previous to being taken into the United States service; her capacity for freight and passengers; the number, description, and power of engines; the number and size of boilers; extreme length and width ; number of decks; depth of draft; whether side or stern wheels; and the last certificate of inspection, or a certified copy thereof, must also be furnished.

Evidence must be furnished showing the particular circumstances attending the loss, when and where it occurred; also, whether the loss was total or only partial; and if the latter, the extent of damage done.

A statement must be furnished showing the respective payments made, by officers or agents of the United States, for or on account of the services of said vessel, or steamboat, during the time she was employed in the service prior to the loss thereof.

The owners, in each case, must make affidavit that they have not, by themselves or agents, received from any officer or agent of the United States any property in lieu of that lost or destroyed, nor any compensation for the same, nor any certificate of indebtedness or certified voucher therefor on which payment has been or might be made. The owners must also state what insurance, if any, was had on such vessel or boat; the names of the companies in which insured; the amounts thereof, and the payments received therefrom.

Each witness must state his place of residence and business, and his opportunities for knowing the facts concerning which he testifies. All evidence must be sworn to before some officer authorized to administer oaths, and duly authenticated.

RAILROAD ENGINES AND CARS.

The evidence to substantiate claims of this description should be, as far as applicable, the same as is required in the cases of steamboats and other vessels Claims for losses occurring from casualties while engaged in the transportation of troops, supplies, &c, and where the roads, machinery, &c., are in the possession and management of the agents of the railroad, are not embraced in this class of cases.

In no case can the foregoing evidence be dispensed with, unless the impracticability of producing it be clearly proved; and then the near

est and best other evidence of which the case is susceptible must be furnished in lieu thereof.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

I..The following officers and men have been declared duly exchanged as prisoners of war since the announcement in General Orders No. 10, of January 10, 1863:

1. All officers and enlisted men, and all persons, whatever may have been their classification or character, who have been delivered at City Point, Virginia, up to May 6, 1863.

2. All officers who have been captured and released on parole up to April 1, 1863, wherever they may have been captured.

3. All enlisted men who have been captured in North Carolina and Virginia, and released on parole, up to March 1, 1863.

II..The paroled troops herein declared to be exchanged will be, without delay, equipped for the field and forwarded to the armies to which they belong, from posts or camps wherever they may be collected. All officers and enlisted men absent, in virtue of being on parole, will, now that they are exchanged, immediately return to duty with their proper commands.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

Paragraph 1, of General Orders No. 81, War Department, Septem

ber 19, 1861, so far as it sets forth that the actual travelling expenses

of Volunteers, "sent out to recruit for their Regiments," when not furnished transportation in kind, shall be paid out of the fund for recruiting and equipping Volunteers, is not intended to apply to the transportation of officers and enlisted men when first proceeding to join the recruiting service, or when returning to their Regiments, after having been relieved from the recruiting service. Such transportation is a proper charge against the appropriation for the Quartermaster's Department.

General Orders No. 48, of 1862, paragraph II, is modified as follows:

Transportation for private physicians and nurses to attend sick and wounded soldiers will be provided by the Quartermaster's Department, upon the special order of the General Commanding a Military Department or an Army in the field.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General.

GENERAL ORDERS,

WAR DEPARTMENT,

No. 123.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, May 14, 1863.

The Acting Chief Signal Officers of Departments or Armies are authorized, the consent of the Generals Commanding being first obtained, to appear before the Examining Board now in session at Washington, D. C.

These officers will, at the discretion of the Commanding Generals,

be temporarily relieved from auty and ordered to Washington for this purpose, and each will return to his station as soon as his examination is completed.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

The following uniform has been adopted for the Invalid Corps: Jacket-Of sky-blue kersey, with dark-blue trimmings, cut like the jacket for United States cavalry, to come well down on the loins and abdomen.

Trowsers Present regulation, sky-blue.

Forage Cap-Present regulation.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

In executing the provisions of General Orders No. 105, from this Department, in regard to the selection of men for the Invalid Corps, Medical Inspectors, Surgeons in charge of Hospitals, Camps, Regiments, or of Boards of Enrolment, Military Commanders, and all others required to make the physical examination of men for the Invalid Corps, will be governed in their decisions by the following list of qualifications and disqualifications for admission into this Corps :

Physical infirmities that do not disqualify enlisted men for service in the "Invalid Corps."

1. Paralysis, if confined to the left upper extremity, and the man's previous occupation fit him for the duty of clerk, orderly, &c.

2. Simple hypertrophy of the heart, unaccompanied by valvular lesion; functional derangement of the stomach, (dyspepsia ;) mild chronic diarrhoea; simple enlargement of the liver or spleen; a temporary ailment of the kidneys or bladder.

3. Chronic rheumatism, unless manifested by positive change of structure, wasting of the affected limb, or puffiness or distortion of the joints.

4. Pain, unless accompanied with manifest derangement of the general health, wasting of a limb, or other positive sign of disease.

5. Myopia, unless very decided or depending upon structural change of the eye.

6. Stammering, unless excessive and confirmed.

7. Loss of teeth or unsound teeth.

8. Porticollis.

9. Reducible hernia.

10. Hemorrhoids.

11. Stricture of the urethra.

12. Incontinence of urine.

13. Loss or complete atrophy of both testicles from any cause; per. manent retention of one or both testicles within the inguinal canal. 14. Varicocele and circocele.

15. Loss of left arm, left forearm or left hand, if the man be qualified for duty of clerk or orderly.

16. Loss of leg or foot, provided the man have the inclination and aptitude for service in a general hospital, and is recommended for that duty by a medical officer, or if qualified for the duty of clerk or orderly.

17. Old and irreducible dislocation of shoulder and elbow, in which the bones have accommodated themselves to their new relations. 18. Muscular and cutaneous contraction of left arm, provided the man may be employed as clerk, orderly, or messenger.

19. Loss of left thumb; partial loss of either thumb.

20. Loss of first and second phalanges of all the fingers of the left hand.

21. Total loss of any two fingers of the same hand.

22. Total loss of index finger of right hand.