foiftO mo IX Duke University Libraries D03209558W CIRCULAR. HEAD QUARTERS, DIST. IND. TER'Y,. Fort Towson C. N., May 28th, 1864. The following instructions and regulations are published for the guidance of Agents; designated by General Orders No. 44, from these Head Quarters, with the concurrence ot Hon. P. W. Gray, Agent for the Confederate States Treasury Department, and Gen'l. E. Kirbt Smith, Commanding Trans-Mississippi Department, to facilitate the funding of the present issue of Confederate money in this District.— A strict and rigid compliance with them will be required. As the authority to create Depositories is Tested in the General Government alone, Agents are appointed,wbo will receive money and give receipts for the same in the following manner, viz.- I. The money of each individual will be received, counted and placed in a separate package, which package will be numbered and the name, place of residence, amount contained and date of receipt by the Agent plainly marked thereon. II. There will be kept by the Agent a list of all deposits, duly numbered, and showing the facts marked on the different packages, so that each package forming a separate deposit may be promptly re- cognized and identified. * III. Agents will furnish to depositors a receipt, corresponding with the endorsements on the packages, which will be retained by the latter, until their motley is carried by the Agent to the Confederate States Depository at Jefferson, Texas, when certificates of J3onds, bearing date and interest from 'the date'of deposite with the Agent will be issued, and the Agents receipts will be withdrawn by the issu- ance of said certificates. • . * IV. Should counterfeit money be found in any of the packages, when they are examined at the Depository, (where the detection of spurious bills can only be made,) the amount of such spurious money will be deducted from the amount originally in the package from which it was taken, and the certificate ot Bond will issue for the re- mainder of geduine money. It is for this purpose that the money of each individual is required to be placed in a seperate package; it would be obviously unjust to place the burthen of the loss upon the shoulders of the Agent who is working for and identified with the in- terests of the people; or cause its loss to fall on any other than the party who deposits it. Y. The Agent will retain the Counterfeit money, detected at the Depository, as evidence, to be exhibited to the party from whom he received it, for the failure of the Certificate to correspond in the amount deposited and receipted for by him. VI. The following synopsis of the funding law is published for general information, viz; $100 Notes, which do not bear interest, must be funded by or be- fore Jose dOtb, '6i. At that time they ve taxed 33$ per coat., sec! 2. are not exchangeable at the Treasury for tie new issue. For every additional month a tax of 10 per cent, is added until January 1st '05, when a tax of 100 per cent, makes them valueless. $50, $20, and $'0 notes must be lunded by or before JuneSO'h '64, or they will be taxed 33 jj per cent. These denominntions ai e not sub- ject, (as the non-interest bearing $100 notes,) to the monthly tax of 10 per cent, and are exchangeable at the Treasury at the rate of *'-' in new for $3 of old bills, and can be used at that valuation In the payment of taxes, postage &c, until January 1st, '05, when a tax of 100 per cent will be imposed, making them valueless. $6 notes do not have to be lunded at this time, and are good for the expressed value on their face till Oct. 1st, '04, when a tax of 88 J per cent will be imposed on them. They do not become liable to tho tax of 100 per cent, and are exchangeable at the Treasury or can bo used to pay taxes, postage &c, at any time at their teduced value of 33 j per cent. Bills of less denomination than $5 do not have to be funded at all, and are as good as the new issue. $100 notes, bearing interest at 7-30 per cent cannot be used any longer for the payment of public dues, and do not require to be funded. The operations of this act of Congress converts them into Bonds, payable two years after the rati- fication of a treaty of peace with the United States, bearing interest at 7-30 per cent, payable on the 1st of January, of each year. VII. As soon after the 30th of June ©4 as possible each agent will make arrangements to proceed to the Depository at Jefferson Texas, to deposite his money and receive the certificate of Bond". He will notifiy these Head Quarters that an escort may be provided for him*. VIII. Each Agent will designate some time, (of which due notico must be given on his return from the Depository) when he will take in his receipts, replacing them bythe Treasurer's certificates. IX. To ensure unanimity in tho receipts given by agents the fol- lowing form is adopted viz. Office Agent for funding C. S. Money 1861 Receipt for package No. Received of residing in the sum of dollars in Confederate State notes of the d cmom i nation of to be by me carried to the Depository at Jefferson Texas to be funded in accordance with an act of Congress. Agent X. The peoplo of the District are invited and urged to afford to Agents every facility, in the prosecution a work undertaken solely for their benefit, by coming forward promptly and depositing their money ,thereby securing all the benefits which an early deposite guar- antees. Interest on tho Bonds commences from the data of the Agents receipt. ByOrderof MAJOR GEN. MAXET. T. M. Scoit, A. A. Gen'l. H'D. QUARTERS. DIST. INDIAN TERRITORY, ( Fort Towboh, JEja- 28th, 1864. \ GENERAL ORDERS, » K No. 44. i" w I. The following named persons are hereby appointed Agents on behalf of tlie people of the Indian Territory, and Troops therein to receive and iund the present issue of Confederate Money in accord- ance with the act of Congress. Instructions necessary lor guidance issued from these Head Quarters. Maj. F. A. Rkctor, Israel Folsom, Rev. Allen Weight, Capt. S. Hare, Henderson Walker, Capt. Isaac Clark, Major I. G. Yore, Capt. W. A. Welch, Rev. J. M. Robinson, By Order C. G. Schtltz, A. A. A. Doaksville, C. N., Armstrong Academy, Boggy Depot, C. N., Gano's Brigade, Walker's Brigade, Watie's " H'd. Qu'trs. Cooper's Div. Fort Washita, Tishomingo, MAJOR GEN'L. MAXEY. G. /%*, /* Regulations in regard to Tithes in Kind, which have been received by Quarter-Masters, Com- missaries, or other persons for the use of the Army of the Confederate States. Office ok Commissionkr ok Taj | Richmond, April 16tb, 18G4. <• I. In cases where the produce subject to tax in kind has bee i taken and receipted for by any Quarter-Master or Cotnra serving with troops in the field, the receipt may be allowed i Collector in settlement of the money value of the tax in kind. II. In cases where such produce of the farmer has lieen I and receipted for by any person belonging to the arm}-, not a Quarter-Master or Commissary, and proof is made of the fact by the tax payer, and such other person, or persons, as may haw knowledge of the fact, and the character of the tax payer, and wit- nesses for truth and integrity established by evidence, if the Collec- - satisfied that the produce has been received and used by tin- Confederate States Army, the receipt may be in like manner allowed. HI. Tn cases where such produce has been taken by the Confed- erate States Army, and no receipt given, upon proof or affidavit ol the producer and such other person, or persons, as may know the with proof establishing the character of the producer and witnesses for the truth and integrity of the amount so taken, may ':i like maimer be allowed. ISigned.] THOMPSON ALLEN, Approved, Commissioner. [Signed.] C. C. MEMMINUER, Secretary of the Treasury. j&^gir The foregoing is published for the information of Tax Collectors and other* in the Trans-Mississippi Department. P. W. GRAY, Agent Treasurv. T. M. 1> " Hollinger Corp. pH8.5