manding officer, for the necessary transportation to be provided for the hospital service, will be furnished to the quartermaster.

991....The sick will be transported on the application of the medical officers.

992....Certified invoices of all public stores to be transported will be furnished to the quartermaster by the officer having charge of them. In doubtful cases, the orders of the commanding officer will be required.

993....Where officers' horses are to be transported, it must be authorized in the orders for the movement.

994....The baggage trains, ambulances, and all the means of transport continue in charge of the proper officers of the Quartermaster's Department, under the control of the commanding officers.

995....In all cases of transportation, whether of troops or stores, an exact return of the amount and kind of transportation employed will be made by the quartermaster to the Quartermaster General, accompanied by the orders for the movement, a return of the troops, and an invoice of the stores.

996.... Wagons and their equipments for the transport service of the army will be procured, when practicable, from the Ordnance Department, and fabricated in the government establishments.

997....When army supplies are turned over to a quartermaster for transportation, each package shall be directed and its contents marked on it; and duplicate invoices and receipts in bulk will be exchanged between the issuing and forwarding officer.

998....On transports, cabin passage will be provided for officers, and reasonable and proper accommodation for the troops, and, when possible, a separate apartment for the sick.

999....An officer who travels not less than ten miles without troops, escort, or military stores, and under special orders in the case from a superior, or a summons to attend a military court, shall receive ten cents mileage, or, if he prefer it, the actual cost of his transportation and of the transportation of his allowance of baggage for the whole journey, provided he has traveled in the customary reasonable manner. Mileage will not be allowed where the travel is by government conveyances, which will be furnished in case of necessity.

1000....If the journey be to cash treasury drafts, the necessary and actual cost of transportation only will be allowed; and the account must describe the draft and state its amount, and set out the items of expense, and be supported by a certificate that the journey was necessary to procure specie for the draft at par.

1001....If an officer shall travel on urgent public duty without

orders, he shall report the case to the superior who had authority to order the journey; and his approval, if then given, shall allow the actual cost of transportation. Mileage is computed by the shortest mail route, and the distance by the General Post-Office book. When the distance can not be so ascertained, it shall be reckoned subject to the decision of the Quartermaster-General.

1002.... Orders to an officer on leave of absence to rejoin the station or troops he left, will not carry transportation.

1003....In changes of station, an officer entitled to mileage, or actual cost of transportation, shall be entitled to actual cost of transportation of his authorized servants; and in other cases than change of station, an officer entitled to transportation, who, from wounds or disability, requires and takes one servant, shall be entitled to the actual cost of his transportation.

1004....Citizens receiving military appointments join their stations without expense to the public.

1005....But assistant surgeons approved by an examining board and commissioned, receive transportation in the execution of their first order to duty, and graduates of the Military Academy receive transportation from the academy to their stations.

1006.... When officers are permitted to exchange stations, the public will not be put to expense of transportation, which would have been saved if such exchange had not been permitted.

1007....A paymaster's clerk will receive the actual expenses of his transportation while traveling under orders in the discharge of his duty, upon his affidavit to the account of expenses, and the certificate of the Paymaster that the journey was on duty.

1008....Travel of officers on business of civil works will be charged to the appropriation for the work.

1009....No officer shall have orders to attend personally at Washington to the settlement of his accounts, except by order of the Secretary of War on the report of the bureau, or of the Treasury, showing a necessity therefor.

FORAGE.

1010....The forage ration is fourteen pounds of hay and twelve pounds of oats, corn, or barley.

1011.... Forage shall be issued to officers only in the month when due, and at their proper stations, and for the horses actually kept by them in service, not exceeding in number as follows: In time of war, Major-General, seven horses; Brigadier-General, five; Colonels who have the cavalry allowance, five; other Colonels, four; Lieutenant

Colonels and Majors who have the cavalry allowance, four; other Lieutenant-Colonels and Majors, three; Captains who have the cavalry allowance, three; all other officers entitled to forage, two; and in time of peace, general and field officers, three horses; officers below the rank of field officers in the regiments of dragoons, cavalry, and mounted riflemen, two horses; all other officers entitled to forage, one horse.

1012....No officer shall sell forage issued to him. Forage issued to public horses or cattle is public property; what they do not actually consume to be properly accounted for.

STRAW.

1013....In barracks, twelve pounds of straw per month for bedding will be allowed to each man, servant, and company woman.

1014....The allowance and change of straw for the sick is regulated by the surgeon.

1015....One hundred pounds per month is allowed for bedding to each horse in public service.

1016....At posts near prairie land owned by the United States, hay will be used instead of straw, and provided by the troops.

Straw not actually used as bedding shall be accounted for as other public property.

STATIONERY.

1017....Issues of stationery are made quarterly, in amount as fol

lows:

Quires of writing paper.

Quires of envelope paper.

Number of quills.
Ounces of wafers.
Ounces of sealing wax.

Papers of ink powder.
Pieces of office tape.

Commander of an army, department, or division
(what may be necessary for himself and staff
for their public duty).

Commander of a brigade, for himself and staff ... 12
Officer commanding a regiment or post of not

150 1 8 2 2

140 1 6 2 2

8305 1 1 4 1 1

less than five companies, for himself and staff. 10 Officer commanding a post of more than two and less than five companies...... Commanding officer of a post of two companies.. 625 Commanding officer of a post of one company or less, and commanding officer of a company..... 5 20 A Lieutenant-Colonel or Major not in command of a regiment or post.........

Officers of the Inspector-General's, Pay, and Quartermaster's Department (the prescribed blank books and printed forms, and the stationery required for their public duty).

All officers, including Chaplains, not enumerated above, when on duty and not supplied by their respective departments.....

31 1

3122 1 1

16 1

Steel pens, with one holder to 12 pens, may be issued in place of quills, and envelopes in place of envelope paper, at the rate of 100 to the quire.

1018....When an officer is relieved in command, he shall transfer the office stationery to his successor.

1019....To each office table is allowed one inkstand, one stamp, one paper-folder, one sand-box, one wafer-box, and as many lead pencils as may be required, not exceeding four per annum.

1020....Necessary stationery for military courts and boards will be furnished on the requisition of the recorder, approved by the presiding officer.

1021....The commander of an army, department, or division, may

direct orders to be printed, when the requisite dispatch and the number to be distributed make it necessary. The necessity will be set out in the order for the printing, or certified on the account,

1022....Regimental, company, and post books, and printed blanks for the officers of Quartermaster and Pay Departments, will be procured by timely requisition on the Quartermaster-General.

1023.... Printed matter procured by the Quartermaster-General for use out of Washington may be procured elsewhere, at a cost not to exceed the rates prescribed by Congress for the public printing increased by the cost of transportation.

EXPENSES OF COURTS-MARTIAL.

1024....An officer who attends a general court-martial or court of inquiry, convened by authority competent to order a general courtmartial, will be paid, if the court is not held at the station where he is at the time serving, one dollar a day while attending the court and traveling to and from it if entitled to forage, and one dollar and twenty-five cents a day if not entitled to forage.

1025....The Judge Advocate or Recorder will be paid, besides, a per diem of one dollar and twenty-five cents for every day he is necessarily employed in the duty of the court. When it is necessary to employ a clerk to aid the Judge Advocate, the court may order it; a soldier to be procured when practicable.

1026....A citizen witness shall be paid his actual transportation or stage fare, and three dollars a day while attending the court and traveling to and from it, counting the travel at fifty miles a day.

1027....The certificate of the Judge Advocate shall be evidence of the time of attendance on the court, and of the time he was necessarily employed in the duty of the court. Of the time occupied in traveling, each officer will make his own certificate.

EXTRA-DUTY MEN.

1028....Duplicate rolls of the extra-duty men, to be paid by the Quartermaster's Department, will be made monthly, and certified by the quartermaster, or other officer having charge of the work, and countersigned by the commanding officer. One of these will be transmitted direct to the Quartermaster-General, and the other filed in support of the pay-roll.

PUBLIC POSTAGE.

1029....Postage and dispatches by telegraph, on public business, paid by an officer, will be refunded to him on his certificate to the ac