GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 19. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General's Office, 
Washington, February 10, 1865. 
The following act of Congress is published for the information of 
all concerned: 
AN ACT to extend to certain persons in the employ of the Government the benefits 
of the Asylum for the Insane in the District of Columbia. 
[Public-No. 20.] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That during the continuance of 
the rebellion, civilians employed in tho service of the United States, in the 
Quartermaster's Department and Subsistence Department of the Army, 
who may be, or may hereafter become, insane while in such employment, 
shall be admitted, on the order of the Secretary of War, the same as 
persons belonging to the Army and Navy, to the benefits of the Asylum 
for the Insane in the District of Columbia, as provided in such other 
cases by the fourth section of the "Act to organize an institution for 
the insane of the Army and Navy and of the District of Columbia 
in the said District," approved March third, eighteen hundred and 
fifty-five. 
Approved February 9, 1865. 
By order of tub Secretary of War : 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.