ARTICLE XLII. QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT.

1065. The incidental expenses of the army paid through the Quarter master's Department include per diem to extra-duty men; postage on public service; the expenses of courts-martial, of the pursuit and apprehension of deserters, of the burials of officers and soldiers, of hired escorts, of expresses, interpreters, spies, and guides, of veterinary surgeons and medicines for horses, and of supplying posts with water; and generally the proper and authorized expenses for the movements and operations of an army not expressly assigned to any other department.

 BARRACKS AND QUARTERS.

1066. Under this head are included the permanent buildings for the use of the army, as barracks, quarters, hospitals, store-houses, offices, stables.

1067. When barracks and quarters are to be occupied, they will be allotted by the quartermaster at the station, under the control of the commanding officer.

1068. The number of rooms and amount of fuel for officers and men are as follows:.

1069. Merchantable hard wood is the standard; the cord is 128 cubic feet.

1070. A particular set of quarters will be set apart at every chaplainpost for the chaplain. He will not be disturbed in these further than by a reduction of his allowance when that of the other officers is reduced Nor will he be alloyed to choose other quarters.

1071. No officer shall occupy more than his proper quarters, except by order of the commanding officer when there is an excess of quarters at the station; which order the quartermaster shall forward to the Quartermaster-General, to be laid before the Secretary of War. But the amount of quarters shall be reduced pro rata by the commanding officer when the number of officers and troops make it necessary; and when the public buildings are not sufficient to quarter the troops, the commanding officer shall report to the commander of the department for authority to hire quarters, or other necessary orders in the case. The department commander shall report the case, and his orders therein, to the Quartermaster General.

1072. A mess-room, and fuel for it, are allowed only when a majority of the officers of a post or regiment unite in a mess; never to less than three officers, nor to any who live in hotels or boarding-houses. Fuel for a mess-room shall not be used elsewhere, or for any other purpose.

1073. Fuel issued to officers or troops is public property for their use; what they do not actually consume shall be returned to the quartermaster and taken up on his quarterly return. With this exception, however: that the fuel issued to troops, and not actually used in quarters, may be used in baking their bread.

1074 In November, December, January, and February, the fuel is increased one-fourth at stations from the 39th degree to the 43d degree north latitude, and one-third at stations north of the 43d degree.

1075. Fuel shall be issued only in the month when due.

1076. In allotting quarters, officers shall have choice according to rank, but the commanding officer may direct the officers to be stationed convenient to their troops.

1077. An officer may select quarters occupied by a junior; but, having, made his choice, he must abide by it, and shall not again at the post displace a junior, unless himself displaced by a senior.

1078. The set of rooms to each quarters will be assigned by the quartermaster, under the control of the commanding officer; attics not counted as rooms.

1079. Officers cannot choose rooms in different sets of quarters.

1080. When public quarters cannot be furnished to officers at stations without troops, or to enlisted men at general or department head-quarters, quarters will be commuted at a rate fixed by the Secretary of War, and fuel at the market price delivered. When fuel and quarters are commuted to an officer by reason of his employment on a civil work, the commutation shall be charged to the appropriation for the work. No commutation of rooms or fuel is allowed for offices or messes.

1081. The following rates of monthly commutation for quarters, when officers are serving without troops and at posts where there are no public quarters which they can occupy, have been established:

1. At Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington City, Charleston, Key West, Mob,le, and New Orleans, and at all posts and stations in Texas, and in the Territories of New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington, $9 per room.

2. At Detroit, Chicago, and St. Louis, and at all places east of the Rocky Mountains, not heretofore enumerated, $8 per room.

3. At San Francisco, $20 per room, and at all other places in California, $12 per room.

1082. An officer is not deprived of his quarters and fuel, or commutation, at his station, by temporary absence on duty.

1083. Officers absent from their appropriate duties for a period exceed. ing six months, either with or without leave, shall not receive the allowances authorized by the existing laws for servants, forage, transportation of baggage, fuel, and quarters, either in kind or in commutation. (Act of Aug. 1861, chap. 38, sect. 20.)

1084. Officers and troops in the field are not entitled to commutation for quarters or fuel.

1086. An officer arriving at a station shall make requisition on the quartermaster for his quarters and fuel, accompanied by a copy of the order putting him on duty at the station. If in command of troops, his requisition shall be for the whole, and designate the number of officers of each grade, of non-commissioned officers, soldiers, servants, and washerwomen.

1087. Bunks, benches, and tables provided for soldiers' barracks and hospitals, are not to be removed from them, except by the quartermaster of the station, or order of the commanding officer, and shall not be removed from the station except by order of the Quartermaster-General.

1088. The furniture for each office will be two common desks or tables, six common chairs, one pair common andirons, and shovel and tongs.

1089. Furniture will be provided for officers' quarters when special appropriations for that purpose are made. Sales to officers of materials for furniture may be made at cost, at posts where they cannot be otherwise obtained.

1090. When buildings are to be occupied or allotted, an inspection of them shall be made by the commanding officer and quartermaster. Statements, in triplicate, of their condition, and of the fixtures and furniture in each room, shall be made by the quartermaster, and revised by the commanding officer. One of these shall be retained by the commanding officer, one by the quartermaster, and the third forwarded to the Quartermaster-General.

1091. Like inspection of all buildings in the use of troops will be made at the monthly inspections of the troops, and of all buildings which have been in the use of officers or troops, whenever vacated by them. Damages will be promptly repaired if the quartermaster has the means Commanding officers will take notice, as a military offense, of any neglect by any officer or soldier to take proper care of the rooms or furniture in his use or occupancy; but such officer or soldier may be allowed to pay the cost of the repairs when the commanding officer deems that sufficient in the case. Commanding officers are required to report to the Quartermaster-General their proceedings in all cases pf neglect under this regulation.

1092. An annual inspection of the public buildings at the several stations shall be made at the end of June by the commanding officer and quartermaster, and then the quartermaster shall make the following reports: 1st. of the condition and capacity of the buildings, and of the additions, alterations, and repairs that have been made during the past year; 2d. of the additions, alterations, and repairs that are needed, with plans and estimates in detail. These reports the commanding officer shall examine and forward, with his views, to the Quartermaster-General.

1093. Necessary repairs of public buildings, not provided for in the appropriations, can only be made by the labor of the troops.

1094. When private buildings occupied as barracks or quarters, or lands occupied for encampments, are vacated, the commanding officer and quartermaster shall make an inspection of them, and a report to the Quartermaster-General of their condition, and of any injury to them by the use of the United States.

1095. Military posts evacuated by the troops, and lands reserved for military use, will-be put in charge of the Quartermaster's Department, unless otherwise specially ordered.

ARMY TRANSPORTATION.

1096. When troops are moved, or officers travel with escorts or stores, the means of transport provided shall be for the whole command. Proper orders in the case, and an exact return of the command, including officers' servants and company women, will be furnished to the quartermaster who is to provide the transportation.

1097. The baggage to be transported is limited to camp and garrison equipage, and officers' baggage. Officers' baggage shall not exceed (mess chest and all personal effects included) as follows:
                                                        In the field.    Changing stations.
General officers............................... 125 pounds.  1000 pounds.
Field officers.................................... 100 "             800 "
Captains.......................................... 80 "               700
Subalterns........................................ 80 "              600 "

These amounts shall be reduced pro rata by the commanding officer
when necessary, and may be increased by the Quartermaster-General on
transports by water, when proper in special cases.  The regimental and company desk prescribed in army regulations will be transported; also for staff officers, the books, papers, and instruments necessary to their duties; and for medical officers, their medical chest. In doubtful cases under this regulation, and whenever baggage exceeds the regulated allowance, the conductor of the train, or officer in charge of the transportation, will report to the commanding officer, who will order an inspection, and all excess to be rejected.

1099. Estimates of the medical director, approved by the commanding officer, for the necessary transportation to be provided for the hospital service, will be furnished to the quartermaster.

1100. The sick will be transported on the application of the medical officers.

1101. Certified invoices of all public stores to be transported will be furnished to the quartermaster by the officer having charge of them. In doubtful cases, the orders of the commanding officer will be required.

1102. Where officers' horses are to be transported, it must be authorized in the orders for the movement.

1103. The baggage trains, ambulances, and all the means of transport continue in charge of the proper officers of the Quartermaster's Department, under the control of the commanding officers.

1104. In all cases of transportation, whether of troops or stores, an exact return of the amount and kind of transportation employed will be made by the quartermaster to the Quartermaster-General, accompanied by the orders for the movement, a return of the troops, and an invoice of the stores.

1105. Wagons and their equipments for the transport sernice of the army will be procured, when practicable, from the Ordnance Department, and fabricated in the government establishments.

1106. Spring wagons or carriages will not be used except on extraordinary occasions, and then only on the written order of a department commander or the commander of an army in the field, a copy of which order will be transmitted to the Quartermaster-General. The purchase of this description of conveyance is prohibited, unless specially authorized by the War Department.

1107. When army supplies are turned over to a quartermaster for transportation, each package shall be directed and its contents marked on it; and duplicate invoices and receipts in bulk will be exchanged between the issuing and forwarding officer.

1108.  On transports, cabin passage will be provided for officers, and reasonable and proper accommodation for the troops, and, when possible, separate apartment for the sick.

1109. An officer who travels not less than ten miles without troops, escort, or military stores, and under special orders in the case from a superior, or a summons to attend a military court, shall receive ten cents mileage, or, if he prefer it, the actual cost of his transportation and of the transportation of his allowance of baggage for the whole journey, provided he has traveled in the customary reasonable manner. Mileage will not be allowed where the travel is by government conveyances, which will be furnished in case of necessity.

1110. If the journey be to cash treasury drafts, the necessary and actual cost of transportation only will be allowed; and the account must describe the draft and state its amount, and set out the items of expense, and be supported by a certificate that the journey was necessary to procure specie for the draft at par.

1111. If an officer shall travel on urgent public duty without orders, he shall report the case to the superior who had authority to order the journey; and his approval, if then given, shall allow the actual cost of transportation. Mileage is computed by the shortest mail route, and the distance by the General Post-Office book. When the distance cannot be so ascertained, it shall be reckoned subject to the decision of the Quartermaster-General.

1112. Orders to an officer on leave of absence to rejoin the station or troops he left, will not carry transportation.

1113. In changes of station, an officer entitled to mileage, or actual cost of transportation, shall be entitled to actual cost of transportation of his authorized servants; and in other cases than change of station, an officer entitled to transportation, who, from wounds or disability, requires and takes one servant, shall be entitled to the actual cost of his transportation.

1114. The Inspectors-General, when on tours of inspection where they are obliged to take a servant, shall be entitled to the actual cost of his transportation.

1115. Citizens receiving military appointments join their stations without expense to the public.

1116. But assistant surgeons approved by an examining board and commissioned, receive transportation in the execution of their first order to duty, and graduates of the Military Academy receive transportation from the academy to their stations.

1117. When officers are permitted to exchange stations, or are transferred at their own request from one regiment or company to another, the public will not be put to the expense of their transportation. They must bear it themselves.

1118. A paymaster's clerk will receive the actual expenses of his transportation, while traveling under orders in the discharge of his duty, upon his affidavit to the account of expenses, and the certificate of the paymaster that the journey was on duty.

1119. Travel of officers on business of civil works will be charged to the appropriation for the work.

1120. No officer shall have orders to attend personally at Washington to the settlement of. his accounts, except by order of the Secretary of War on the report of tile bureau, or of the Treasury, showing a necessity therefor.

FORAGE.

1121. The forage ration is fourteen pounds of hay and twelve pounds of oats, corn, or barley. For mules, fourteen pounds of hay and nine pounds of oats, corn, or barley.

1122. The allowance of forage to mounted officers will apply for mules equally as for horses, when the exigencies of the service make it necessary to use the former instead of the latter. This will not: authorize officers to make the substitution on drills and parades, or, under ordinary circumstances. oh any duty under arms.

1123. Forage shall be issued to officers only in the month when due, and at their proper stations, and for the horses actually kept by them in service, not exceeding in number as follows: In time of war, Major General, seven horses; Brigadier-General, five; Colonels who have the cavalry allowance, five; other Colonels, four; Lieutenant-Colonels and Majors who have the cavalry allowance, four; other Lieutenant-Colonels and Majors, three; Captains who have the cavalry allowance, three; all other officers entitled to forage, two; and in time of peace, general and field officers, three horses; officers below the rank of field officers in the regiments of dragoons, cavalry, and mounted riflemen, two horses; all other officers entitled to forage, one horse.

1124. No officer shall sell forage issued to him. Forage issued to public horses or cattle is public property; what they do nor actually consume is to be properly accounted for.

1125. Whenever the state of the supplies or circumstances of the service make it necessary to issue a part, only, of the ration, in kind, comaianding, officers will prescribe what part shall be so issued.

STRAW.

1126. In barracks, twelve pounds of straw per month for bedding will be allowed to each man, servant, and company woman.

1127. The allowance and change of straw for the sick is regulated by the surgeon.

1128. One hundred pounds per month allowed for bedding to each horse in public service.

1129. At posts near prairie land owned by the United States, hay will be used instead of straw, and provided by the troops. Straw not actually used as bedding shall be accounted for as other
public property.

1131. When an officer is relieved in command, he shall transfer the office stationery to his successor.

1132. To each office table is allowed one inkstand, one stamp, one paper-folder, one sand-box, one wafer-box, and as many lead-pencils as may be required, not exceeding four per annum.

1133. Necessary stationery for military courts and boards will be furnished on the requisition of the recorder, approved by the presiding officer.

1134. The commander of an army, department, or division, may direct orders to be printed, when the requisite dispatch and the number to be distributed make it necessary. The necessity will be set out in the order for the printing, or certified on the account.

1135. Regimental, company, and post books, and printed blanks for the officers of Quartermaster and Pay Departments, will be procured by timely requisition on the Quartermaster-General.