GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 137. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, May 18, 18G3. 
1.. Whenever enlisted men are discharged, after two years’ service, 
under circumstances that entitle them to the bounty provided by the 
6th section of the act of Congress approved July 22, and the 5th sec- 
tion of the act approved July 27, 1861, the bounty due and remaining 
unpaid shall be credited upon their final statements, and be paid, like 
other arrearages, by the Pay Department. 
11.. The exercise of the powers given the Medical Inspectors of the 
Army to discharge soldiers for disability, is suspended until their duties 
in this respect are defined by Regulations to he published hereafter. 
III. .Paragraph II, General Orders, No. 87, of 1863, is hereby modi- 
fied so as to allow the Assistant Surgeon General, Medical Inspector 
General, and Medical Inspectors, the same number of rooms as offices, 
and fuel and furniture therefor, as are allowed by Regulations to 
officers of the Quartermaster’s Department who have the same rank. 
By ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General.