GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Numbers 53.
Saint Louis, March 3, 1862.

I. With a view to the present safe-keeping of property arrested on its way to States, places, or persons in insurrection against the United Government, or taken in situations and under circumstances such as justify a reasonable suspicion that it is destined ultimately to be forwarded to such States, place, or persons, and with the further view of accounting for the same at a proper time and in a satisfactory manner, it is hereby directed that all persons, military as well as civil, making arrests as aforesaid, within the Department of the Missouri, of goods, wares, and merchandise, of whatever description, at once take an inventory of the same, and forward it without delay to his city in duplicate, one copy being addressed to these headquarters, the other to W. D. Gallagher, special agent of the Treasury Department; that all such arrests may be made of one common record.

II. Parties making such arrests will be particular to specify in their return by whom each arrest is made, at what place, upon what day, and under what circumstances; also with whom the articles so arrested are responsible persons, taking receipts specifying the articles deposited, and they will make every deposit subject to the order of the United States marshal for the judicial district in which the arrest is made.

III. When it becomes necessary or advisable to appropriate to military uses any part or parts of goods, wares, and merchandise arrested as aforesaid, in additional to the forwarded, also in duplicate, accurately describing the articles so appropriated, naming the company or regiment for whose uses taken, and specifying the place and person with whom the residue is deposited.

IV. Military officers who have made arrests of the nature of those described in the first section, in either Department of the West or the Department of the Missouri, at any time since the organization of the former or its modification into the latter, will, as far as they can, report at their earliest convenience, as directed in that and the subsequent sections.

By command of Major-General Halleck:

N. H. McLEAN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDRQS. DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Numbers 54.
Saint Louis, March 3, 1862.

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The board of assessment in the city of Saint Louis for the benefit of suffering families driven by the enemy from Southwestern Missouri, having completed its labors, and rendered its final report is hereby dissolved.

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By command of Major-General Halleck:

N. H. McLEAN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDRQS. DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Numbers 55.
Saint Louis, March 3, 1862.

On the recommendation of the Governor and several of the judges