CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, REPORTS, AND RETURNS OF THE CONFEDERATE AUTHORITIES, JANUARY 1, 1864.

SCHEDULE NO. 10.
OFFICE BOARD COMMISSIONERS FOR IMPRESSMENT FOR TENNESSEE.
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Headquarters, Aberdeen, Miss.

     In accordance with the act of Congress to regulate impressment, the following schedule of prices for produce and army supplies, furnished at the usual places of delivery, is agreed upon and published by the Board of Commissioners for the State of Tennessee, to continue in force until altered or revised:

Articles	Description	Quanitity	Price
Apples	Dried	Per bushel of 28 pounds	$3.50
Axes    Do	With handles Hand	Each do	7.00       6.00
Bacon    Do    Do	Sides, corn fed Hams, corn fed Shoulders, corn fed	Per pound do do	1.30       1.30       1.20
Beans	---------	Per bushel of 60 pounds	3.00
Beef-cattle	Gross	Per pound	.25
Brandy	Peach or apple	Per gallon	3.50
Barrels    Do	Flour Molasses	Each do	3.00       5.00
Brick	---------	Per l,000	25.00
Chains	Trace	Per pair	7.00
Corn    Do	Shelled Unshelled	Per bushel of 56 pounds Per bushel of 70 pounds	2.25       2.10
Corn-meal	---------	Per bushel of 48 pounds	2.25
Coffee	Rio	Per pound	6.00
Candles	Tallow	do	1.80
Flour    Do	Superfine Fine	Per barrel of 196 pounds do	30.00     22.05
Fodder    Do	Baled Unbaled	Per hundredweight do	2.20       2.00
Hogs, fat    Do	--------- ---------	Net, per hundredweight Gross, per hundredweight	75.00     60.00
Hogs, unfatted	---------	do	50.00
Hay    Do    Do    Do	Native grass, baled Native grass, unbaled Timothy or clover, baled Timothy or clover, unbaled	Per hundredweight do do do	2.25       2.00       3.00       2.75
Hides    Do	Dry Green	Per pound do	1.80         .90
Horses    Do    Do    Do    Do    Do	First class, artillery Second class, artillery Third class, artillery First class, cavalry Second class, cavalry Third class, cavalry	Each do do do do do	750.00    500.00    450.00    750.00    600.00    450.00
Iron    Do    Do    Do    Do    Do    Do    Do	Pig, Nos. 1, 2, and 3, average Square or round Flat or band Hoop Boiler plate Serviceable railroad T Unserviceable railroad T Strap rail	Per gross ton Per net ton do do do Per gross ton do do	110.00    450.00    400.00    550.00    625.00    210.00    100.00    150.00
Kettles	Camp, iron	Per pound	1.50
Lard	---------	do	1.30
Leather    Do    Do	Harness Sole Upper	do do do	3.75       3.75       4.50
Lumber    Do	Square edged Rough edged	Per hundred do	4.00       2.00
Molasses    Do	Cuba cane Chinese cane	Per gallon do	6.00       3.00
Mules    Do    Do	First class Second class Third class	Each do do	600.00    525.00    375.00
Oats    Do    Do	Baled Unbaled Shelled	Per hundredweight do Per bushel of 34 pounds	1.80       1.60       1.80
Onions	---------	Per bushel of 57 pounds	5.00
Pasturage	---------	Per head per month	1.50
Potatoes    Do	Irish Sweet	Per bushel of 60 pounds do	4.00       1.75
Peaches	Dried, peeled	Per bushel of 38 pounds	5.00
Peas	---------	Per bushel of 60 pounds	3.00
Pans	Mess, sheet iron	Per pound	1.50
Rye	---------	Per bushel of 56 pounds	3.75
Rice	---------	Per pound	.20
Sugar    Do    Do    Do    Do    Do    Do    Do	Brown, common Brown, fair Fully fair Prime Strictly prime Choice Extra choice Clarified	do do do do do do do do	1.75       1.90       2.00       2.35       2.50       2.80       3.00       3.50

Articles	Description	Quanitity	Price
Sugar	White clarified	Per pound	$4.00
Salt	---------	Per bushel of 50 pounds	7.50
Socks    Do	Woolen Cotton	Per pair do	2.00       1.50
Soap    Do	Hard Soft	Per pound do	.75         .35
Shoes	Army	Per pair	15.00
Shovels	Long handled	Per dozen	80.00
Spades	---------	do	80.00
Sheep    Do	Sheared Per head	Unsheared do	15.00     20.00
Shucks    Do	Baled Unbaled	Per hundredweight do	1.50       1.25
Tallow	---------	Per pound	1.30
Tea    Do	Black Green	do do	10.00     15.00
Vinegar    Do	Cider Manufactured	Per gallon do	1.50         .60
Wheat	---------	Per bushel of 60 pounds	5.50
Wheat straw    Do	Baled Unbaled	Per hundredweight do	1.00         .75
Whisky	---------	Per gallon	3.50
Wool    Do	Washed Per pound Unwashed	Per hundredweight do	4.00       3.00
Wagons    Do    Do    Do	Wooden axles, 4-horse Iron axles, 4-horse Wooden axles, 2-horse Iron axles, 2-horse	Each do do do	350.00    450.00    250.00    350.00

     The following enumerated articles to be paid for under the act of Congress regulating manufactures, to wit: Woolen cloths, drills, flannels, hats, jeans, Osnaburgs, domestic shirting and stripes, sacking and tent cloths, 75 per cent. on the net cost of production.

     The undersigned deem it proper to state that the above schedule of prices is adopted in accordance with the maximum schedule of prices agreed upon by the commissioners in convention assembled at Montgomery, Ala., on the 20th day of September (convened by order of the Secretary of War), representing the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, and are the prices at which alone Government agents can, without violation of the law, impress private property; and for the information of all concerned that section of the impressment act which prescribes the pains and penalties incurred by a violation of its provisions is hereto appended:

W. E. TRAVIS,
WM. H. SNEED,
Commissioners.