1st. All persons living in
Jackson, Cass, and Bates counties Missouri, and in that part of Vernon included in this
district, except those living within one mile of the limits of Independence, Hickman's
Mill, Pleasant Hill, and Harrisonville, and except those living north of Brush Creek and
west of the Big Blue, are hereby ordered to remove from their present places of residence
within fifteen days from the date hereof.
Those, who within that time, establish their loyalty to the satisfaction of the
commanding officer of the military station nearest their present places of residence, will
receive from him certificates stating the fact of their loyalty, and the names of the
witnesses by whom it can be shown. All who receive such certificates will be permitted to
remove to any part of the state of Kansas, except the counties on the eastern border of
the state. All others shall move out of this district.
Officers commanding companies and detachments serving in the counties named will see
that this paragraph is promptly obeyed.
2nd. All grain or hay in the field or
under shelter, in the district from which the inhabitants are required to remove, in reach
of military stations, after the ninth day of September next, will be taken to such
stations and turned over to the proper officers there, and report of the amount so turned
over made to the district headquarters, specifying the names of all loyal owners, and the
amount of such produce taken from them. All grain and hay found in such district after the
ninth of September next, not convenient to such stations, will be destroyed.
3rd. The provisions of general Order
No. 10, from these headquarters, will be vigorously executed by officers commanding in
parts of the district and at the stations not subject to the operations of paragraph first
of this order, and especially in the towns of Independence, Westport, and Kansas City.
4th. Paragraph No. 3, Order No. 10, is
revoked as to all who have borne arms against the Government in this district since the
twentieth of August, 1863.