Manual for the Subsistence Department, United States Army |
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abstract accepted accompany account current advertisement allowed amount appropriation approval Army authorized barrels beef bidder blank board of survey bond boxes called cents certificate charge chief commissary commanding commanding officer commutation of rations condition contain contract copy corporation cost delivery deposit Dept designated direct disbursing officer duty enlisted entered filed Form forwarded fresh funds furlough furnished giving Government hand inches inspection invoice issued kind Letter meals meat ment military month necessary noted officer opening packages packed paid paragraph payment period person Pound practicable proper proposals purchase quantities rations receipt received recruiting Regs requisition responsible seal Secretary signed Stat station Subs Subsistence Department subsistence stores supplies thereof tins transferred transport Treasurer troops United vegetables Vide Vide A. R. vouchers weight
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Page 71 - No contract or order, or any interest therein, shall be transferred by the party to whom such contract or order is given to any other party...
Page 28 - No advertisement, notice, or proposal for any executive department of the Government, or for any bureau thereof, or for any office therewith connected, shall be published in any newspaper whatever except in pursuance of a written authority for such publication from the head of such department; and no bill for such advertising or publication shall be paid unless there be presented with such bill a copy of such written authority.
Page 69 - And in all cases of contracts for the performance of any service, or the delivery of articles of any description, for the use of the United States, payment shall not exceed the value of the service rendered, or of the articles delivered previously to such payment.
Page 69 - In every contract or agreement to be made or entered into, or accepted by or on behalf of the United States, there shall be inserted an express condition that no Member of or Delegate to Congress shall be admitted to any share or part of such contract or agreement, or to any benefit to arise thereupon.
Page 160 - When applicable, the following rules for the computation of time in payment for services will be observed: 1. For any full calendar month's service, at a stipulated monthly rate of compensation, payment will be made at such stipulated rate without regard to the number of days in that month.
Page 76 - Disbursing officers, or the head of any Executive Department, or other establishment not under any of the Executive Departments, may apply for and the Comptroller of the Treasury shall render his decision upon any question involving a payment to be made by them or under them, which decision when rendered, shall govern the Auditor and the Comyjtroller of the Treasury in passing upon the account containing said disbursement.
Page 105 - Government, or by their officers under them appointed to make such contracts, to be reduced to writing, and signed by the contracting parties, with their names at the end thereof...
Page 68 - No contract or purchase on behalf of the United States shall be made unless the same is authorized by law, or is under an appropriation adequate to its fulfillment. except in the War and Navy Departments, for clothing, subsistence, forage, fuel, quarters or transportation, which, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current year.
Page 136 - ... deducted from their monthly pay, unless they show, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War, by their own affidavits or certificates, or by one or more depositions, that the damage, loss, or destruction was occasioned by unavoidable causes, and without fault or neglect on their part.
Page 159 - Receipts for small sums for occasional service paid to corporations, such as railroad, telegraph, turnpike, transfer, express, steamboat, hotel, newspaper, and ice companies, may be signed by the local agent in charge of the business of the company at the place where the service is rendered, or where it begins or terminates, and the certificate of the officer making payment that the person to whom payment was thus made was then the local agent of the company, in charge of its business at the place...