| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| January 25, 1865 |
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| Confederate States Senate |
| Mr. Hunter, of Virginia,
offered the following resolution, which was agreed to: |
| "Resolved, That the
President of the Confederate States of America be requested to furnish
the Senate |
| "Firstly. Information as
to the number of white men between the ages of eighteen and
forty-five, and of the number of negroes who, in addition to their own
officers, may be required for the necessary employment and the proper
discharge of the functions of the Departments of Medicine, of the
Commissary-General, of the Quartermaster-General, of the Engineers, of
the Ordnance, and of the Nitre and Mining Bureau. |
| "Secondly. A like
estimate as to the Post-office and Navy Departments. |
| "Thirdly. A like estimate
in regard to the railroad transportation
of the country, including not only the working, but the equipment,
repairs and construction, of the number, in his consideration,
required for such transportation. |
| "Fourthly. To specify the
railroads, if there be any such, whose repairs and construction, in
his opinion, will be necessary for military purposes, and ought to be
effected, in whole or in part by appropriations from the Confederate
Treasury." |
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