Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
GENERAL ORDERS, \ 
No. 89. 5 
Richmond, November 18, 1862. 
I. The following Act of Congress is published for the information of 
ail concerned, and will be observed by all enrolling officers; 
An act to permit enlistments in the navy and marine corps. 
(No. 29.) 
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That, from and after 
the passage of this act, any person subject to enrollment for military service, under 
the Acts of Congress providing for the public defence, shall be permitted to enlist in 
the marine corps at any time prior to being mustered into the army of the Con_ 
federate States: provided, that the number of men so enlisted does not increase 
the marine corps beyond the strength authorized by law. 
Sec. 2. That if any person has been or is about to be enrolled for service in the 
army shall, at any time before being assigned to any company, declare to the en 
rolling or commanding officer that he perfers being enrolled for service in the navy 
or marine corps, it shall be the duty of the said officer to enroll such person for the 
service which he may prefer, and to transmit to the Secretary of the Navy a list of 
the persons so enrolled. 
Sec. 3. That from and after the passage of this act the pay of sailors and marines 
shall be increased four dollars per month. [Approved October 2,1862.] 
11. Transfers from the military to the naval service will be effected in 
the presence of an enrolling officer, or an officer of the navy, in order 
that when the soldier is in due forai discharged from the army, he shall 
be at once enrolled, and received into the navy. 
111. The following form will be used in all cases of discharge, to be 
signed as required by the 11th Article of War. Orders for discharge 
emanating from this office, will be considered simply the authority 
whereon to grant the discharge, and not the discharge itself: 
TO ALL WHOM IT MAT CONCERN. 
SOLDIER’S DISCHARGE. 
of. t who was enlisted the day of one thousand eight hundred and » 
KNOW YE, That 
-a of Captain- 
Company, Regiment 
to serve , is hereby honorably discharged from the Army of the Confederate 
States. 
gald born in in the State of ,is years of age, 
feet. inches high, complexion, eyes, hair, and by occupation, 
when enlisted, a . 
Given at- this day of 186-. 
order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General