Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
GENERAL ORDERS, \ 
No. 55. 5 
Richmond, August 2, 1862. 
Paragraph 11, General Orders No. 42, current series, is hereby revoked, 
and the following is substituted in lieu thereof: 
Where martial la w has been proclaimed, the civil tribunals are autho- 
rized to grant injunctions, to make orders, and to take such steps as may 
be necessary to prevent irreparable mischief, to secure the possession of 
infants in the persons entitled thereto, to decide suits for divorce, to make 
orders for alimony, and to secure the personal safety of the parties to 
such suits, to recover rents, and the possession of real estate and slaves, 
and to restore the possession of property tortiously changed. 
order. 
S. COOPEE, 
Adjutant and Inspector General,