WAR DEPARTMENT, C. S. A., Richmond, Va., March 24, 1865.

General LEE:

GENERAL: Your dispatch of to-day received. The Secretary of the Treasury answers that certificates of indebtedness may be obtained upon requisitions that are receivable in payment of taxes. These may be substituted or given in payment of certificates of purchasing officers or agents, but the certificates issued by the latter are not themselves receivable by law in payment of taxes. Colonel Larkin Smith, of the Tax in Kind Bureau, answers that the tithes of wheat and flour due for 1865 may be paid now according to circular. A copy of circular is sent you by mail.

J. C. BRECKINRIDGE,

Secretary of War.

SPECIAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 69. Richmond, March 24, 1865.

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XVI. Major John Tyler, assistant adjutant-general, is assigned to the duty of visiting the southern counties of Virginia contiguous to the enemy, for the purpose of addressing the people upon the necessity of enlisting their negroes or removing them beyond the reach of the enemy.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

JNO. WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, Numbers 75. March 24, 1865.

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IV. Brigadier General W. F. Perry, Provisional Armies, C. S., is hereby assigned to the command of Law's [old] brigade, Field's division, First Army Corps.

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By command of General R. E. Lee:

W. H. TAYLOR,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. ARTY., ARMY OF NORTHERN VA., Numbers 14. March 24, 1865.

Captain McClanahan having been ordered, by telegram to Lieutenant-Colonel Chew, on the 27th of February, to prepare his battery for operations and report to Major McGregor near Petersburg as soon as possible with his battery, and nothing having been yet heard from him, it becomes necessary to hasten the movement of the battery, especially as a report is heard that Captain McClanahan was captured by the enemy near Staunton. The officer commanding the battery will therefore immediately collect his men, with all the horses belonging to the