Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
GENERAL ORDERS, ) 
No. 122. <, 
Richmond, September 31, 18G3. 
1. Commanding officers of regiments, battalions, &c. will, immediately 
on receipt hereof, cause to he made out and forwarded, through proper 
channels, to Col. J. S. Preston, Chief of the Bureau of Conscription, a 
complete list of all persons held as substitutes in the army, in their re- 
spective commands. This list will embrace the regiment, company, date 
of enlistment, and age of each substitute, with the name and post office 
of the principal. They will also, in the same manner, furnish a monthly 
roll of all deserters and absentees without leave. This will be arranged 
according to the county and congressional district to which the parties 
belong, and will set forth the time and place of desertion in each case. 
11. All officers, charged by commanding generals with the duty of 
arresting and returning deserters and absentees, will report to the com- 
mandant of conscripts in the respective states to which such officers are 
sent, and will co-operate generally with enrolling officers in the discharge 
of the duties assigned to them. 
111. The following act of Congress is published for the information of 
all concerned: 
“Every person, not subject to the Rules and Articles of War, who 
shall procure or entice a soldier of the Confederate States to desert, or 
who shall purchase from any soldier his arms, uniform, clothing, or any 
part thereof, shall, upon legal conviction, he fined at the discretion of the 
court having cognizance of the same, in any sum not exceeding three 
hundred dollars, and bo imprisoned not exceeding one year.” 
order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General.