still, owing to the season of the year, recruiting progresses much slower than heretofore. We hope to be able to send said regiment in thirty or forty days.

Respectfully, yours,

NATHANIEL S. BERRY,

Governor.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Albany, N. Y., June 19, 1862.

General L. THOMAS,

Adjutant-General, Washington, D. C.:

There are no completed regiments or companies of volunteers in the State. By consolidating fractions one, or perhaps two, regiments might be formed in a week, but it would be fatal to the success of the regiments under the recent call by depriving officers of their places and rendering the positions of others uncertain.

E. D. MORGAN.

BRATTLEBOROUGH, June 19, 1862.

Adjt. General LORENZO THOMAS,

Washington, D. C.:

We are vigorously recruiting the Ninth Vermont Regiment, which will be ready for marching orders in two or three weeks. We have no troops except as we recruit them for U. S.service.

FREDERICK HOLBROOK,

Governor of Vermont.

GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 70.
Washington, June 20, 1862.

The following act of Congress is published for the information and government of all concerned:

AN ACT providing that the officers of volunteers shall be paid on the pay-rolls of the regiments or companies to which they belong.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That company officers of volunteers shall be paid on the muster and pay rolls of their company, party, or detachment, and not otherwise, except when such officer may be on detached service without troops or on leave of absence.

Approved June 18, 1862.

By order of the Secretary of War:

L. THOMAS,

Adjutant-General.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S OFFICE, June 23, 1862.

Hon. E. M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

In my opinion of the 16th instant on the question of the power of the Governor of Kansas to depose Colonel William Weer from the command of the Fourth Regiment of Kansas Volunteers and consolidate