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WAR DEPARTMENT.

November 20, 1863.

The following "Instructions for making muster-rolls, for mustering into service, for periodical payments, and for discharge from service, of volunteers or militia," having been duly examined, are approved, and will be carried into effect.

EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.

ABSENTEES.

NOTE. The figures refer to the number of the paragraphs

How accounted for......

ACCOUNTS.

.41, 42, 43, 44

For expenses chargeable to the fund for collecting, drill-
ing, and organizing volunteers, to be rendered to the
Adjutant General....

ADJUTANTS.

Of regiments organizing, may be detailed by the Gov-
ernors of the States to which such regiments belong, to
aid in recruiting them..

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76

85

-page 50

Of volunteers not to be over 45, nor under 18; excep-
tions-when admissible.........

Oath to be administered when a doubt exists as to.....
AIDES-DE-CAMP.

Officers of the regular army, including additional, can
alone be detailed to muster troops in and out of ser-
vice

ALTERATIONS.

Since last muster-how noted..

ARMY CORPS.

Commanders of, to detail mustering officers for troops in
the field, (see COMMISSARY OF MUSTERS).

APPOINTMENTS.-(See also COMMISSION.)

94

95

110

45,46

.111 to 116

In the field and staff and non-commissioned staff-how
noted....

APPRAISERS.

To determine value of horses and horse equipments-
how selected..

333

107

ARMS.

Stoppages for, lost or destroyed through carelessness, to
be noted on the muster-rolls..

Losses of private, to be stated only on muster-rolls for
discharge..

Claims for private, lost in service, to be made to the Third
Auditor after expiration of term of service.....
How received, accounted for, and returned..................
ARTICLES OF War.

53

56

57

..69,70,71

Rules and, to be read to the troops before mustered in
service, and thereafter semi-annually; fact to be stated
on the muster-in rolls and rolls for pay..

ARTILLERY.

BOARD.

BOUNTY.

Announces organization of regiments and batteries of;
field officers and regimental staff not to be mustered in
without special instructions from the War Department
Regulates time of mustering into service field and staff
officers and line officers of regiments of..

Cost of, and lodgings furnished volunteers not to exceed
40 cents per day..........

Exchange or substitution of one man for another after
muster into service bars both, and pension.....

CAMP EQUIPAGE.

How received, accounted for, and returned..

CAPTION.

Respecting, of muster-rolls..

CAVALRY.

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..69, 70, 71

.1 to 14

Announces organization of regiments and companies of;
chief trumpeters of, to be mustered out, (see TRUM-
PETER).

82

Regulates time of mustering into service field and staff
officers and line officers of regiments of....

85

A test of horsemanship to be made before muster of, into
service.

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CHAPLAINS.

CLAIMS.

Recites section 8 of the act of July 17, 1862, respecting;
how mustered in; to be borne on the field and staff
rolls of the regiment...

For horses and private arms lost in service, to be made to
the Third Auditor after expiration of term of service..

CLOTHING.

Value of, issued, and amount of money, if any, advanced

for clothing, to be entered on the muster-rolls in the
column for that purpose, and continued on every roll
till liquidated....

How received and accounted for...

COMMISSARIES.

83

57

32

-69, 70, 71

Acting regimental, to be mustered on field and staff rolls
for extra pay for time of service...

COMMISSARY OF MUSTERS.

A, to be detailed by Commanders of Departments and

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two enlisted men as clerks; an assistant to be detailed
for each division; allowed one enlisted man as clerk;
necessary stationery for,--how obtained; names of
each, and assistant, to be reported to the Adjutant
General; duties of, and assistant, defined............111 to 112
Not to be relieved or transferred without authority from
the Adjutant General's office..

Published rules to govern, in all musters in or out.............
Calls attention to each, to instructions from the Ordnance
Department, respecting Ordnance responsibility of offi-
cers mustered out....

COMMISSION.

115

117

122

117

Receipt of, or appointment, must precede muster-in, notes on page 50
Officer must present, or appointment, to be mustered in..
COMPENSATION.

When, is claimed for service prior to complete organiza-
tion, a remark embracing the facts to be made on the
muster-rolls in the cofumu of remarks..

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