GENERAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERALâS OFFICE, September 6, 1864
No. 71. Richmond, Va., September 6, 1864.
I. Leaves of absence may be granted by commandants of conscripts to medical officers on conscript duty and employed surgeons, members of examining boards for conscripts, for a period of seven days. If longer leave is desired the application must be referred to the SurgeonGeneral. If approved by him, leave may begranted by commandants.
II. Paragraph I, General Orders, No. 69, current series, is thus amended:
Purchases of corn, oats, and forage from detailed persons will be made by officers of the Quartermaster’s Department, and their powers in respect to such purchases will be the same as those given to the Commissary Department.
III. General Orders, No. 75, 1863, is hereby repealed. The extra pay of men detailed for duty in the several departments in the field will hereafter be regulated according to paragraph 882, Army Regulations.
IV. Physicians employed by contract, whose whole time is given to the public service, will receive the pay and allowances of assistant surgeons. ;
V. Paragraph V, General Orders, No. 59, current series, is so amended as to authorize generals commanding reserve forces in the respective States to give orders that will carry transportation. _
VI. Officers holding appointments in the general staff as assistant adjutants and inspectors general, quartermasters and assistant quartermasters, commissaries and assistant commissaries, surgeons and assistant surgeons, will report by letter to this office with the least
delay practicable, setting forth their rank, corps, position, and present assignment to duty, and by what authority assigned; and changes which may hereafter take place in their assignments will in like manner be immediately reported by them to this office. A non-compliance with this order will subject the officer concerned to a discharge from the service.
VII. Paragraphs III and V, General Orders, No. 34, current series, are thus amended:
If the Board find the soldier fit for duty in any department of the service it will not retire him immediately, but will forward their certificate of disability and the form of retirement, signed by the Board, through the Headquarters of the Army to this office for its approval. If the soldier be absent from his command the certificate and form may be forwarded directly to the Adjutant and Inspector General.
VIII. Commanders of departments and armies are prohibited from granting leaves of absence to officers who report directly to the bureaus to which they respectively belong.
S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General.