Washington telegraph., 1863-07-15
WAR DEPARTMENT.

ASHhaohlr IA. 'Al- lcDD- !
| ENCHANGE NOTICE, No. 4.-The follow
u ing Confederate officers and men have been
duly exchanged aud are hereby SO declared:
4. AIT officers and men who have been de-
! livered at Lliy Point, at any time previous TO
to May 9Th. 1868.
:. All officers captured at any place before
the 1T " April, 1863, who have been released
on parole.
3. All men captured in North Carolina or
| Virginia before the lst Of March, 1863. who
have been released on parole.
4. The officers and men captured and paroled
| by Gen. :. 2. Carter, in his expedition to East
| Tennessee in December last
Y. The officers and men captured and paroled
by Lieut.-Col Stewart st Van Buren. Arkan-
sas- January 18th, 1863; by Col Diekev. De-
cenber- 1868, IN his march to the Mobile and
Ohio railroad, and by Capt. Cameron at CO
! rinih, Miss. in December, 1862
| p The officers and men paroled at Oxford.
| Miss. the sd Of December. 1863: mt Das-
| arc, Arkansas, on the 7th Of January. 1863.
! and at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on the 23d Of
February, 1868.
y. All persons who have been captured On
the sea. aud the waters leading to the same. OF
/ upon the sea coast of the Confederate or Unit
81 States at any time previous to December
18th, 1862
8. All civilians who have been arrested III
any time before the 9th Of May. 1868, and re-
leased parole arc discharged from anv and
every obligation contained ID said parole II
| any such person has taken the oath Of alleci-
auce to the United States, or given any bond.
or u his release was accompanied with any
other condition, LIE j. discharged from the
same
=. IL any person embraced in any Of the
| foregoing sections, on i'm aly section of anr
previous Exchange Notice. wherein they are
declared exchanged, are in any Federal prison.
| they are TO be Immediately released and deliv-
| eIed ~ the Confederate authorities
ROBERT OULD.
Agent Of Exchange.
July -, 1863 20 Ct
ADJuTAST And INSPECTOR GEMS OrFIcr.
Richmond, Nay 90, 1863
General Orders, No. 70l
I. The following A ct WI Congress. and Rem
lations adopted by the Department in pursuance
thereof are published for the information of
All concerned:
An Act to abolish Supernumerary Oficers in
the Commissary and Quartermasters De-
| p=rtnents
The CoHgrerr or the Confasrafe !St1,x, -
4"aerica do eRact, That tae office Of reriment,F
Comnissary be and the same Is hereby abo1-
| lshed and the duties heretofore devolved hv
| law upon said commissary shall beperforrnej
hy the regime ntal quartermaster: rrovi5ed
| tna' said quartermaster shall if reGuired bv
tne secretary Of War, execute a new bond
quire. may re-
SEc. 2. That the commaudin, oa,oo- -.
regiment Or battalion shall when the cooJ %
'he service IN nis opinion requires IL. detail I.
non-commlssiuned officer or private as Cor
missary sergeant, who shall be assigned to ,bo
! re1imental quartermaster 10 perform the dutia-
now performed by commissary serpeanrs. arJ
me hon-commissioned officer or private 50 de-
u''leu shail receive, as extra pay, twenty dol
lars per month.
SIC y That the regimental quartermasters
ae'ine as eommlssaries, shall draw supplies for
their respective regiments on Provision Re
turns form H. and not in buIk onI v-ha.
detached from their brigades. 90 that II i I'M
practicable 10 draw supplies from the br;,-a.Io
eommissary, u shall be the duty Of the nesrest
brigade or post cOmmissary to supplv bis 49,
ment on Provision Return IA.
SIC. !. Sales TO officers shall be rna5a h.
ne brigade eommissaries to which such oficere
are attached.
| SEC o. That quartermasters and commits
sarles. assistant quarterInasters and assistant
eoni ares Eho become permanently de-
tached from divisions bricades Or regiments
to which they are originally appointed and as
signed, respectively, whether BY resignation
or otherwise. shall cease to he officers W The
army, and their names shall be dropped from
the rolls Of the amy. unless re-assiened by a
special order Of the Secretary of War
&c ~ That IL shall be the 5n+z ar III.
Secretary Of War to issue the necsssarv 49, -
Tor the earliest practicable enforcement Of he
provisions Of This law; and that he shall com
munlcate to the chiefs Of the subsistence and
quartermaster's 5ureaux the names of tbe com
inissaries and assistant commissaries. quarter
masters and assistant quartermasters retained
ana dropped from the rolls, under this act.
SEo. . That all laws and parts Of laws con-
rANehihg Inc provisions of this act, be and the
same are hereby repealed.
Approved May !, 1868.