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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA
[[italics]] Raleigh, North Carolina, October 16th, 1865. [[/italics]]
[[bracket]] GENERAL ORDERS.
No. 148. [[/bracket]]
The following Orders from the War Department are republished for the information of this command: 
[[bracket]] GENERAL ORDERS,
No. 141 [[/bracket]] 
WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE.
[[italics]] Washington, October 7, 1863.[[/italics]]
I. Commanding Generals of Military Departments and Districts, will be allowed the following officers and no others: 
[[italics]]Generals Commanding Military Departments.[[/italics]]
One Assistant Adjutant General. 
One Assistant Inspector General. 
One Chief Quartermaster.
One Chief Commissary of Subsistence. 
One Medical Director. 
One Judge Advocate. 
Two Aides-de-Camp, to be selected from officers of their commands. 

[[italics]]Generals Commanding Districts[[/italics]]
Two Aides-de-Camp, to be selected of their commands. 
II. General officers without military command are not allowed Aides-de-Camp or other staff officers. 
III. All officers serving on the staff of General Officers not included in the above allowance, will be immediately relieved from such duty; the officers of the regular and volunteer regiments so relieved will be ordered to join their regiments without delay, and the staff officers of volunteers will be ordered to their homes to report there by letter to the Adjutant General for instructions. 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: 
E.D. TOWNSEND, 
[[italics]]Assistant Adjutant General.[[/italics]]

District Commanders will at once forward to these Headquarters the names of all officers of the General staff, in excess of the above allowance, serving on their respective staffs, in order that they may be ordered to their homes; and will relieve all acting staff officers not included in the above allowance, and direct them to join their regiments without delay. 

BY COMMAND OF BREVET MAJOR GENERAL THOS. H. RUGER: 
J. A. CAMPBELL, 
[[italics]]Assistant Adjutant General.[[/italics]]

OFFICIAL

[[italics]]Assistant Adjutant General.[[/italics]]