Provisions for contrabands will, in all cases, be drawn on the Provision Return, signed by the officer in charge; and when a regiment or detachment is a part of a brigade drawing provisions from a Brigade Commissary, the regimental or detachment commander will sign for all contrabands in the service of his regiment or detachment, and will make out the monthly rolls by which the mustering officer will muster them, as will the Staff officers the rolls of all contrabands in the employ of their several Staff Departments. Any able-bodied negro applying for assistance to any commander of a post, regiment or detachment, will be immediately enrolled, and his name forwarded to the Sequestration Commission, so that he may be employed. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL BUTLER : GEO. C. STRONG, Assistant Adjutant General, Chief of Staff. GENERAL ORDERS No. 105. HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, to be ap Under General Orders No. 55, current series, from these Headquarters, an assessment was made upon certain parties who had aided the rebellion, propriated to the relief of the starving poor of New Orleans." The calls upon the fund raised under that order have been frequent and urgent, and it is now exhausted. But the poor of this city have the same, or increased necessities for relief as then, and their calls must be heard; and it is both fit and proper that the parties responsible for the present state of affairs should have the burden of their support. Therefore the parties named in Schedules A and B, of General Orders No. 55, as hereunto annexed, are assessed in like sums, and for the same purpose, and will make payment to D. C. G. Field, Financial Clerk, at his office, at these Headquarters. on or before Monday, December 15, 1862. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL BUTLER : GEO. C. STRONG, Assistant Adjutant General, Chief of Staff. SCHEDULE A. List of Subscribers to the Million and a Quarter Loan, placed in the hands of the Committee of Public Safety, for the defense of New Orleans against the United States, and expended |