No. 59. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, I.. By direction of the President, Major Augustus Hain, Additional Aide-de-Camp, is hereby dismissed the service for drunkenness. II..So much of General Orders, No. 208, of December 17, 1862, as directs the muster-out of service of Additional Paymasters Henry Foote and William E. Hoy, is, by direction of the President, hereby revoked, and they are reinstated. III.. By direction of the President, 1st Lieutenant Benjamin F. Sceva, 10th New York Volunteer Cavalry, is dismissed the service for allow ing his command to be surprised by the enemy and captured while doing picket duty, December 19, 1862. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 61. It is hereby ordered that all persons appointed Additional Paymasters shall, before being commissioned, present themselves before a Board of Examiners, to be appointed by the Secretary of War, who shall examine and report upon the physical, mental, and moral fitness of the party to perform the duties of Paymasters. That, upon such examination, those reported upon favorably shall be commissioned and assigned to duty, and the appointment of those reported against will be cancelled. 2d. That all Additional Paymasters who have been commissioned, shall also, upon the order of the Paymaster General, appear before said Board of Examiners; and those who are unfit shall be mustered out of service. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. No. 64. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, March 16, 1863. Charles T. Sherman, Esq., of Hawkins Taylor, Esq, of Ohio, and Francis T. Russell, Esq., of Missouri, are appointed by the President Commissioners, under the joint resolution of July 12, 1862, revived, to examine claims of officers and men actuaily employed in the Western Department, or Department of Missouri. James H. Moss, Esq., is appointed Solicitor for the Commission. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General |