of $5O. 900
for the faithful performance of their du-
| ties. They will be expected to furnish
| to such of the planters in their districts
| as NAV require these articleS-bagging,
ties, bands, hogsheads, boxes, and any
thing else which may be required to en-
able them to prepare their crops for the
market, upon the terms usual in such
cases.
The books and accounts of the said
factors, in which these transactions are
recorded, will be open at all times for
the inspection of any officer that may
be designated by the Assistant Commits
sioner for that purpose.
3. When the crops or which which
/ the bureau has n lien are ready to be
shipped to market, the Assistant Sub
/ Assistant Commissioner of the parish III
which such plantation lies will be noti.
i fed of the fact by the planter, and 1t
will be the duty of said Assistant Sub
Assistant Commissioner to see that the
whole of the crop is shipped, without
unnecessary delay, to the proper factor
and to notify both the Assistant Com
missioner and the factor OF such ship
ment, with a certified tabular statement
of the amount of wages, or share OF the
crop due freedmen.
/ The assistant sub-assistant commits
sioner will also satisfy himself that the
crop has been properly prepared fol
shipment, so that there will be no pos.
sibility of its being injured by transpor.
tation to this city.
In preparing their crops for shipment
the planter will use good and sufficient
bagging, ties, bands, hOgsheads or cases
as may be necessary to insure theil
crops reaching this city'iD good condi
4 ton.
f. The assistant sub-assistant commits
sioners will, Immediately upon the re
ceipt of this order, ascertain from eacl
planter, in their respective parishes, Tx
amount required by them (if any O
bagging, ties, bands. hogsheads or cases
. and transmit report of the same direct
to these headquarters, giving the name
and address in full of each planter, and
to what point or landing on the river il
shall be sent.
i 8. Each factor will be furnished from
these headquarters with statement oi
the Indebtedness of each planter of his
district, to the bureau and to the freed
men, and upon the sale of the crop con
signed to him by the planter, he viii
render to these headquarters an account
current in duplicate, which will credit
the planter with the net proceeds of his
crops; the debit side will exhibit the
planters Indebtedness to the bureau
the amount due freedmen for wages, ol
share in the crop-as we'll as the expeu
ses and usual regular commissions oi
the factors on the sale of the crop.
6, AS soon as the account current ol
T any planter has been approved by the
Assistant Commissioners, the factor will
be notified thereof, and he will transmit
separate checks to these headquarters
? for the amounts due to the bureau aud
to the freedmen.
z. 1t will be the duty of the Sub-As-
sistant Commissioners and the Assistant
Sub-Assistant Commissioners to keep
themselves thoroughly informed with
regard to the time when the crops in