Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
GENERAL ORDERS, ? 
No. 56. 5 
Richmond, August G, 18G2. 
I. Military Commanders have no authority to suspend the writ of 
habeas corpus; nor does martial law, when declared by the President, 
under the Act of Congress, justify the arbitrary establishment of the 
price of commodities in the trade of the citizens of the Confederate 
States. 
11. Necessity alone can warrant the impressment of private property 
for public use; and wherever the requisite supplies can be obtained by 
the consent of the owners at fair rates, and without hazardous delay, the 
military authorities will abstain from the harsh proceeding of impress- 
ment. 
TIT, Paragraph V, General Orders No. 33, current series, is hereby re- 
voked; and all discharges will hereafter bo made under the 11th Article 
of War and General Order No. 26, current series. 
order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General.