GENERAL ORDERS, No. 26. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, March 13, 1882. By direction of the Secretary of War paragraph 269 of the Regulations is amended to read as follows: 269. Ordnance and commissary sergeants will be reported by name on the post return. If there are no troops at the post, they will report by letter to the Adjutant General of the Army on the last day of every month. For the purpose of receiving their pay and allowances at a garrisoned post, they will be mustered on the hospital muster-roll (Form 4, A. G. O.). ENERAL ORDERS, No. 27. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, March 14, 1882. By direction of the Secretary of War the Regulations of the Army are rrected by striking out paragraphs 2197 and 2198. BY COMMAND OF General ShermAN: FFICIAL: R. C. DRUM, Adjutant General. Assistant Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 28. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, March 15, 1882. By direction of the Secretary of War the following regulation is published to the Army: Hereafter an officer who starts to join his station on the expiration of a sick leave of absence, in accordance with paragraph 93 of the Regulations, will be reported on the rolls and returns as en route to join station from sick leave of absence for the time necessarily consumed in making the journey to his post; and for the time thus necessarily consumed he will be entitled to full pay as if on duty. Should he delay en route, or should he take more time to make the journey than that necessary to perform it by the most practicable route usually traveled, the commanding officer shall require him to make a written explanation therefor, which will be forwarded through department headquarters to the Adjutant General of the Army, with remarks of intermediate commanders. BY COMMAND OF GENERAL SHERMAN: OFFICIAL: R. C. DRUM, Adjutant General. Assistant Adjutant General. |