GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 162. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, June 2, 1863. 
The record of the proceedings of a Military Commission, convened 
at Memphis, Tenn., August 11, 1862, before which Maithtw A Miller 
was tried and sentenced to be shot to death for attempting to smuggle 
military goods through the lines for the use and benefit of the rebels, 
has been submitted to the President of the United States 
The record of the Commission is fatally defective in not showing 
that the members of the Commission were sworn, or that two-thirds 
concurred in the sentence. The sentence is therefore inoperative. 
By order of the Secretary of War : 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assidant Adjutant General.