Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
Richmond, October 2, 1862. 
GENERAL ORDERS, \ 
No. 74. $ 
I. The execution of the act approved April 16th, 1862, commonly 
called the Conscription Act, and of all the amendments thereto, is sus- 
•pended by direction of the President, in the States of Kentucky and 
Missouri. Troops from those States will, until further orders, be received 
into the Confederate service under the acts passed by the Confederate 
Congress prior to the passage of the act above referred to, the execution 
of which is hereby suspended. 
11. The attention of officers and all others concerned is called to the 
fact that General Orders No. 72, published incorrectly in the Richmond 
Enquirer of September 30th, and the Richmond Whig of October Ist 
and 2d, was published correctly on the Ist instant and thereafter in the 
Enquirer, and on the 3d instant and thereafter in the Whig. 
111. All furloughed, sick and wounded soldiers, will have transporta- 
tion furnished them to their homes and back, where their furloughs are 
of sufficient length to warrant it. 
order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General.