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NARA 548

GENERAL ORDERS
No. 79. }

WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, August 8, 1872.

Pursuant to the provisions of the act of Congress approved June 10, 1872, promulgated in War Department General Orders No. 55, of 1872, and under the transfer, directed by that order, of the business of the late Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, exclusive of the Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum at Washington, to the Adjutant General, the following regulations are promulgated "for the discovery, identification and payment of the claimants" for * * * "pay, bounty, prize money, or other moneys due to colored soldiers, sailors, or marines, or their legal representatives, now residing, or who may have resided, in any State in which slavery existed in the year eighteen hundred and sixty."

I... A Chief Disbursing Office will be established in the Adjutant General's Office at Washington, D.C., with Disbursing Offices at—

Louisville, Kentucky.
St. Louis, Missouri.
Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee.
Vicksburg and Natchez, Mississippi.
New Orleans, Louisiana.

Payments to claimants in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia will be made through the Washington office; in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and States wherein slavery did not exist, by officers who will be temporarily assigned to that duty; and in all other States through the disbursing offices herein before enumerated.

II...The payments, &c., will be governed by the following requirements of the resolution (Public No. 25) "in reference to the collection and payment of moneys due colored soldiers, sailors, and marines, or their heirs," approved March 29, 1867. (War Department General Orders No. 53, 1867:)

1. The agent or attorney, in all cases, will be paid "his lawful fees and expenses," through the Washington office. After such payments the "balance" due the claimants will be held subject to order, on satisfactory identification.

2. No "balance" shall be paid to any person except the claimant, or, if deceased, his or her legal representative.

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