they must then subsist on their rations, if entitled to them, or provide for their subsistence out of their regular pay.

1355. Subsistence supplies comprise

1. Subsistence stores consisting of articles composing the ration and those furnished for sale to officers and enlisted men, also ice for organizations of enlisted men stationed in island possessions, lantern candles for stable use, forage for beef cattle, and coarse salt for public animals and rebrining.

2. Subsistence property, consisting of the necessary means for handling, preserving, issuing, selling, and accounting for these stores.

1392. The medical officer in charge of a general, post, or camp hospital, hospital ship, or transport carrying patients is authorized to purchase, in conformity with the requirements of Article LVI, such articles of food, both solid and liquid, not carried in stock by the subsistence officer who issues rations to the hospital, and to call upon such subsistence officer for the issue of such quantities of articles from the stock already on hand as, in the judgment of the medical officer, are required for the diet of enlisted patients under his charge who are too sick to be subsisted on the ration as ordinarily issued; the total combined money value of the stores hereby authorized to be purchased and issued as above in any month not to exceed the rate calculated on the month's transactions of 40 cents per man per day for those actually requiring special diet. Subsistence officers are authorized to pay all duly certified bills of purchases made by medical officers under the provisions of this paragraph, or to make the purchases themselves at the request of the medical officers, and to make issues for special diet hereunder from stores on hand at their request, provided the rate of 40 cents per man per day for those enlisted men actually requiring special diet is not exceeded in any month.

1394. Medical officers having enlisted patients on special diet will make return of such patients at the end of each month on Form No. 69, Subsistence Department, and send the same to the subsistence officer. After the subsistence

officer has entered the vouchers for purchases and the articles issued for special diet and deduced the rate per man per day which the special diet for the month has cost, the certificates at the foot of the form will be duly executed by the medical officer and the subsistence officer, and the medical officer will file with the subsistence officer Form No. 69, and with it, if he has made an open-market emergency purchase exceeding $200 in amount, the report required by paragraph 648 (Form No. 9), signed by him. As authorized articles of special diet are immediately expendable by the medical officers, Form No. 69 when duly executed will be accepted by the Commissary General as the return of the medical officer for the subsistence stores involved. Purchase vouchers certified by medical officers will state that the stores will be accounted for "on Form No. 69, to be filed with the account current of

1396. The subsistence officer who pays for purchases of articles of special diet will enter in a group on his abstract of disbursements (Form No. 5 or 6) all such payments made in the month, and will enter the articles as "hospital supplies" in the column headed "on what account."

OTHER ISSUES OF SUBSISTENCE STORES.

1403. The following issues are made when necessary for the public service:

To a division hospital, per month
To a brigade hospital, per month
To a regimental hospital, per month.
To offices and storerooms-

Of the chief quartermaster or chief
commissary of a department or de-
pot of supply, from April 1 to Sep-
tember 30, per month.

Of the quartermaster or commissary
of a post, from April 1 to September
30, per month.

From October 1 to March 31, not ex-
ceeding double the above quantities. |
To guards--

To the principal guard of each camp.
per month..

The issues are made on ration returns signed by the officer in charge and issues are ordered by the commanding officer, the latter determining what quantities, within the limits above prescribed, shall be issued. Candles, coarse salt, vinegar, and flour for the above purposes are entered on the ration returns and on the abstract of issues in terms of rations, lantern candles in pounds, and matches in boxes. The returns and abstract show for what places the candles, towels, and toilet paper are intended. and the number of animals and period for which coarse salt and vinegar are drawn, giving the troop,

battery, etc., to which they belong. Towels will be issued on receipts to the commissary. They will not be accounted for on the returns of the officers receiving them, but will be continued in use until worn out.

1404. Such of the following articles as may be necessary, not to exceed in value 50 cents per month for each general prisoner confined at a military post without pay or allowances, will be issued by commissaries on the 15th day of each month to the officer in charge of prisoners, viz:

Requisitions for these articles will set forth the number of general prisoners present at the post, and must be approved by the post commander. The receipt of the officer in charge will be the commissary's voucher for dropping the articles from his return. No articles issued under this paragraph, except tooth brushes, fine combs, buttons, and thread, will be carried away by prisoners when transferred or discharged. Towels used by prisoners will be laundered by those who use them. When specially authorized by the Secretary of War, the Subsistence Department will supply to posts where thirty or more general prisoners are confined a sewing machine and other necessary tailors' utensils for use in mending prisoners' clothing.

Articles issued in pursuance of this paragraph will not be accounted for on property returns by officers receiving them, but will be continued in use until worn out.

1430. Civilians employed with the Army, including those expressly employed for their services as tailors, shoemakers, and laundrymen, may be allowed, at remote places or in the field where food can not otherwise be procured, to purchase from the Subsistence Department, in limited quantities for their own use, for cash, at cost prices with 10 per cent added, such articles of the ration or of stores kept for sales to officers and en sted men as can be spared from the supplies on hand.

III. By direction of the Acting Secretary of War, the fol

lowing are published as paragraphs 14044 and 1413 of the Regulations of 1901, viz:

1404). A recruiting officer stationed elsewhere than at a military post is authorized to purchase such of the following articles as may be necessary for the use of all the recruits at his station, at an expense not exceeding 70 cents per month, namely:

Blacking, shoe,
Brooms, whisk,
Brushes, blacking,

Brushes, hair,

Combs, coarse horn,
Toilet paper,
Toweling, unbleached.

If the officer is supplied with subsistence funds he will pay the vouchers made out on Form No. 8, the certificate thereon being properly modified. If not supplied with funds he will send the duly certified vouchers for payment to the chief commissary of the department in which the recruiting station is located. The towels in use by recruits at recruiting stations will be laundered at the expense of the Quartermaster's Department.

At a recruiting station at a military post such quantities of unbleached toweling, not exceeding twelve yards for a six months' supply, and such quantity of issue soap as may be necessary, will be issued to the recruiting officer at the post by the commissary upon requisition, approved by the commanding officer, for use exclusively by applicants for enlistment, recruits on probation, and newly-enlisted men awaiting transfer to permanent stations. Towels will be laundered by those who use them. The receipt of the recruiting officer will be the commissary's voucher for dropping the articles from his return.

Such quantities of toilet paper as may be absolutely necessary for the use of recruits at recruit rendezvous will be issued by the commissaries to the officers in charge on requisitions approved by the post commanders. The receipt of the officer in charge will be the commissary's voucher for dropping the articles from his return.

Articles issued in pursuance of this paragraph will not be accounted for on property returns by officers receiving them, but will be continued in use until worn out.

1413. When railroads equipped with eating houses, or when public eating houses established along railroads not so equipped, have agreed to furnish meals to enlisted men traveling unaccompanied by a commissioned officer, on meal tickets issued for the purpose, the commanding officer ordering trans