BRATTLEBOROUGH, April 15, 1862.

Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

Your telegram received. I will direct adjutant-general of Vermont to prepare and forward immediately full statement of Vermont troops now in the U. S. service as you request.

FRED. HOLBROOK,

Governor of Vermont.

WHEELING, April 15, 1862.

Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

Your telegram received. Will send statement by mail immediately.

H. W. CROTHERS,

Colonel and Aide to Governor.

MADISON, April 15, 1862.

Honorable E. M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

Your dispatch received. Statement will be sent immediately.

L. P. HARVEY,

Governor of Wisconsin.

GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 41.
Washington, April 16, 1862.

I. All agents appointed by the Governor of a State under its laws to obtain from its volunteer soldiers assignments of pay for the benefit of their families will be recognized as such by paymasters, who will afford them all necessary facilities for that purpose, so far as is consistent with the public service.

II. Transportation to soldiers on sick-leave may be furnished and the cost stopped from their pay in the same manner as other stoppages are made. Necessary transportation furnished to soldiers on sickleave by the authorities of any State to which such soldiers belong paymaster, whose warrant for making the stoppage will be the certificate of the proper agent of the State, accompanied by the receipt of the soldier for the transportation. Where several soldiers of different companies are concerned, separate accounts will be made for each company.

By order of the Secretary of War:

L. THOMAS,

Adjutant-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington, D. C., April 16, 1862.

The Honorable CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE OF WAYS AND MEANS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:

SIR: The appropriation at the last session of Congress for the payment of volunteer troops enlisted in the service of the United States