2.

The general officers, superior staff officers and others of all branches of the service, and the chiefs and subordinates of the administrative departments, of whose names a list will be furnished to the general-in-chief, will retire to their homes and there await the orders of His Majesty the Emperor.
"Art.

3.

Officers of every rank who wish to resign their commissions are competent to do so.

They will receive passports for their homes.
"Art.