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Each assistant commissary of subsistence, and subsistence military storekeeper, will be allowed a half cord of fuel per month, for the months of November, December, January, February, March and April, for the use of their storehouses, in addition to their individual allowances.

MISCELLANEOUS RULES.

Generals will appoint their own aids de camp, who must, in all cases, be taken from the subalterns of the line. Major Generals are allowed two aids de camp, and Brigadier Generals one aid de camp, each. No more than three aids de camp will be taken from the corps of artillery stationed in either division, and not more than one aid de camp from a regiment.

No officer shall be permitted to hold two staff appointments at the same time.

The appointment of all aids de camp, and adjutants and quarter-masters of regiments and battalions, will be forthwith reported to the Adjutant and Inspector General.

Whenever a storekeeper is required by the commissary general of purchases, or the ordnance department, the circumstances rendering such appointment necessary will be reported to the War Department, by whom the appointment will be made, if deemed necessary.

All officers, whatever may be their rank, passing through a garrison town, or established military post, shall report their arrival at such town or post, to the commanding officer, by written notice, if the officer arriving be elder in rank, and personally if he be younger in rank than the officer commanding.

All officers arriving at the seat of government will, in like manner, report to the Adjutant and Inspector General.

No furlough shall be given during a campaign, but by the general commanding the district or army, and for the cause of disability, which disability shall be certified by a regimental or hospital surgeon.

Furloughs shall, beside expressing the term of time grant

ed to absentees, express also an order to join the regiment, post or garrison to which they may belong.

No order shall be given to officers seeking a furlough for their own convenience, which shall have the effect of entitling them to an allowance for transportation of baggage.

Any commissioned officer of the army of the United States, who shall send or accept a challenge to fight a duel, or who, knowing that any other officer has sent or accepted, or is about to send or accept a challenge to fight a duel, and who does not immediately arrest and bring to trial the offenders in this case, shall be dismissed the service of the United States.

No claims for extra services will be allowed on account of attendance on courts martial, whether as members or as witnesses, if performed by officers on furlough, or on duty, at the post or place where such court is held.

All claims of allowance for extra services, and contingent accounts requiring the special sanction of the Secretary of War to the accounting officers, must be rendered within six months after the services, or expenditures, where it may have been within the power of the officers to comply with the regulations.

Medical and hospital supplies are not to be detained or diverted from their destination, except by generals of division, and commanding officers of departments, in cases of absolute necessity, when a report must be promptly made to the Adjutant and Inspector General, that further orders for deficiency may be given.

Surgeons of regiments will have precedence over post surgeons, and post surgeons will have precedence of regimental mates; in their several grades, further reference will be had to date of commissions. In the choice of quarters, the medical staff will have precedence of subalterns, under the direc tion of the commanding officer, who may always claim precedence of those under his command.

Patients will not be removed from a hospital, until reported by the surgeon for duty, except in cases of emergency, and then only by the order of the officer commanding the department, post or army.

Whenever a soldier is sent to a general hospital, or left in the hospital or infirmary of a regiment, it shall be the duty

of the officer or surgeon sending or leaving him, to furnish a certified copy of his descriptive list.

Whenever an officer employs a citizen surgeon, he shall immediately inform the Surgeon General of his name, place of residence, and also cause him to be furnished with a copy of the regulations of the Medical Department.

When medical or surgical aid is required, if no surgeon or mate of the army be at or near the post or place, the senior officer shall have authority to obtain such by special agreement in writing, agreeably to the regulations for the Medical Department.

Whenever it becomes necessary to employ a citizen surgeon, the circumstances of the case will be immediately reported to the commanding officer of the department, and to the Adjutant and Inspector General.

Whenever a body of troops shall arrive at any military station, accommodations for the sick will be first provided, and subsequently those for officers and privates who are well; and to accomplish this, all artificers and mechanics shall be instantaneously put in requisition.

Women infected by the venereal disease shall, in no case, nor on any pretence, be allowed to remain with the army, nor to draw rations.

More than four women shall not be allowed to a company when organized and completed agreeably to the establishment. Nor shall any be allowed to accompany recruiting parties, which shall be fewer than seventeen men, nor shall more than one accompany parties of that number.

No contractor or commissary shall be justified in issuing rations to women, who are followers of the army, beyond the number allowed.

Quarter-masters of regiments or of corps, will cause the company provision returns to be consolidated and carried to the commanding officers of regiments and of detachments or brigades, for their signatures. Abstracts of these, furnished and presented by the contractors, will be signed by officers commanding brigades, (or separate posts,) and will thus become vouchers for the contractors.

No officer, commissioned or non-commissioned, shall be the agent of a contractor.

Whenever a requisition is made at any cantonment, garrison or post, for rations to troops on a march, or other than

the regular command of the officer who signs the abstracts, the original general requisition shall be annexed to the abstract, and make part of the voucher in the settlement of the contractor's account.

No charge for extra issues of whiskey will be allowed to contractors or commissaries, unless made upon the written order of the commanding officer of the post or detachment, specifying the cause and daily amount of such issues, and the time that they shall be continued. A copy of such order will be transmitted without delay to the third auditor of the Treasury Department, by the contractor or commissary; in default of which, the charge will be disallowed. No order issued subsequent to the expenditure, will be received as a voucher.

When it becomes necessary to purchase provisions, in consequence of the failure of contractors to supply, according to contract; the officer executing this duty, shall immediately transmit to the third auditor of the Treasury Department, the evidences of the failure on the part of the contractor to supply, according to contract; a duplicate copy of the bills of purchase, accompanied with his deposition, that the articles have been procured at the lowest price that the state of the market would permit, and no bill of exchange, or draught upon the War Department, on account of such purchase, will be accepted, until this regulation is complied with.

It is made the duty of all officers, agents, or persons, who shall have received, or may be entrusted with, supplies, either in money or in kind, appertaining to the pay and clothing of the army, the subsistence of officers, bounties and premiums, military and hospital stores, and contingencies, to render quarterly accounts of the disposition and state of such stores and supplies, to the second auditor of the Treasury Department; and in like manner it is made the duty of all officers, agents, or persons, who shall have received, or may be entrusted with supplies, appertaining to the subsistence of the army, the Quarter-master's Department, and generally all accounts of the War Department, other than those above mentioned, to the third auditor of the Treasury Department.

Whenever a commanding or other officer, charged with the safe keeping of public property, is removed from a garrison, post, or army, he shall deliver over to the officer who succeeds him in the duties of his department, all such public pro

perty as may be in his possession or custody, and the duplicate receipts for the same, one of which he shall, forthwith, transmit to the second or third auditor of the Treasury Department, as the case may be, and one of all ordnance, ordnance stores, arms and equipments, to the Ordnance Office, Washington city.

Whenever public property is delivered over to any officer or agent, duplicate receipts will be taken for the same, one of which will be transmitted to the office of the second or third auditor.

Whenever soldiers are transferred from one corps to ano+ ther, (which can only be done by the consent of the commanding officers, or by the War Department,) or ordered on distant command, or furloughed, or sent to the general hospital, or left sick, distant from the regiment or detachment, the officer commanding the company or detachment to which such men belong, will furnish a complete descriptive list, and ac count of bounty, pay, &c. agreeably to the prescribed forms. Whenever a soldier, sick in hospital, or absent from his company, from any other cause, shall die, the senior surgeon of such hospital, or the officer under whose immediate charge or command he may then be, shall immediately report the fact, in writing, to the commanding officer of his company, stating the time, place and cause, of his death, to what time he was last paid, and the money or other effects in his possession at the time of his decease; and such report will be noted on the next inspection return of the company.

Whenever a soldier is rendered incapable of performing military duty, by reason of wounds or injuries received in the service, while in the line of his duty, his commanding offieer shall certify the time and manner of receiving such wound or disability; and the senior surgeon of the hospital, regiment, or corps, shall furnish such disabled soldier, with a certificate, on which the proper discharge shall be made by the inspector general, officer doing that duty, or commanding officer of the post.

All discharges which shall be given to non-commissioned officers, musicians, or privates, shall specify the date and term of enlistment, the cause of discharge, and when injured in service, the time and place; the personal description, place of birth, trade or occupation; and place of discharge.

Whenever the proper authority shall direct that any non

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