GENERAL ORDERS NO. 99 / MAJOR GEN BUTLER / DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF / SLAVE JAIL FEES]

GENERAL ORDERS NO. 99 / MAJOR GEN BUTLER / DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF / SLAVE JAIL FEES]

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Dated New Orleans, November 21, 1862.” One  page, 5” x 8. Fine condition.

Benjamin butler was easily the most notorious and controversial “political” general of the Civil War, and especially during his 1862 tenure as Union Military Governor of Louisiana. Abruptly relieved from command by the Lincoln administration in November of that year, this order represents a tidying up on the matter of fees for jailed runaway slaves [the 1850 fugitive slave law still operative in some instances]. Text:

“A Commission...is hereby appointed to determine the amount of Jail Expenses from the United States, on account of negroes already released from the Police jail, to be employed by the government.

Hereafter, no negro slave will be confined in that Jail, unless such expenses are prepaid, the slave to be released when the money is exhausted.

It is also ordered, that a list of the reputed owners of slaves now in the police-Jail be published, and that all slaves whose jail Fees are not paid within ten days after such publication, be discharged. This is the course taken in all countries with debtors confined by creditors, and slaves have not such commercial value in New-Orleans, as to justify their being held and fed by the City, relying upon any supposed lien upon the slave / By command of / Major-General Butler.”In protective sleeve.    [jp][ph:L]

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