Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
GENERAL ORDERS, ? 
No. 135. 5 
_ Richmond, Oct. 15, 1863. 
I. Recruiting officers and others are forbidden to grant permits to con- 
scripts or deserters, allowing them to visit their homes, or to remain there 
for any purpose. The notice already given conscripts is deemed suffi- 
cient, and deserters are not entitled to indulgence. 
11. All parties who have received exemption papers for disability other 
than those granted for permanent and decided disability, must be re-ex- 
amined, and the law which there is reason to believe is too often evaded, 
be in these, and in all cases strictly enforced. 
111. Men employed to aid enrolling officers must, if subject to con- 
scription, be regularly enrolled; and unless detailed for the special duty 
in question by written orders of the War Department, will be reported to 
the Bureau of Conscription, to be disposed of as in other cases. 
IY. Officers will be held to strict account for any violation or neglect 
of these orders. 
Y. The provisions of paragraph I, General Orders, No. 67, current se- 
ries, is extended to officers of Major A. 11. Cole’s department. The pay- 
ments authorized will be made by any post quartermaster. 
YI. Officers and soldiers in the general service cannot be transferred to 
local companies, and applications therefore will not be entertained. 
order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General.