GENERAL ORDERS WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 3. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, The following named National Cemeteries, in addition to those named in General Orders No. 51, June 22, 1872, from this office, are announced as belonging to the fourth class : Fort McPherson, Nebraska. Loudon Park, Maryland. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. No. 4. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, The following interpretations of the effect of the pardon extended in General Orders No. 102, of 1873, have received the concurrence of the Second Comptroller of the Treasury: I.. When deserters enlist into other regiments their period of service during such enlistment cannot (under the 22d Article of War) be estimated in making good the time lost by desertion under their first enlistment. When that class of deserters have surrendered under the pardon of the President, announced in General Orders No. 102, of 1873, their pay will commence from the date of surrender. II.. By a decision of the Second Comptroller, of 24th May, 1866, “a soldier enlisting while a deserter, and afterwards restored to duty on first enlistment, must refund all pay, &c, received during the fraudulent enlistment." (See paragraph 249, Paymaster's Manual, 1871.) By the pardon extended in General Orders No. 102, of 1873, it is understood that this refundment is remitted to those surrendering under said orders. III.. But it will not be considered that those who have surrendered under said order are entitled to the retained pay provided in the act of 15th May, 1872, as said act provides that it "shall be forfeited unless he [the soldier] shall have served honestly and faithfully to the date of discharge." BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General, GENERAL ORDERS No. 5. WAR DEPARTMENT, Rumors injurious to the reputation of an officer or liable to produce mischief if incorrect, will not be reported by Inspectors without careful investigation and definite ascertainment of facts. Whenever it becomes the duty of an Inspector to investigate reports, allegations, or irregularities prejudicial to the character of a commissioned officer, he will invariably make known to that officer the nature of the accusations against him, and give him an opportunity to make, in writing, his own statement upon the subject, which statement will be embodied in, and form part of, the Inspector's report. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. |