PROPERTY TRANSFERRED TO TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

In compliance with the provisions of General

Orders, Numbers 156, series of 1864, requiring

the transfer of property in use by me, or in

the possession of my quartermaster, to the

Treasury Department, I have turned over

property in my hands valued at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,945. 00

(See receipts marked E.)*

My quartermaster has turned over property valued at . . 2,761. 25

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(See invoice marked F.)*

Total amount transferred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,706. 25

Since this transfer Captain J. M. Robinson, assistant

quartermaster, has turned over to me property, to be

paid for by the Treasury Department, amounting to . . . . 6,704. 00

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(See invoice marked G.)*

Total amount due by Treasury Department, according to

General Orders, Numbers 156 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,410. 25

This sum is not included in the $113,426. 40 set forth

above, as the yearly cost of care of those in my charge,

but, added to it, will make a grand total of . . . . . . . . . 125,836. 65

PROTECTION OF LABORERS, SEIZURES, AND PAYMENTS.

Under the provisions of general orders from department headquarters for the protection of plantation laborers, I have found it necessary, in certain instances, in order to secure payments of wages, to make seizures either of the produce or other property belonging to hirers, or of funds from merchants and others who had received produce without regard to the lien of the laborers, converting it to their own business account and interest. Thus far only twelve plantations have been reduced to the necessity of our resorting to this process of securing payments of freedmen working them.

I have received from seizures for payment of laborers

the sum of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $22,042. 87

I have disbursed up to date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,312. 01

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I have a balance on hand of (yet to be distributed) . . . 4,730. 86

A detailed statement showing the names of plantations and the parishes in which they are located; the names of lessees; the names of parties from whom the seizures were made, and the authority by which they were executed; the amount seized; the amount due laborers; the amount disbursed by me, and the balance now in my hands, is herewith appended, under the head of "Seizures for the payment of laborers. "

Seizures for the payment of laborers.

Name of planta Name of parish Name of lessee From whom sei

tion. zed.

Evergreen. Iberville. Hunnewell, Lessees.

Collier &

Stone.

Hard Scrabble. Saint Mary's. C. H. May. Lessee.

Verret and Saint Bernard. E. L. Nimmo. Weed, Witters

Woodruff. & Co.

Good Hope. Saint Charles. Chapman & Lessees.

Woodruff.

Conrad. East Baton N. E. Adams. Lessee.

Rouge.

Ariel. La Fourche. J. B. Do.

Stewart.

Mayromne. Saint Charles. Tyler & Boyd. Weed, Witters

& Co.

Spaids. Saint James. C. D. Garvy, Emly &

Spaids. Co.

McCutcheon. Saint Charles. Brott & Davis. Weed, Witters

& Co.

Rost Hermitage do. Mr. Fitch. Do.

Sparks. Jefferson. E. A. Busha. Major Wetmore.

Providence. do. J. Ingram. Lessee.

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*Omitted.

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