Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
GENERAL ORDERS, \ 
No. 164. $ 
Richmond, Dec. 29, 1863. 
I. Paragraph 11, General Orders, No. 159, current series, is amended 
as follows: 
11. The hospital ration is fixed, until further orders, at the same rates 
of issues now made to soldiers in the field. If a greater allowance is 
required of any particular article, not issued to troops in the field, special 
requisitions must he made therefor. 
Bv order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General