NEWS FROM WASHINGTON: Important Order from the Secretary of War; No More Foreign Arms or Clothing to be Purchased; A Bloody Skirmish on the Lower Potomac (1/30/1862)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 1/30/1862

[Homer_J_Simpson]

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Jan. 29.

The urgent necessity which required the immediate purchase of arms, clothing and other military supplies from foreign countries having ceased, the Secretary of War has ordered:

1. That no further contracts be made by this Department, or any bureau thereof, for any article of foreign manufacture that can be produced or manufactured in the United States.

2. All outstanding orders, agencies, authorities, licenses for the purchase of arms, clothing, or anything else in foreign countries, or of foreign manufacture for this Department, are revoked and annulled.

3. All persons claiming to have any contract, bargain, or agreement, order, warrant, license or authority of whatever nature from this Department, or any bureau thereof, for furnishing arms, clothing, equipments, or anything, to the United States, are required within fifteen days from this date to give written notice of such contract, and its purport, with a statement in writing of what has been done under it, and to file a copy thereof with the Secretary of War.

4. All contracts, orders and agreements, for any supplies, should be in writing, and signed by the contracting parties, and the originals, or a copy thereof, filed, according to paragraph 1,049 of the Regulations with the head of the proper bureau. It is seldom that any necessity can prevent a contract from being reduced to writing, and even when made by telegraph, its terms can speedily be written and signed, and every claim founded upon any pretended contract, bargain, agreement, order, warrant, authority or license, outstanding, of which notice and a copy is not filed, in accordance with this order, within the period mentioned, shall be deemed, and held to be prima facie fraudulent and void, and no claim thereon will be allowed or paid by this Department,

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[MustKnowHistory]

Amazing!

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News from Washington: Important Order from the Secretary of War – 2
Affairs at Cairo: The Bird’s Point Expedition Returned – 2-3
News from Fortress Monroe: The Rebel Steamer Merrimac at Norfolk – 3
Fort Pickens and Key West: Arrival of the Philadelphia – 3
What Mr. Russell Had to Say of the Surrender – 3
Editorial: Work for the Cotton Slaves – 3-4
Supplies for Union Prisoners at the South – 4
A Way of Dispensing with the Stone Blockade – 4
Editorial: The Burnside Expedition-Our Hatteras Inlet Correspondence – 4-5
A Prophet in the Wrong – 5
Map of Kentucky – 5
Editorial: The State of the Allies in Mexico – 5
Important from Missouri: The New Movement Against Price at Springfield – 5
A Horse Fair in Chicago – 5

[WMarshal]

I take it in 1862 that the North had all the weapon factories they needed.

[MustKnowHistory]

I am certainly no expert, but his predecessor was known for providing substandard equipment to the northern army, while receiving kickbacks for those contracts.

Stanton may have been a very difficult man, but he was know for honesty.

[sauropod]

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