Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
Richmond, October 22, 1862. 
GENERAL ORDERS, \ 
No. 77. 5 
I. AK cases of applications for transfer from the Army to the Navy, 
must be forwarded through superior officers, who will certify whether 
the party whose transfer is sought, is, or is not a seafaring person. 
11. The proposal of the Southern Express Company to carry funds 
for the government, having been accepted, all officers are hereby for- 
bidden sending persons for funds, in cases where the Express Company 
can be used. 
111. Officers who have been charged with the disbursement of Bounty 
Funds will immediately render their accounts to the Quartermaster 
General; otherwise they will be reported for dismissal, as required by 
law. 
IV. Lieutenant Colonel George Deas, Assistant Adjutant General, 
C. S. Army, is assigned to duty in the War Department, as Acting Assis- 
tant Secretary of War, and will be obeyed and respected accordingly. 
V. Paragraph 11, General Orders, No. 57, current series, is modified so 
as to read as follows: Hereafter all soldiers under 18 and over 40 years 
of age, will be discharged at the expiration of the term for which they 
have engaged to serve. 
command of the Secretary of War. 
Adjutant and Inspector General 
S. COOPER,