WAR DEPARTMENT, 
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, 
Washington, November 7, 1864. 
GEN ERA I, ORDERS, | 
No. 278. j 
Paragraph 1139, General Regulations of the Army, is amended 
to read as follows:— 
A citizen witness shall be paid his actual transportation or stage 
tare and three dollars a day while attending the Court, and while 
traveling to and from it, counting the number of days actually 
required to perform the journey, in no case at a less rate than at fifty 
miles a day. When the witness is in attendance in more than one 
case, he will be allowed mileage and per diem for but one. 
Compensation to citizen witnesses. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
E. I). TOWNSEND. 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.