The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 4, Volume 3. Page: 40
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CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
reason to believe that the citizens of said nation are greatly in need
of the money thus due them: Therefore,
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That
the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby,
appropriated out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise
appropriated, for the use and benefit of the Cherokee Nation.
SEC.. 2. The said sum of money shall be forwarded without delay
by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the proper representatives of the
Cherokee Nation.
SEC. 3. It is hereby expressly understood that said one hundred
thousand dollars is to be returned by the said Cherokee Nation when
peace shall be ratified between the United and Confederate States,
or that the said Confederate States shall be reimbursed out of the
interest on said stocks which may then be due and collected.
Approved January 22, 1864.
JANUARY 22, 1864.
Ilon. JAMES A. SEDDON,
Secretary of War:
SIR: I have received from Col. W. II. Stevens, chief of construction
Department of Northern Virginia, an estimate of $500,000 as required
to meet the just claims presented, or to be presented hereafter, for
the loss of slaves who have been impressed in the State of Virginia,
and have escaped to the enemy or have died whilst engaged in
labor on the Richmond defenses or from diseases contracted whilst
thus employed. This estimate is based on an average valuation of
$2,000 for each slave thus escaped or deceased. A consideration of
the losses sustained in other portions of this State, especially in the
Peninsula earlier in the war, gives the sum of $708,000 as the entire
estimate for the State of Virginia. Reasoning by analogy, for want
of absolute data, and extending the calculation to the other States of
the Confederacy, in all of which heavy losses have been sustained
among the negroes impressed for labor on the defenses, the Bureau
has arrived at the sum of $3,108,000 as the minimum probably required
to meet this class of expenditures. I have therefore the honor to
submit an estimate of $3,108,000, and to ask an appropriation of this
amount for the purpose indicated.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. L. RIVES,
Lieutenant- Colonel, &c.
[JANUARY 22, 1864.-For Murrah to Magruder, in relation to reor-
ganization of Texas troops, see Series I, Vol. XXXIV, Part II, p. 905.]
GENERAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE,
No. 7. Richmond, January 23, 1864.
I. Paragraph IV, General Orders, No. 3, current series, is hereby
revoked.
II. Enrolling officers will proceed as rapidly as practicable in the
enrollment of all persons made liable to military service. Previous to
enrollment as conscripts all such persons will be allowed to volun-
teer: Provided-
1. The company selected was in service on the 16th of April, 1862.40
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