GENERAL ORDERS, i        WAR DEPARTMENT,
                   \              Adjutant General's Office,
     No.  301.      )                Washington, September 7, 1863.
  Under the provisions of section 42, act of March  3, 1863, the head
 of each Bureau in each Executive Department is to be considered a
 part of the Executive Department, and letters written by an officer of
 the Government on official business to the Department, or to any head
 of a Bureau of a Department, are to be passed free of postage.  Such
 letters  must  be marked official on the  envelope,  with the official
signature of the writer underneath
  BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR :
                                       E. D. TOWNSEND,
                                     Assistant Adjutant General.