conditions of price and quality being equal, and that such preference will be given to articles of American production and manufacture produced on the Pacific coast to the extent of the consumption required by the public service there; and to require all articles which are to be used in the States and Territories of the Pacific coast to be delivered and inspected at points designated in those States and Territories; and the advertisements for such supplies must be published in newspapers of the cities of San Francisco, California, and Portland, Oregon. REGULATIONS, ETC. The following regulations governing the rendition of property-returns and the settlement of property-accounts (Quartermaster's Department) are in force: The quarterly return of quartermaster's stores is made in duplicate, one copy, with abstracts and vouchers complete, to be forwarded to the Quartermaster-General within twenty days after the expiration of the quarter to which it pertains, the other copy to be retained by the officer for his own protection. As soon as possible after its receipt by the Quartermaster-General, the return will be examined in his office, and suspensions or disallowances will not be made on account of slight informalities which do not affect the validity of a voucher, but the officer's attention will be directed to them by suitable advisory remarks. settlement, under the direction of the Secretary of War, accompanied by a report of errors, and the manner in which they have been removed, including a statement of the ascertained money value of the deficient articles of property. Upon receipt of the return by the Auditor, it will be examined so far as to ascertain if the quantities of public property and stores on hand at the date of the last return are correctly restated in the present return, and a report of any errors in such restatement will be promptly transmitted to the Quartermas ter-General, who will take such measures for their correction as herein prescribed for errors in other portions of the return. The Third Auditor, reviewing the remarks and the action of the Quartermaster-General upon the errors and irregularities contained in the return, will submit any portion thereof that he may deem necessary, with his own views, to the Secretary of War. Whenever the errors have been corrected, or compensation therefor made as provided, and the action of the Quartermaster-General concurred in by the Auditor, or sustained or modified by the Secretary of War, the return will be regarded as settled, and the Auditor will so certify to the Quartermaster-General, for the information of himself and of the officer concerned. The return, abstracts, vouchers, and supplementary papers will remain in the custody of the Third Auditor, subject at all times to their temporary recall by the Quartermaster-General, or to the inspection of any person duly authorized by that officer or by the Secretary of War. tofore, where a similar course of examination and action shall be taken upon them as is prescribed in these regulations. The examination having been completed, the officer making the return will be notified of all errors and irregularities found therein, and granted three months, The return of provisions, and return if stationed east of the Rocky Mountains, of commissary property, will be made or six months, if serving west thereof, to and forwarded to the office of the Comcorrect them. If the necessary correc-missary-General of Subsistence as heretions in the return be not made within the prescribed time, the proper commanding officer shall be requested by the Quartermaster-General to appoint a Board of Survey to ascertain the value of any articles for which the officer fails to account, and as soon as the valuations are received by the Quartermaster-General, the Paymaster-General will be requested to stop their amount from the pay of the delinquent officer, and the Paymaster-General will notify the Quartermaster-General of the stoppage, which notice will be filed with the officer's return. As soon as the return shall have been fully corrected, it shall be forwarded to the Third Auditor of the Treasury for The returns of engineer property will be made, in duplicate, and forwarded to the Chief of Engineers for his action, who will, after examination, transmit them as provided for in these regulations. There are in force very minute regulations for the transportation of troops, military stores, and material for the United States army, and to facilitate settlement with railroad and other transportation companies for transportation service. Also for the settlement of money accounts, and relating to clothing, camp, and garrison equipage. Under the head of "The Army" will be found the number and rank of officers of the Quartermaster's Department. QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT AT LARGE. There are employed by the several Quartermasters at the military posts, statons, and depots a large number of civilian employés, aggregating about 400 persons; including clerks, superintendents, agents, veterinary surgeons, wagon and forage masters, civil engineers, draughtsmen, forage inspectors, masters of transports, stablemen, watchinen, engineers, storekeepers, janitors, draymen, firemen, deck-hands, carpenters, wheelwrights, yard-masters, blacksmiths, copyists, messengers, laborers, teamsters, etc., who are paid the usual salaries allowed the several classes of employés. FORCE OF QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL'S OFFICE. Quartermaster-General, with rank of brigadier-general...............Army Pay. 1 assistant quartermaster-general, with rank of colonel..... 2 deputy quartermasters-general, with rank of lieutenant-colonel I quartermaster, with rank of major 1 assistant quartermaster, with rank of captain (mounted)...... 66 The Secretary of War is authorized to select from the sergeants of the line who have served faithfully for five years, three years of which in the grade of noncommissioned officers, as many commis sary sergeants as the service may require, not to exceed one for each military post or place of deposit of subsistence supplies, whose duty it is to receive and preserve the subsistence supplies at the posts, under the direction of the proper officers, and under the regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War. The officers of the Subsistence Department must furnish rations to the officers, seamen, and marines of any detachment under orders to act on shore, in co-operation with land troops. They must procure and keep for sale to officers and enlisted men, at cost prices, for cash, or on credit, such articles as may from time to time be designated by the Inspectors-General of the army. An account of all sales on credit must be kept, and the amounts due for the same reported monthly to the Paymaster-General. Commissioned officers of the army, serving in the field, may purchase rations for their own use from any Commissary of Subsistence, on credit, at cost prices; the amounts due for such purchases to be reported monthly to the PaymasterGeneral. It is the duty of the Commissaries of Subsistence to furnish tobacco to the enPer Annum. listed men of the army, at cost prices, ..$2000 exclusive of the cost of transportation, in 1800 such quantities as they require, not exceeding sixteen ounces per month. 1800 1600 Officers of the Subsistence Department 1200 are by law prohibited from being con900 cerned, directly or indirectly, in the pur360 chase or sale of any article entering into 840 the composition of the ration, or of any 720 48 66 660 article designated by the Inspectors-General of the army, and furnished for sale to officers and enlisted men at cost prices, or of tobacco furnished to enlisted men, except on account of the United States; and from applying to their own use any gain or emolument for negotiating or transacting any business connected with the duties of their office other than that allowed by law. Contracts for subsistence supplies for the army made by the Commissary-General, on public notice, must provide for a complete delivery of such articles, on inspection, at such places as are stipu lated. No contract for the purchase of subsist ence supplies can be made to exceed the | ment are not deemed by the President necessities of the current year. FORCE IN THE OFFICE OF THE COMMISSARY GENERAL. Army Officers. Commissary-General of Subsistence, sufficient for the punctual payment of the troops, he may appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and add to said corps as many paymasters, to be called additional paymasters, with the rank of major, not exceeding one for every two regiments of volunteers or with rank of brigadier-general..Army Pay. militia, as he may deem necessary; they 2 commissaries of subsistence, with rank of major of cavalry 1 commissary of subsistence, with rank of captain of cavalry...... 66 66 to be retained in service only so long as they may be required for the payment of volunteers or militia. It is the duty of the Deputy Paymasters-General (of which there are two), in addition to paying the troops, to superintend the payment of armies in the 1800 field. Per Annum. It is the duty of Paymasters and addi1400 tional Paymasters to pay the regular troops and all other troops in the service of the United States, when required to do so by order of the President. 1000 SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT AT LARGE. 720 720 660 The army must be so paid that the arrears shall at no time exceed two months, unless circumstances shall render further arrears unavoidable. Paymasters and additional Paymasters are allowed a capable non-commissioned officer, or private, as clerk; but when they are not procurable, they are allowed, with the approbation of the Secretary of War, to employ citizens as clerks, at a salary of $1200 a year each. 600 to 1620 FORCE IN THE PAYMASTER-GENERAL'S OFFICE. 1200 720 Army Officers. 900 Paymaster-General, with rank of Civilian Employés. 66 8 ranging from.... 720 to 17 messengers, ranging from.... 180 to 900 420 to 1020 Per Annum. 6 watchmen, with compensation ranging from......... PAYMASTER-GENERAL.-PAY DE- DUTIES, BUSINESS, ETC. The Paymaster-General of the army performs the duties of his office under the direction of the President of the United States. Officers of the Pay Department are not entitled, by virtue of their rank, to command in the line, or in other staff corps. When volunteers, or militia, are called into the service of the United States, and the officers of the Paymaster's Depart 1 assistant messenger. SURGEON-GENERAL.-MEDICAL DE- DUTIES. The Surgeon-General of the army is charged with the superintendence and direction of all military hospitals, and generally of all medical and chirurgical practice or service concerning the Army of the United States, and of all persons employed in the same, in camps, garrisons, and hospitals. All reports, returns, and communications connected with the Medical Department are made to the Surgeon-General's Office, and all orders and instructions relative to the duties of the officers of the medical staff are issued through the Surgeon-General. ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. interesting and valuable portion of the This institution, which forms a very Surgeon-General's Office, derived its origin from the specimens forwarded by medical officers, in obedience to a circular issued by the Surgeon-General, in May, 1862, requiring to be collected and forwarded to the office of the SurgeonGeneral" all specimens of morbid anatIt is the province of this office to direct omy, surgical or medical, which may be the supply to hospitals of furniture, regarded as valuable, together with promedicines, stores, and everything necesjectiles, and foreign bodies removed, and sary for the comfort, convenience, and such other matters as may prove of inrecovery of the sick, and to collect, re-terest in the study of military medicine cord, preserve, and publish the medical or surgery." statistics of the army. The Chief Medical Purveyor has, under the direction of the Surgeon-General, supervision of the purchase and distribution of the hospital and medical supplies of the army. ; The officers of the Medical Department must unite with the officers of the line, under such rules as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, in superintending the cooking done by the enlisted men and it is the duty of the Surgeon-General to promulgate to the officers of the Medical Corps such regulations and instructions as may tend to insure the proper preparation of the ration of the soldier. It is the duty of the Surgeon-General to provide, under regulations to be approved by the Secretary of War, such quantities of fresh or preserved fruits, milk, butter, and eggs as may be necessary for the proper diet of the sick in hospitals; and to designate such style of single or double truss to be furnished every soldier who was ruptured while in the line of duty as may be best suited for his disability. The collection is one of the largest and most valuable of the kind in the world. It contains also many archives of the Medical Department. From these and the specimens collected has been compiled the "Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion," so far as published,—a work recognized as of the highest scienSeveral volumes of finely-executed phototific worth in Europe and in this country. graphs of specimens in the museum, illustrative of every kind of surgical injury, modes of repair, and results obtained, have been distributed among at international exhibitions, which have learned societies of Europe, and exhibited received high commendations from men most eminent in medical and surgical knowledge. FORCE OF THE SURGEON-GENERAL'S OFFICE. Surgeon-General, with rank of 1 assistant surgeon-general, with 1 chief medical purveyor, with rank of colonel....... 3 surgeons, with rank of major...... Application for such truss must be made by the ruptured soldier to an examining surgeon for pensions, whose duty it is to examine the applicant, and when found to have a rupture or hernia, to prepare and forward to the Surgeon- 1 chief clerk.. General an application for such truss 8 clerks, each. without charge to the soldier. One hospital steward is allowed for each military post, who may be enlisted in that grade, or appointed by the Secretary of War from the enlisted men of the army; and the Secretary of War may cause to be enlisted, or appointed from the enlisted men of the army, as many hospital stewards as the service may require. Hospital stewards must be graded in first, second, and third classes. 6 "6 9 66 66 106 " 66 Civilian Employés. ....................... Per Annum. .$2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 1 anatomist in Army Medical Museum... 1600 1 engineer...... 1400 720 1 assistant messenger. The Secretary of War may detail not exceeding 20 enlisted men for clerical service in this Bureau. CHIEF OF ORDNANCE. DUTIES OF THE CHIEF AND BUSINESS. It is the duty of the Chief of Ordnance, subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, to organize and detail to regiments, corps, or garrisons, such numbers of ordnance enlisted men, furnished with proper tools, carriages, and apparatus, as may be necessary, and to make regulations for their government. It is his duty to furnish estimates, and, under the direction of the Secretary of War, to make contracts and purchases, for procuring the necessary supplies of ordnance and ordnance stores for the use of the armies of the United States; to direct the inspection and proving of the same, and to direct the construction of all cannon and carriages, ammunition-wagons, travellingforges, artificers' wagons, and of every implement and apparatus for ordnance, and the preparation of all kinds of ammunition and ordnance stores constructed or prepared for said service. manner come into their and each of their possession or charge. A very complete system of rules, regulations, and forms, covering every branch of the subject, was prepared by the Chief of Ordnance, and published by authority of the Secretary of War in May, 1877. The Chief of Ordnance, under the Secretary of War, is charged with the command, administration, and government of the Ordnance Department, and is authorized to issue such orders and directions to its officers, soldiers, and employés as the necessities of the ordnance service demand. He is also charged with the examination and settlement of the property accountability of all officers or other persons in the military establishment to whom ordnance and ordnance stores are intrusted. FORCE OF THE ORDNANCE OFFICE. 66 Chief of Ordnance, with rank of He may establish, under the direction brigadier-general.....................................................Army Pay. of the Secretary of War, depots of ord- 1 major of ordnance................................................... nance and ordnance stores in such parts of the United States, and in such numbers, as may be deemed necessary. 1 chief clerk.... 2 66 66 66 2 66 66 6 Civilian Employés. Per Annum. .$2000 The Chief of Ordnance, or the senior officer of that corps for any district, must execute all orders of the Secretary of War, and, in time of war, the orders of any general or field officer commanding an army, garrison, or detachment, for the supply of all ordnance and ordnance 10 enlisted men for clerical service......................... stores for garrison, field, or siege service. He must, half-yearly, or oftener if so directed, make a report to the Secretary of War of all the officers and enlisted men in his department of the service, and of all ordnance and ordnance stores under his control. Every officer of the Ordnance Department, every ordnance storekeeper, every post ordnance sergeant, each keeper of magazines, arsenals, and armories, every assistant and deputy of such, and all other officers, agents, or persons who shall have received or who may have been intrusted with any stores or supplies, must quarterly, or oftener, if so directed, and in such manner and on such forms as may be directed or prescribed by the Chief of Ordnance, make true and correct returns to the Chief of Ordnance of all ordnance arms, ordnance stores, and all other supplies and property of every kind received by or intrusted to them and each of them, or which may in any 1 assistant messenger..................... 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 720 660 ORDNANCE STATIONS. Ordnance Office, Washington, D. C. Ordnance Board, New York, N. Y. Ordnance Agency, New York, N. Y. The Proving Ground, Sandy Hook, N. J. The Department of Ordnance and Gunnery at the Military Academy, West Point, N. Y. Saint Louis Powder Depot, Jefferson National Armory, Springfield, Mass. |