No. 20. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S Office, Relative to the proceeds of sales of Government property, the following remarks from the Second Comptroller's indorsement of the 14th ultimo, and the instructions herein given, are published for the information and guidance of officers of the Army: "In my opinion it was not the intent of the law to consider the furnishing of stores or public property from one Bureau or Department of the Government to another as a sale, the proceeds of which should be covered into the Treasury. The money-value received can therefore be used to replace such stores." So much of General Orders No. 81, series of 1872, from this Department, as conflicts with the foregoing opinion is hereby revoked. Hereafter, in any case where the proceeds of a sale, such as is above noted, are repaid into the Treasury, they will be reported for cover-in to the credit of the appropriation from which the stores were originally purchased. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 21. Washington, March 6, 1874. Paragraphs III and IV of General Orders No. 10, February 11, 1874, from this office, are hereby revoked. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 22. Washington, March 9, 1874. I..The following order has been received from the President of the United States: EXECUTIVE MANSION, It is with deep regret that the President announces to the people of the United States the death of MILLARD FILLMORE, one of his honored predecessors, who died at Buffalo, New York, last evening. The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered beyond the days of mourning in which a nation will be thrown by the event which is thus announced. As a mark of respect to his memory, it is ordered that the Executive Mansion and the several Departments at Washington be draped in mourning until the close of the day on which the funeral shall take place, and that all business be suspended on the day of the funeral. It is further ordered that the War and Navy Departments cause suitable military and naval honors to be paid on the occasion to the memory of the eminent citizen whose life is now closed. By the President: U. S. GRANT. HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State. II.. In compliance with the President's instructions, the troops will be paraded at 10 o'clock A. M. on the day after the receipt of this order at each military post, when the order will be read to them, and the labors of that day will thereafter cease. The national flag will be displayed at half-staff. At dawn of day thirteen guns will be fired; and afterwards, at intervals of thirty minutes, between the rising and setting sun, a single gun; and at the close of the day a national salute of thirty-seven guns. The officers of the Army will wear crape on the left arm and on their swords, and the colors of the several regiments will be put in mourning for the period of thirty days. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. |