QEXERAE orders, 
No. 245. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE, 
Washington, August 12, 1864. 
The following Act of Congress is published for the information 
and government of all concerned:— 
[Public.—No. 173.] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of B(‘presentatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person 
enlisted in the military service of the United States who shall apply to 
the Navy Department to be transferred to the navy or marine corps 
shall, if his application be approved by the President of the United 
States, be transferred to the navy or marine corps to serve the residue 
of his term of enlistment therein, subject to the laws and regulations 
for the government of the navy: Provided, That such transfer shall 
not release the transferred person from any indebtedness to the 
Government, nor without the consent of the President of the United 
States, from any penalty incurred for a breach of military law. 
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any seaman or mariner, 
or person who may have served as such, drafted into the military 
service, may, by order of the President of the United States, be 
transferred to the naval service, to serve therein, subject to the laws 
and regulations for the government of the navy, for the term or 
residue of the term for which he was drafted. 
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all enlistments into the 
naval service or marine corps during the present war, shall be 
credited to the appropriate township, precinct, or district, in the 
same manner as enlistments for the army. 
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That persons hereafter enlisted 
into the naval service or marine corps during the present war, shall 
be entitled to receive the same bounty as if enlisted in the army. 
And the resolution approved February twenty-four, eighteen hun- 
dred and sixty-four, entitled u A resolution relative to the transfer 
AN ACT to provide for the efficiency of the Navy. of’ persons in the military service to the naval service,is hereby 
repealed: Provided, nevertheless, That such sums as may have been 
paid as bounty to persons transferred from the military to the naval 
service or marine corps shall be charged to and paid out of the 
proper naval appropriation, or appropriation for the marine corps. 
Approved July 1, 1864. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
B. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.