I...................swear that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, and will support the Constitution and laws thereof as the supreme law of the land, any law or ordinance of any state to the contrary notwithstanding; that I will to the best of my ability protect and defend the Union of the United States, and not allow the same to be broken up and dissolved, or the Government thereof to be destroyed or overthrown, under any circumstances, if in my power to prevent it; that I will support the Constitution of the State of Missouri; and that I make this oath without any mental reservation or evasion, and hold it to be finding on me. Subscribed and sworn to before the undersigned...............of the County of Clay and State of Missouri, this..............day of.............186_. Wittness my signature and official seal at office in the City of Liberty, the day, month and year aforesaid.

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GENERAL ORDERS No. 2

1. Martial Law has never been legally declared in Missouri except in the city of St. Louis, and on and in the immediate vicinity of the railroads and telegraph lines and even in these localities military officers are specially directed not to interfere with the lawful process of any loyal civil court. It is believed that the time will soon come when the rebellion in Missouri may be considered as terminated, and when even the partial and temporary military restraint which has been exercised in particular places, may be entirely withdrawn. By none is this more desired than by the General commanding.
2. It must, however, be borne in mind that in all places subject to the incursions of the enemy, or to the depredations of insurgents and guerrilla bands, the military are authorized, without any formal declaration of martial law, to adopt such measures as may be necessary to restore the authority of the Government, and to punish all violations of the laws of war. This power will be exercised only where the peace of the country and the success of the Union cause absolutely require it.
3. Evidence has been received at these Headquarters that Major General Sterling Price has issued commissions or licenses to certain bandits in this State authorizing them to raise "Guerrilla forces," for the purpose of plunder and marauding. Gen. Price ought to know that such a course is contrary to the rules of civilized warfare, and that every man who enlists in such an organization forfeits his life, and becomes an outlaw. All persons are hereby warned that, if they join any guerrilla band, they will not, if captured, be treated as ordinary prisoners of war, but will be hung as robbers and murderers. Their lives shall atone for the barbarity of their General.

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GENERAL ORDER No. 9

1. Lieut. Col. Walter King, 4th Regiment, M. S. M., will as may be necessary, visit the several military stations in that part of Missouri included in this District, and ascertain what negroes are there who desire escort out of Missouri, and were the slaves of persons who, since the 17th day of July 1862, have been engaged in the rebellion, or have in any way given aid or comfort thereto. He will make and certify a list of all such negroes at each of such stations, and of the persons by whom the disloyalty of their masters can be shown and will deliver one copy of each list to the Commander of such station, and forward one to these Head-quarters. Before preparing such lists, he will give due public notice of the time at which he will be aided in such duty at each station. He will be aided in the discharge of his duties by special instructions received from or through, these Head-Quarters.
2. Commanders of such stations will furnish from time to time, as they may be called or by commanders of escorts, copies of the lists so prepared and filed with them; and will issue rations, where necessary, to negroes named in each list who are unable to move from such stations or to earn a living there, until escort can be furnished them to a place of safety, where they can support themselves.
3. Commanders of companies and detachments serving in that part of Missouri included in this District, will give escort and subsistence, where practicable, to all negroes named in such certified lists, to Independence, Kansas City, Westport, or the state of Kansas - sending direct to these Head-Quarters all such negroes fit for military duty, and willing to enlist.

From:Branded as Rebels by Joanne C. Eakin & Donald R. Hale
[The confiscation of any and all property of persons of southern sympathies, was placed into law by the Federal Government on July 17, 1862. The State of Missouri, under Martial Law, was under control of the Federal government. Under the abolishment of the writ of Habeas Corpus (anyone could be arrested, charged or executed without legal recourse or legal recourse or legal representation) issued by President Lincoln, Order #9 was given "legal" status. This order also canceled the need for the "Underground Railroad." J. C. E.]
I purchased this book from the authors at  Two Trails Publishing.
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GENERAL ORDER NO. 10

1. Officers commanding companies and detachments, will give escort and subsistence, as far as practicable, through that part of Missouri included in this District, to all loyal free persons desiring to remove to the State of Kansas or to permanent military stations in Missouri - including all persons who have been ascertained, in the manner provided in General Order No. 9 of this district, to have been slaves of persons engaged in aiding the rebellion since July 17, 1862. Where necessary, the teams of persons who have aided the rebellion since September 23, 1862, will be taken to help such removal and after being used for that purpose, will be turned over to the officer commanding the nearest military station, who will at once report them to the Assistant Provost Marshal, or to the District Provost Marshal, and hold them subject to his order.
2. Such officers will arrest, and send to the District Provost Marshal for punishment, all men (and all women, not heads of families) who willfully aid and encourage guerrillas; with a written statement of the names and residence of such persons and of the proof against them. They will discriminate as carefully as possible between those who are compelled by threats or fears to aid the rebels and those who aid them from disloyal motives.
      The wives and children of known guerrillas, and also women who are heads of families and are willfully engaged in aiding guerrillas, will be notified by such officers to move out of this district and out of the State of Missouri forthwith. They will be permitted to take unmolested, their stock, provisions and household goods. If they fail to remove promptly they will be sent by such officers under escort to Kansas City for shipment South, with their clothes and such necessary household furniture and provisions as may be worth removing.
3. Persons who have borne arms against the Government and voluntarily lay them down and surrender themselves at a military station, will be sent under escort to the District Provost Marshal at these Head Quarters. Such perosns will be banished with their families to such State or district out of this Department as the General Commanding the Department may direct, and will there remain exempt from other military punishment or account of their past disloyalty, but not exempt from civil trial for treason.
4. No officer or enlisted man, without special instructions from these Head Quarters will burn or destroy any buildings, fences, crops or other property. But all furnaces and fixtures of blacksmith shops in that part of Missouri included in this District, not at military stations, will be destroyed and the tools either removed to such stations or destroyed.
5. Commanders of companies and detachments serving in Missouri will not allow persons not in the military service of the United States to accompany them on duty except when employed as guides and for their obedience to orders.
6. Officers and enlisted men belonging to regiments or companies, organized or unorganized, are prohibited going from Kansas to the District of Northern Missouri without written permission or order from these Head Quarters or from the Assistant Provost Marshal at Leavenworth City, or the commanding Officer at Fort Leavenworth or some Officer commanding a military station in the District of Northern Missouri.

From Joanne C. Eakin's book Branded as Rebels p. 140:
Three days later, on August 21, 1863, Quantrill and Confederate troops raided Lawrence, Kansas...some say as a direct result of Order No. 10.

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GENERAL ORDER NO. 11

• First  All persons living in Cass, Jackson and Bates counties, Missouri, and in that part of Vernon including in this district, except those living within one mile of the limits of Independence, Hickman's Mills, Pleasant Hill and Harrisonville, and except those in that part of Kaw township, Jackson county, north of Brush Creek and west of the Big Blue, embracing Kansas City and Westport, 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 theri loyalty, and the names of the witnesses by whom it can be shown. All who receive such certificate will be permitted to remove to any military station in this district, or to any part of the State of Kansas, except the counties on the eastern borders of the State. All others shall remove out of this district. Officers commanding companies and detachments serving in the counties named, will see that this paragraph is promptly obeyed.
• Second  All grain and hay in the field, or under shelter, in the district from which the inhabitants are required to remove within reach of military stations, after the 9th day of September next, will be taken to such stations and turned over to the proper officer there, and report of the amount so turned over made to 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 9th day of September next, not convenient to such stations, will be destroyed.
• Third  The provisions of General Order No. 10, from these headquarters, will at once be vigorously executed by officers commanding in the 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.
• Fourth  Paragraph 3, General Order No. 10, is revoked as to all who have borne arms against the government in the district since August 20, 1863.

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