to her whole duty now and always, cheerfully contributing her full quota of army, large enough to make military operations vigorous, effective, and certain everywhere.

FREDERICK HOLBROOK,

Governor of Vermont.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, D. C., May 28, 1862.

Governor HOLBROOK,

Brattleborough, Vt.:

Your telegram received. I thank you for your attention. Please organize and send on the regiments speedily as possible.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, May 28, 1862.

Governor SALOMON,

Madison, Wis.:

Officers will not be paid from the commencement of service unless the regiment is completed in thirty days.

L. THOMAS,

Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 56.
Washington, May 29, 1862.

Officers serving in the Quartermaster's Department will issue to signal parties of the army serving in their vicinity such supplies as may be necessary for their proper equipment, on the requisition of the officer in charge of such parties.

Rations will be issued to signal parties in like manner by officers of the Commissary Department.

By order of the Secretary of War:

L. THOMAS,

Adjutant-General.

LEAVENWORTH, KANS., May 29, 1862.

Honorable E. M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

SIR: If the War Department desires it, I can, if authorized, raise two companies of Dakota volunteers to garrison Fort Rental, in Dakota Territory, and thus relieve the three companies of the Four-tenth Regiment of Iowa Volunteers now garrisoning Fort Rental.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. JAYNE,

Governor of Dakota Territory.

P. S. My address is Yankton, Dak. Ter.