on the first day of every month, transmit to the proper Supervising Special Agent a transcript of such record, and all bonds or securities received by them under these Regulations, (XIV, XX, XXXVII.)

Local Special Agents shall keep a record, &c.

XLVIII. Local Special Agents shall keep a record of every Authority to trade or to purchase products presented by the holder thereof, and of all certificates given to traders, or for permits to purchase and transport products, (Reg. XIV;) of all permits for purchase and transportation of supplies from trade store, and certificates to buy supplies elsewhere than in trade district, (XVI;) of all permits granted where there is no Collector or Surveyor within five miles of trade store, (XVII;) of all certificates to persons bringing products to market and taking back supplies, (XIX;) of all excess or evasion of permits in shipments to blockaded ports, and their action thereon, (XXXII;) of all cases of bonds required of owners or holders of goods in danger of being transported to insurgents, and their action where bond not given, (XXXVII;) of all permits under Regulations XVI and XVII, showing all that is required by those Regulations and of all fees required for certificates, affidavits, and permits, (XII, XVI, XVII, XIX, XLII) And they will also, as nearly as possible on the first day of every month, transmit to the proper Supervising Special Agent a transcript of such record, and will deliver to such Agent all bonds or securities received by them under these Regulations, (XXXVII.)

cial Agents shall

XLIX. Supervising Special Agents shall keep a record of all Supervising Spe- their official transactions, showing fully the name and location of each Local Special Agent and Agency keep record, &c. Aid appointed by them, and the compensation of each, (Reg. IV;) of conferences with Generals commanding Departments and designations of trade and supply districts, (IX, X;) of all Authorities given for trade stores, stating the date, name of trader, locality, and amount of goods authorized, (XIV;) of the inspection of trade stores and the results, (XV;) of all trade stores authorized in any city or town of a supply district, the date, name of trader, and amount of goods authorized, and of the discontinuance of any such store, (XVIII;) of all Authorities given for the purchase of products, to whom given, and the locality where purchases are to be made, (XX;) of all revocations of Authorities, Certificates, and Permits, (XXIII;) of all information touching any goods or transactions given to other officers of the department, (XXVII;) of all appointments of Agency Aids upon cars, vessels, and boats, (XXX;) of all seizures and detentions of vessels or vehicles departing, or attempting to depart, after clearance has been refused, (XXXVI;) of all securities required and received. of owners or holders of goods in danger of being transported to insurgents, and of their action if security was not given, (XXXVII.) And on the first day of every month, as nearly as possible, they shall transmit to this Department a transcript of such record for the previous month, together with a copy of the transcripts of records and a statement of all bonds and securities received by them from Assistant and Local Special Agents.

Regulations supersede all others.

L. These Regulations shall supersede those of March 31, 1863, and all others conflicting herewith, affecting commer cial intercourse with States declared in insurrection; and all permits hereafter granted by any officer of the Treasury Department will be granted in pursuance of them and of the Local Rules authorized by them, or by virtue of au thority hereafter given by the Secretary of the Treasury; but all permits granted and acts done in pursuance of former Regulations shall be valid and effectual until the 15th day of October, 1863, unless the Regulations shall have been sooner received and made known at the place of such permits or acts.

REGULATIONS

PRESCRIBED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE SEVERAL SPECIAL AGENTS AND AGENCY AIDS APPOINTED IN PURSUANCE OF THE AT OF 12TH MARCH, 1863, ENTITLED “AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE COLLECTION OF ABANDONED PROPERTY, AND FOR THE PREVENTION OF FRAUDS IN INSURRECTIONARY DISTRICTS WITHIN THE UNITED STATES."

Territory divided into dis

tricts called Special Agencies.

I. The territory of the United States designated as in insurrection against the lawful government of the United States by the Proclamation of the President, July 1, 1862, to which Special Agents have been assigned to receive and collect abandoned and captured property, is divided into districts called Special Agencies, numerically desig nated and described as follows, viz: The First Special Agency comprises the district of the United States west of the Alleghany mountains, known as the Valley of the Mississippi, and extending southward so as to include so much of the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana, as is or may be occupied by national forces operating from the North.

Special Agencies named and described.

The Second Special Agency comprises the State of Virginia and so much of West Virginia as lies east of the Alleghany mountains.

The Third Special Agency comprises the State of North Carolina.

The Fourth Special Agency comprises the States of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.

The Fifth Special Agency comprises the States of Texas and Louisiana, and so much of the States of Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi, as is or may be within the lines of the national forces. operating from the South.

If additional Special Agencies shall be established, they will be numerically designated in the order of their establishment. And if the boundaries of agencies already established shall be changed, due notice thereof will be given.

agents.

II. Supervising Special Agents and Assistant Special Agents will be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and Designation of Local Special Agents and Agency Aids will be appointed by Supervising Special Agents, or under their direction by Assistant Special Agents, subject to the approval of the Secretary, to carry into effect the said Act and these Regulations.

Agents author

ized and directed to collect and receive all aban doned property.

II. Supervising and Assistant Special Agents are authorized and directed to receive and collect all abandoned and captured property found within their respective Agencies and within the lines of military occupation by the United States forces, except such as has been used or was intended to be used for waging or carrying on war against the United States, viz: arms, ordnance, ships, steamboats or other water craft and their furniture, forage, military supplies, and munitions of war.

IV. Abandoned property is of two descriptions:

First; That which has been or may be deserted by Abandoned and the owners; and, captured prop

erty.

Second; That which has been or may be voluntarily abandoned by the owners to the civil or military au thorities of the United States.

Captured property is that which has been or may be seized or taken from hostile possession by the military or naval forces of the United States.

Special Agents

will collect and receive property, and make and keep a true re

cord and account of expenses.

V. Supervising and Assistant Special Agents will exercise due diligence in receiving and collecting, within the Agency to which they have been respectively assigned, all abandoned and captured property; and on taking pos session of any such property, will immediately make and keep a full and correct record of all the facts or information in regard to each case or lot known or accessible to them, including, as nearly as possible. the following: the character and quantity of the property received or collected; where captured, or found or received as abandoned: under what circumstances; by whom owned or alleged to be owned; noting, where practicable, the name and address of one or more truthful residents of the neighborhood acquainted with the property and the owner or claimant thereof, and any statements they may make in connexion therewith; by whom such property was captured or abandoned; by whom received or col lected; from whom received; all names, marks, signs, or devices, (whether distinct, indistinct, or partially erased,) upon such property; together with all other information which may in any way serve to identify or make known the history of any particular lot, or to trace the same, or the proceeds thereof, from the earliest period possible to its final disposition.

They will also charge against each lot and keep a true and detailed account in triplicate of each item of expense incurred in its collection, transportation, care and sale; or where two or more lots are treated together, a fair and just proportion against each, as well as all fees due in any way to the government thereon.

One copy of this record will be promptly transmitted to the Supervising Special Agent, to whom or to whose order the property

so received and collected will be delivered, another to the Secretary of the Treasury, and the third will be retained by the Assistant Special Agents for their files.

VI. Supervising and Assistant Special Agents will receive within Agents will their respective Agencies any property from persons receive volunta- who offer voluntarily to abandon the same; and shall rily abandoned give a receipt therefor to the person so abandoning it, or to his or her agent, in the following form:

property, and give receipts, and take stipulations.

"Received of

estimated at $ follows:

claimed by

as the owner thereof and numbered as

of

; which, as Special Agent of the Treasury Department, at the request

I have received as abandoned property, to be forwarded to

March 12, 1863."

and disposed of in accordance with the act of Congress, approved

And shall make three copies of said receipt, of which he shall send one to the Secretary of the Treasury, one to the Supervising Special Agent, and keep one for his files; and in all cases of so receiving voluntarily abandoned property, the Agent shall require from the owner or person so abandoning it a statement and stipulation in triplicate in the following form:

at my request, to be transported to the Special Agent of the government in the city of. appointed to receive and dispose of such property, subject to the deductions prescribed by the act approved March 12, 1862, and the fees designated by the XIV Regulation prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, September 11, 1863.

And I hereby acquit and discharge the said ..

and all other officers of the government, from all personal liability on account of the said property, except such as may result from an unfaithful discharge of their duties in transporting or disposing of it.

And in case of any loss or damage to the said property in its transportation or otherwise, neither the government of the United States nor any of its Agents shall be held responsible therefor."

A record of all property so received and of the expenses incurred in connexion therewith shall be made and copies transmitted, and the property shall be disposed of, in the manner prescribed in Regulation V.