GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 83. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, September 28, 1861. 
I..Hereafter when certificates of disability, in the case of a volun- 
teer, are forwarded to the Commander having authority to grant his 
discharge, they will be accompanied by the blank, referred to in par. 
165 Revised Regulations, on which the discharge from service is 
finally made. And the said Commander will endorse thereon the 
same orders that he gives upon the certificate of disability. By this 
means the discharge, when complete, will carry with it the evidence 
of its authenticity, and the necessity for investigation on the part of 
the Pay Department will be removed. 
II_.Under the construction put by the War Department upon sec- 
tions 2 and 4 of the act of Congress approved July 29, 1861, the 
bands of all regiments of the regular Army will be paid alike. 
order: 
L. THOMAS, 
Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.