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void of effect. None but the President can discharge an officer appointed by himself. And, as he has not delegated this power to any General, no General must attempt to exercise it.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

L. THOMAS, Adjutant General.

General Orders,}

No. 41.

WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, April 16, 1862.

I-All agents appointed by the Governor of a State under its laws, to obtain from its volunteer soldiers assignments of pay for the benefit of their families, will be recognized as such by Paymasters, who will afford them all necessary facilities for that purpose, so far as is consistent with the public service.

II. Transportation to soldiers on sick-leave may be furnished and the cost stopped from their pay in the same manner as other stoppages are made. Necessary transportation furnished to soldiers-on sick leave by the authorities of any State to which such soldiers belong will be deducted from their pay and refunded to the State by the Paymaster, whose warrant for making the stoppage will be the certificate of the proper agent of the State, accompanied by the receipt of the soldier for the transportation. Where everal soldiers of different companies are concerned, separate accounts will be made for each company.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

L. THOMAS, Adjutant General.

General Orders,

No. 42.

WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, April 18, 1862.

I. By direction of the President, Brigade Surgeon J. H. Thompson, United States Volunteers, is hereby dismissed the service as an alarmist, on the recom. mendation of his commanding General, Major General Burnside.

II. On the recommendation of Brigadier General Sumner, commanding Second Army Corps, approved by Major General McClellan, commanding the Army of the Potomac, Major Von Steinhaus, Captain Botticher, and Captain Camp, 68th Regiment of New York Volunteers; Lieutenant Lombard, Battalion Adjutant 8th Illinois Cavalry; and Assistant Surgeon Williams, 1st New York Artillery, are, by direction of the President, stricken from the rolls of the Army, for being captured by the enemy while straggling without authority beyond the outposts of the Army, March 29, 1862.

III.-The headquarters of Lieutenant Colonel William Hoffman, 8th Infantry, Commissary General of Prisoners, is transferred from New York city to Detroit, Michigan.

IV. The attention of officers empowered by law to assemble General Courts Martial is directed to the Regulations, paragraphs 896 and 897, relative to forwarding the proceedings of such Courts, with their action endorsed on each case, and a copy of the order promulgating the proceedings, promptly, to the Judge Advocate of the Army, at Washington. Much embarrassment is occasioned to the War Department by failure to comply with these Regulations, which must be at once remedied wherever they have been neglected.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

L. THOMAS, Adjutant General.

General Orders,

No. 43.

WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, April 19, 1862. The following act of Congress is published for the information of all concerned:

AN ACT to reorganize and increase the efficiency of the medical department of the army.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be added to the present medical corps of the army ten Surgeons and ten Assistant Surgeons, to be promoted and appointed under existing laws; twenty medical cadets, and as many hospital stewards as the Surgeon General may consider necessary for the public service, and that their pay and that of all hospital stewards in the volunteer as well as the regular service shall be thirty dollars per month, to be computed from the passage of this act. And all medical cadets in the service shall, in addition to their pay, receive one ration per day, either in kind or commutation.

SEC. 2.-And be it further enacted, That the Surgeon General to be appointed under this act shall have the rank, pay, and emoluments of a Brigadier General. There shall be one Assistant Surgeon General and one Medical Inspector General of Hospitals, each with the rank, pay, and emoluments of a Colonel of Cavalry, and the Medical Inspector General shall have, under the direction of the Surgeon General, the supervision of all that relates to the sanitary condition of the army, whether in transports, quarters, or camps, and of the hygiene, police, discipline, and efficiency of field and general hospitals, under such regulations as may hereafter be established.

SEC. 3.-And be it further enacted, That there shall be eight Medical Inspectors, with the rank, pay, and emoluments each of a Lieutenant Colonel of . Cavalry, and who shall be charged with the duty of inspecting the sanitary condition of transports, quarters, and camps, of field and general hospitals, and who shall report to the Medical Inspector General, under such regulations as may be hereafter established, all circumstances relating to the sanitary condition and wants of troops and of hospitals, and to the skill, efficiency, and good conduct of the officers and attendants connected with the medical department.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Surgeon General, the Assistant Surgeon General, Medical Inspector General, and medical inspectors, shall, immediately after the passage of this act, be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, by selection from the medical corps of the army, or from the surgeons in the volunteer service, without regard to their rank when so selected, but with sole regard to qualifications.

SEC. 5.-And be it further enacted, That medical purveyors shall be charged, under the direction of the Surgeon General, with the selection and purchase of all medical supplies, including new standard preparations, and of all books, instruments, hospital stores, furniture, and other articles required for the sick and wounded of the army. In all cases of emergency they may provide such additional accommodations for the sick and wounded of the army, and may transport such medical supplies as circumstances may render necessary, under such regulations as may hereafter be established, and shall make prompt and immediate issues upon all special requisitions made upon them under such circumstances by medical officers; and the special requisitions shall consist simply of a list of the articles required, the qualities required, dated, and signed by the medical officers requiring them.

SEC. 6.-And be it further enacted, That whenever the inspector general, or any one of the medical inspectors, shall report an officer of the medical corps as disqualified, by age, or otherwise, for promotion to a higher grade, or unfitted for the performance of his professional duties, he shall be reported by

the Surgeon General, for examination, to a medical board, as provided by the seventeenth section of the act approved August third, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.

SEC. 7.-And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act shall continue and be in force during the existence of the present rebellion and no longer: Provided, however, That, when this act shall expire, all officers who shall have been promoted from the medical staff of the army under this act shall retain their respective rank in the army, with such promotion as they would have been entitled to.

Approved April 16, 1862.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

L. THOMAS, Adjutant General.

General Orders,}

No. 44.

WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, April 21, 1862.

All the lock-houses, boats, scows, and other property belonging to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, on the line of said canal, now held, used, or occupied by the United States officers or troops, will be forthwith given up and restored to the President of the said Company. All officers of the Army will respect Alfred Spates, Esq.. as President of the said Company, and are hereby prohibited from interfering in any manner with him in the management of the canal; but are directed to give him such aid and assistance as is consistent with the good of the service, in keeping it in repair, and removing all restrictions which have been imposed upon the boats navigating the said canal. The President of the said Canal Company is authorized to give all passes that may be required to be used on the canal, subject to the approval of the Commander of the District.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

L. THOMAS, Adjutant General.

General Orders,

No. 45.

WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, April 22, 1862.

Brigadier General George L. Hartsuff, Assistant Adjutant General U. S. Army, is assigned to special duty in the War Department, from the 14th instant. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

L. THOMAS, Adjutant General.

General Orders,

No. 46.

WAR DEP'T, Adjutant General's OFFICE,
Washington, April 23, 1862.

I.-Surgeon General Clement A. Finley, U. S. Army, having applied to be retired from active duty, after more than forty years' service, the President of the United States directs that his name be placed upon the list of retired officers, to date from April 14, 1862.

II. Surgeons from civil life who tender their services for the sick and wounded in the field, under the invitation of the Secretary of War, will each be allowed, while so employed, the use of a public horse, a tent, the necessary ser

vants, and the privilege of purchasing subsistence stores from the Commissary Department.

III. The attention of Commanders of Armies, Departments, Divisions, and detached Brigades, by whom paragraph 448, General Regulations, has been neglected, is specially directed to its requirement concerning forwarding copies of all their orders to the Adjutant General's office.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

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When the care of sick and wounded soldiers is assumed by the States from which they come, the Subsistence Department will commute their ration at twenty five cents.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

L. THOMAS, Adjutant General.

General Orders, }

No. 48.

WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, April 28, 1862. I.-Assistant Surgeon William A. Hammond, U. S. Army, having been appointed by the President, Surgeon General with the rank of Brigadier General, under the Act approved April 16, 1862, will enter without delay upon the du ties of his office.

II.--Applications for transportation for the removal of sick men, for nurses and for supplies for the sick, will be made hereafter to the Surgeon General. The Surgeon General is also authorized to give passes at his discretion for private physicians, nurses, and friends of sick and wounded soldiers to attend and visit them.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

L. THOMAS, Adjutant General.

General Orders,}

No.

WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, May 1, 1862. Upon requisitions made by Commanders of Armies in the field, authority will be given by the War Department to the Governors of the respective States to recruit regiments now in service.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

L. THOMAS, Adjutant General.

General Orders,

No. 50.

WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, May 2, 1862.

The Department of Kansas is hereby restored as described in "General Orders," No. 97, of 1861, as follows: To include the State of Kansas, the Indian

Territory west of Arkansas, and the Territories of Nebraska, Colorado, and Dacotah. Headquarters at Fort Leavenworth.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR.

L. THOMAS, Adjutant General.

General Orders,

No. 51.

WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, May 10, 1862. I.-Commanders of Departments will designate some officer in each city or town where there is a General Hospital, to perform the functions assigned to military commanders in "General Orders," No. 36.

II. When rations are commuted at twenty-five cents, under the provisions of "General Orders," No. 47, the physicians in charge of the State Hospitals will enter on their descriptive lists the dates between which the men have been subsisted.

III. When transportation is furnished to soldiers on sick-leave under paragraph II. of "General Orders," No. 41, the Officers or Surgeons of General Hospitals, who grant the furloughs, will note the cost of such transportation on the descriptive lists of the men. Quartermasters will not hereafter pay bills for such transportation to the States.

IV. Paragraph II. of "General Orders," No 102, dated November 25, 1961, having been revoked, the officers and men transferred to skeleton regiments under its operation will be reassigned to their original regiments as fast as vacancies occur. Remarks will be made opposite their names on the Muster Rolls, showing the dates of their capture, transfer from, and retransfer to, their respective companies; and also whether they are exchanged or still on parole. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

L. THOMAS, Adjutant General.

General Orders, }

No. 52.

WAK DEPT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, May 14, 1862.

I. All officers absent on leave will proceed without delay to join their regiments, except those on parole and those recently exchanged. Officers who are too sick to travel, will immediately report the length of time they have been absent, and forward to this office a medical description of their case by a medical officer of the Army, or, where that cannot be obtained, by a competent physician.

II. The names of officers and men taken prisoners by the enemy, must not be dropped from the muster rolls, but will be placed at the foot of the list of names, in their respective companies, until they are exchanged or discharged. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

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WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, May 16, 1862.

The following acts of Congress are published for the information of all con

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