BUREAU in Classic Quotes

1  It was a Pierce of Boston who pointed out the way, and thus became in a sense the founder of the Freedmen's Bureau.

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2  A Commissioner, appointed by the President and Senate, was to control the Bureau, with an office force not exceeding ten clerks.

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3  Directly after the Emancipation Proclamation, Representative Eliot had introduced a bill creating a Bureau of Emancipation; but it was never reported.

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4  Meanwhile Congress had turned its attention to the subject; and in March the House passed a bill by a majority of two establishing a Bureau for Freedmen in the War Department.

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5  The Secretary of War could issue rations, clothing, and fuel to the destitute, and all abandoned property was placed in the hands of the Bureau for eventual lease and sale to ex-slaves in forty-acre parcels.

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6  Charles Sumner, who had charge of the bill in the Senate, argued that freedmen and abandoned lands ought to be under the same department, and reported a substitute for the House bill attaching the Bureau to the Treasury Department.

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