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 Richmond, July 1, 1864. 
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 ral Orders relating to the dirties of quartermasters, issued from the 
 office of the Adjutant and Inspector General during the second quarter of 
 the current year (1864 : 
 
 No. 42, April 14,1864.] 
 
 XII. Officers to whom soldiers on detached or detailed duty report. 
 will take possession of their descriptive lists, and, in accordance with 
 instructions thereon given, will prtoare and certify to the muster rolls 
 npon which they receive the pay dim them. Payments will bo mado 
 such soldiers, when in the field, at the end of every two rhoriths; when 
 at posts, at the end of each month. Upon these rolls annual settlements 
 of clothing accounts may be made with soldiers on detailed duty at 
 posts. 
 
 XIII. To prevent their detention on their way home, soldiers, leaving 
 the army on furlough of indulgence will, instead of being furnished with 
 descriptive lists, be paid at their commands to the close of the month 
 preceding the dates of their furloughs, upon detached rolls, signed by 
 their company commanders., 
 
 XIV. Sick or wounded men sent to hospitals Will be paid as here- 
 tofore, upon hospital muster and pay rolls. Those who, on account of 
 Wounds or ill health, are permitted to go to their homes, may be paid 
 upon descriptive lists, by the nearest quartermaster or assistant quarter- 
 master. 
 
 XV. When soldiers are ordered to rejoin their command:n*>fficers with 
 whom they have been on duty, surgeons in charge of hospitals of which 
 they have been inmates, and quartermasters and assistant quartermasters 
 paying those sick and wounded at home, will (after ear-fully noting 
 upon their descriptive lists payments made to them) return such soldiers 
 their descriptive lists, to be delivered to their company commander, and 
 
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 v '- * transmit, threugh iing the army to which 
 
 th^^e]ong> duplicates bf the same to the latter. 
 
 SI- The following Acts of Congress are published for the information 
 
 J"> Act to provide compensation for Officers who may heretofore k^ne per- 
 formed Staff Duty under Orders of t/itir Superior Officers. 
 
 Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact. That 
 officer or private of any legally constituted military org*miza~ 
 I qay have heretofore, by order of his proper superior officii*, per- 
 
 i ) [a ( staff duty appropriate to such command, he shall be entitled 
 b sive pay for the time he was so engaged in the discharge o^ such 
 
 duties.: provided, that there was not then present fit for duty, any officer 
 d~ly appointed for the discharge of the same. [Approved February 
 :t.] 
 
 [General Orders, No. 44, April 29. 1864.] 
 
 VIII. Vacancies will be filled by selection from the officers of the de- 
 partment in which they occur. 
 
 X. Promotions in the general staff of the army will be by selection 
 and not by seniority, except in cases of known competency for higher 
 grade. 
 
 [General Orders, No. 45, May 2, 18C4.] 
 
 II. Special attention is called to the appropriation, by impressment, of 
 
 horses for cavalry service. It is without warrant of law, and will not be 
 
 • v circumstances whatever. Commanding Generals and 
 
 J ting Officers will promptly report to this office any violation of this 
 
 order. 
 
 IV. Special agents, to make purchases or secure shipment of supplies, 
 witl not be sent to any foreign port, except in cases of most urgent ne- 
 . of which necessity report will be made immediately to the Secre- 
 tary of War. All purchases will be made by agents, under orders from 
 tire Secretary of War; or by officers charged with the export and impor- 
 tation of cotton and purchase of foreign supplies; or by officers or agents 
 acting under express authority from the General commanding the Trans- 
 issippi Department. 
 
V. All horses impressed by the goreftment, sold or in any manner 
 
 . assigned to officers, will be immediately restored to the Quarter .. 
 Department, to be appropriated to the, puttie service, as contemplated by 
 lav. Such sale's and alignments by order of a Commanding G .1 
 
 are prohibited, and will not be sanctioned. 
 
 [General Orders, Xo. 48, May 27, l£64.j 
 
 I. The receipts of bonded quartermasters and commissaries I 
 fcs of tax service are the only receipts valid to a producer for U» 
 tithe tax. All others are worthless, and unjust impositibns on t 
 payer. It is strictly forbidden that a/ rsons tian those 
 
 named shall give receipts for the title-. 
 
 n - In a]: ' | ' tithes by officers of the Quartermaster 
 
 and Commissary Departments in the fi i will be given n* 
 
 to the district quartermaster on tax duty. Such receipts must si 
 md county of the producer. 
 
 III. Quartermasters and commissaries who have means of transporta- 
 tion, and all such officers collecting supplies, will give special atl 
 
 removal of the tax in kind from interior depots to rail road stations 
 and to the supply storehouses of the army. 
 
 IV. Officers with troops are prohibited from forcibly taking possession 
 of the (ax depots or appropriating the tithe. If they need supplies, re- 
 quisition therefor will be made upon the tax officer or agent. 
 
 VII. Officers of the QuartermasterV| Department will return t 
 quartermaster from whom grain is received, the sacks in which it is con- 
 tained, Failing to do so, they will be charged one dollar and ninety 
 cents for each sack not returned. 
 
 VIII. Post commanders will inspect the offices of such officers as are 
 prohibited from employing able-bodied men in their departments or bu- 
 reaux, and in cases of violation of the law, take the action required by 
 the department and district commander, in section 9, act of February J 7, 
 1864 (General Orders, No. 26] current series). 
 
I. The following Acts of Congress are published for the i 
 
 of the ariD} : 
 
 to furnish transportation to Officers of the Army and Navy while 
 t raiding wder orders. 
 
 The I of the Confederate States of America do enact, Tl 
 
 i- of tli' army and navy, while traveling under orders of thi 
 or Navy Department, shall be allowed transportation ia kind foi 
 selves and their p< lr.onal bag-gage, and ten dollars per day for expenses 
 while necessarily traveling in the execution of their orders. [Approved 
 June 4, 1864.] 
 
 An Act to provide fur tin- Compensation of Non-Commissioned Officer?,, 
 Soldiery, Sailors anil Marin's on detailed service. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That all 
 persons detailed from the army, or after enrollment for military service, or 
 from the navy or marine corps, for special duty or exlra duty, shall he 
 allowed to receive their regular pay, rations and allowances, as if they 
 were performing service in the field. 
 
 SEC. :2. That all such detached or detailed men shall be allowed, in 
 addition, not exceeding two dollars per day, and compensation for all 
 extra work, or for any uncommon skill, or industry displayed in tb< 
 fonnance of duties to which they may be assigned, in proportion to the 
 value of such extra labor or uncommon skill or industry, whether it be in 
 dng an unusual amount of work within the usual hours of labor, 
 or vvork performed beyond the usual hours, or extraordinary skill and 
 isupc/ior workmanship displayed in the execution of such duties; the 
 value of said extra labor, or uncommon skill or industry, to be deter- 
 mined by the officer or superintendent under whose immediate direction 
 fiaid detached or detailed service may be performed, subject to the approval 
 of the Secretary of War or Navy. The additional compensation provided 
 in this section shall be the same for both the War and Navy Departments, 
 under certain rules to be prescribed by the President. 
 
 Sec. 3. That all non-commissioned officers, musician.-, privates, sailors 
 or marines, detailed to government contractors, shall be so detailed with- 
 out pay and allowances, but shall be compensated for their services by 
 wages received from said contractors, under rules to bo prescribed by the 
 Secretary of War or of the Navy. [Approved June 0, 1864.] 
 

 An Act to authorize the appointment of Quartermasters and Assistant 
 Quartermasters and Commissaries and Assistant Commissaries in the 
 Provisional Army in certain cases. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the 
 lit is hereby authorized, by and with ihe advice and con 
 the Senate, to appoint for the provisional army additional quartermasters 
 and commissaries, with the rank of colonel, lieutenant colonel and • 
 provided, that such additional quartermasters and commissaries, with the 
 rank of Colonel, shall not exceed the mimber of military departments and 
 separate armies existing at the time of their appointment; and that the 
 additional quartermasters ami commissaries, with the rank of lieutenant 
 colonel, shall not exceed the number of army corps existing at tl. 
 of tin -ii- appointment ; and that the additional quartermaster? and com- 
 missaries, with the rank of major, shall not exceed the number of divi- 
 sions of the army existing at the time of their appointment; and foT the 
 collection, control and distribution of rail read and field transportation 
 and army supplies, the President may appoint such additional quarter- 
 masters and assistant quartermasters and commissaries as may be 
 sary for the efficient execution of the duties of the Quartermaster and 
 Commissary Departments; and such purchasing agents or transportation 
 agents may 1 as the service may require, who shall not have 
 
 military rank, and whose compensation shall not exceed the pa; 
 captain of infantry, and who may he required to give bond for the faith- 
 ful performance of those duties; but nothing herein contained shall be 
 construed to prohibit the assignment of quartermasters and coi 
 or assistant quartermasters or conn any of the foregoing duties, 
 
 or to the duty of paying the troops: provided, that all said appointments 
 shall be made from persons who are over forty-five years of age, or who 
 are incapacitated physically for service in the field, or who have been In 
 the service over twelve months, or have been heretofore discharging any 
 of the aforesaid duties: provided, further, that additional assistant quar- 
 termasters and commissaries shall not be appointed, if there are officers 
 already in service who can be assigned to such duties without detriment 
 to the service. 
 
 Sec. 2. That it shall be no longer incumbent on the President to ap- 
 point or to keep in service an assistant quartermaster, with the rank of 
 captain, for each regiment or battalion in the field ; but he may assign 
 the quartermaster of any army corps, division, brigade, regiment or bat- 
 talion, or the commissary of any army, army corps, division or brigade 
 to duty as quartermaster or commissary elsewhere, and to assign quarter- 
 distant quartermasters, and commissaries and assistant com- 
 
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 • posts or dej >ts, 01 ;'• ire with 
 
 armies, army corps, di 1, whenever in his 
 
 opinion the public interest will b< promoted then 
 
 Sec. ?>. That in case, the services of any 
 any other quartermaster or a r, or coramis 
 
 sistant commissary, appointed under this act, can, in the opinion of the 
 Presid and such offi cer cannot be otherwise appro 
 
 priately employed to flu shall be dropped from 
 
 the rolls, and he shall c n officer of the provisional army. 
 
 I. That tl i 1 and he is hereby autbi |>poiut 
 
 artermftster, with the rani; of major, W te,-and one assis- 
 
 tant quartermaster, with the rank of captain, for each congressional dis- 
 trict in the Beveral states, to execute the duti • nee to 
 the tax in kind: provided, that the appointments to be made in pursu- 
 ance of this section shall bo made with the same restrictions and limita- 
 tions as are set forth in the fijst proviso to the first section of this act. 
 [Approved Juno 11. 1664.] 
 
 An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to aid any State in communicating 
 iriih and perfecting Record's concerning its Troupe, approved sixteenth 
 February eighteen hundred and sixty-fokr. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That thp 
 above named act be and the same is hereby amended Mow to 
 
 the state officer therein named the right to purchase forage for one horse 
 in addition to the right granted thereby to purchase one ration: said pur- 
 chases to be made upon the same terms and conditions and under the, 
 same circumstances under which officers of the provisional army may 1" 
 allowed to purchase rations or forage. [Approved Mav 31, 18(54/] 
 
 Joint. Resolution to allow Sid.- and Wounded Officers of the Army Traits 
 pqrtation to ilteir Homes, and Hospital Accommodation?. 
 
 Ived by Hi of the Confederate States of Americ ■■■ Tru I 
 
 nick and wounded officers on leaw, upon c< 
 
 geons, be allowed transportation to f.rir homes and back to their com- 
 mands, as in the ease of enlisted in on furlough. The indulgence 
 hereby accorded to continue in force for ninety days after the next meet- 
 ing of Congress. 
 
 Resolved further, That all sick and wounded officers in the naval and 
 
military service shall be entitled to enter any hospital, and receive such 
 treatment and rations as now provided by law, free of charge. [Ap- 
 proved June 10, 1864.] 
 
 An Act to graduate the Pay of General Officers. 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact. Tlmt tho 
 pay of a general shall be five hundred dollars per month ; that of a lieu- 
 tenant general, four hundred and fifty dollars per month; and that of a 
 major general, three hundred and fifty dollars per month; that a genera] 
 commanding an army in the field shall receive, in addition to the said 
 sum of five hundred dollars per month, one hundred dollars ; and a lieu- 
 tenant general, a major general and a brigadier general shall, whilst serv- 
 ing in the field, each receive fifty dollars per month, in addition to the 
 sum herein allowed, whilst so serving; and all laws allowing additional 
 compensation for coiumanding a separate army in the field, be and they 
 are hereby repealed, except as herein provided ; and that this act shall be 
 in force for one year and do longer. [Approved June 10, 180 1 . ] 
 
 An Act to provide and organize a General Staff for Armies in the Field, 
 to serve during the War. 
 
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That 
 hereafter the general staff of the army shall constitute a corps, and staff 
 officers shall no longer, except by xssigument. be attached to any parti- 
 cular military organization, or be held to duty at any post. That promo- 
 tions in said corps shall be by selection, based upon capacity, merit and 
 service; and no one shall be appointed in said corps, unless he has been 
 two years at least in the military service during the war, or is over forty- 
 five years of age, or is unfit for military service in the field. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the President is hereby authorized to assign all officers 
 of tho staff to such appropriate duties as he may think proper, except 
 that he shall not assign them to commands in the. line, unless in cases of 
 emergency, and then only for a short time ; and no officer shall be allowed 
 to hold at the same time a commission or appointment in the staff and in 
 the line. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the President is hereby authorized, upon the application 
 of any general commanding an army in the field, to appoint, by and with 
 the advice and consent of the Senate, or assign for duty with such gene- 
 ral, whilst so commanding, a general officer, who shall be charged, uuder 
 the direction of the general, with the administration of his army. There 
 
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 e allowed to a,general so commanding, two assistant adjutants 
 
 '. one chief quartermaster, one chief of ordnance, and one chief 
 
 commissary, each with the rank, pay anfl allowances of a colonel of 
 
 ■: a surgeon, as medical director, with the pay and allowanc 
 
 mel of cavalry ; one aid de croup, with the rank, pay and allowances 
 
 olonel of cavalry ; and one aid de camp, with the rank, pay and 
 
 allowances of a lieutenant c< ivalry. 
 
 4. That to a lieutenant general commanding a corps (Tarmee shall 
 be allowed, to be appointed by the President, with the advice and consent 
 of the Senate, two assistant adjutants general, with the rank, pay and 
 allowances each of a colonel of cavalry: a chief of ordnance, a chief 
 quartermaster and a chief commissary, each with the rank, pay and 
 allowances of a lieutenant colonel of cavalry. ]Ie shall also be allowed 
 one surgeon, as medical director, to be appointed by the President, with 
 the advice and consent of the Senate, with the pay and allowances of a 
 lieutenant colonel of cavalry ; and, to be appointed as above, one aid de 
 camp, with the rank, pay and allowances of a lieutenant colonel of 
 cavalry ; and one aid do camp with the rank, pay and allowances of a 
 of cavalry. 
 
 SEC. 5. That to a major general commanding a division shall be 
 allowed, to be appointed by the President, with the advice and consent 
 of the Senate, two assistant adjutants general, with the rank, pay and 
 allowances of a lieutenant colonel of cavalry; one chief of ordnance, 
 one chief quartermaster and one chief commissary, each with the rank, 
 pay and allowances of a major of cavalry; also a surgeon, with the pay 
 and allowances of a major of cavalry; one aid de camp, with the rank, 
 pay and allowances of a major of cavalry; and one aid de camp, with 
 the rank, pay and allowances of a captain of cavalry. 
 
 Sec. G. That to a brigadier general commanding a brigade shall bo 
 allowed, to he appointed as herein before directed, two assistant adjutants 
 i and one assistant inspector general, with the rank, pay and al- 
 lowances each of a major of cavalry; one surgeon, with the pay and 
 allowances of a major of cavalry; one ordnance officer, with the rank, 
 pay and allowances of a captain of cavalry; one aid de camp, with tho 
 rank, pay and allowances of a captain of cavalry; and one aid de camp, 
 with r he rank, pay and allowances of a first lieutenant of cavalry. 
 
 SEC. 7. That the President is hereby authorized to reduce the number 
 of officers allowed by this act to the staff of any general officer, or to in- 
 crease the same when in his opinion the service will be benefited thereby. 
 
 Sec. 8. That all appointment:; uuder this act shall be mado from those 
 already in service. [Approved June 14, 1864.] 
 
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 [General Orders, No. 57. June 30, 1864.] 
 
 V. Funds will be placed in the hands of such quartern! as tors attached 
 to the conscript service in each state as may be deemed expedient by the 
 Superintendent of the Bureau of Conscription, and will be disbursed 
 upon similar vouchers, and as near as may be, according to the forms 
 and regulations prescribed for the Quartermaster's Department. All re- 
 turns, vouchers, reports, accounts current, abstracts and summary state- 
 ments, connected with the disbursement of these funds, will be forwarded 
 to the Bureau of Conscription, at. the stated periods, and in the manner 
 i.nd form prescribed by the General Regulations of the Quartermaster's 
 Department, 
 
 VI. All accounts for pay of officers, clerks and employees, and for 
 current and extraordinary expenses of the conscription service, will be 
 paid only upon the order or approval of the commandant of conscript* 
 for the state wherein such accounts and expenses may be incurred, or 
 upon the order or approval of the Superintendent of the Bureau of Con- 
 scription. 
 
 VII. The compensation and commutation, or other allowances of 
 officers, non-commissioned officers and privates ui the army, who may be 
 detailed for service under the orders of the Bureau of Conscription, will 
 be paid, as heretofore, by quartermasters, out of the appropriation for pay 
 of the army and the service of the Quartermaster's Department. 
 
 ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS. 
 
 1 . Hereafter, the issue of stationery to officers on duty in the Conscript 
 Bureau, will be made by quartermasters who have been assigned to duty 
 with that branch of the service; and all requisitions therefor must be 
 inn d.e upon them. 
 
 ii. The issue of stationery to officers on duty as provost marshals, will 
 be the same as to officers of the ''Inspector General, Pay and Quarter- 
 master's Departments," as laid down in Schedule, paragraph .">7, Regula- 
 tions of the Quartermaster's Department. The issues will be made on 
 requisitions approved by the commanding officers. 
 
 3. Paragraph 70 of Quartermaster's Regulations, authorising th-> sale 
 <»f horses to mounted officers, under certain circumstances, will rot be 
 construed to authorize such sales by post quartermasters, but only by 
 quartermasters serving in the field. 
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 /; Bass (1 imiahed by the Quartermaster's Depai&l 
 
 [epartment wlm may have became permanently de- 
 I from the positions to which they were originally appointed, will, 
 •the Act of ( ■ _ 1, 1863, be dropped from the rotts of 
 
 the army, unless they ' I by a special order of the Se- 
 
 cretary of War. [Si e Genera] Orders, No. 70, series of 1863.] 
 
 T! assi runenl to quartermaster's duties, in the absence of the 
 ormaster, or hi case «>:' u vacancy of any person except a subaltern 
 of the line, is without authority of law, and such assignments cannot be 
 aized. 
 
 7. Par;:--: »f the Army Regnlatfajps, .is amenfled by General 
 ■s, No, 121, of, J Hi;:}, declares that in no case will an officer who is 
 
 required to give an official bond, be aR,signe8 to duty and receive pay 
 •until he has received bis appointment. This appointment, must emanate 
 the War Department. 
 
 8. Quartermaster's supplies, except in cases provided for in the Regu- 
 lations, will not hereafter be transferred to officers of other disbursing de- 
 partmi ■ dc "When it shall be necessary for such officers 
 to obtain such supplies, quartermasters will be authorized by this depart- 
 ment to sell them at the cost price; and where that is not known, at the 
 price ruling at the place of transfer, or the nearest market. In the event 
 of the purchasing officer not having funds to pay. his certified account 
 shall be a sufijeient voucher to the quartermaster for the disposition of 
 
 ., rides. 
 -. The commutation of officers' quarters has been fixed at twenty dol- 
 lars per month at all points other than at Richmond, and fuel at the mar- 
 irice* 
 :0. In' consequence of the large amount of funds transferred to the 
 ry by disbu rs of the Quartermaster's Department, under 
 
 lar of March 9, 1864J it becomes necessary to call particular astern 
 tlon to paragraph 892 of the Army Regulations, as follows: 
 "The chiefs of disbursing departments who submit requisitions for 
 to be remitted to disbursing officers, shall ti ' t no more 
 
 money than actually needed is in the hands of any officer." 
 
 The object of this paragraph has been defeated by the frequent failure 
 of officers to transmit their monthly summary statements with their esti- 
 mates for funds. The irregularity and embarrassment thus introduced 
 irfto the operations of the department, can be obviated only by b 
 enforcement of the requirements of paragraph 1050. 
 
 Disbursing officers are therefore instructed to submit,, together with 
 
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 'heir estimates for funds for any particular month, their summary state- 
 ment for the mouth immediately preceding. Estimates unaccompanied 
 with such statements vHul not receive attention ; and disbursing officers 
 
 unds to others, are directed i 
 r to any oSicer who has not complied with these instructions. 
 Ill making their -estimates, officers will be very careful not to exceed 
 ^be amount they may actually need. 
 
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