(General orders, 
No. 86. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE, 
Washington, June 24, 1861. 
1.. organization of volunteer regiments mustered into the 
service of the United States for a longer period than three months, 
must conform strictly to that prescribed in General Orders, No. 15, 
from this Office, dated May 4, 1861. 
All persons in excess of that organization will be immediately 
discharged, but will receive pay and allowances to the time of their 
<R|charge. The rate of such pay and allowances will be that author- 
by section first of the act of Congress approved March 19, 1836. 
11.. duty of buying horses for the Light Artillery service is 
retranslated from the Ordnance Department to the Quartermaster’s 
Departr^it. 
111.. Paragraph 1030 of the Regulations is amended to read as 
follows : 
In the field, on the frontier, or in active service the commanding 
officer may authorize a mounted officer to take from the public stables 
one or two horses at a price one-third greater than the average cost 
of the lot from which he selects, or at the actual cost of the horse 
when that can be ascertained; providing he shall not take the horse 
of any trooper. A horse so taken shall not be exchanged or returned. 
Horses of mounted officers shall be shod by the public farrier or 
blacksmith. 
IY...The Superintendency of the General Recruiting Service of the 
Western Department is hereby abolished, and Lieut.-Col. Burbank, 
Thirteenth Infantry, will repair to Jefferson Barracks, Mo., and super- 
intend the recruiting of his regiment. Officers recruiting in the 
Western Department, includingthe commanderof Newport Barracks, 
Ky., will hereafter make their returns to the Superintendent of the 
General Recruiting Service of the Eastern Department stationed at 
Fort Columbus, New York Harbor. 
By order: 
L. THOMAS, 
Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.