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CIECUL A 11 .
Conftbtraft Stabs of America,
Quarter Master General's Department,
Richmond, Nov. 13, 1861.
For the instruction of Officers of the Quarter Master's Department, I call to their attention the following decisions
of the Secretary of War, relating to the adjustment of claims for property impressed into the service of the Confederate
States for Military purposes.
1. When teams and other property, including slave teamsters, are impressed into the service of the Confederate States,
the owners thereof may be compensated by officers of the Quarter Master's Department, at the usual rates of hire.
2. When the owners of any property impressed into the public service, slaves excepted, are willing to relinquish
the same to the government, the officers of the Quarter Master's Department may pay the fair appraised value thereof,
and take up the property on their returns, to be accounted for as other public property.
3. When private property has been duly impressed by order of the commanding officer, and it shall appear by
satisfactory evidence to have been expended in the public service, officers of the Quarter Master's Department may pay
the fair appraised value thereof, although the property may not have been regularly received and issued by any Quarter
Master.,
A. C. MYERS,
Quarter Master General.