Adjutant and Inspector Obneral’s Office, 
Richmond, Nov. 17, 1863. 
GENERAL ORDERS, ? 
No. 147. $ 
For the due authentication of military orders exhibited in evidence be- 
fore the judicial tribunals, it is hereby declared that the Orders of the 
Adjutant and Inspector General have the force of Regulations, for the 
government of all branches of the army, and that printed or written co- 
pies of tire same are duly authenticated when endorsed as official by any 
Assistant Adjutant General, or by any Chief of a Bureau of this Depart- 
ment. 
By order. 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
S. COOPER,