SPECIAL ORDERS, ORDERS, No. 219.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,

ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S OFFICE,

Washington, September 12, 1868.

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18.  By direction of the President, Brevet Major-General L.H.  Rousseau, brigadier-general, commanding Department of Louisiana, is hereby assigned to duty according to his brevet rank of major-general.  This order to take effect when General Rousseau assumes command.

19.  By direction of the President, paragraph 12 of Special Orders, No. 70, May 23, 1868, from this office, assigning Brevet Major-General R.C.  Buchanan, colonel First United States Infantry, to duty according to his brevet rank of major-general, is hereby revoked, and he is hereby assigned to duty according to his brevet rank of brigadier-general, in order that he may command the District of Louisiana.  This order to take effect when General Rousseau assumes command of the Department of Louisiana.

By command of General Grant: 

J.C.  KELTON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 82.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,

ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S OFFICE,

Washington, October 10, 1868.

The following order has been received from the President, and by his direction is published to the Army: 

The following provisions from the Constitution and laws of the United States in relation to the election of a President and Vice-President of the United States, together with an act of Congress prohibiting all persons engaged in the military and naval service from interfering in any general or special election in any State, are published for the information and government of all concerned: 

[Extract from Article II, section 1, Constitution of the United States.]

The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.  He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice-President, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows: 

Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.

[Extract from Article XII, amendment to the Constitution of the United States.]