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MORNING REPORT
Another General O-der--Anx-
iety about Norfolk and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT in
2 the last Battle--No more
Fighting umors.
WAR DEPARTMENT., Washington, /
August IL.
GENERAL ORDER No. 100.


lst. So much of General Order No. 81,
current series, as relates to the extension of
sick leaves OF absence, is hereby revoked
and no application for such extension need
hereafter be made. 1-r a.t
The order of the Pres dent, dated July
81, General Order No. 81 explains what
may be considered good cause for ab-
sence.
Surgeons certificates Of disability requir-
ed by existing orders and regulations must
be forwarded, not only to the Adjutant
General of the army, bat also to the COM
mander OF the regiment or in care of staff
officer to the commanding General.
2ud. Officers absent from duty or be-
yond their leaves will not be allowed to
draw their pss until court or commission,
which will be ordered on their return TO
their post or command, shall determine
whether there was sufficient cause for their
absence.
They will accordingly provide themselves
with a full description of the nature and
cause of their disability certified by the
proper medical authority, as required by
existing orders and regulations.
Bid. Officers of volunteers who are sb-
sent from duty on account of disease con-
tracted before they entered the service will
be Immediately mustered out. Those who
have been absent more than sixty days on
account of wounds or diseases contracted in
the line of their duty, will be reported TO
the Adjutant General of the army for dis
charge, in order that their places may be
filed by others fit for field service.
For this class of officers Congress has
provided pensions.
4. Applications for pensions must be made
to the Commissioner of pensions, who must
be the judge of sutficiency of such claims
and who furnishes the forms and regula-
lions relating thereto.
5. When an officer returns to his COM
mand after having overstayed his leave of
abseUce be may be tried. by court martial,
for this as military offence or commits
sion may be appointed by the commanding
officer of bis division OF army corps as the
case may be, to investigate his case and de-
termiue whether or not he was absent from
proper eau e, and if there should be found
to be such proper cause he will be entitled
to pay during such absence.
g. Where troops are serving in an army
corps or army, no leave of absence will be
granted on the certificate of regimental
or Brigade Surgeon till the same has been
approved by the Medical Director of such
army corps or army, and no medical direc-
/ tor will endorse any certificate till he has
| made personal examination of the applica.
| tion or has received the verbal report of 9
/ medical officer appointed by him to make
such personal examination.
kWhen, after such personal examination
il shall be found that such certificate of dis.
ability was given without previous cause
the name of the medical officer giving il
shall be reported to the Adjutant General
in order that he may be dimissed from the
service.
| 7th. Where officers are not serving in {
division army CORPS or separate army, ap
! plicaiions for leave of absence may bt
made to the Adult ut General of the army
but except on veIv extraordinary cases, NJ
leave of absence will be granted unless tn
applications be accompanied by certificate
If the character of that described in OIde
sixty-one.
Sh In all cases of applications for leav
of absence at the War Department the ap
plicant will be examined by a medical off
Ger assigned TO that duty 10 this city.
! By order of the Sec'y of War,
i E. D. TOWNSEND, A. A. G.