ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 291. So much of General Orders, No. 254, of the 1st instant, as directs the name of Lieutenant Colonel George Nauman, 1st Artillery, to be entered on the retired list, is hereby revoked. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: E. D. TOWNSEND, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 295. Washington, August 31, 1863. By an act of the Legislature of the State of Minnesota, approved September 27, 1862, the right to vote for certain State officers is given to Volunteers or soldiers from that State in the military service of the United States, and provision is made for the appointment of commissioners to the regiments of Minnesota Volunteers for the purpose of carrying out this act. It is hereby ordered that all such duly accredited commissioners from Minnesota be furnished with proper facilities for visiting the Volunteers from that State, and allowed access to them for the purpose indicated. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: E. D. TOWNSEND, That the Executive Order, dated November 21, 1862, prohibiting the exportation from the United States of arms, ammunition, or munitions of war, under which the Commandants of Departments were, by order of the Secretary of War, dated May 13, 1863, directed to prohibit the purchase and sale for exportation from the United States of all horses and mules within their respective commands, and to take and appropriate to the use of the United States any horses, mules, and live stock designed for exportation, be so far modified that any arms heretofore imported into the United States may be re-exported to the place of original shipment, and that any live stock raised in any State or Territory bounded by the Pacific ocean may be exported from any port of such State or Territory. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: ABRAHAM LINCOLN. E. D. TOWNSEND, |