Seventh. Until provision is made by the Treasury Department for the better support of freedmen, requisitions will be made for supplies for the freedmen in colonies and hospitals. Such requisitions will be examined and approved by the commanding officer of the nearest post or district, and all supplies thus drawn will be charged to the Treasury Department, to be hereafter reimbursed.

Eighth. The following places are designated as home farms and colonies: The Rost & McCutcheon plantations, Saint Charles Parish; the Thibodeaux, parish of La Fourche.

By command of Major-General Hurlbut:

GEORGE B. DRAKE,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

KENNERVILLE, February 8, 1865.

Major General F. STEELE:

(Care of Lieutenant Colonel C. T. Christensen, assistant adjutant-general.)

The Ninety-ninth Ohio, of colonel Black's brigade, has just arrived from mouth of White River.

JOHN. F. LACEY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

KENNERSVILLE, February 8, 1865.

(Received 2. 15 p. m.)

Lieutenant Colonel C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

The batteries designated for embarkation are the Fourth Massachusetts and the Seventh Massachusetts.

Respectfully,

JOHN F. LACEY,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, Kenner, La., February 8, 1865.

Colonel L. KENT,
Commanding Third Brigade, First Division:

COLONEL: I am directed by the major-general commanding to inform you that the vessels ordered to carry your brigade to Mobile Point have been ordered to carry instead two batteries of light artillery. The third steamer will probably be assigned to carry the remnants of the First Brigade.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOHN F. LACEY,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

LA FOURCHE DISTRICT, Thibodeaux, La., February 8, 1865.

Captain FREDERICK SPEED,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Defenses of New Orleans:

A careful study of the topography of the country on my front leads me to believe that there is but one way of getting rid of the guerrillas