Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
Richmond, Oct. 29, 1863. 
GENERAL ORDERS, \ 
No. 14J. \ 
I. The practice of relieving officers from commands to which they have 
been appointed and assigned, and ordering them to report in person to 
this office for further assignment, will cease, unless specially required by 
orders from this office. 
11. Soldiers returning home on furlough, or on reaching places at 
which they wall stay during furlough, will immediately report to the 
nearest enrolling officer, who will keep a register of their names, descrip- 
tive list, place where stationed, by whom the furlough was granted, and 
the time at which it expires. 
111. When, at the expiration of his furlough, and being at a distance 
from an hospital examining board, a soldier is unable to travel, the enroll- 
ing officer will order him before the board of examiners for conscripts; 
and the medical officer and one of the physicians “employed” concur- 
ring, they will forward to his Commanding General, with a statement ot 
his case, a recommendation for an extension of furlough, not to exceed 
thirty days, duplicates being also sent to the Surgeon General. But 
when the soldier is accessible to a general hospital, he -will be sent before 
the hospital examining board, who will conform to the preceding in- 
structions. 
IY. In cases of sickness or wounds, which, from any cause are ne- 
glected, or do not receive proper treatment, the disability in consequence 
being prolonged, the soldier will be sent, by the enrolling officer, to the 
nearest camp of instruction for treatment in hospital. 
.V. Recommendations for extension of leave to officers and furloughs to 
.soldiers, and medical certificates to officers and certificates of disability 
for discharge to soldiers, will only be given by authorized boards of ex- 
aminers ; or, in cases embraced in paragraph 111 of this order, by the 
board of examiners for conscripts. Recommendations or certificates from 
private physicians, or from a medical officer singly, will not be received. 
Paragraphs 171 and 173, General Regulations, and paragraph I, General 
Ordtr15 No. 51, current series, from this office, are amended to accord with 
tins paragraph. VI. Furloughed soldiers will not he permitted to go within the lines 
of the enemy. 
VII. In the medical examination of substitutes, the instructions and 
requirements of paragraph 1192, General Regulations (paragraph if. 
Medical Regulations), will he fully adhered to; and it a substitute fads 
to meet the conditions of that paragraph, he will be rejected. 
I3v order. 
S. COOPER. 
Adjutant and Inspector General.