GENERAL ORDERS WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 25. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, The following act of Congress is published for the information and government of all concerned: AN ACT for the relief of Matthew Woodruff, late first sergeant of Company G. Twenty-first Missouri Volunteers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to correct the record so as to honorably muster out and discharge Matthew Woodruff, late first sergeant of Company G, Twenty-first Regiment Missouri Volunteers; and that the said Matthew Woodruff be allowed such back-pay, bounty, and allowances as he would have been entitled to receive but for the record of his alleged desertion, deducting therefrom pay for absence of twentysix days. Approved March 11, 1874. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 26. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S Office, The following regulations of the War Department relative to advertising and job printing are published for the information and guidance of all concerned: REVISED REGULATIONS OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT RELATIVE TO ADVERTISING AND JOB PRINTING. JANUARY 1, 1874. NOTE.-The term "advertising," as used in these Regulations, includes all publications in newspapers inserted for pay. The words "job printing" cover all kinds of printing except advertisements inserted in newspapers. All communications relative to advertising and printing will be directed to the CHIEF CLERK OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT. Act of Congress relative to Advertising. Section 2, of the act of Congress approved July 15, 1870, (16 Stat., 308,) is as follows: "And be it further enacted, That no advertisement, notice, or proposal for any Executive Department of the Government, or for any Bureau thereof, or for any office therewith connected, shall be published in any newspaper whatever, except in pursuance of a written authority for such publication from the Head of such Department; and no bill, for any such advertising, or publication, shall be paid, unless there be presented, with Advertising. Application 1. Whenever any officer of the War Department or any for authority to Bureau thereof, or of the Army, or any Board of Officers, advertise. Advertise not on official or Court Martial, shall deem it necessary or advisable to advertise in any newspaper, or newspapers, (the design being that the advertising shall be paid for by the Government,) he or they will cause Two copies of the proposed advertisement to be made and forwarded directly, through the Head of his or their Bureau, to the Chief Clerk of the War Department, for the action of the Secretary of War, with a letter requesting authority to publish the same, and stating in what paper or papers among those on the official list of the Department the advertisement should, in his or their judgment, be inserted, and for what length of time. If the oflicer or officers consider that the interests of the ments in papers Government require the publication of an advertisement in any locality where there is no official newspaper, or in any newspaper not on the official list, the application should set forth that fact. list. Form of ap plication. Bureau to 2. The following form of application for authority to advertise will be observed: SIR: HEADQ'TERS MILITARY DIV. OF THE MISSOURI, Chicago, Ill., July 21, 1870. I inclose herewith two copies of an advertisement, bearing date July 31, 1870, inviting proposals for 13,400 bushels of corn, &c., and respectfully request authority to publish the same for six consecutive insertions in the following-named official newspapers: Chicago Journal, Omaha Republican, St. Louis Democrat. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, To the CHIEF CLERK, WAR DEPARTMENT. Chief Quartermaster. Heads of Bureaus are directed to transmit these applica forward appli- tions to the Chief Clerk of the War Department on the day cations the day they are received. received. Advertise 30 days notice. 3. Officers, in advertising sales of property, or for proposals for contracts, or for proposals for supplies, will allow ments to give at least thirty days to intervene between the date of the first publication of the advertisement and the date designated in such advertisement for the sale to take place, or for the opening of bids. As a general rule, authority will be given for six consecutive insertions in a daily newspaper, or four consecutive insertions in a weekly newspaper; but authority will not be given to publish the same advertisement in all the authorized newspapers of any locality, unless the interests of the Government seem to require it. Number of insertions. How to pre. pare advertise 4. Officers of the Army are required to practice all possi ble economy in advertising consistent with the necessities ments. of the service, and to avoid all verbiage in the descriptions of supplies and property in advertisements, and in the headings and titles attached thereto; and they are especially cautioned not to prepare their advertisements, or send copies of them to newspapers, arranged in such a manner as would lead to a violation of so much of Paragraph 12 as relates to displayed or leaded advertisements. At principal offices and depots where advertisements inviting proposals are frequently issued it is not necessary to publish in detail each time the usual conditions imposed on bidders and contractors. A reference to former advertisements of same conditions, or a notice that they will be furnished on application, will be sufficient. 5. All bills for advertising must be submitted to the Secretary of War for approval prior to being paid. Publishers will first present their bills, with copies of their papers containing the advertisement, to the officer who issued the advertisement, who, after satisfying himself that it has been inserted for the time charged, will cause the same to be made out and certified upon the official forms furnished by the Heads of Bureaus of the War Department, with the nature of the advertisement definitely described, and a copy, cut from the newspaper named in the bill, attached in convenient form for examination. Copy of the letter from the War Department authorizing the advertising to be done must also Accounts, how presented. |