Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
Richmond, 22, 1863 
GENERAL ORDERS, \ 
No. 48. S 
I. The following Act of Congress having been duly approved by the 
President, is published for the information of all concerned: 
“ The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That any 
officer, non-commissioned officer or private now in the military sendee of 
the Confederate States, who has been elected or appointed since entering 
said service, or who may hereafter be elected or appointed a Senator or 
Representative in Congress, or in any State Legislature, or Judge of the 
Circuit, District or Superior Courts of Law or Equity in any State of the 
Confederacy, District Attorney, Clerk of any Court of Record, Sheriff, 
Ordinary, Judge of any Court of Probate, Collector of State Taxes (not 
to exceed one for each county) or Parish Recorder, upon furnishing the 
Secretary of War with evidence of such election or appointment, if an 
officer, his resignation shall be promptly accepted; and if a non-commis- 
sioned officer or private, he shall be honorably discharged by the Secretary 
of War.” [Approved April 2d, 186:!.] 
11. The evidence required as to the elections referred to, wall be a cer- 
tificate 'of the fact from the clerk of the county or parish or other officer, 
whose duty it may be to certify to such elections, under the laws of 
State, in maimer and form required by said laws. This Certificate, must 
accompany the resignation, through the usual channel of communication, 
as prescribed in General Orders, No. 3, and the Army Regulations. 
order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General.