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IX..Officers in service whose regiments or companies may re-enlist, in accordance with the provisions of this order, before the expiration of their present term, shall have their commissions continued, so as to preserve their date of rank as fixed by their original muster into United States service.

X..As soon after the expiration of their original term of enlistment as the exigencies of the service will permit, a furlough of thirty days will be granted to men who may re-enlist in accordance with the provisions of this order.

XI..Volunteers enlisted under this order will be credited as three years' men in the quotas of their respective States. Instructions for the appointment of recruiting officers and for enlisting Veteran Volunteers will be immediately issued to the Governors of States.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General.

GENERAL ORDERS,

WAR DEPARTMENT,

No. 192.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, June 25, 1863.

Section 35, act of March 3, 1863, entitled "An act for enrolling and calling out the National Forces, and for other purposes," does not exclude enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the military offices in Washington, and at the several geographical division and department headquarters, from receiving the extra pay heretofore allowed them.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

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Hereafter, when public property is presented to an Inspector for condemnation, the officer responsible will certify, on the Inventory,

that the property had not been previously condemned. The Inspector will mark the letters I. C. (Inspected-Condemned) upon all property condemned and ordered to be dropped from the returns, with a brand, stencil, cold chisel, steel cutter, or punch, depending upon the material to be marked. Should it happen, when final action is had, that the Inspector's recommendation is disapproved, the marks will be cancelled, and a certificate of the fact will be given to the officer accountable.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General.

GENERAL ORDERS,

WAR DEPARTMENT,

No. 195.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, June 29, 1863.

The Adjutant General will provide an appropriate Medal of Honor for the troops who, after the expiration of their term, have offered their services to the Government in the present emergency; and also for the Volunteer troops from other States that have volunteered their temporary service in the States of Pennsylvania and Maryland. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General.

GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 196.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, June 29, 1863.

The number of Brigadier Generals being limited by law, the urgent necessity for officers of that grade in the field requires that all, except those wounded in battle, whose health is so infirm as to have kept them from active duty more than thirty days, should be mustered out, and their places filled by others physically capable of service. It is therefore ordered

1st. That all officers of the rank of Brigadier General who have

been absent more than thirty days from duty on account of sickness, other than those wounded in battle, report the present state of their health; and that those who report themselves unfit for duty in the field, be honorably mustered out of service within ten days from this date.

2d. That those who do not report unfit for duty, proceed, within forty-eight hours after the receipt of this order, to join their commands, informing the Adjutant General by letter of the fact.

3d. That those who have been absent more than thirty days, by reason of wounds received in battle, report when they expect to be able to resume duty, sending a surgeon's certificate setting forth the nature of their wounds and their present condition.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General.

GENERAL ORDERS,

WAR DEPARTMENT,

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, June 20, 1863.

No. 200. The Aides-de-Camp, and other Staff Officers, attached to General Officers not now exercising a command, will, if Company Officers, forthwith proceed to join their regiments. If General Staff Officers, or additional Aides-de-Camp, they will immediately report by letter to the Adjutant General for assignment to duty.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

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The attention of Commanding Officers of regiments, battalions not included in regiments, independent companies or batteries, and detach

ments, surgeons in charge of hospitals or detachments, and all persons in the military service commanding or controlling commissioned officers or enlisted men on special or detached service, is directed to General Orders No. 72, from this Office, of March 24, 1863.

The "Reports of Deserters," therein called for, must be promptly and regularly forwarded as directed. "Monthly Reports" will embrace only such desertions as may have occurred during the month, and will not be a consolidation of previous reports.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General.

GENERAL ORDERS,

WAR DEPARTMENT,

No. 207.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, July 3, 1863.

I..The attention of all persons in the military service of the United States is called to Article 7 of the cartel agreed upon on the 22d of July, 1862, and published in General Orders No. 142, Sept. 25, 1862. According to the terms of this cartel all captures must be reduced to actual possession, and all prisoners of war must be delivered at the places designated, there to be exchanged, or paroled until exchange can be effected. The only exception allowed is the case of commanders of two opposing armies, who are authorized to exchange prisoners or to release them on parole at other points mutually agreed upon by said commanders.

II..It is understood that captured officers and men have been paroled and released in the field by others than commanders of opposing armies, and that the sick and wounded in hospitals have been so paroled and released, in order to avoid guarding and removing them, which in many cases would have been impossible. Such paroles are in violation of General Orders and the stipulations of the cartel, and are null and void. They are not regarded by the enemy, and will not be respected in the armies of the United States. Any officer or soldier who gives such parole will be returned to duty without exchange, and, moreover, will be punished for disobedience of orders. It is the duty of the captor to guard his prisoners, and if, through necessity or choice,

he fail to do this, it is the duty of the prisoner to return to the service of his Government. He cannot avoid this duty by giving an authorized military parole.

III..A military parole not to serve until exchanged must not be confounded with a parole of honor to do or not to do a particular thing not inconsistent with the duty of a soldier. Thus, a prisoner of war actually held by the enemy may, in order to obtain exemption from a close guard or confinement, pledge his parole of honor that he will make no attempt to escape. Such pledges are binding upon the individuals giving them; but they should seldom be given or received, for it is the duty of a prisoner to escape if able to do so. Any pledge or parole of honor extorted from a prisoner by ill usage or cruelty is not binding.

IV..The obligations imposed by the general laws and usages of war upon the non-combatant inhabitants of a section of country passed over by an invading army, cease when the military occupation ceases; and any pledge or parole given by such persons, in regard to future service, is null and of no effect.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

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I..Phonographic reporters employed under the authority of the 28th section of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1863, will be allowed not exceeding ten dollars per day, and when the place of meeting of the Court is changed, their actual travelling expenses; but no reporter will be employed except in cases of importance, and when the other duties of the Judge Advocate will not allow him to take down the testimony in the ordinary way.

II..Hereafter no officer or agent under the control of the War Department, disbursing public moncy, will pay any claim or account presented through agents or collectors, except on regular power of attorney, executed after the account or claim is due and payable, and unless

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