GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 64. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, June 11, 1862. 
1.. property captured by the Army, or seized by any Provost 
Marshal, or taken up estray, or taken from soldiers marching in the 
enemy’s country, will be turned over to the Chiefs of the Staff Depart- 
ments to which such property would appertain, on duty with the 
troops, and will be accounted for by them as captured property, and 
used for the public service, unless claimed by owners and ordered by 
the commanding officer to be returned. In such case, the receipts of 
the owners to whom the property is delivered will be taken therefor. 
Provost Marshals will make returns to the Adjutant General of all 
such property and of the disposition made of it, accounting on separate 
returns for ordnance, quartermaster, subsistence, medical stores, &c., 
furnishing and procuring the usual invoices and receipts, and charging 
the officers to whom the property has been delivered, with the same, 
on the returns. 
11.. Paragraph 41, Regulations for the Subsistence Department, of 
April 24,1862, corresponding with paragraph 1217, Regulations for the 
Army, is hereby rescinded. The settlement of accounts for the board 
of soldiers in private hospitals is transferred to the Surgeon General’s 
Department. 
By ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: 
L. THOMAS, 
Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.