Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
general orders, 1 
No. 7. \ 
Richmond, January 19, 1863. 
I. The exemption from military service of Route Agents of the Post 
Office Department, having been claimed by the Postmaster General, as 
executive officers of the Confederate States, under the act of October 11, 
1862, is recognized. Such persons, if within conscript ages, will be en- 
rolled, and furnished with certificates exempting them during the conti- 
nuance of their appointments. In all cases where the appointment tails, 
or tKe term thereof expires, the party is required to report himself to the 
officer by whom he was enrolled, or if he cannot be found, to the Adju- 
tant and Inspector General at Richmond. 
11. Hereafter all field artillery, belonging to any separate army, will be 
parked together under the direction of the General, or other chief officer 
of artillery having control of the same, to be distributed, when required, 
according to the judgment of the Commanding General of such army. 
111. Cavalry companies will, as far as practicable, be kept with their 
respective regiments. The practice of detailing such companies, or parts 
of them, as couriers and guides for the Head Quarters of .General Officers, 
will be discontinued. Their places can be supplied by such infantry sol- 
diers as may be able to furnish themselves with horses, and can be de- 
tailed for this duty by the General from their respective commands—the 
number not to exceed six for the commander of an army corps, four for 
commander of division, and two for commander of brigade. 
IY. Medical officers, in furnishing certificates of disability to disabled 
and invalid officers, will confine themselves to the established Forms of 
the service, provided for such certificates, and will hereafter abstain from 
recommending them for light duty. 
order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General