Second.  Proof of title.

Officers of the Bureau through whom the application passes will indorse thereon such facts as may assist the assistant commissioner in his decision, stating especially the use made by the Bureau of the land.

VIII.  No land under cultivation by loyal refugees or freedmen will be restored under this circular until the crops now growing shall be secured for the benefit of the cultivators unless full and just compensation be made for their labor and its products and for their expenditures.

O.O.  HOWARD,
  Major-General, Commissioner.

Approved: 

ANDREW JOHNSON,
  President of the United States.

[Footnote 180:  See Vol.  VI, pp. 310-312.]

[From McPherson’s History of Reconstruction, p. 8.]

WAR DEPARTMENT,
  ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S OFFICE,
    Washington, April 17, 1866.

Major-General N.A.  MILES,
  Commanding, etc., Fortress Monroe, Va.: 

Ordered, That Clement C. Clay, jr., is hereby released from confinement and permitted to return to and remain in the State of Alabama and to visit such other places in the United States as his personal business may render absolutely necessary, upon the following conditions, viz, that he takes the oath of allegiance to the United States and gives his parole of honor to conduct himself as a loyal citizen of the same and to report himself in person at any time and place to answer any charges that may hereafter be prepared against him by the United States.

Please report receipt and execution of this order.

By order of the President of the United States: 

E.D.  TOWNSEND,
  Assistant Adjutant-General.

[From McPherson’s History of Reconstruction, p. 198.]

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 46.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
  ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S OFFICE,
    Washington, July 13, 1866.

Ordered, That all persons who are undergoing sentence by military courts and have been imprisoned six months, except those who are under sentence for the crimes of murder, arson, or rape, and excepting those who are under sentence at the Tortugas, be discharged from imprisonment and the residue of their sentence remitted.  Those who belong to the military service and their term unexpired will be returned to their command if it is still in service, and their release is conditional upon their serving their full term and being of good behavior.

By order of the President of the United States: 

E.D.  TOWNSEND,
  Assistant Adjutant-General.

[From Senate Ex.  Doc.  No. 82, Forty-ninth Congress, second session, pp. 3-5.]