1428. Laborers, teamsters, and like classes of employés, traveling as described in the foregoing paragraph, shall be entitled to such actual and necessary expenses on account of transportation and subsistence as may be authorized by the chief of the bureau which makes payment of the account, except that employés in receipt of a ration under paragraph 2179 shall not be allowed commutation therefor; and if it be impracticable for them to carry rations in kind, rations shall not be drawn for the period during which they may be traveling.-[ G. O. 97, 1876; G. O. 11, 1878.] 1832. An annual inspection of the public buildings at the several stations shall be made on the last day of March 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. Whenever the last day of March falls on Sunday, the inspection herein required will be made the day following. These reports the commanding officer shall examine and forward, with his views, to the Quartermaster General, through the proper channel.— [G. O. 76, 1880.] 2174. The following is the mode of ascertaining the cost at which the ration shall be commuted at the post or station, when other rates are not specially ordered. The proportions here given are fixed, but as the prices of the component parts of the ration are variable, they are omitted: 2224. Civilian employés at remote posts where like stores cannot otherwise be procured are authorized to purchase subsistence stores, for cash only, at invoice or contract prices, with the cost of transportation added: Provided, That no such purchase shall be made at less than invoice or contract prices, with ten per centum added.-[G. O. 88, 1879.] BY COMMAND OF GENERAL SHERMAN: OFFICIAL: R. C. DRUM, Adjutant General. Assistant Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 5. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, January 17, 1882. By direction of the Secretary of War paragraphs 641, 1391, 1753, and 2162 of the Regulations are amended to read as follows: 641. Whenever chiefs of staff departments or corps desire to send officers or enlisted men belonging thereto on duty peculiar to their own staff department or corps, they shall-except in the case of officers employed under the appropriation for the improvement of rivers and harbors—make application, through the Adjutant General of the Army, to the Secretary of War, setting forth the purpose of the journey, when, should the Secretary assent, orders in the case will be issued in the form prescribed in the Regulations. 1391. Officers inspecting public property will cause the destruction, in their presence, of all property found to be worthless, and which is without any money value at or near the place of inspection, and will amend their inspection reports by inserting after the word "above" the words "that the articles recommended to be destroyed have no money value at or near the post." The action of an inspector, on property of this character, will be final, and his inspection report on the same will be a valid voucher for the officer responsible for the property. In the discharge of the duty devolved upon inspectors in this regulation, they are reminded they will be regarded as answerable that their action is proper and judicious according to the circumstances of the case.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1024; G. O. 85, 1877.] 1753. Public horses, mules, oxen, wagons, carts, ambulances, tools, and all other public property that it may be necessary and proper to mark, shall be branded conspicuously U. S. before being used in the service.-Regs. 1863, ¶ 1016.] 2162. Whenever subsistence supplies (articles of food) furnished for sales to officers and enlisted men have accumulated at a post in excess of the wants for that purpose, and are liable to damage if kept on hand solely for sales, the excess may be issued to troops on ration returns in lieu of some component parts of the ration of equal money value. In case, howover, of hams, white sugar, Java coffee, dried or pickled fish, or of other |