CIRCULAR )       MEDICAL DIRECTOR'S OFFICE,
          l               Department or the Ohio,
  No. 2.  J                      Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Sept. 29,  1862.
    The following extract, viz:  Paragraph  five,  General  Orders,
No. 36,  current series of War  Department, together with notes,  is
published for the information of Medical Officers in the Hospitals  of
this Department.
    " 5. When too long a delay would arise in discharging the man
because of the remote station  of  his company, application  will be
made by the Medical  Officer to the  Adjutant Geneial for such
account of  the man  as  his  records will furnish.  To this  partial
descriptive roll the Medical Officer will  add the period for which pay
is due the man since his entry into the hospital.   The man will then
be discharged and receive the  pay and allowances thus shown to be
due  him, leaving the  balance due  him  on account  of clothing,
retained pay, &c., for settlement in such manner as  may hereafter be
determined.'
    To  this paragraph  the following  notes have been added, by
order of Major General Halleck.
    " Note I.—' In  cases where too  long a delay  would arise  in
discharging a man, because of the remote station  of his company,'
and  when no descriptive  list  can be obtained from this office, the
men referred to, will be discharged under this order,  and an order
given them on the Quartermaster's Department for transportation to
their homes.  This order will be signed by the same officer who signs
the discharge.  The  Quartermaster will furnish transportation  to
such  men, upon  the  presentation of this order, requiring them also
to show their discharge.''
    " Note II.—The sentence, 'To this partial descriptive roll, the
Medical Officer will add the period for which pay is due the  man
since his entry into the hospital,' will be understood to give him pay
on this final statement from the muster next preceding  his entry into
 the hospital until the date of his discharge."
     Surgeons  in charge of United States General  Hospitals, are,
therefore,  directed,  without delay, to  make out  discharge papers
accordingly.
                                         L.  H. HOLDEN,
                            Surgeon U. S. A., and  Medical Director. 
 
 
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