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| Maj. Joseph M. Bell, provost Judge at New Orleans. |
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confiscation of Northern debt — and suggested that those at the North whose property had been thus taken might possibly have a claim.
Whether they did or not had not been decided when I was relieved.
After the confiscation acts had been passed by Congress, I put them in force and appointed a commission consisting of Major Bell, Lieut.-Col. J. B. Kinsman, and Captain Fuller (Seventy-Fifth New York Volunteers), provost marshal, to take possession of all the sequestered property in the district of Lafourche.
This commission was to put every loyal citizen in full possession of his property.
All personal a property which belonged to disloyal owners (whether foreigners or citizens of the United States) who had remained on therr plantations and done no act against the government, was to be theirs, and they were to have the right to remain upon their lands and work them.
All disloyal people
who had fled or been in the service of the Confederacy, were to have their property gathered up and sold in open market in New Orleans, and, their disloyalty being established, the product was to be turned over to the United States or held for whoever had the right to it. Receipts were to be given for the property so taken possession of.
The larger part of the labor of this commission, which went into very successful operation, fell upon Colonel Kinsman.
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A. M. Thayer and Co. 1892.
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