will state an account in favor of the owner of said check and charge the amount thereof to the account of such officer. Instructions for the execution and use of the affidavit and bond, and the issue of the duplicate check, accompany the blank form furnished by the Treasury Department.

709. Disbursing officers who render accounts which eventually pass to the Treasury Department for settlement are required to prepare their accounts, with abstracts and vouchers complete, and deposit them in the post office, addressed to the chief of the bureau of the War Department to which they pertain, on or before the 20th day of each month. Irregularities in the mail service or want of blank forms will not excuse a failure to comply with this paragraph. When vouchers are not sent with the account to which they belong, but are subsequently rendered, suitable explanation will be made. Par. 1110, clause 13.

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1157. Forage is furnished only to officers for the horses owned and actually kept by them in the performance of their official duties when serving with troops in the field or at military posts and stations, and for the following number: To a lieutenant general, four; to a major general or a brigadier general, three; to a colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, or lieutenant, mounted, and regimental adjutant, quartermaster, and commissary, each two.

1321. Officers of the Army, contract and dental surgeons, and veterinarians may purchase from the Quartermaster's Department such articles of uniform clothing, clothing materials, and equipage as they need, provided the property is available. They will certify that the articles are for their personal use.

1449. The 10 per cent increase allowed to officers serving beyond the limits of the States comprising the Union and the

Territories of the United States contiguous thereto will be paid on their regular monthly pay vouchers which will be made up to include the entire compensation, of whatever character, which may be due the officer for the calendar month, or months, included in the accounts. There will be noted on the pay accounts the numbers and dates of orders or any other facts which affect the officer's pay status for the period covered by the accounts presented for payment.

1487. In the following cases no expense of travel is allowed: In joining for duty upon first appointment to the military service, or under the first order after a reinstatement or reappointment, or under an order to effect a transfer from one company or regiment to another, made at the request of the officers transferred. Assistant, contract, and dental surgeons, graduates of the Military Academy, and officers appointed from the ranks, joining under first order after appointment or commission, are excepted from these provisions.

1528. Reenlistment pay, under section 1282, Revised Statutes, and act of August 1, 1894, will be allowed to all enlisted men at the rate of pay provided for the fifth year of continuous service. This reenlistment pay having been once earned by five years' continuous service will be paid to the soldier during all subsequent service, whatever period of time may intervene between enlistment and prior discharge.

1530. The reenlistment pay of an enlisted man not entitled to continuous-service allowances will be indicated on the muster and pay rolls as "entitled to reenlisted pay." Should he be serving in the first five years, or be entitled to both reenlistment and continuous-service pay, the rolls should show the year of continuous service in which he is serving.

1552. For any sum deposited for the period of six months or longer, the soldier, when discharged, will be paid interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum to date of discharge.

1564. An enlisted man discharged for minority concealed at enlistment, or for other cause involving fraud on his part in the enlistment, is not entitled to pay and allowances, including those for travel, and will not receive final statements unless deposits are due him, in which case final statements, containing only a list of his deposits, will be furnished.

Hospital stewards, acting stewards, and at least one private of the corps in each separate command will be mounted when serving in the field, and all privates of the corps will be mounted when serving with mounted commands. Horses will be furnished by the Quartermaster's Department and horse equipments by the Medical Department for members of the corps on duty in the field when practicable. When no horses are available, special application for authority to hire must be made.

1618. Ambulances will be used for the transportation of the sick and injured, the instruction of the Hospital Corps, and, in urgent cases, for the transportation of medical supplies, and all persons are prohibited from using them, or requiring or permitting them to be used, for any other purpose. It shall be the duty of the officers of the ambulance service to report to the commander of the troops any violation of the provisions of this paragraph.

1634. Recently discharged soldiers, needing hospital treatment, who arrive in New York City, San Francisco, or other port on Government transports, may be sent to one of the post hospitals in the vicinity, and rations in kind drawn for them while undergoing treatment.

1651. At sick call the enlisted men of each company who require medical attention will be conducted to the hospital by a noncommissioned officer, who will give to the attending surgeon the Company Sick Report Book containing the names of the sick. The surgeon. after examination, will indicate in the book, opposite their names, the men who are to be admitted to hospital and those to be returned to quarters, what duties the latter can perform, with any other information in regard to the sick which he may have to communicate to the company commander. The senior medical officer of the command will make a daily report of the sick and wounded to the commanding officer.

1665. The compensation allowed to civilian physicians for ordinary medical attendance at garrison posts or camps will not exceed the following rates, and if the local charge per visit is less the account will be rendered at the local rates: For attending sick call, five men or less, $2.50, for each mar

in excess of five, 50 cents; for each additional visit or sick call on same day, when necessary, $2. Where there is a large sick report and the service will be required for an extended period application will be made to the Surgeon General for authority to employ a physician by the month. Accounts arising at posts or camps under exceptional circumstances, all accounts arising at other places, and accounts for special or surgical services will be allowed at reasonable rates approved by the Surgeon General. The accounts will be forwarded in duplicate to the chief surgeon or, if incurred at independent posts or stations, direct to the Surgeon General.

1670. Each chief surgeon will make to the Surgeon General on the last day of every month a return of medical officers, contract dental surgeons, and physicians under contract.

BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES:

H. C. CORBIN,

Adjutant General,

Major General, U. S. Army.