Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office. 
GENERAL ORDERS, ) 
No. 157. 5 
Richmond, Dec. 1, 1863. 
I. The provisions of paragraph I, General Orders, No. 67, current se- 
ries, are hereby extended so as to include officers of the Commissary de- 
partment, and such agents of that department as have been appointed by 
the Secretary of War. 
11. When a soldier, ordered before a “board of examiners for con- 
scripts,” or a “hospital examining board,” in pursuance of paragraph 
111, General Orders, No. 141, current series, is unable to appear by rea- 
son of physical disability, he will forward to the enrolling officer a certi- 
ficate to this effect, signed by his attending physician, which certificate 
will ‘also embrace a full and accurate statement of. the case. The enroll- 
ing officer will submit the certificate to either board, who, in conference 
with him, will make upon it such recommendation as may be warranted 
by the facts ascertained and the character of the parties. This recom- 
mendation, with the statement, will be forwarded as directed in the para- 
graph above quoted. 
order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General.