Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
Richmond, May 30, 1863. 
GENERAL ORDERS, ? 
No. 71. 5 
The following Act of Congress having been approved by the Presi 
dent, is announced for the information and guidance of all concerned; 
AN ACT ALLOWING HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATIONS TO SICK AND 
WOUNDED OFFICERS. 
“ The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That 
sick or wounded officers shall be allowed hospital accommodations in 
any of the hospitals of the Confederate States, at one dollar per diem. 
“ Sec. 2. And he it further enacted, When said officer shall be without 
money, he shall nevertheless be entitled to the same. The Surgeon in 
charge, at the expiration of every thirty days, shall state the account, 
and be entitled to draw the amount at any place where the officer might 
have drawn it, which shall be deducted from said officer’s pay, in the 
same way as if he himself had drawn it; and any officer drawing the 
same again, shall be punished as in the case of fraudulent drawers.” 
£ Approved April 29, 1863.] 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General.