roll in their appropriate places-alphabetically, if privateswith the when, where, and by whom enrolled or engaged (when the service, by agreement, commenced) in the respective columns; and in the column of remarks say, joined a recruit [November 10,] or joined by transfer from company [B] [November 10,] order of Colonel [Tod.]-(See paragraphs 14, 27, 33, 37.)

ALTERATIONS SINCE LAST

MUSTER-LOSS BY "DIED, DISCHARGED, DESERTED," ETC.

46. If any men (not officers) have been killed in battle, are missing after battle, (not supposed to have been captured,) have died, deserted, been discharged, or transferred during the time for which the muster is made, their names will be omitted where they stood previously, and placed at the bottom of the rolls in the order as above, with a blank line between the last private and the names of those killed, or others, and also between killed, missing, died, &c.; which words, killed in battle, missing, died, &c., or such of them as may necessarily be used, will be written on the blank line (in the column of names) above each of the lists of names killed, missing, died, &c.; or if there be not room on the roll for blank lines, then the words may be written in the marginal column, perpendicularly, on the left of the figures or numbers in each list. The names of commissioned officers who have so gone out of the service will stand in their appropriate places on the next muster-roll, followed by the name of the one, if any, appointed to replace them. The first line of each of these lists of men will be filled up complete, with dates, &c., of enrolment and muster, not by reference or dots. In the column of remarks opposite the names of officers and men of this description, say,

killed in battle of [Palo Alto, May 9;] or missing after battle of [Palo Alto,] from [May 9;] or died of wounds received in battle of [Palo Alto, at Matamoras, May 12;] or died at [Monterey, October 19;] or missing after battle of [Palo Alto] from [May 9;] discharged at [Saltillo, December 2,]

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on certificate of tracted or received at 18-, (while in service, or while in the line of his duty, being engaged in firing a salute, or making a bridge, &c., &c., or by accident when off duty, or in a scuffle, or before enrolment,) by order of [General Taylor.] Give the disability or cause of discharge, with date, place, and manner of the contraction of the disease or injury, very full. Request the surgeon who gives the certificate to do so; as when, where, and how the injury occurred must be fully set forth in all cases, for ordinary disability as well as for pensions, and the captain's certificate and musterroll will contain the same; or discharged at [Monterey, October 12,] with disgrace, for stealing from [Mexicans,] order of General [Taylor.] Appointed sergeant-major of the regiment, or [first lieutenant] in [Cone's] company [October 12] and transferred, order of Colonel [Tod.]

PAY.

47. When no pay has been received during the term from enrolment, say (across two columns under last paid) pay due from enrolment. If a payment has been made, then say, in the first of these columus, by whom the last payment was made, as Major [R. S. Dix,] and in the second mention the last day which the payment included, as [October 31,] [November 30,] not the first day of the succeeding month.

48. If balances for pay or distance travelled prior to last month be still due, state the facts, with dates, distance, and rank or grade then held, in the column of remarks.

BALANCES FOR SUBSISTENCE.

49. As commissioned officers are entitled to four or more rations of subsistence, the roll must show, in the columns therefor, whether any, and how many, have been received in kind during the term for which the muster is made, or since the last payment, opposite the name of each person. If the term of the muster and time unpaid correspond, say, in the columns respectively, all due, or all due but [31] rations; state in plain figures after the word but, the number of rations of each which have been received in kind for the time embraced. If the term of muster and time since last payment do not correspond, say, in like manner, all due from [November 30,] or all due from [November 30] but [60] rations. By these data the paymaster will calculate the balances due the officers.

50. On the lines of the sergeants, and other men who are entitled to but one ration daily, state the balances due to each in figures on every line, according to the number of days they may necessarily have furnished themselves, or have not been furnished in any* ner by the United States. When no balance is due, say none, in one or both columns, as the case may require. The object of these two columns is to furnish the data by which the paymaster may calculate the amount due to each person, in money, for the period embraced.

51. Fractional or component parts of rations of subsistence cannot be stimated so as to make a balance of one or more entire rations; nor can any balance for subsistence accrue for any time for which a return may have been made for the company or person, either at company headquarters or elsewhere.

STOPPAGES.

52. For any arms and equipments, or other public property, lost through carelessness or not returned in good order, and to

be paid for by the individual, and also for extra clothing issued, say in the column of remarks, (following all other remarks accounted for the men, changes of grades, &c.,) stop for one musket complete, one wiper, one sabre, one cartridge-box, &c., &c. Stop for one coat, one jacket, two shirts, one pair stockings, &c., &c., whatever is to be charged. The amount of the articles lost or issued will not be stated by the captain, but by the mustering officer in the column for that purpose. Stoppages on account of government will have precedence of all others.

53. All arms, equipments, and other public property must be charged for unless the loss was unavoidable and altogether beyond the control of the man. If loaned and not returned, or left where they should not be, as put into a wagon on the march, or if missing from the tent or other customary place for keeping them when the man is not necessarily absent by order, they must be charged; and if a man is ordered on duty without arms, away from his tent or quarters, the captain must see that his arms and other property are taken care of, or he himself will be charged with them if lost

LOSSES OF HORSES OR ARMS OWNED BY INDIVIDUALS, AND FOR WHICH PAYMENT WILL BE CLAIMED OF THE GOVERNMENT ON MUSTER-ROLL OF DISCHARGE.

54. After all the before-mentioned remarks and stoppages, the losses of horses or of arms will be stated on the musterroll for discharge, as horse killed in battle, or horse died of sickness, of colic, of botts, in a fit, or from getting cast by his halter; or horse killed by accident, at [Monterey, October 28, 18-;] man remounted himself [same day] or [November 10, 18-,] or man not remounted, according to the fact; or horse failed for want of forage, from hard riding on forced march, or

on express, and abandoned, or condemned, at [Monterey, October 28, 18-,] by order of [Colonel Tod;] or horse diseased with glanders, or farcy, and shot or condemned at [Monterey, October 28, 18-] by order of [Colonel Tod ;] or horse stolen, strayed, broke loose from camp or other place, strayed from grazing, in the daytime or at night, whether guarded, and how, or not, at [Monterey, October 28, 18-] In all cases state the exact manner of death or loss, where and when, the name of the officer who ordered the condemnation or execution, and if the man remounted himself, and when, or if not remounted. If another horse was lost, say second horse died, &c., (or otherwise lost,) in same manner, as the case may require. The saddle, &c., will be added, if lost, and how.

55. If a man has been without a serviceable horse belonging to himself in consequence of his own neglect, or having disposed of his animal, or not remounted himself after the loss of one, or had the use of a public horse or the company horse of another man, say, not mounted from [August 4 to September 12.]

56. The loss of private arms and equipments by any of the men (provided they were legally authorized to equip themselves) may be stated, when the loss was unavoidable, and from no fault or carelessness on the part of the man. Name the article, its cost, manner, place, and time of loss. Officers are to furnish themselves, and cannot charge for such articles lost.

57. Claims for horses and private arms, lost in the service, will be made to the Third Auditor of the Treasury Department at Washington, after the expiration of the term; and, consequently, all such losses will be stated on the muster-roll of discharge only. But an official and full record of all losses