Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
Richmond, September 7, 1863. 
GENERAL ORDERS, ? 
No. 119. 5 
I. All officers and agents of the Quartermaster’s, Commissary and 
Conscription departments will render all assistance in their powder in col- 
lecting arms abandoned or left by stragglers in the hands of citizens. 
11. Arms thus collected will be turned over to the nearest ordnance 
officer, who will-receipt for the same, and, upon proper vouchers, pay 
any reasonable expense actually incurred for transportation. 
111. “ Medical inspectors will be recommended by the Surgeon General, 
and being approved, will be announced in orders from this office.” 
IY. As heretofore required in General Orders, No. 64, of 1862, repeat- 
ing the hides of beeves, commissaries of subsistence in the field and at 
depots wrill transfer the hides of all slaughtered sheep to officers of the 
Quartermaster’s department, who will receive and preserve them to be 
tanned. 
order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General.