GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, Numbers 8.
Shreveport, La., February 3, 1865.

Under the regulations of overland commerce with Mexico, established by the President on the 3rd of August, 1864, and published in General Orders, Numbers 77, series of 1864, from department headquarters, all carriers engaged in the exportation of cotton and tobacco west of San Antonio or Goliad, Tex., and leaving either of those points after the 1st day of February 1865, must have clearance papers for their wagons or other vehicles from the deputy collector of customs at one of these places, viz, from Mr. Samuel Sampson, at San Antonio, or Mr. John N. Rose, at Goliad. Any such wagons or vehicles with cotton or tobacco moving westward from either of these places after the 1st day of February, 1865, without such clearance will be liable to seizure under the ninth and tenth paragraphs of the regulations. s The military commander of the Western Sub-District of Texas will cause the same to be executed in accordance with the said regulations.

By command of General E. Kirby Smith:

S. S. ANDERSON.

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS CHURCHILL'S DIVISION. Numbers 25.
Camp Magruder, February 3, 1865.

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V. Captain Sleeper will send out daily a scout from his company with instructions to arrest all men found committing any depredations upon the citizens in this vicinity; also all men absent from their commands without the written permission of the brigade commander. All men so arrested will be brought, under guard, to these headquarters.

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By command of Major-General Churchill:

C. E. KIDDER,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT.

Shreveport, La., February 4, 1865.

Lieutenant General S. B. BUCKNER,

Commanding District of West Louisiana, Natchitoches:

GENERAL: I recommend to your favorable consideration the proposition of Major John Adams, whom I have known since my arrival in this department as a patriotic, liberal, and true man. The proposition to take out the 1,000 bales which are exempted from taxation by the Federal Government should, I think, be judiciously accepted. It will bring safely back into our lines one of the Washington boats, and may be made the means of placing them in Red River.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

E. KIRBY SMITH.

General.

HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT,
Shreveport, La., February 4, 1865.

Lieutenant General S. B. BUCKNER,

Commanding District of West Louisiana, Natchitoches:

GENERAL: Your communication of the 28th ultimo, with the accompanying plan for making available the cotton within our lines, has