...he Secretary of War to hire or impress 30,000 slaves, between eighteen and forty-five, east of the Mississippi, and the commanding general of the Trans-Mississippi Department, on the west side of the Mississippi river , to hire or impress 10,000 slaves, between the same ages, to be employed at labor in the armies; the free negroes to be paid eighteen dollars per month and clothed and fed; the slaves to be clothed a...