GENERAL ORDERS, \     WAR DEPARTMENT,
                   \            Adjutant General's Office,
      No. 304.      S                Washington, September 10,1863.

  I..So much of General Orders, No. 173, War Department, 1863, as
authorizes the transfer of Commissioned Officers (disabled in service)
from Active Eegiments  to the Invalid Corps, by Corps  Commanders,
is rescinded.
  II..Eegimental Officers, unfit for aetive service, who desire to enter
the Invalid Corps, must, in all cases, make application for appointment.
This application must be addressed to the Provost Marshal General;
must eontain a full military  history of the  applicant, and should be
accompanied by a Surgeon's certificate stating  the  nature and degree
of disability, and that he is fit for service in the Invalid Corps;  and
recommendations, of a positive character, from at least three officers of
rank under whom he has served, as to his military qualifications and
fitness for the position.
  III. .Officers who have heretofore been transferred on  Invalid Eolls,
and who have not yet received their appointments  from the Secretary
of War, must make  application in accordance with the provisions of
this order.

  By order of the Secretary of War:
                                         E.  D.  TOWNSEND,
                                      Assistant Adjutant  General.