Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office. 
Richmond, Nov. 26, 1863. 
GENERAL ORDERS, ? 
No. 154. S 
1. No ordnance or ordnance stores other than those prescribed in the 
Ordnance Manual, edition of 186)5, or specially approved by the Ordnance 
Bureau, are allowed to be purchased or fabricated. The permission given 
to officers by paragraph 1232, Army Register (paragraph 9, Ordnance Re„ 
gulations), to provide ordnance and ordnance stores, “in case of urgent 
necessity,” is to be exercised, subject to the above restrictions. 
11. Accounts paid by disbursing officers for the purchase, fabrication, 
or repair of ordnance and ordnance stores, contrary to the foregoing or- 
der, will not be admitted in the settlement of their accounts. 
order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General.