Annual Report of the Superintendent of Negro Affairs in North Carolina, 1864: With an Appendix Containing the History and Management of the Freedmen in this Department Up to June 1st, 1865 |
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Annual Report of the Superintendent of Negro Affairs in North Carolina, 1864 Horace James No preview available - 2018 |
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abandoned lands ABSTRACT Adj't American Missionary Association army assistant Beaufort Berne blue-fish brave Bureau camp Canedy cash received clerk clothing colony colored soldiers colored troops command commissioner Department of Negro duties employed England Freedmen's Aid families farms females five hundred former masters Foster Freedmen's Aid Society Freedmen's Relief Association freedom friends furnished garrison give Hatteras Banks HATTERAS INLET homes HORACE JAMES hospital houses issued labor large numbers liberty Lieut live ment miles military Miss month Morehead City National Freedmen's Relief Negro Affairs Neuse nigger North Carolina northern O. O. Howard officers Oregon Inlet persons poor Quartermasters rations rebel reside Roanoke Island Roanoke river Robert Morrow Sarah Schofield sent settlement small pox soil South Superintendent of Negro supplied teachers Third District thousand dollars tion Total town Trent River turpentine vicinity wages white refugees whole number Wilmington wives and children yellow fever
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Page 62 - to continue during the present War of Rebellion, and for one year thereafter," to which was given "the supervision and management of all abandoned lands and the control of all subjects relating to refugees and freedmen.
Page 63 - State, at least once in each year, to report to the State Board of Health their proceedings, and such other facts required, on blanks and in accordance with instructions received from said State Board. They shall also make special reports whenever required to do so by the State Board of Health.
Page 63 - He shall also make special reports on particular subjects whenever required to do so by the President or either house of Congress, or when he shall think the subject in his charge requires it.
Page 63 - That the' President may, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint an Assistant Commissioner for each of the States declared to be in insurrection, not exceeding ten in number, who shall, under the direction of the Commissioner, aid in the execution of the provisions of this act ; and...
Page 63 - That the commissioner, under the direction of the President, shall have authority to set apart, for the use of loyal refugees and freedmen, such tracts of land within the insurrectionary States as shall have been abandoned...
Page 63 - ... as aforesaid, there shall be assigned not more than forty acres of such land, and the person to whom it was so assigned shall be protected in the use and enjoyment of the land for the term of three years at an annual rent not exceeding six per centum upon the value of such land, as it was appraised by the state authorities in the year eighteen hundred and sixty, for the purpose of taxation, and in case no such appraisal can be found, then the rental shall be based upon the estimated value of...
Page 62 - ... the control of all subjects relating to refugees and freedmen from rebel states, or from any district of country within the territory embraced in the operations of the army, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the head of the bureau and approved by the President.
Page 62 - ... such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the head of the bureau and approved by the President. The said bureau shall be under the management and control of a commissioner, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, whose compensation shall be three thousand dollars per annum, and such number of clerks as may be assigned to him by the Secretary of War, not exceeding one chief clerk, two of the fourth class, two of the third class, three of the...
Page 62 - That the Secretary of War may direct such issues of provisions, clothing, and fuel as he may deem needful for the immediate and temporary shelter and supply of destitute and suffering refugees and freedmen, and their wives and children, under such rules and regulations as he may direct.
Page 63 - President, shall have authority to set apart, for the use of loyal refugees and freedmen, such tracts of land within the insurrectionary states as shall have been abandoned, or to which the United States shall have acquired title by confiscation or sale, or otherwise, and to every male citizen, whether refugee or freedman, as aforesaid, there shall be assigned not more than forty acres of such land, and the person to whom it was so assigned shall be protected in the use and 490 FREEDOM FOR SOLDIERS...