GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 70. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant Generates Office, 
Washington, February 22, 1864. 
Transportation of Stores for Freedmen. 
All stores turned over to tire officers of the Quartermaster’s Depart 
ment in the Military Division of the Mississippi by the United States 
Commission for the relief of the National Freedmen, with the approval 
of the immediate next Military Commander, who will satisfy himself 
that the stores are such as are necessary for the subsistence and comfort 
of the Freedmen, will be received and transported as public stores con- 
signed to the Quartermaster at the post for which they are destined, by 
whom they will, after examination and approval by the Post Commander 
or Provost Marshal, be turned over to the duly authorized agents of said 
Commission for distribution to the Freedmen. 
Duly accredited agents and teachers of the Commission, under orders 
from the Commission, will, upon papers approved by the Commanding 
Officer, be permitted to take passage upon government steamers and 
railroad trains, but cannot be transported at the expense of the United 
States. 
By order of the Secretary of War : 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.