NP, GDC 2/24/1865

From the Galveston Daily News
 
February 24, 1865
 
Head'Qrs, Dist. Texas, New Mexico & Arizona
Houston, February 22, 1865
 
Special Orders, No. 53
   XIV. In all cases where the employees of the several Railroads in this District find negroes upon their trains without passes, they are directed to hand them over to the nearest Agent of the Labor Bureau, or the Enrolling Officer of the County in which they are apprehended, who will take charge of the same; and should the negro, upon investigation, prove not to be in the Government service, will either return him to or place him in jail, subject to the reclamation of the owner or employer.
   By command of Major-General J. G. Walker
W. A. Smith, A. A. General

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