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Office Slave Claim Board |
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Richmond, Va. May 2, 1864 |
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| Capt. L. P. Grant |
| Atlanta, Ga. |
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| Captain, |
| Your communication of 14th ultimo to Col.
A. L. Rives, Actg Chf Engr Bureau has been referred to this Board. |
| In reply to the inquiry respecting the
claim of Mr Parker E. Arnold, I have to say that the last Congress made
no appropriation to compensate owners for injuries, not fatal,
their slaves may have received while in the government employ. |
| An appropriation was made to compensate
them for "loss of slaves which have been impressed by Confederate
authorities, or under state laws for the use of the Confederate
government, and while engaged in laboring upon the public defences
have escaped to the enemy, or died, or contracted diseases which, after
their discharge, resulted fatally." |
| Claims of this character this Board is now
engaged with investigating. |
| Provision will probably be made to afford
relief in cases like that of Mr. Arnold, by future legislation. His
claim is evidently meritorious upon your statement of the facts. |
| Respectfully Yr obdt servant |
| J. D. Waddell |
| Col. & Presdt Slave Claim Board |
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