Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
Richmond, Oci. 22, 1863. 
GENERAL ORDERS, ? 
No. 137. 5 
i lie authority of Commandants of Conscripts to make details for en- 
rolling' service of officers and soldiers coming within their Jurisdiction, 
under the 2d clause ol paragraph II of General Orders, No. 82, and para- 
graph \ ol General Orders, No. 96, of 1862, is hereby extended, so that, 
they may employ such persons in the duties of rail road guards, bridge 
or lorry guards, or in the protection of public property, at the request of 
the officers ot the stall departments or of local military commanders. 
Special reports will be made of all such details to the Bureau of Con- 
scription. 
They may also detail, in like manner, until the recovery of health, any 
convalescents borne on the rolls of general hospitals, who may be re- 
ported to them by the hospital boards as unable to take the field, but fit 
for light duty: the details to cease at the time that may be indicated by 
the examinations of the hospital boards. 
order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General.