Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
Richmond, September 9, 1863. 
GENERAL ORDERS, ) 
No. 121. S 
I. Paragraph 1064 of the Arnjy Regulations (107. of the Regulations 
of the Quartermaster’s Department), is amended to read as follows: 
“ Officers are entitled to pay from the date of the acceptance of their 
appointments, and from the date of promotion: provided, that disbursing 
officers, who are required to give official bonds, shall forward the same, 
always duly executed, with their letters of acceptance, and that their ac- 
ceptances shall take effect only from the date of the approval of the bonds 
by the War Department. But in no case will an officer be assigned to 
duty, and receive pay, until he has received his appointment. Notifica- 
tions of the receipt and approval of said bonds will be forwarded to offi- 
cers, through the chief of the Bureau to which they belong.” 
11. All officers of the Quartermaster General’s and Commissary Gene- 
ral’s departments (except such as hold commissions in the regular army 
of the Confederate States), appointed prior to the commencement of the 
present session of Congress (January 12th, 1863), and whose bonds, 
prior to the date of this order, have not been filed in, and approved by 
the War Department, are hereby dropped: provided, that on satisfactory 
evidence that such failure has not been the result of gross neglect, the 
Commanding General may grant the officers concerned a short leave of 
absence to make and forward their bonds, and shall report this fact to the' 
Quartermaster General. 
111. No application for the revocation of the above order, in any indi- 
vidual case, will be entertained by the War Department. It a vacancy 
be occasioned in any brigade or regiment, or at a post, application Avill 
be made for a new appointment, in conformity to General Orders, No. 8, 
1863; and the appointee, in accepting his position, will be held strictly 
to the requirements of preceding paragraph I. 
IY. Officers of the Quartermaster General’s department, whose ap- 
pointments bear date subsequent to the 12th day of January 1863, and 
who have not filed bonds, duly executed, will be allowed a furlough for 
such time, not exceeding sixty days, as may be necessary to enable them 
to execute their bonds. V. Commanding officers will be careful to recommend for appoint- 
ment as disbursing officers, only such persons as furnish reasonable assu- 
rance of their ability to execute the bonds required by law. 
VI. All letters of appointment hereafter issued will be accompanied 
by a notification to the appointee, that his official bond must be returned 
with his acceptance, and that the latter will take effect only from the date 
at which said bond is approved. 
order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General.