Potatoes, .

15 do.

Sugar and coffee, or tea, will be issued only to the sick or wounded, on the recommendation of the Surgeon in charge, at the rate of twelve (12) pounds of sugar, five (5) pounds of ground or seven (7) pounds of green coffee, or one (1) pound of tea to the one hundred rations. This part of the ration will be allowed only for every other day.

The difference between the ration as above established, and the ration allowed by law to soldiers of the U. S. Army, constitutes the "savings" from which is formed the "Prison Fund."

VIII.-The Prison Fund is a credit with the Subsistence Department, and, at the request of the Commissary-General of Prisoners, may be transferred by the Commissary-General of Subsistence in manner prescribed by existing regulations for the transfer of Hospital Fund.

XVI.-When prisoners are seriously ill, their nearest relatives, being loyal, may be permitted to make them short visits; but under no other circumstances will visitors be admitted without the authority of the Commissary-General of Prisoners. At those places where the guard is inside the inclosure, persons having official business to transact with the Commander or other officer, will be admitted for such purposes, but will not be allowed to have any communication with prisoners. By order of the Acting Surgeon-General :

C. H. CRANE,

Surgeon, U. S. A.

CIRCULAR LETTER.

Surgeon-General's Office,

Washington, D.C., June 15, 1864.

By authority of the Hon. Secretary of War, on and after July 1, 1864, the pay and allowances of hospital employés will be as follows, viz.:

I.-Male nurses and cooks (white), twenty-four ($24) dollars per month, and one ration per day.

II.-* *

and one ration.

* *

* Cooks (white), sixty (60) cents per day,

III. No clothing will be furnished, nor will any part of the monthly pay be retained.

Acting Assistant-Surgeon L. K. Baldwin, U.S.A., Philadelphia,
Surgeon M. Goldsmith, U.S.V., Louisville.
Assistant-Surgeon P. S. Connor, U.S.A., New Orleans.
Surgeon C. J. Kipp, U.S.V., Indianapolis.

To the Medical Officer in charge

U. S. A. General Hospital.

CIRCULAR LETTER.

Surgeon General's Office,
Washington, D.C., June 27, 1864.

Whenever a General Hospital is discontinued, the Medical Officer in charge will be instructed by the Medical Director of the Department to forward to the Surgeon-General's Office full reports of Wounded, Surgical Operations, Secondary Hæmorrhage, Tetanus, and Pyæmia, for the period of time elapsing between the last quarterly report and the date of discontinuance of the Hospital.

In the Reports of Wounded, and of Surgical Operations, especial care should be observed to furnish the results of those cases "remaining under treatment" at the date of the last quarterly report. A list of such cases can be obtained on application at the Surgeon-General's Office.

By order of the Acting Surgeon-General:

To Medical Director

C. H. CRANE,

Surgeon, U. S. A.

instructions for making, 157, 175.

Act of Congress, to increase regular army, 27.
relative to medical cadets, 28.

appropriations for the army, 36, 50, 60.
increasing medical department, 39, 42.

to facilitate discharge of enlisted men, 42, 58.
to define pay and emoluments, 54.

to facilitate payment of sick and wounded, 63.
for relief of assistant-surgeons of cavalry, 63.
to establish an ambulance corps, 90.

relative to chaplains, 96.

Acting staff-surgeons, 99.

medical cadets, 107.

Advertising, rules for, 182.

Ambulances, 21, 116-119.

allowance of, 90.

not to be used except for sick, 97.

Ambulance, Act to establish corps, 90.
flags, 87, 167.

corps, 90, 116-119.

medical director to control, 90.
officers and enlisted men of, 90.
regulations for, 91.

Amputations, models of, 161.

Appointments, 30, 31, 33, 35, 44, 48, 56, 79, 80.

negatived, 46.

surgeons, 26.

assistant-surgeons, 20, 27.

medical cadets, 20, 28.
hospital stewards, 20, 164.
female nurses, 27.

Artificial arms, 165.

reports of, 117.

Blanks, how obtained, 108.

want of, no excuse for not making returns, etc., 108.
Board for examination, assistant-surgeons, etc., 20.

retiring, 40.

incompetent officers, 27.

Bonds, medical storekeepers, 43.

medical purveyors, 35.

Bottles, to be turned in, 178.

Bounty, how paid, 68.

to soldiers discharged by reason of wounds, 153.

Brigade surgeons, 25, 107.

Chaplains, when supernumerary, 51.
to be subordinate to surgeon, 51.

not to be held prisoners of war, 54.
pay, etc., of, 54.

how appointed, 54.
rank of, 96.

fuel, forage, and quarters, 96.
duties of, 96.

pay when absent, 96.

pensions, 96.

leave of absence to, 43, 51.

Clothing for sick and wounded, 52.

requisitions for, 52.

small-pox patients, 93, 163, 174.
hospital, 125.

Command, discharge of soldiers absent from, 47

monthly report of soldiers absent from, 60.

Commanders, military, 37, 41.

Commutation of rations, 51.

Consultation fees, 19.

Contracts with private physicians, 18, 107, 108.

Convalescents to be employed as cooks and nurses, 38.
to be sent to camps, 47.