Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
Richmond, Sept. 3, 1863. 
GENERAL ORDERS, ? 
No. 117. \ 
I. In any case where the exigencies of the army compel impressment 
or purchase, for its use, of the whole of any one article, or all articles of 
the planter’s production, taxed in kind, the pest quartermaster of me dis- 
trict will transfer to his district collector the assessor’s estimate, to be col- 
lected in the money value only, at the rate of purchase or impressment, 
as the case may be. Before making such transfer, the post quartermas- 
ter of the district will credit the producer Upon such estimates with the 
amount of such articles as he may have paid in kind, and endorse thereon 
the circumstances under which the transfer is made. 
11. Controlling and post, quartermasters of districts will keep and re- 
port their accounts relating to tax in kind, separate and distinct from all 
others. • . 
111. Producers are required to deliver the wheat, corn, oats, rye, buck- 
wheat, rice, peas, beans, cured hay and fodder, sugar, molasses of cane, 
wool and tobacco, in such form and ordinary marketable condition as 
may be usual in the section in which they are delivered—cotton ginned 
and packed in some secure manner—tobacco stripped and packed in 
boxes. 
• IV. Where post quartermasters of districts entrust agents with dis- 
bursements, care must be taken that receipts and accounts be stated in 
the name of the post quartermaster. 
V. Quartermasters and commissaries serving with troops may receive 
the tithe tax, when authorized to do so by the chief quartermaster or 
chief commissary of the army in which they are serving. The names of 
such authorized officers will be reported to the Quartermaster General. 
VI. Where producers offer to pay their tithe tax to officers authorized 
to receive it, it is obligatory upon the latter to receive the produce, and to 
pay the excess of transportation over eight miles, at the rates prescribed 
by state commissioners, under the impressment act. In each case they 
will receipt to the post quartermaster of the district for the produce. Upon this receipt the receiving officer will be responsible for the quantity 
which he will take np on his property return. The receipt given to-the 
producer will only be evidence that so much of his tax is paid. In all 
such receipts the name of the producer and his county will be stated. 
order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General,