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CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, 
 Subsistence Department, 
 
 Regulations of the Subsisteticc Department, embracing all amendments 
 and substitutions heretofore made, but not printed in the said Regula- 
 tions, to take effect from the first of January, 1864. 
 
 The Ration. 
 
 The ration is one-half of a pound of bacon or pork to troops in 
 movement or at work, and one-'hird of a pound to stationary troops, or 
 one pound of fresh or salt beef; one and a half pounds of flonr or corn 
 meal, or twelve ounces of hard bread ; and at the rate to one hundred 
 rations, of eight quarts of peas or beans, or in lieu thereof, ten pounds of 
 rice; four quarts of vinegar; one and a half pounds of tallow candles; 
 four pounds of soap ; two quarts of salt, or three quarts when fresh meat 
 is issued oftener than thrice a week, and the supply is adequate. Six 
 pounds of sugar to one hundred rations is allowed to sick and wounded 
 in hospitals. On a campaign, or on marches, or on board of transports, 
 the ration of hard bread is one pound. When there is no meat ration; a 
 pound of sound potatoes, if possessed, should be added to the bread ra- 
 tion . If neither meat nor potatoes, then three-fourths of a pound of flour 
 or meal will be added to the present ration of flour or meal. When both 
 meat and flour or meal can be furnished, and potatoes are likewise pos- 
 sessed, one pound of potatoes will be substituted for one-fourth of a 
 pound of flour or meal. The issue of whiskey is prohibited, except in 
 cases of extraordinary fatigue and exposure. Lard will be issued, when 
 possessed, in lieu of meat, at the rate of one and a half ounces to one 
 ration. 
 
 Commanding officers have no authority to alter or fix the ration estab- 
 lished by the Secretary of War. 
 
 Issues 
 
 Substitute for paragraphs 1111 and 1112, Subsistence Regulations, the 
 following : 
 
 1111. Issues to the hospital will be on returns by the medical officers, 
 for such provisions only as are actually required for the sick and wounded. 
 The commuted value of rations for the sick and wounded will bo one 
 dollar ana twenty-five cents. The ration for hospitals will be the same aa 
 that issued to soldiers in the field. If a greater allowance is required of 
 
any particular articles, not issued to the troops in the field, special requi- 
 sitions must be made therefor. Hospital attendants cannot draw rations 
 from the Subsistence Department, but will have their rations commuted 
 at one dollar and twenty-five cents per diem. 
 
 1112. Commissaries will transfer, for the purchase of necessary sup- 
 plies for the sick and wQimded, to the medical officer in charge of a hos- 
 pital (taking duplicate receipts therefor), such portion of the hospital 
 fund as may be demanded on requisition. One of these duplicate re- 
 ceipts will be transferred to the Subsistence Bureau, with the hospital 
 abstract for the month. 
 
 When a hospital fund shall exceed five thousand dollars, the commis- 
 sary shall drop such excess from the abstract. He will account for the 
 hospital fund, on the ' Monthly Hospital Abstract, Monthly Summary 
 Statement, and Quarterly Account Current. 
 
 Hospitals for prisoners of war are placed on the same footing as other 
 Confederate States hospitals, in all respects, and will be managed accord- 
 ingly. Rations are to bo issued to discharged men delayed at way 
 hospitals. 
 
 One ration per day will be allowed detailed soldiers in ordnance work- 
 shops or arsenals, who receive three dollars or less per day, to be issued 
 on returns similar to those used for hospitals, and to be paid for by the 
 Ordnance Department. The issuing commissary is to account for the 
 funds received from such issues. 
 
 Inasmuch as the Regulations concerning the issue of commissary 
 stores have been violated", by issuing the same to civilians, hereafter all 
 issues of subsistence stores, not warranted by the Regulations, are posi- 
 tively prohibited. 
 
 Hospital laundresses are allowed one ration per diem each. Rations 
 are allowed officers and men in the Nit*e and Mining Bureau, as in the 
 case of ordnance officers and men in the field. 
 
 Commanding officers are required to examine the returns of their com- 
 missaries, whether the issues were made by the direction of their prede- 
 cessors in command, or by their own direction. 
 
 Subsistence to Officers. 
 
 The following is a substitute for paragraph 1127 : 
 
 1127. An officer may draw subsistence stores, paying cash for them, 
 at the schedule prices established by the commissioners of the state in 
 which the officer may be on duty, without including cost of transporta- 
 tion, on his certificate that they are for his own use and the use of his 
 family. He can purchase stores for his family, only when they are with 
 

 him where he is stationed on duty, and only such articles as are a part of 
 the ration issued to soldiers. The certified lists of sales the commanding' 
 officer shall compare with the Monthly Abstract of Sales, which he shall 
 countersign. (See Form 5.) The commissary shall enter the sales on 
 his Monthly Return of Provisions, and credit the money in his Monthly 
 Summary Statement and Quarterly Account Current. Commissaries who 
 draw stores in bulk, can alone make sales to officers. 
 
 Commutation of Rations. 
 
 For paragraphs J 129, 1130, 1131 and 1132, substitute the following: 
 
 Enlisted men who hav been or may become permanently disabled, <K 
 who hold a certificate of a medical examining board to that effect, and 
 who have not been discharged the service, may have their rations com- 
 muted at one dollar and twenty-five cents per diem, whether they are in a 
 hospital, private quarters, or on furlough. 
 
 Enlisted men detailed for duty in the City of Richmond, on account of 
 physical disability, are allowed one dollar and twenty cents per diem, sis 
 commutation of rations. 
 
 Commutation of rations of all enlisted men, entitled thereto by the Re- 
 gulations of the War Department, whether on detached or detailed ser- 
 vice, or stationed in a city with no. opportunity of messing, or of the 
 non-commissioned and regimental staff when they have no opportunity 
 of messing, or of soldier* on furlough, or stationed where rations cannot 
 be issued in kind, or placed temporarily in a private hospital, on the 
 advice of the senior surgeon of the post or detachment, or of ordnance 
 sergeahts, or of a soldier who has necessarily paid for his own subsistence, 
 or of a chaplain, is fixed at one dollar per diem, to date from the 1st Janu- 
 ary, 1864. 
 
 All commutation accounts will state the length of time, date and amount, 
 for what purpose commutation is claimed, and that it was impracticable 
 for the soldier to take rations in kind, which facts must be certified to by 
 the commissioned officer under whose orders the soldier was at the time 
 the rations became due. 
 
 Commutation of rations in the case of paroled unexch^iged prisoners 
 on furlough, who have just been received from the Federal lines, will be 
 
 -allowed at one dollar per diem, to date from first January, 1864. 
 
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 Extra Duty Men, 
 
 The following is a 'substitute for paragraph 1133: 
 Pay allowed detailed men at posts, or stations without troops, or in 
 counties, towns or government workshops, is three dollars per day in lieu 
 
of all commutation or allowances, except the regular monthly pay of a 
 soldier, to be paid by the departments in which the men are detailed. 
 When serving in the field as clerks, they are to be paid one dollar and 
 twenty-five cents per diem, and receive the other allowances of a soldier. 
 In Subsistence Bureau, to be paid on Form 21, which must be approved 
 by the commanding officer. This Regulation to continue in effect until 
 31st December, 1664. 
 
 A commissary sergeant is allowed to each regiment or battalion, who 
 is to be paid twenty dollars per month out of quartermaster's funds on 
 the pay roll. 
 
 Sub-agents and employees must be chosen from men who are not sub- 
 jects of conscription, if they can be found, giving preference to those men 
 who have been permanently discharged the service, or who are perma- 
 nently disabled to perform field duty. They are to be paid such rates as 
 may be ageeed to by them and the district commissaries, subject to the 
 approval of the Chief Commissary of the state and the Commissary 
 General. When men are employed who are subjects, of conscription, 
 they will receive the same rates of pay as detailed men at posts or sta- 
 tions, &c, and* the expense of keeping a horse, where the nature of the 
 service required of them is such that a horse is needed ; or they can re- 
 ceive in lieu of the above, if they prefer it, their actual expenses, and 
 eleven dollars per month. 
 
 Commissary PnoPEirfY. 
 
 Commissaries receiving beeves or sheep, will be responsible for hides, 
 corresponding with the number of beeves or sheep slaughtered by them. 
 The hides will be transferred to the nearest quartermaster, who will pay 
 five cents per pound for the green, and ten cents per pound for the dry 
 hides, in the Trans-Mississippi department, and for all hides east of the 
 Mississippi, thirty cents per pound. Commissaries will also 'see to the 
 proper preservation and transfer of the tallow arising from the slaughtered 
 beeves, to the nearest post commissary, who will either manufacture 
 candles therefrom, or transfer it to some depot commissary in charge of 
 such manufactory. 
 
 An officer receiving barrels or boxes, shall take all necessary care that 
 they be preserved for purposes of repacking, and will invoice and receipt* 
 for all sacks transferred to or received from other commissaries. 
 
 Requisitions for blanks and stationery will be made by the district 
 commissaries of the states and the corps commissaries of the army, on 
 this department, in the manner indicated heretofore. In case of *a de- 
 tached division, brigade or regiment, the commissary thereof will make 
 
his requisition directly on this department, stating on the face of the 
 requisition that he is so detached, and'has no opportunity of drawing his 
 stationery through the regular channel. In the latter case, the com- 
 manding officer will approve the requisitions. 
 
 Returns of commissaries must be made upon the printed forms or 
 blanks. Writing paper must not be used for this purpose. 
 
 Whenever commissaries transfer subsistence stores, particularly on rail 
 roads, they will see that the gross, tare and net are distinctly marked on 
 each package, and that tho same be expressed on the way bill or bill of 
 lading, and that the number of packages, and the gross, tare and net 
 weight of each be expressed upon every invoice of subsistence store?. 
 
 Sacks containing stores must be invoiced separately, and receipted for 
 
 Invoices must bo sent to the receiving officer without delay. 
 
 Commissaries will also, when large shipments are made in succession, 
 cause each package to be marked in such a manner as will enable the 
 receiving officer to distinguish the different shipments, and notify the re- 
 ceiving officer of the particular mark 
 
 L. B. NORTHROP, 
 
 Commissary General 
 
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