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The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], Proclamation by the President, appointing a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, with thanksgiving. (search)
-marshals except in the army or in towns held as headquarters, and that except at the headquarters of the commanding general of a department or army the officers appointed to the office shall be disabled, retired, or over forty-five; that provost-guards hereafter shall be from the reserve forces, or disabled, or reported for light duty, and it allows able bodied officers who have heretofore been discharging the duties of provost-marshals thirty days to enlist in the army in the field.] Mr. Orr, of South Carolina, offered the following, which was agreed to: "Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for vacating the commissions of such general officers as have no command, or who may be regarded unfit for command on account of inefficiency or incompetency." Senate bill to provide for the organization of the Bureau of Inspection was considered and passed. [The bill divides the Adjutant and Inspector-