GENERAL ORDERS, No. 36.}
HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE TENNESSEE,
In Field, Near Vicksburg, Miss., June 15, 1863.
I. So much of General
Orders, No. 5, of date Memphis, January 16, 1863, from these headquarters,
as requires provost-marshals to collect, for the secret service and hospital
fund, fees for permits to buy cotton at military posts, and for permits to
trade at military posts where trade is not regulated by the civil authorities,
and all existing orders within this department “conflicting or inconsistent
with the orders in respect to the regulating of intercourse with the
insurrectionary States, the collection of abandoned property, &c.,”
published for the information and government of the army, and of all concerned,
in General
Orders, No. 88, of date April 3, 1863, Adjutant-General's Office, or which
permit or prohibit, or in any way or manner interfere with any trade or
transportation conducted under the regulations of the Secretary of the
Treasury, prescribed March 31, 1863; and all permits heretofore granted to
persons to trade or ship goods to this department, by the major-general
commanding, or by his order, are hereby revoked.
II. The shipment of goods for sale south of Helena, in this
department, by any persons other than sutlers regularly and duly appointed in
pursuance of existing law, is positively prohibited. Upon the approval of army
corps commanders, or the commanders of posts, or of forces detached from their
respective army corps, and on compliance with the Treasury regulations and
orders, regularly appointed sutlers may be permitted to ship to their
regiments, for sale within their camp lines, such sutler goods as are
specifically designated and permitted to be sold by them, under the act of
March 19, 1862, published in General
Orders, No. 27, Adjutant-General's Office, series 1862, and the articles
added thereto, as published in General
Orders, No. 35, of date February 7, 1863, Adjutant-General's Office, and
they will be allowed to sell only the articles designated in said law and
orders, and none others, and at such prices, and not exceeding such, as may be
affixed to said articles by a board of officers, in pursuance of the provisions
of said act. The board of officers upon whom the duty of establishing and
fixing the prices, exceeding which the articles permitted to be sold by sutlers
shall not be sold, is imposed by said act, will immediately proceed to
establish and affix said prices in all cases where it has not already been
done.
III. All traders not regularly authorized sutlers, with
their stocks in trade, will be required to remove at once to Helena, or north
of that place.
IV. No spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors will be permitted
to pass south of Cairo, Ill., except such as belong to the commissary and
medical departments.
V. Any violation of, or non-compliance with, this order,
directly or indirectly, will work a forfeiture of all the goods the person or
persons guilty of such violation or non compliance may have in his or their
possession, and subject such offenders to imprisonment in the military prison
at Memphis, Tenn., at the discretion of the general commanding the department.
VI. The enforcement of General
Orders, No. 88, current series, Adjutant-General's Office, of the Treasury
regulations herein referred to, and of this order, is especially enjoined upon
all military commanders and the respective provost-marshals in this department.
VII. All property seized for violations of this order will
be disposed of and accounted for in accordance with existing orders.
VIII. No applications for the shipment of goods, or for
permits to trade, within this department, will be entertained at department
headquarters.
By order of Maj. Gen. U.S. Grant:
JNO. A. RAWLINS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A
Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 24, Part 3 (Serial No. 38), p. 412-3
