Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
GENERAL ORDERS, I 
No. 8. I 
Richmond, Jan. 28, 1864. 
I. Paragraphs 1129, 1130, 1131, 1132, Army Regulations, are hereby 
revoked. 
11. Enlisted men detailed for duty, on account of physical disability, 
in the city of Richmond, are allowed one dollar and twenty cents per diem 
as commutation of rations. 
111. Commutation of rations of all enlisted men entitled thereto by the 
Regulations of the War Department, whether on detached or on detailed 
service, or stationed in a city, with no opportunity of messing, or of the 
non-commissioned and regimental staff, when they have no opportunity of 
messing, or of soldiers on furlough, or stationed where rations cannot be 
issued in kind, or placed temporarily in a private hospital, on the advice 
of the senior surgeon of the post or detachment, or of ordnance sergeants, 
or of a soldier who has necessarily paid for his own subsistence, or of a 
chaplain, is fixed at one dollar per diem, to date from the Ist January 1864. 
IW Enlisted men who have been or may become permanently disabled, 
or who hold the certificate of a medical examining board to that effect, 
and who have not been discharged the service, may have their rations 
commuted at one dollar and twenty-five cents per diem, whether they are 
in a hospital, private quarters, or on furlough. 4 
V. All commutation accounts will state the length of time, date and 
amount, for what purpose commutation is claimed, and that it was im- 
practicable to take, rations in kind; which facts must be certified to by the 
commissioned officer under whose orders the soldier was at the time the 
rations became due. 
YI. Commutation of rations in the case of paroled unexchanged pri- 
soners on furlough, who have just been received from the federal lines, will 
he allowed at one dollar per diem, to date from the Ist January 1864. 
VII. The follow ing paragraph will be substituted for 1111, Army Re- 
gulations : 
Issues to the hospital will be on returns by the medical officers, for 
such provisions only as are actually required for the sick and wounded. The commuted value of rations for the sick and wounded will be one 
dollar and twenty-five cents. The ration for hospitals will be the same as 
that issued to soldiers in the field. If a greater allowance is required of 
any particular articles, not issued to troops in the field, special requisi- 
tions must be made therefor. / 
VIII. Hospital attendants cannot draw rations from the Subsistence 
Department, but will have their rations commuted at one dollar and 
twenty-five cents per diem. 
order. 
Adjutant and Inspector General, 
S. COOPER,