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Koval, under Acting Ensign Gbobgb H, Reynolds, assisted.| • PRISONERS SOLD FOR SUBSTITUTES.The House committee lor the District of Columbia ' have, by an investigation, ascertained that recently | seventy persons, Committed to the jail of this DIs- •| trict, have been balled out and sold to substitute: i brokers. Five or six of them were charged with? grand larcenies, and the remainder with trivial ■ offences. The committee say that wrongs have ) been committed, and outrages on public morality and public justice perpetrated, which call for the ? interferencejrf Congress, and, so far as may be, for the punishment of the guilty by.existing laws. The report shows the operations, of the officers of the jail In the matter of brokerage* The committee have prepared a bill making it an offence punish- • able with fine and Imprisonment for persons to sell to substitute brokers those confined la jail charged with criminal offences. pKIDNAPPING OF COIiOEBD MElif. VIn response to an inquiry of the House of B£pre* sentattves, the Secretary of War has communicated a document from GeneralAugub, which shows thafc early In July, 1864, numerous complaints were made - by the deputy provost marshal that bounty brokers were engaged In kidnapping and running off colored men without paying them a cent. These complaints | were submitted to the Secretary of War, who order-’ ed that no colored men should go North without I passes. Colored men can obtain passes to leave [ Washington on their showing that they are not enrolled In the District.
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Philadelphia Press
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Mar 01, 1865
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