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said inspection had been performed; and that no meats that have not undergone Government inspection have been in anywise used in the preparation of the meats so offered for delivery.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this

day of

19-, at

(Signature of affiant).

NOTE. The oath to be taken before a notary public or some other officer having general authority to administer oaths. If the officer has an official seal it must be affixed, otherwise the proper certificate as to his official character must be furnished.-Regs. Subs. Dept. Vide Cir. Letter, O. C. G., Dec. 29, 1899.

588. When subsistence supplies are found unfit for issue or sale, the commissary accountable will submit them for the action of a board of survey, or the action of an inspector, as the case may require, bearing in mind the requirements of A. R., 760, 790, 791, 794, 980, 1361.—Regs. Subs. Dept. Vide “Boards of Survey."

JOB PRINTING.

589. Vouchers covering bills for printing for department headquarters will prior to payment be submitted to the Secretary of War, except for printing done in the Philippine Islands or in foreign countries near thereto, where they will be subject to the approval of the commanding general of the division, or of the department in case there be no division. They will be made out on prescribed forms, the printing to be so described as to enable computations to be readily reviewed according to the customary methods in use among book and job printers. A sample of the printing will accompany each bill and on vouchers for work classed as "special" in the circular of instructions the number of copies and rate per hundred will be stated, and on vouchers for other jobs the date of printing, number of copies, name and amount of type (number of thousand ems), number of tokens of presswork, and rates per thousand ems and per token will be stated. The voucher will show grade and quantity of paper furnished by the printer and price charged. The vouchers thus prepared, with the certificate of the officer ordering the work as to its necessity and propriety, will be forwarded direct to the chief clerk of the War Department, with a letter of transmittal describing the inclosures, except for printing done in the Philippine Islands or in foreign countries near thereto, in which case the vouchers will be transmitted to the division commander.-A. R., 589.

590. Printed letter and note headings for department headquarters will contain only the designation of the headquarters, the office to which the correspondence pertains, post-office address, and blank date. Those for posts, regiments, and schools of instruction will contain only the designation of the post, regiment, or school, post-office address, and blank date. Names of officers or other persons will not be printed on letter or note headings for use in any branch of the military service.-A. R., 590.

591. No job printing for envelopes other than that authorized by A. R., 908, will be allowed.-G. O. No. 104, A. G. O., 1901.

592. Necessary printing in special cases not covered by contracts for printing for department headquarters will, as far as practicable, be done by contract after competition, awards being made to the lowest responsible bidders. These contracts and all vouchers covering the service will also be submitted to the Secretary of War. Statement should be made on the voucher as to whether competition was invited, not by advertising in newspapers, but by interrogating several of the local printing establishments.—A. R., 591; Regs. Subs. Dept.

593. Officers will, as a rule, obtain all subsistence blank forms, blank books, etc., by requisition upon the Commissary General.—Regs. Subs. Dept.; A. R.,592. Vide Cir. No. C, A. G. O., 1902.

594. Requests for authority for printing circulars, specifications, etc., must be made direct to the Commissary General, accompanied by samples or

descriptions of the work, with statements of estimated cost. When circulars and specifications needed can be as advantageously prepared by using manifold processes, job printing will not be resorted to.-Regs. Subs. Dept.

MARKS ON PACKAGES.

595. Every person who shall furnish supplies of any kind to the Army shall be required to mark and distinguish the same with the name of the contractor furnishing the supplies, in such manner as the Secretary of War may direct; and no supplies of any kind shall be received unless so marked and distinguished.-Rev. Stats., 3731.

596. Contractors furnishing supplies will mark and distinguish them with their names and with such other designations as shall be directed by the purchasing officer.—A. R., 649.

597. All movable public property will, if practicable, be conspicuously branded "U. S." before being used.—A. R., 758.

598. Officers turning over property to a quartermaster for transportation will plainly mark each package with the name and address of consignee, a list of its contents, its weight, and “U. S."-A. R., 1248.

599. The cost price of cigars will be marked on each box of cigars.-Regs. Subs. Dept.

600. There shall be plainly marked on every package, with stencils if required, the words "U. S. Sub. Dept.," the initials of the name of the purchasing officer, the date (month and year) of delivery, and the name and place of business (city or town) of the seller. For example:

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601. The name of each article contained in a package will be marked thereon, together with the gross and net weights, or measure, or number of contents, as the case may be, and any shipping marks that may be required.-Regs. Subs. Dept.

602. All lard and salt-meat packages shall, in addition to the foregoing, have marked thereon the real name and location of the packer; and all salt-meat packages shall have indicated the date of packing, and the number of pieces contained therein. Each piece of meat, or barrel, tierce, crate, case, or wrapped package, containing meat or meat products of packing houses must, when presented for delivery, have thereon the brands or stamps provided by the Secretary of Agriculture for inspected ineats. Exception will be made in cases where packing houses obtain for the purpose of special curing or packing green meats which have undergone Government inspection at some regular slaughtering establishment. In such cases, however, before delivery will be accepted, an affidavit will be required to that effect (after a form to be prescribed by the purchasing officer, vide "Inspectors and Inspections"), from the proprietor of the packing house, or from his principal manager or superintendent. Flour packages shall have the name and location of the mill.-Regs. Subs. Dept. (Cir. No. 9, O. C. G., 1901, under “Miscellaneous.”)

603. Trade-marks shall not be omitted or obliterated from packages or subpackages, and only such additional marks shall be put on packages as, with the trade-marks, may be necessary to fulfill the foregoing requirements. — Regs. Subs. Dept.

604. In addition to all other marks, designations, etc., there will be stenciled on both ends of all packages, boxes, etc., the distinctive symbol of the Subsistence Department, viz, the Crescent, 3 inches high and 2 inches wide, made of a contrasting color, and of pattern similar to design indicated on page 15.-Cir. Letter, O. C. G., Feb. 18, 1901.

605. It is strictly forbidden to paste or place advertising matter of any description on packages containing subsistence supplies.-Regs. Subs. Dept.

606. Officers receiving subsistence supplies not marked as required will report the fact to the chief commissary of the department in which they may be serving, and chief commissaries will forward all such reports to the Commissary General.-Cir. No. 3, O. C. G., 1883.

MEALS.

607. Upon the arrival of a recruiting officer at a city or town where he is to establish a recruiting station, he will at once make inquiries at the available places in the neighborhood of the station as to the prices at which meals for his party can be obtained, and will procure them, of proper quality, by open purchase, at the most reasonable rates, until he can advertise for proposals by means of Form 28; which contains printed forms for advertisement, proposal, and acceptance.—G. O. No. 133, A. G. O., 1901.

608. As better prices can undoubtedly be obtained by making contracts for meals for recruiting parties and recruits at recruiting stations for comparatively long periods of time, the officers on duty at such stations will, as far as practicable, make such contracts on Form No. 28, Subsistence Department, to embrace a period of three or six months, being careful, however, not to make a contract extending beyond June 30, and thus embracing a portion of two fiscal years.-Cir. No. 2, O. C. G., 1902.

609. The meals and lunches furnished recruits by the contractor for meals should be paid for on Form 11 if the recruiting officer has funds, otherwise he will send the vouchers for payment to the chief commissary of the department in which his station is located.-G. O. No. 133, A. G. O., 1901.

610. Paragraph 14131, A. R., as contained in G. O. No. 130, A. G. O., 1901, provides for meal tickets (Form 76) to be furnished to enlisted men traveling unaccompanied by an officer. Such meal tickets, after use, will be sent, by the party who furnished the meals, accompanied by bills, to the commissary who issued them, or to the party named on the back of the meal ticket, who will prepare vouchers for and pay the same. Recruiting officers not located at a permanent station, when issuing meal tickets, may request that such tickets upon which meals have been supplied be forwarded for payment to the chief commissary of the department. All unused meal tickets at the end of the journey will be turned over to the commanding officer of the post, who will return them to the officer who issued them.-G. O. No. 130, A. G. O., 1901. Vide printe instructions on the back of Form 76.

611. If soldiers to whom meal tickets are issued are for sufficient reasons unable to use them, reimbursement of the amount necessarily expended may be made to such soldiers upon a full and satisfactory explanation of the case to the chief commissary of the department in which the tickets were issued.-Regs. Subs. Dept.

612. Chief commissaries of departments will make arrangements when practicable with railroads equipped with public eating houses, or with public eating houses established along railroads not so equipped (over which enlisted men are usually routed to and from their departments), to furnish meals. Chief commissaries will notify all commissaries and recruiting officers concerned regarding

such arrangements and of changes that occur from time to time.-G. O. No. 130, A. G. O., 1901.

613. Recruits forwarded from recruiting stations, recruit rendezvous, or military posts will be furnished subsistence-cooked rations (lunches) or meal tickets, etc., as provided in A. R., 1411, and A. R., 14134, as contained in G. O. No. 130, A. G. O., 1901.—Regs. Subs. Dept. Vide “ Commutation of Rations.” 614. When enlisted men, including recruits, travel under orders upon journeys which can be performed within twenty-four hours from the hour of starting and are to be subsisted during the time upon cooked rations (lunches), these will be supplied from the company kitchen or by the contractor for meals.-A. R., 1412.

NOTE. For information regarding lunches and meals to be furnished in lieu of commutation of rations, vide A. R., 1415, 1417, 1420, 1421, and "Commutation of Rations."

615. The Subsistence Department will provide suitable and proper meals for all officers of the ship, crew, and authorized passengers on Army transports (estimates for such supplies to be furnished by the transport commissary to such commissary officer as the Commissary General may designate). Army officers and other officers than those of the ship and authorized passengers are to pay the transport commissary the rate established by the Commissary General for their meals.-Regs. A. T. S., 219.

616. Persons availing themselves of permission to travel on Government transports will pay in advance the fixed charges for meals before the sailing of the ship.-Cir. No. 27, A. G. O., 1901.

NOTE. For information regarding the various messes and mess charges established on each ship of the Army Transport Service, vide Regs. Army Transport Service, 131, 132, (as amended by G. O. No. 93, A. G. O., 1901), 133, 134, 135, and 136.

617. SALOON MESS.-Authorized adults and children over 12 years of age traveling as first-class passengers will be charged for subsistence $1.50 per day while on shipboard; children over 5 and under 12, 75 cents, and children under 5 years, free. The transport quartermaster and commissary and the transport surgeon will be charged $1 per diem each for subsistence.

SHIP'S OFFICERS' MESS.-All authorized adults and children over 12 years of age traveling as second-class passengers will be charged for subsistence $1 per day while on shipboard; children over 5 and under 12 years, 50 cents, and children under 5 years, free.

In no case will the cost of the articles of food consumed in the foregoing messes, increased by the cost of the steward's department in those messes, exceed the rate per diem above stated.-Regs. A. T. S., 132, as amended by G. O. No. 93, A. G. O., 1901.

618. The preparation and serving of meals on Government transports will be supervised by the chief steward.-Regs. A. T. S., 127.

619. On Government transports nurses of the Nurse Corps (female) will be provided with meals free of charge.-G. O. No. 49, A. G. O., 1902.

620. The officer of the day on Army transports will see that meals to the troops are served at the proper time, and will be present during meals to see that the men attend promptly and quietly.—Regs. A. T. S., 264.

621. Orders for travel on Government transports do not, except in the cases of nurses of the Nurse Corps (female), carry with them authority for free meals. — 49766-72, O. C. G.

622. The transport commissary will keep a record daily of the number of meals served in each mess aboard the transport, and ascertain the cost per capita for subsistence aboard the transport for the trip by dividing the total cost of the meals as above by the total number of meals served. He will also keep a

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record of the number of passengers of the different classes going and returning, and the amounts collected for subsistence from all sources will be shown. A copy of this statement (Form 72) he will submit to the subsistence superintendent of the home office immediately upon his return from each voyage.—Regs. A. T. S., 139.

623. The transport commissary will file with his monthly account current, as a voucher thereto, a list giving the name of each officer of the Army and his servant, if any, and the name of each person not belonging to any military organization aboard, who were transported during the month and who were chargeable for meals, together with the amounts collected by him from each on account of meals furnished. Meals will be charged from the first meal served after embarkation of the passenger until the last meal served before debarkation. In reckoning for parts of a day each meal will be considered as one-third of a day's subsistence. Deductions will not be allowed for meals not taken during a voyage. The list will be made out on Form No. 74, Subsistence Department.-G. O. No. 12, A. G. O., 1901.

NOTE. For payment of board wages when meals can not be furnished members of the steward's department and the crew aboard Army transports, vide "Civil Employees."

MEATS (FRESH).

624. Fresh beef and fresh mutton from the block will usually be provided for troops by contract (Form 23, 23a, 23b, or 24). Mutton will not be supplied unless the price is as low as the accepted price of fresh beef.—A. R., 1376; G. O. No. 6, A. G. O., 1879.

625. Fresh beef in bulk should be good in quality and condition, fit for immediate use, and from fore and hind quarter meat proportionally, including all the best cuts thereof. Necks shall be cut off at the fourth vertebral joint, and breasts trimmed down; the shanks of fore quarters shall be cut off 4 inches above the knee joint, and of hind quarters 8 inches above the hock joint. Necks, shanks, and kidney tallow, and beef from bulls and stags, and from females (except from spayed heifers) shall be excluded from delivery. The minimum weight of a beef dressed should not ordinarily be less than 500 pounds.—Regs. Subs. Dept. Vide Form 24.

626. The "fourth vertebral joint " as used in a contract means that the neck shall be cut off at (i. e., through) the fourth joint of the backbone from the head of the animal, and that three joints shall remain on the carcass.35734, O. C. G.

627. "Kidney tallow" includes all the fat pertaining to and immediately surrounding the kidneys, and does not include all the suet in the hind quarters.— 104396, O. C. G.

628. Fresh mutton in bulk should be of a good, fat, and marketable quality, from wethers over one and under three years old; the carcasses to be trimmed with the heads cut off at the first vertebral joint, the shanks of fore quarters at the knee joint and of hind quarters at the hock joint.-Regs. Subs. Dept. Form No. 24; 62963, O. C. G.

Vide

629. When it is desirable to have fresh meat of the kind and quality above indicated delivered at a temperature not greater than fifty degrees Fahrenheit, this fact should be clearly set forth in the conditions and specifications of the advertisement and distinctly provided for in the contract.-Cir. Letter, O. C. G., Feb. 9, 1895.

630. When frozen meat is purchased, the specifications should state the weight of the carcass, and provide that the quarters shall be exposed to a temperature of from -4° Fahrenheit to -13 Fahrenheit for sufficient time for

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