VI.  The military commission of which Major-General David Hunter is president is hereby dissolved.

By command of the President of the United States: 

E.D.  TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General.

WASHINGTON, August 7, 1865.

An impression seems to prevail that the interests of persons having business with the executive government require that they should have personal interviews with the President or heads of Departments.  As this impression is believed to be entirely unfounded, it is expected that applications relating to such business will hereafter be made in writing to the head of that Department to which the business may have been assigned by law.  Those applications will in their order be considered and disposed of by heads of Departments, subject to the approval of the President.  This order is made necessary by the unusual numbers of persons visiting the seat of Government.  It is impracticable to grant personal interviews to all of them, and desirable that there should be no invidious distinction in this respect.  Similar business of persons who can not conveniently leave their homes must be neglected if the time of the executive officers here is engrossed by personal interviews with others.

ANDREW JOHNSON.

[From the Daily National Intelligencer, August 26, 1865.]

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

Washington, August 25, 1865.

Paroled prisoners asking passports as citizens of the United States, and against whom no special charges may be pending, will be furnished with passports upon application therefor to the Department of State in the usual form.  Such passports will, however, be issued upon the condition that the applicants do not return to the United States without leave of the President.  Other persons implicated in the rebellion who may wish to go abroad will apply to the Department of State for passports, and the applications will be disposed of according to the merits of the several cases.

By the President of the United States: 

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE, September 7, 1865.

It is hereby ordered, That so much of the Executive order bearing date the 7th [2d] day of June, 1865, as made it the duty of all officers of the Treasury Department, military officers, and all others in the service of the United States to turn over to the authorized officers of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands all funds collected by tax or otherwise for the benefit of refugees or freedmen, or accruing from abandoned lands or property set apart for their use, be, and the same is hereby, suspended.

ANDREW JOHNSON,

President.

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 138.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
  ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S OFFICE,
    Washington, September 16, 1865.

To provide for the transportation required by the Bureau of Refugees,
Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands—­