| From the Houston Telegraph |
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| August 10, 1863 |
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| Headquarter, District of Texas, New Mexico
and Arizona |
| Near Milican, Texas, July 31st, 1863 |
| General Orders, No. 125 |
| All requisitions for negroes
to labor on the fortifications, or for any of the departments, shall be
made on Captain H. R. Andrews, Chief of the Labor Bureau, who is charged
with the procurement and disposition of slaves collected for Government
service. Requisitions for negroes for the fortifications, or for
railroad purposes, shall be approved by Col. Sulakowski, Chief Engineer.
For teamsters or other employment in the Quartermasters' Department,
Major B. Bloomfield, Chief Quartermaster; for Commissary Department, bt
Major E. B. Pendleton, Commissary, and for the Medical Department, by
Surgeon J. H. Berrien, Medical Director. |
| I. All departments, railroad
companies, or other persons having negroes in their employment, shall
report at the end of each and every month, the number, names, time when
received, the names of the owners, the county from which they were
received, and the amount due for the hire, to the Chief of the Labor
Bureau. Whenever a negro shall be discharged the officer, company or
person in whose service he shall have been employed, shall give to the
owner or agent a certified account of the amount due for such service
which, when approved by the Chief of the Labor Bureau, shall be paid in
the city of Houston, at the Office of Chief of Labor Bureau, by the
Department, Company, or persons where such labor or service was
performed. |
| II. Quartermasters shall issue
clothing to the Chief of the Labor Bureau upon his requisition, which
may be furnished the negroes in the Government service upon the proper
application, the same to be charged to the owner at cost, and deducted
from the amount due for wages. |
| By command of |
| Maj. Gen. J. Bankhead Maguder |
| B. F. Carter, Engineer Officer on the Staff
of Maj. Gen. Magruder |
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