IV... All applicants, before being appointed, will be examined by a Board of Officers, to be convened in the Department where they may be residing or serving.

V... The Adjutant General will provide each Superintendent with a warrant of his appointment.

VI... Superintendents will be assigned to cemeteries, and will not be removed or transferred except by orders from the Adjutant General's Office.

VII... The Adjutant General will report appointments, removals, assignments, and transfers of Superintendents to the Quartermaster General and to the Paymaster General.

VIII... Superintendents will be under the direct orders of the Quartermaster General, and will report to him, through the Adjutant General, on the last day of every month, the condition of the cemeteries under their charge, and note particularly any damage done, or repairs required to preserve them. Special reports will be made at other times, if occasion demand.

IX... The Paymaster General will make proper provision for the payment of Superintendents. The Quartermaster General will provide the limited amount of stationery necessary to enable them to make their reports, and such tools as may be necessary to keep the cemetery in order.

X... It is made the duty of the Inspector, or of any other officer who may have cognizance of misconduct or neglect of duty by a Superintend ent of a cemetery, immediately to report the particulars to the Adjutant General of the Army.

CARE OF CEMETERIES.

I... The graves shall be kept sodded, the walks and avenues properly graded and graveled, and the grounds in complete order.

II... A copy of the following act of Congress shall be kept posted at the entrance, and in several other conspicuous places, in each cemetery:

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That any person who shall wilfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure, or remove any monument, gravestone, or other structure, or shall willfully destroy, cut, break, injure, or remove any tree, shrub, or plant within the limits of any of said National Cemeteries, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any district or circuit court of the United States within any State

or district where any of said National Cemeteries are situated, shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment of not less than fifteen nor more than sixty days, according to the nature and aggravation of the offense. And the Superintendent in charge of any National Cemetery is hereby authorized to arrest forthwith any person engaged in committing any misdemeanor herein prohibited, and to bring such person before any United States commissioner or judge of any district or circuit court of the United States within any State or district where any of said cemeteries are situated for the purpose of holding said person to answer for said misdemeanor, and then and there shall make complaint in due form.-[Act approved February 22, 1867.]

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General.

OFFICIAL:.

Assistant Adjutant General.

:

GENERAL ORDERS,

WAR DEPARTMENT,

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

No. 65.

Washington, June 22, 1867.

Appointments by Brevet in the Volunteer Force, Army of the United States, made by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, from March 13, 1865, to July 28, 1866 :

TO BE MAJOR GENERALS BY BREVET.

Brevet Brigadier General Henry L. Abbot, of the United States Volunteers, and Colonel of the First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.

Brigadier General Robert Allen, of the United States Volunteers, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.

Brigadier General George L. Andrews, of the United States Volunteers, for faithful and meritorious services during the campaign against the city of Mobile and its defences, to date from March 26, 1865.

Brigadier General Richard Arnold, of the United States Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services at the sieges of Port Hudson, Louisiana, and of Fort Morgan, Mobile harbor, to date from August 22, 1865.

Brigadier General Alexander Asboth, of the United States Volunteers, for gallant and faithful services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.

Brevet Brigadier General Smith D. Atkins, Colonel of the Ninetysecond Illinois Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services, to date from March 13, 1865.

Brevet Brigadier General Henry B. Banning, Colonel of the One Hundred and Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.

Brigadier General James Barnes, of the United States Volunteers, for meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.

Brigadier General Henry A. Barnum, of the United States Volunteers, for distinguished and gallant conduct during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.

Brigadier General William F. Bartlett, of the United States Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.

Brigadier General Henry Baxter, of the United States Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the Wilderness, at Dabney's Mills, and at Five Forks, Virginia, to date from April 1, 1865.

Brigadier General George L. Beal, of the United States Volunteers, for long and gallant services in the field, to date from March 13, 1865. Brigadier General Samuel Beatty, of the United States Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services in the battles before Nashville, Tennessee, to date from March 13, 1865.

Brigadier General William W. Belknap, of the United States Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.

Brigadier General Henry W. Benham, of the United States Volun teers, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.

Brigadier General William P. Benton, of the United States Volunteers, for faithful and meritorious services during the campaign against the city of Mobile and its defences, to date from March 26, 1865.

Brigadier General William Birney, of the United States Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.

Brigadier General James Bowen, of the United States Volunteers, for meritorious services, to date from March 13, 1865.

Brigadier General Mason Brayman, of the United States Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.

Brigadier General James S. Brisbin, of the United States Volunteers, for meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865. Brigadier General R. P. Buckland, of the United States Volunteers, for faithful and meritorious services, to date from March 13, 1865.

Brigadier General John C. Caldwell, of the United States Volunteers, for faithful and meritorious services, to date from August 19, 1865.

Brigadier General Robert A. Cameron, of the United States Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.

Brevet Brigadier General Henry Capehart, of the United States Volunteers, and Colonel of the First West Virginia Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious services, to date from June 17, 1865.

Brigadier General James H. Carleton, of the United States Volunteers, for meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.