GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 97. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, August 7, 1862. 
1.. Commanders of Volunteer Regiments are reminded that the 
clothing accounts of their men must be settled after they have been 
one year in service, and the balance stated on the first subsequent 
muster roll. Where this has not already been done at the June 
muster, the omission must be supplied on the next rolls for pay, or 
they cannot be recoguised as valid. 
11.. Parcels directed to the Adjutant General of the Army will here- 
after be marked on the right-hand upper corner in a way to indicate 
their contents. Those pertaining to the Volunteer Recruiting Service 
will be so marked, to distinguish them from those relating to the Regular 
Service, which are examined in a different office. Packages containing 
certificates of disability, Regular and Volunteer muster rolls, returns, 
&c., will all be marked in like manner. 
III.-The attention of Sutlers, and all others concerned, is directed 
to the second section of the act of March 3, 1855, which provides that 
it shall not be lawful for any postmaster or other person to sell any 
postage stamp or stamped envelope for any larger sum than that 
indicated upon the face of such postage stamp, or for any larger sum 
than that charged therefor by the Post Office Department; and that 
any person who shall violate this provision shall be deemed guilty of 
a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum 
not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
E. I). TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General.