GENERAL ORDERS, ' 
No. 207. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE, 
Washington, June 6, 1864. 
The following Acts of Congress are published for the information 
and guidance of all concerned : 
Ax Act in relation to Franked Matter. 
Public.—No. 82. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of A merica in, Congress assembled, That all commu- 
nications relating to the official business of the Department to which 
they are addressed, of whatever origin, addressed to the chiefs of the 
several Executive Departments of the Government, or to such prin- 
cipal officers of each Executive Department, being heads of bureaus 
or chief clerks, or one duly authorized by the Postmaster General to 
frank official matter, shall be received and conveyed by mail free of 
postage without being endorsed “official business,” or with the 
name of the writer. 
Approved June 1, 1864. 
Public.—No. 87. 
An Act to repeal the first Section of the Joint Resolution relative 
to the transfer of persons in the Military Service to the Naval 
Service, approved February 24, 1864. 
Re it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first Sec- 
tion of the Joint Resolution entitled a “ Joint Resolution relative to 
the transfer of persons in the Military Service to the Naval Service,” 
approved February twenty-four, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, be, 
and the same is, hereby repealed. 
Approved June 3, 1864. 
order of the Secretary of War: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.