Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
GENERAL ORDERS, \ 
No. 39. ’ ] 
Richmond, April 10, 1863. 
I. That in all cases of impressment heretofore made under the autho- 
rity of any of the persons mentioned in paragraph 2d of section 11, of 
General Orders, No. 37, in which the property impressed is either in the 
possession of the owner or of the impressing officer or his subordinates, 
end the compensation therefor shall not have been adjusted, and it shall 
be necessary to determine the compensation to be made, it shall be lawful 
to employ the rules and agencies provided in the act of congress con- 
cerning impressment, and the General Orders aforesaid for that purpose, 
in 'the same manner and under the same circumstances as if the impress- 
ment had been made since the date of the same. 
11. “ Conscripts examined prior to the publication of General Orders, 
No. 22, Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, February 23d, 1863, and 
excused from military service, for reasons announced in that order as in- 
sufficient cause for exemption, will be re-examined by the examining 
board of surgeons appointed for the different congressional districts, and 
if not deemed unfit for military duty under the instructions issued, will 
be received into service.” 
“ Temporary exemption” will not be given for a “ period beyond thirty 
days.” 
order. 
Adjutant and Inspector General, 
S. COOPER,