From New Orleans.
Headq'rs Dep't of the Gulf,
New Orleans, Aug. 7, 1862.
Special Order, No. 46.
A Commission of Relief, to take charge of the distribution of provisions for the poor, consisting of five members, one from each district, and a President, is hereby appointed.
The committee will have entire management of the business of gratuitous distribution of food.
They will make requisitions upon the
Chief Commissary for provisions, and establish the stores of distribution, as many in each district as economy and efficiency may show need.
They will receive and decide upon all applications for relief, making careful inquiry in all cases into the character and circumstances of the applicants, so managing as to encourage loyalty to the
Union, but to relieve the deserving women and children, although not loyal.
They will make requisitions upon the
Financial Clerk for the sums necessary to pay expenses and labor of distribution.
They will keep separate accounts of food distributed.
- 1st.
Families of Federal recruits.
- 2d Widows and friendless destitute.
- 3d.
Families of Confederate soldiers.
They will carefully keep, in a systematic manner, all the books and records necessary to show, in a clear and concise manner, all their transactions, ready and subject at all times to the inspection of the
Government officers who may be appointed or detailed to examine or supervise them.
They will report to the
Commanding General weekly, the number of families supplied, and the quantity of provisions distributed.
They will suspend and abolish the so-called Free Market, so soon as they are ready to make distributions.
Messrs. B. F. Flanders,
President;
T. B. Thorpe,
E. Heath,
C. Whitmore, and
J. B. Hubbard, are appointed as such commissioners.
Taking the oath of allegiance.
In obedience to your "Special Orders," I herewith transmit a statement of the number of men subscribed to the "alien oath," and the oath of allegiance to the
United States.
Jonas H. French.
Provost Marshal of New Orleans.
| citizens, | Aliens. |
| Provost Court | 3,695 | 123 |
| Mayor's Office | 175 | 47 |
| Provost Marshal's Office, New Orleans | 6,193 | 2,087 |
| Provost Marshal's Office, Algiers. | 213 | -- |
| Second District Police Station | 275 | 40 |
| Third District Police Station | 670 | 54 |
| Fourth District Police Station | 185 | 10 |
| Total | 11,723 | 2,499 |
| | 2,499 |
| Aggregate | 14,222 | |
Parole oath to officers and soldiers of the
Confederate States service:
| Privates | 4,933 |
| Commissioned Officers | 211 |
