ARTICLE XLVII.

ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.

1406. The Ordnance Department has charge of the arsenals and armories, and furnishes all ordnance and ordnance stores for the military service.

1407. The general denomination, "Ordnance and Ordnance Stores," comprehends all cannon and artillery carriages and equipments; all apparatus and machines for the service and manoeuvres of artillery; all small
arms and accoutrements and horse equipments; all ammunition; all tools and materials for the ordnance service; horse medicines, materials for shoeing, and all horse equipments whatever for the light artillery. 

1408. Models or patterns proposed by the Ordnance Board and approved by the Secretary of War, of all ordnance and ordnance stores for the land service of the United States, with the standard gauges, weights, and
measures, shall be deposited in the model office at the Washington arsenal; and no change or variation from them shall be allowed, except on the recommendation of the board, approved by the Secretary of War. The
ordnance board is composed of such officers of that department as the Secretary of War may designate. 

1409. Directions in detail for the inspection and proof of all ordnance and ordnance stores shall be issued by the chief of ordnance, with the approbation of the Secretary of War. Ordnance and ordnance stores procured by contract or open purchase are required to pass the same inspection and proof as if fabricated at the arsenals. (See Ordnance Manual.)
1410. The purchases and contracts for cannon, projectiles, powder, small arms, and accoutrements are made, or specially ordered by the chief of ordnance, under the direction of the Secretary of War. 

1411. In each case the inspector shall give to the contractor triplicate inspection certificates (Forms 30, 34, 38), and transmit to the ordnance bureau an inspection repot (Forms 31, 32, 39). 

1412. The inspecting officers shall transmit to the ordnance bureau a consolidated report, in July (Form 33), of their inspections of ordnance and projectiles during the year ending 30th June, and quarterly and annual reports (Forms 35, 36, 37) of their inspections of small arms, barrels, &c. Inspectors shall retain copies of their inspection reports, to be turned over to their successors; at an armory, the quarterly and annual inspection reports (35, 36, 37) are signed by the superintendent and master armorer. 

1413. Reports of defects in the quality or condition of ordnance supplies will. in all eases, besides naming the articles, describe the particular pattern or model, when and where made, and whence, when, and from whom received, with such other information as will aid the Ordnance Department in taking the proper measures for correcting the defect. 

1414. The inspectors of small arms will procure necessary assistants from the national armories. No assistant shall inspect oftener than twice in succession the arms made at the same private establishment. The inspector will have the accepted arms boxed and sealed in his presence. 

1415. In time of peace, ordnance and ordnance stores are to be issued from the arsenals and armories only by authority from the ordnance bureau of the War Department; in war, to supply troops in service, on the order of any general or field officer commanding an army, garrison, or detachment; provided, in issues to the militia, that they shall have been regularly mustered into the service, and the requisition (Forte 23) be approved by the mustering and inspecting officer of the United States, or a general or field officer commanding in the regular service. In case of an issue not specially directed from the ordnance bureau, the order for the issue will be promptly transmitted to the bureau by the issuing officer. 

1416. The arms, accoutrements, and horse equipments required by an officer for his own use in the public service may be issued to him on payment of the regulated price (Form 19), to be passed to the credit of the proper appropriation at the ordnance bureau. 

1417. Requisitions (Form 22) for ordnance and ordnance stores for companies or posts may, in urgent cases, be sent direct to the Adjutant General's office, a duplicate being forwarded at the same time to Department head-quarters. Requisitions for the military academy are to be transmitted to the chief engineer. Requisitions for supplies for arsenals and armories are sent direct to the ordnance bureau. 

1418. Requisitions for horse equipments will be made according to the form prescribed for ordnance requisitions, the various articles being classified in the requisitions and returns under heads, as follows: Under the head of SADDLE will be included every thing embraced thereunder in the published statement of equipments, until further orders, (see " General Orders," No. 23, of 1859,) excepting stirrups, saddle-bags, girths, and surcingles, which will be entered separately.

The minor parts of any article may be called for separately when necessary, and in that case will be borne on the return until expended to perfect articles that are deficient. The injury or destruction of the minor parts of any article, particularly of leather, will not be a sufficient reason for condemning it, but, on the contrary, the necessary repairs will be made in the company by means of extra-duty men, or artificers, or at the depots. (See "General Orders," No. 22, of 1859, paragraph 7.) 

1419. When arms, accoutrements, and equipments need repairs that cannot be made by the troops, the commanding officer may send them to be repaired to the most convenient arsenal.

1420. The commander of each company or detachment will be accountable for all ordnance and ordnance stores issued to his command. The commander of each post will be accountable for all ordnance and ordnance
stores at the post, not issued to the company or detachment commanders, or not in charge of an officer of ordnance or a store-keeper. Ordnance sergeants will account for ordnance property only where there is no commissioned officer of the army or store-keeper.

1421. Commanding officers of the militia in service of the United States shall return and account for ordnance and ordnance stores in the use of troops as required in the regular service. And all arms and equipments issued to such militia shall be charged against the person to whom the issue is made on the muster-roll or pay account, to be accounted for to the mustering and inspecting officer, before receiving pay during service and on his discharge. 

1422. Enlisted men who lose, or dispose of, the Colt's revolver pistols intrusted to their care, will hereafter be charged forty dollars in each case; that owing the amount of pecuniary damage sustained by the United
States, as estimated by the Ordnance Department. 

1423. When a mustering and inspecting officer relieves such person from charge for loss or damage to his arms or equipments, satisfactory evidence, by affidavit or otherwise, setting out the facts of the loss or damage, and showing that it was not by his fault, shall be annexed to the pay-roll or account.

1424. When charges on account of ordnance stores are made against a soldier, the property return shall give his name and the pay-roll or account in which the charge is made.

1425. Arm-chests are to be preserved and accounted for as other ordnance stores.

1426. Every officer commanding a regiment, corps, garrison, or detachment shall make, at the end of February, April, June, August, October, and December, a report to the chief of ordnance, stating all damages to arms, equipments, and implements belonging to his command, noting those occasioned by negligence or abuse, and naming the officer or soldier by whose negligence or abuse the said damages were occasioned (Act of February 8, 1815), from which reports the necessary instructions shall be issued to the armories and the ordnance inspectors to correct defects in the manufacture. 

1427. Inspections shall be made of the armories and arsenals of construction annually, and of other arsenals every two years, by such officers of the department as the Secretary of War shall designate, and a report
of each inspection made to the ordnance bureau.

1428. The charge of an armory in the absence of the superintendent devolves on the master armorer, unless the chief of ordnance shall otherwise direct; of an arsenal, on the military store-keeper in the absence of an officer of ordnance.

1429. The officer in charge of an arsenal or armory shall, under the direction of the chief of ordnance, make and publish the rules for its internal government; procure the necessary materials and tools; engage the workmen, assign their grade, and appoint the necessary foremen. The cause for discharging or displacing a foreman shall be reported to the ordnance bureau. 

1430. The military store-keeper shall disburse the funds on the certificate of the officer in charge upon each pay-roll or other account, stating the sum total in words, and, under the direction of the officer in charge,
have the care and custody and make the returns of the ordnance and ordnance stores, except those in the current service, for which, including draft animals, the officer in charge is accountable.

1431. Where there is no store-keeper, the commanding officer is accountable for all the ordnance property, unless authorized by the ordnance bureau to devolve the accountability on another officer.

1432. Orders for the issue of supplies from an arsenal or armory are directed to the officer in charge, who shall transmit them to the storekeeper, and see to their execution. For transportation, the stores will be turned over to the Quartermaster's Department, with duplicate invoice (Form 2); a third shall be transmitted to the officer who is to receive the stores

1433. Materials to be consumed or expended are issued on the written orders of the officer in charge to the store-keeper, who shall make quarterly abstracts of such issues (Form 9) as his voucher, to be certified by
the officer in charge. 

1434. The officer in charge shall turn over to the store-keeper the invoices (Form 2) of stores received, to be receipted for by him (Form 7), and shall furnish to him invoices of articles fabricated, purchased, repaired, &c., from which the store-keeper shall make the quarterly abstracts to be certified by the officer in charge (Forms 3, 4, 5, 6). At an armory, all articles purchased, fabricated, or repaired are to be inspected by the master armorer before being paid for, or turned into store 

1435. The date when orders for supplies are received, or stores received at or issued from an arsenal or armory, shall be reported on the report of work done (Form 27).

436. Hired men in the ordnance service (except slaves) shall be engaged on daily wages, except men on piece-work, and paid only for such days or parts of days as they actually work. Working time, by daylight
only, shall average ten hours throughout the year. When men are paid for extra time or night-work, the necessity shall be explained on the pay-roll. 

1437. Workmen in an armory shall be paid, as far as practicable, by piece-work. The price of piece-work shall be fixed, according to the skill and labor it requires, by the superintendent, under the direction of the
chief of ordnance.

1438. Any increase of wages shall be promptly reported to the ordnance bureau, with the necessary explanations. 

1439. The money value of any piece of work spoiled by the fault or incompetency of a workman shall be charged to him on the pay-roll. 

1440. A fair rent shall be charged monthly on the pay-roll to the hired men who occupy public quarters, except the master armorer and clerks at an armory. The rent-roll (Form 12) shall be returned quarterly to the
ordnance bureau. 

1441. Armory officers and hired men in the ordnance service will receive ten cents mileage for travel on duty under orders. 

1442. No buildings or other permanent works or improvements will be undertaken without the sanction of the Secretary of War. The plans and estimates for them are to be sent to the ordnance bureau by the month of August. 

1443. No trees on the public grounds will be removed or destroyed without authority from the ordnance bureau. 

1444. None but strong draft horses are to be purchased for the ordnance service, nor without authority from the chief of ordnance.

1445. The enlisted men of ordnance shall be enlisted in the grade of laborer. They may be mustered, at the discretion of the officer in command, in any grade for which they are competent, except the grade of master workman. Promotions to that grade require the sanction of the chief of ordnance. Enlistments (Form 24) are to be in duplicate; one filed at the post, the other forwarded to the ordnance bureau. The number of enlisted men at each arsenal will be directed by the chief of ordnance. 

1446. Expenses of the issue and delivery of ordnance and ordnance stores to the States, at any point within the State designated by the governor, if on navigable water or otherwise easily accessible, are paid by the United States from the appropriation for arming and equipping the militia. The officers of the Ordnance Department provide for the transportation and the payment of the expenses.

1447. The accounts with the several States and Territories are kept in terms of muskets; but other small arms, accoutrements, field artillery, and equipments of equal value and of the patterns adopted for the troops of
the United States, may be issued. at the request of the State or Territory, if the government supplies will permit.
1448. Receipts (Form 8) will be prepared in triplicate by the issuing officer, and transmitted for the signature of the governor, or officer or agent appointed by him to receive the stores; one of which, when
returned, shall be forwarded by the issuing officer to the ordnance bureau. 

1449. The returns and reports prescribed in the following articles are required to be sent to the ordnance bureau. 

1450. Monthly returns, within five days after the quarter to which they relate, viz.: by the officer in charge of an arsenal: 1st, of the officers and men of ordnance (Form 25); 2d, of hired men (Form 26); 3d, of work done (Form 27); and by the officer in charge of an armory, a return of armory officers and men, and small arms and appendages manufactured (Form 28); and by the officer in charge of an arsenal or armory, a summary statement by the disbursing officer of money received and expended (Form 20). 

1451. An estimate by the officer in charge of an arsenal or armory at the beginning of the quarter, of the funds required' during the quarter (Form 21). 

1452. Quarterly returns, within twenty days after the quarter, viz.: 1st, by every disbursing officer, a money account current (Form 18), with abstract of disbursements (Form 17), and vouchers (Forms 13, 14,15, 16),
and a duplicate of the abstract and of the account current, with endorsed statement (Form 20); 2d, a property return (Form 1), with vouchers (Forms 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 19), by every person accountable for
ordnance and ordnance stores, except those in current service at arsenals and armories. The return for a post will be distinct from that for a company or detachment. 

1453. An annual return, in July, by the officer in charge of an arsenal or armory, of all ordnance stores, tools, and draft animals in current service (Form 1). 

1454. An annual inventory, in August, by the officer in charge of an arsenal or armory (Form 29), with a report, in a condensed form, of the principal operations of the post during the year ending 30th June, including an account of experiments, of the construction and repairs of buildings, machinery, &c. 

1455. Letters of transmittal are to accompany reports and returns to the ordnance bureau. 

1456. Every officer required to make a return of ordnance and ordnance stores shall take an inventory of them (Form 11) in the month of June, and certify on his return for the second quarter that the inventory has been taken and his return made in conformity with it. The same form of inventory is to be used at inspections.
1457. In all official lists, ordnance and' ordnance stores are to be arranged according to the classification furnished by the Ordnance Department.*

* Information concerning the price of small arms and accoutrements and the classification of ordnance and ordnance stores, can be obtained at the chief of ordnance.

1458. The following records of their reports and returns are required to be kept by ordnance officers and turned over to their successors:

1. A company return book, consisting of the retained duplicates, bound together;
2. A monthly return book, obtaining the other monthly returns and statements;
3. An account book, containing copies of the quarterly accounts current and their endorsed statements, of abstracts of money disbursed, and of estimates for funds;
4. A letter book of copies of all letters sent;
5. Files of letters received;
6. Files of orders received;
7. An annual inventory book, by binding together the retained inventories;
8. At armories and arsenals of construction, such other books may be kept as may be necessary to show the details of the operations.

1459. All books and files are to be submitted to inspecting officers, when called for.

1460. Printed blanks allowed will be furnished from the ordnance office, unless otherwise directed, on requisitions in May for a year's supply.