Unknown to Adjutant-General, November 15, 1861

In compliance with Special Orders, No. 53, headquarters District of Oregon, the command of the post is hereby turnedoverto Capt. C. W. C. Rowell, Fourth Regiment California Volunteers.

Captain, First Cavalry, Commanding Post.

San Francisco, November 16, 1861. Adjutant-General THOMAS, Washington, D. O.: Received your dispatch of the 13th instant. It will be attended to.

Brigadier-General, U. S. Army, Commanding Department.

GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRs. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, No. 31. f San Francisco, November 16, 1861.

1. Officers commanding posts or companies remote from these headquarters will make a careful investigation of the military resources of the counties in their vicinity. Itis believed that many articles of subsistence for the troops, as well as supplies to be furnished by the quartermaster’s department, can be obtained at or near the location of the troops.

2. Special reports on the foregoing subject will be made as soon as practicable by commanding officers, noting particularly the quantity, quality, and price of such articles as can be contracted for in the country round their posts.

3. Organization of volunteer regiments and companies will not have reference to any State organization, but will be in strict conformity with General Orders, No. 15, of May 4, 1861, from the War Department, and subsequent orders modifying the same. «

By order of Brigadier General Wright:

Assistant Adjutant-General.