Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
GENERAL ORDERS, \ 
No. 66. $ 
Richmond, September 12, 1862. 
I. Agreeably to paragraph I, General Orders No. 56, current series, 
declaring that “ military commanders have no authority to suspend the 
writ of habeas corpus,” all proclamations of martial law by General 
Officers, and others assuming a power vested only in the President, are 
hereby annulled. 
11. Conscripts employed at the government workshops of the Ord- 
nance Department, will not be interfered with by enrolling or other 
officers. All proceedings in reference to them will be made through tho 
Commanding Officer of the Ordnance establishments. 
111. All conscripts, or detailed of hired workmen engaged in such 
establishments will be provided with passes, signed by the officer imme- 
diately in charge, and countersigned by Colonel J.. Gorgas, Chief of 
Ordnance. 
IV. The Superintendent of the Nitre and Mining Bureau, or such 
officers as ho may designate, are authorized and required to 
the government, any mineral mines or nitre caves or deposits required 
for the wants of the service, in all cases where such mines, caves or de- 
posits are suffered to remain unworked, or which may be imperfectly 
worked by the owner or lessor. Compensation for ore, earth, buildings, 
timber, and all materials necessary for such work, thus taken and used, 
may be settled by private agreement, or by arbitration, under the direc- 
tion of the Nitre and Mining Bureau. 
y. Enrolling or recruiting officers in the discharge of their duties 
under the conscript or other acts, are enjoined not to remove or interfere 
with workmen or employees at the nitre, lead or copper works, or mines 
worked by government officers, or by contractors for the Ordnance De- 
partment, without first apprising and obtaining the consent of the Super- 
intendent or Officer in charge, who will be held strictly responsible for 
any abuse or evasion of the law. 
YI Through an error in the printed text of the “ Army Regulations” 
of the Confederate States, Quartermasters have allowed to servants issues 
of fuel and straw, &c. All officers of the Quartermaster’s Department 
will hereafter take notice that such allowances are illegal, and will not 
be admitted in accounts passing through the Quartermaster General’s 
Office. 
order. 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
S. COOPER,