Adjutant and Inspector General’s Oefice, 
Richmond, September 22, 1863. 
GENERAL ORDERS, ? 
No. 124. £ 
I. Potatoes (sweet), gathered under the tax law by commissaries and 
quartermasters, at or within reach of places where hospitals are, located, 
will be transferred (invoices and receipts being given) to the medical 
officers in charge of the hospitals, to be cared for and secured against 
the influences of frost, Ac., for the uso of the sick. Or farmers, when 
the hospitals are more convenient of access than the depots, may deliver 
their potatoes (tax in kind) to the medical officer in charge, taking re- 
ceipts, which will be acknowledged by the tax agent. 
11. The pay of surgeons (private physicians) employed under General 
Orders, No. 89, Adjutant and Inspector General’s office, of 1869, is in- 
creased to six dollars per diem, until further orders. 
111. “Assistant Medical Directors” and “Assistant Medical Inspec- 
tors'’ not being authorized, the titles will not be used. 
IV. The extra pay allowed soldiers detailed for duty as commissary 
sergeants by the act of Congress, approved May 1, 18611, will be paid 
upon the muster and pay rolls of the companies to which they belong, 
by the quartermasters charged with the duty of paying troops. 
order. 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
S. COOPEE,