GENERAL ORDERS, 
NO. 59. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General's office, 
Washington, April 7, 1865. 
Provost Fund. 
All funds in the hands of Provost Marshals arising from fines, for 
feitures, &c , which do not properly revert to any regular appropriation, 
and for the expenditure of which no previous authority has been given 
from the War Department, will be forwarded to the Adjutant General 
of the Army on the receipt of this order; and thereafter at the end of 
each month. Accounts current, with abstracts showing in what way 
such funds have accrued, and how they have been expended, will be 
forwarded monthly to the Adjutant General by all officers by whom 
they are held. When not forwarded in U. S. currency, the funds will 
be sent by drafts on a U. S. Depository, or National Bank, payable "to 
the order of the Adjutant General, U. S. Army." 
order of the Secretary of War: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.