ORGANIZATION OF OFFICE OF SECRE- | verifies all deposits of public moneys by TARY OF WAR. The Office of the Secretary of War is composed of the following divisions : CHIEF CLERK. officers of the army, and examines and re- In addition to the foregoing, there are The Document Rooms, and The Chief Clerk has general charge of the clerical force and business of the office. The official mails are sent through the Chief Clerk, and all business, not The Military Academy Division, strictly military in character, is sub- which is a kind of joint office with the mitted by him to the Secretary for his Adjutant-General's Department. decision. FORCE OF THE SECRETARY'S OFFICE. Chief clerk... 2 chief clerks of division, each........ 4 66 Whenever the Secretary of War shall be removed from office by the President of the United States, or in any other case of vacancy, the Chief Clerk, during such vacancy, has the charge and custody of all records, books, and papers appertaining to the War Department; and when from illness or other cause the Secretary 4 is temporarily absent, he may authorize 12 the Chief Clerk to sign requisitions upon the Treasury Department, and other papers, the same to be of the same force and effect as if signed by the Secretary of War himself. DISBURSING CLERK. The Disbursing Clerk pays all civil salaries in the Department, disburses all the contingent funds, and the miscellaneous appropriations under the immediate control of the War Department proper, and has charge of the official mail and postage accounts, stationery, and office supplies. CORRESPONDENCE DIVISION. This Division has charge of all correspondence of every character; embracing communications to and from Congress, other Executive Departments, State authorities, representatives of foreign Governments, societies, private citizens, etc. DIVISION OF RECORDS AND FILES. This Division, as its name indicates, is charged with the recording and custody of all official documents and papers belonging to the Department proper. DIVISION OF REQUISITIONS, ESTIMATES, 66 66 1 clerk.. 8 assistant messengers, Per Annum. .$2500 2000 1800 1800 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 This division keeps all appropriation 1 clerk. 2 clerks, each.. accounts; makes requisitions on the Treasury; prepares estimates; records and i 1 66 66 Per Annum. .$1800 1600 1400 1200 The business in general of the Adjutant-General's office is the organization and management of armies. It is the branch through which the orders affecting the military establishment are issued, and where the records and archives of the army and of wars are kept and preserved. It conducts the recruiting and mustering services, and keeps all the rolls and returns required in the military service, which consist of a great variety; the principal ones of which are: musterin rolls for volunteers and regulars; muster-out rolls; allotment rolls; monthly returns, company and regimental; post returns, including hospitals and rendezvous; returns for armies, departments, corps, divisions, brigades; return of men joined company; return of deceased soldiers; return of casualties; company muster and pay rolls (every two months); muster and pay roll, field, staff, and band; muster and pay roll hospital department; description lists; certificates of disability; final statements; discharges; pay accounts for discharged soldiers; non-commissioned officers' warrant roll; company morning report; consolidated morning report for corps, divisions, brigades, and regiments; tri-monthly report; roll of prisoners of war; descriptive list of deserters, etc. The Adjutant-General's Office furnishes statements of service and military history to the Auditors of the Treasury, Commissioner of Pensions, the Paymaster-General, Commissary-General, Quartermaster-General, and officers of the Adjutant-General's Department. It answers inquiries of near relatives of soldiers, so far as to give information of the month when last heard from, whether present or absent, sick or well, and the post-office address. nel. Volunteer Service, Rolls, etc. Each division is in charge either of the Adjutant-General or an Assistant Adjutant-General. The above amounts are paid during the first and second years of service. During the third year each grade receives $12 additional, fourth year $24, and fifth year $36. For each year of a second enlistment, for a period of five A large number and variety of accounts, returns, etc., are made by recruiting and mustering officers to the Adjutant-years, each grade receives $60 additional; for a 'General, and through him to the Second third enlistment of five years $72; and for a and Third Auditors of the Treasury, to fourth enlistment of five years $84; and $12 a year additional to $84 for every succeeding en listment. OFFICE OF INSPECTOR-GENERAL. DUTIES. The duty of the Inspector-General's Office is to inspect the army, its arms, large and small, accoutrements, the clothing of the soldiers, their tents, barracks, and quarters, the state of the different corps in drill, discipline, the care of their arms, etc. It is the duty of one of the Inspectors of the army to visit at least once in three months the Military Prison at Rock Island, Illinois, for the purpose of ex-amining into the books and all the affairs thereof, and ascertaining whether the laws, rules, and regulations relating thereto are complied with, the officers competent and faithful, the convicts properly governed and employed, and treated with humanity and kindness, and make full report on these points to the Secretary of War. ARMY AND CIVILIAN FORCE EM- Inspector-General, with rank of 1 assistant inspector-general, with rank of colonel...... 1 clerk... The Signal Service is divided into four branches, viz.: The School of Instruction, the Signal Corps proper, Military Telegraphs and Sea-Coast Service, and the Meteorological. The School of Instruction is located at Fort Whipple, Virginia, opposite Washington, on a portion of the Arlington estate. This is a school where the practical duties of the soldier are taught, as well as the manoeuvring of field telegraph trains, rapid telegraph construction, management of all signal apparatus used in the field, use of instruments for taking meteorological observations, and practical telegraphy. In the Signal Corps proper officers and enlisted men skilled in all the uses of the appliances for signal duty are with the army, but it is during war, when actual campaigns and military operations are in Army Pay. progress, that this corps is most valuable; although in time of peace their services are frequently required. 66 Per Annum. ...$1800 BUREAU OF MILITARY JUSTICE. The uses of the Military Telegraph and Sea-Coast Service may be well understood by the name, the first for rapid communication of intelligence and orders pertaining to military affairs, and the latter of wrecks, marine disasters, and in of lives of mariners. This is the law office of the War De-aid of and in connection with the saving partment. It is the duty of the JudgeAdvocate-General to receive, revise, and cause to be recorded the proceedings of all courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and military commissions, and to prepare opinions on questions of military law submitted to him by the President of the United States or the Secretary of War. ARMY AND CIVILIAN FORCE EM- Judge-Advocate-General, with rank The Meteorological or Weather Bureau, the observations taken at the large numwhich is familiar to every one, conducts ber of signal stations (about 170) which have been established, and by a system of telegraphs and marine signals daily gives intelligence of the approach and force of storms, of freshets, and the condition of the principal rivers in the United States. It is hardly worth while to elaborate on this service, as it is the one branch of the public service with which the people of brigadier-general................ Army Pay. are more familiar than any other. 2 judge-advocates, with rank of major 66 ..$1800 The Signal Service Bureau publishes large numbers of bulletins, charts, Per Annum. weather reviews and chronicles. The annual report of the same is a large 1200 octavo volume of 600 pages, with illus720 trations, maps, and charts. The Chief Signal Officer may cause to be sold any surplus maps or publications of the Signal Office, the money received therefor to be applied towards defraying the expenses of the Signal Service, an account thereof to be rendered in his report. partment shall be concerned, directly or indirectly, in the purchase or sale of any article intended for or appertaining to said Department or service except on account of the United States, nor take or apply to his own use any gain or emolument for negotiating or transacting any business connected with the duties of his office, FORCE IN THE SIGNAL OFFICE AND other than that which may be allowed by SERVICE. Chief Signal Officer, with rank of 720 law. It is the duty of the QuartermasterGeneral to prescribe and enforce, under the direction of the Secretary of War, a system of accountability for all quartermaster's supplies to the army, or to officers, seamen, and marines; and to account to the Secretary of War, at least colonel of cavalry.................................................. Army Pay. once in three months, for all property 4 first lieutenants of artillery... "lieutenant of cavalry. 1 66 66 and money that may pass through his hands, or the hands of his subordinate officers. It is the duty of every officer who re 150 sergeants, 30 corporals, and 270 privates.ceives clothing or camp equipage for the (For pay-table, see page 165.) DUTIES, BUSINESS, ETC. It is the duty of the officers of the Quartermaster's Department, under the direction of the Secretary of War, to purchase and distribute to the army all military stores and supplies requisite for its use which other corps are not directed by law to provide; to furnish means of transportation for the army, its military stores and supplies, and to provide for and pay all incidental expenses of the military service which other corps are not directed to provide for and pay. The military stores and supplies purchased and distributed include clothing, camp and garrison equipage, fuel, forage, straw, and nearly everything used in the army, except rations (which are furnished by the Subsistence Department) and arms. The Quartermaster-General may employ as many forage-masters and wagonmasters, not exceeding twenty, as he may deem necessary, who are entitled to $40 per month and three rations per day, and forage for one horse each. No officer of the Quartermaster's De use of his command, or for issue to the troops, to render to the QuartermasterGeneral, at the end of each quarter year, returns of such supplies, according to the forms prescribed, accompanied by the requisite vouchers for any issues made; and it is the duty of the QuartermasterGeneral (through his subordinates) to examine and transmit them for settlement to the proper accounting officer of the Treasury Department (the Third Auditor). It is the duty of the officers of the Quartermaster's Department to furnish, upon the requisition of the naval or marine officer commanding any detachment of seamen or marines under orders to act on shore, in co-operation with land troops, and during the time such detachment is so acting, or proceeding to act, the officers and seamen with camp equipage, transportation for said officers, seamen, and marines, their baggage, provisions, and cannon, and to furnish the naval officer commanding such detachment, and his necessary aides, with horses, accoutrements, and forage. Permanent barracks, or quarters and buildings, and structures of a permanent nature, are not to be constructed, unless approved by Congress, and a special appropriation is made for the same, except when constructed by the troops. It is the duty of the Quartermaster's Department, in obtaining supplies for the military service, to state, in all advertisements for bids for contracts, that a preference will be given for articles of domestic production and manufacture, |