Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
Richmond, Nov. 20, 1862. 
GENERAL ORDERS, } 
No. 91. j 
The officers of tlie Quartermaster’s Department charged with paying 
the troops, are hereby prohibited from making payment to any General 
Staff Officer of the Provisional Army, who does not exhibit the evidence 
of assignment to the appropriate command under which he claims pay- 
ment, agreeably to paragraph I, of General Orders, No. 48, current series. 
A departure from this order will render the paying officer liable to stoppage 
to the amount of such payment, should it be found, in the settlement of 
his account at the treasury, that' he has disregarded this regulation. 
The large number of General Staff Officers of the Provisional Army who 
are without assignment to appropriate commands, including those of the 
Adjutant and Inspector General’s Department, Quartermaster’s Depart- 
ment, Commissary Department, and other Departments of the General 
Staff, renders it necessary to publish this Order, and to append to it the 
subjoined paragraph of General Orders, No. 48, above referred to, to wit: 
The appointment of General Officers, and Officers of the General Staff in the 
Provisional Army, being made nnder special authority, and for specific objects, 
terminate with their commands, except in case of assignment to other appropriate 
duties. 
This Order is not designed to affect those General Staff Officers who are 
temporarily absent on leave, or sick, while under proper assignment to 
their appropriate commands. 
order. 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
B. COOPER,