Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
Richmond, Nov. 25, 1863. 
GENERAL ORDERS, ( 
No. 153. 5 
Abuses having occurred, from misconception of the force due to the 
passports, certifying to citizenship of the Confederate States, which are 
issued by the Secretary of State, as matter of right to any citizen for use 
in foreign countries, it is announced that such passports are not intended 
to have, and have not any effect whatever, in the Confederacy, to entitle 
to pass the confederate lines, or to sail from confederate ports, without due 
compliance with all police or military regulations prevailing there, or to 
exempt from military or other service imposed by law or regulations. 
order. 
Adjutant awl Inspector General. 
S. COOPER,