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the State of New York to promote enlistments, passed the 17th of April, 1863, are hereby recognized by the War Department as on equal footing with the Allotment Commissioners of the United States in all armies, detachments, and posts; and all Commanders, Paymasters, and officers in the service are directed to respect and treat them accordingly.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

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I..The following officers and men have been declared duly exchanged as prisoners of war since the announcement in General Orders No. 117, of May 9, 1863:

1. All officers, naval and military, delivered at City Point up to May 30, 1863.

2. All the officers and men of the steamers Hatteras, Mercedita Queen of the West, Harriet Lane, Isaac Smith, Columbia, Indianola, and schooner Vassar.

3 All the officers and enlisted men captured and paroled at Holly Springs, Mississippi, in December, 1862.

4. All the officers and enlisted men of the Seventy-first (71st) Regiment Indiana Volunteers captured at Muldraugh's Hill, Kentucky, in December, 1862.

5. All the officers and enlisted men of the Ninety-first (91st) Regiment Illinois Volunteers, captured at Bacon creek and Nolin, Kentucky, December 26, 1862, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, December 27, 1862, and Muldraugh's Hill, Kentucky, December 28, 1862.

6. All the officers and enlisted men captured at Mount Sterling, Kentucky, in March, 1863.

7. All enlisted men of the Fifty-first (51st) Regiment Indiana Volunteers, of the Seventy-third (73d) Regiment Indiana Volunteers, of the Third (3d) Regiment Ohio Volunteers, of the Eightieth (80th)

Regiment Illinois Volunteers, and the First (1st) Tennessee Cavalry, forming part of Streight's Brigade, and captured near Cedar Bluff, Georgia, about the 1st of May, 1863.

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8. All persons specially exchanged, and who have been specially notified of such exchange, either individually or through their commanding officers.

II..The paroled officers and men herein declared exchanged will, without delay, be forwarded to the commands to which they belong, from the camps at which they have been assembled, except such officers belonging to companies not yet exchanged as the Commissary General of Prisoners may think necessary to retain to take charge of their

own men.

Exchanged officers and men absent on leave will, at the expiration of their leaves, join their respective commands.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

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Paragraphs 931, 933, and 934, Revised Regulations for the Army, of 1861, are modified to read as follows:

931. No person under the age of eighteen years is to be enlisted or re-enlisted without the written consent of his parent, guardian, or master. Recruiting officers must be very particular in ascertaining the true age of the recruit.

933. If the recruit be a minor under eighteen years of age, his parent, guardian, or master must sign a consent to his enlisting, which will be added to the preceding declaration in the following form, &c.

934. The forms of declaration and of consent, in case of a minor under eighteen, having been signed and witnessed, the recruit will then be duly examined, &c.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant General.

GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 171.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, June 9, 1863.

1. When an officer is relieved from duty in the field, transferred to a distant Department, discharged from service, or detached in any way from an Army in active service, he will turn over to the Chief Quartermaster any horse, being his property, which may have been purchased from the Quartermaster's Department under the privileges of paragraph 1143, Revised Regulations, and will be allowed therefor the value of the horse at the time it is returned, to be determined by a Board of Officers to be appointed by the officer in command of the troops present. In no case, however, shall the sum allowed and paid exceed the price at which the horse was originally purchased from the Quartermaster's Department.

2. No officer will be permitted to sell a serviceable horse which has been purchased from the Quartermaster's Department under paragraph 1143. Such horses are issued to enable officers to perform their public duties.

3. When officers, ordered without troops from one Department to another, apply for orders for the transportation at public expense of their authorized horses, they shall accompany the application with a certificate that the horses for which transportation is asked are their private property, purchased at a distance from the seat of war, and that they have never been the property of the United States. Without such certificate no such application for transportation of horses shall be considered.

4. Orders for transportation of horses of officers travelling without troops will be granted only in special cases, and when the public service seems to require or justify them.

5. Where officers are transferred from one department to another on their own application and for their own convenience, transportation of horses will not be allowed.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General.

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GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 173.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, June 11, 1863.

To execute more promptly the provisions of General Orders Nos. 105 and 130, from this Department, it is hereby ordered

1. General Orders No. 69, War Department, March 20, 1863, is hereby revoked, and the officers and enlisted men referred to therein shall be examined for admission into the Invalid Corps, and if found to meet the requirements of General Orders Nos. 105 and 130, shall be transferred to the Invalid Corps in the manner prescribed in General Orders No. 105.

2. That so soon as the Rolls of officers and men for the Invalid Corps are made out, (according to form furnished,) they shall be sent by Commanders of Regiments, Batteries, Independent Companies, and Detachments, to the Commanders of the Army Corps to which the persons named on the Rolls belong.

Immediately on the receipt of these Rolls the Corps Commanders, having examined and indorsed them in accordance with General Orders No. 105, War Department, 1863, shall issue orders transferring all such officers and men to the Invalid Corps, and dropping them from the Rolls of the active force, and will forward the Rolls, with a copy of his order of transfers, to the Provost Marshal General at Wash. ington. The previous military history of every officer and soldier will, as far as practicable, be stated on the Invalid Roll. Medical officers and chaplains will not at present be transferred.

3. That the Rolls of men for the Invalid Corps, prepared by commanders of convalescent camps, commanders of invalid detachments, and medical officers in charge of hospitals or depots of convalescents, shall, as soon as made out, be forwarded to the Provost Marshal General direct.

4. That the commanding officers of the various army corps shall also direct that the men thus transferred be at once collected together by staff officers, and sent under charge of proper officers, with their descriptive list and clothing account, to the points designated below for their respective corps. The arms and accoutrements may be scnt with the men or not, as the corps commander deems best.

Officers and men on the Rolls sent from the Army Corps in the Army of the Potomac and Department of Washington will report to Lieut. Col. Samuel McKelvey, at the Convalescent Camp, near Alexandria, Virginia.

Those on the Rolls sent from the Army Corps under the command of Major Generals Banks, Hunter, and Foster will report to Colonel R. Nugent, 69th New York Volunteers, and Acting Assistant Provost Marshal General at New York city.

Those on the Rolls sent from the Army Corps under the command of Major Generals Dix and Keyes will report to Colonel C. M. Prevost, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, commanding Depot Camp at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Those on the Rolis sent from Army Corps in Kentucky, and in the Department of the Cumberland, will report to Major W. H. Sidell, at Louisville, Kentucky.

Those on the Rolls sent from the Army Corps under the command of Major Generals Grant and Schofield will report to Colonel E. B. Alexander, at St. Louis, Missouri.

Commanders of Army Corps will notify the Provost Marshal General, by the most expeditious means of communication, when detachments of invalids are directed to leave the corps in compliance with this order. The monthly returns of regiments and independent commands will state the number of officers and men transferred to the Invalid Corps, and Corps Commanders will consolidate and enter this information in their monthly returns to the Adjutant General's Office.

Hereafter in giving discharges to officers and soldiers, on account of disability, their discharge papers must always state whether, at the time of discharge, the officer or soldier was or was not physically suitable to enter or re-enlist in the Invalid Corps.

So much of General Orders No. 105, from this department, as forbids the "discharge of any man upon surgeon's certificate of disability who may be fit for service in the Invalid Corps" is so far modified as not to include officers.

5. That no commissioned officer in the Invalid Corps will receive a higher commission for the present than Major. The claims to higher

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