Emancipation in the District of Columbia, Letter From the Secretary of the Treasury, in Answer to a Resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 11th of January

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Excerpt from Emancipation in the District of Columbia, Letter From the Secretary of the Treasury, in Answer to a Resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 11th of January: Transmitting the Report and Tabular Statements of the Commissioners Appointed in Relation to Emancipated Slaves in the District of Columbia, February 17, 1864After a careful investigation they have reported favorably upon nine hundred and nine (909) entire petitions, they have rejected, entirely, thirty-six petitions, and in part, twenty-one petitions, for the reasons which will be found stated in their order. The whole number of servants for which compensation has been awarded is two thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine. And the whole number of servants for whom compensation has been withheld is one hundred and eleven, making a total of three thousand one hundred, included in the nine hundred and sixty six petitions.At the threshold of their labors the commissioners were impressed with the importance of having full information as to the value of slaves, independently of that to be derived from the claimants and their witnesses. The law fixes the maximum average of value, within which limitation the commissioners are re quired to appraise and apportion the value in money of the several claims.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.