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DOC. No. XLL ^^ 
 
 REPORT 
 
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 THE SELECT COMMITTEE 
 
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 INDIGENT SOLDIERS' FAMILIES 
 
 IN ENEMY'S LINES, 
 
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 REPORT. 
 
 The commissioners appointed under the act of February 20th, 1864, to attend to the 
 apportionment and expenditure of the money appropriated by said act for the relief of the 
 families of soldiers, living within the lines of the enemy, respectfully submit the following 
 supplemental report for the information of the committee charged with the subject: 
 
 By said act we were required to report our proceedings to the general assembly ; and in 
 conformity therewith, at tlA commencement of the session we submitted a general report, 
 explaining the manner of apportionment, and the regulations adopted. Owing to the late- 
 ness of the period we obtained the amount of Virginia bank notes in exchange for the 
 bonds is.«ued under said act, and the activity of the summer campaign, we were unable to 
 communicate with a large majority of the counties entitled to relief. We deemed it unad* 
 visable to publish the law in the public press, lest it might lead the enemy to greater vigi- 
 lance in the capture of the agents appointed to disburse the funds entrusted to them. We 
 however had it published in pamphlet form, and circulated as extensively as practicable. 
 
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 We found at the date of our apportionment, that there were seventy-one countiea and the 
 cities of Norfolk and Williamsburg embraced within its provisions. 
 
 We have, during the summer and this winter, appointed forty-three agents. A list of 
 their names, with the names of their sureties, the penalty of the bonds, the amounts, and 
 when paid, are herewith submitted: 
 
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 It will be observed, from the date of the appointment of a large number of said agents, 
 that they could not have had an opportunity of executing their tiusts, both from the want 
 of time and the situation of the country. 
 
 The agents, so far as known to us, are^all gentlemen of capacity and iutegiity. and not 
 subject to military duty, and residents of the county for which they were appointed. 
 
 The sureties all justified as to their solvency to indemnify the commonwealth. We can- 
 not furnish their residence, as it was not required to be stated iu t!ie bond ; yet in many 
 instances it is given. We have been exact in not permitting any amount to he }>aid uuless 
 the bonds had been given. By a regulation we adopted, it was prescribed that agents 
 might receive the whole amount apportioned to their re.«jiective counties, up n executing 
 bonds with a penalty sufficient to cover the amount. Where the penalty of tiic bonds di^ 
 not cover the amount apportioned, we prescribed that there should not be in the agent;'* 
 hands, at any one time, an amount greater than the penalty. ^^ 
 
 Many of the agents have reported to the board the manner in which they have executed 
 tlieir trusts, furnishing the names of the families, the number, and the amounts paid t^ 
 each — all of w hich can be furnished if desired. We have not as yet required a settlement 
 by the agents, because of the fact that it has been impossible for them to expend the monej;, 
 and the law authorized them to hold it until it could be distributed. 
 
 By order of the board. 
 
 H. W. THOMAS, Prc». 
 
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 The committee, under the resolution of Mr. McKinuey, beg leave to submit the foregoing 
 containing atlditional information upon the subject referred to them. , 
 
 RESOLUTION. 
 
 Resolved, that the special committee for the relief of indigent families within the lines of 
 the enemy, ascertaiti and report whether the commissioners who were appointed to distribute 
 the fund appropriated by the act of February ^Oth, 1864, have complied with the law, in 
 taking bond and security from all the county agents appointed by them; whether the agents 
 are residents of the counties for' which they are appointed, aud over forty-five years of age, 
 Cr exempt from military duty, aud what regulations, if any, have been made to prevent 
 fraud, and secure a faithful and equitable distribution of the fund in the sevi-ral coiuilies 
 'and among the families of each county; and that they further ascertain and report the 
 names and residences of the sureties to each of the bonds executed by the agents for the 
 several counties; the penalty of each bond; the amount paid to each agent; whether 
 money has been placed in the hands of any agent who has not executed bund with suffi» 
 cient sureties ; and if so, how much ; when the money was paid to each agent, and what 
 portion, not yet distributed, remains in his hands. 
 
Doc. No. 41. 
 
 RESPONSE. 
 
 In response to Mr. McKinuey's resolution, that the committee ascertain whether the 
 commissioners have complied with the act passed February 20th, 1864, for the relief of 
 soldiers' families, in taking bond and security from all the county agents appointed by 
 them ; whether the agents are residents of the county for which they are appointed, and 
 OTer 45 years of age, or exempt from military duty — 
 
 The commissioners have required an exact and strict compliance with the law. They 
 have required the agents in every instance to be residents of the county, although they may 
 be temporarily sojourning out of the limits of the county because of the presence of the 
 snemy. "We have in no instance appointed any person as agent who was subject to mili- 
 tary duty, except in cases where officers now in the service have been appointed, because 
 of the impossibility of getting any other agent ; and in those instances there could be no 
 pretext for exemption on account of their agency. We have required bond and security in 
 every instance — their solvency to be justified. 
 
 We have adopted a series of regulations to prevent fraud and secure a faithful compliance 
 by the agents, a copy of which is herewith forwarded. The agents have in every case, 
 where unknown to the commissioners, been appointed upon the recommendation of the 
 members of the legislature representing the counties in which the money was to be 
 expended. 
 
 We have a file of the bonds, and we have paid no money unless the bonds with soretj 
 were executed. 
 
 We have had returns from several of the agents. In many instances, however, it has 
 been impossible, owing to the movements of the enemy, to communicate with them. Seve- 
 ral agents have been recently appointed, and have not had time to execute the trust. 
 
 AUDITOR'S OFFICE, Feb. 23, 1865. 
 
 Gen. Thomas S. Haymond has this day handed me three thousand four hundred and 
 twenty dollars of confederate notes, and fourteen hundred and seventy-two dollars in bank 
 B»te8, received by him for soldiers' families of Marion county, to be handed over to his 
 •ttocessor. 
 
 J. M. BENNETT, AudUor, 
 
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