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GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 22.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, March 8, 1882.

By direction of the Secretary of War paragraph 2518 of the Regulations is amended to read as follows:

2518. When such a depot is established in any military department, all requisitions for ordnance supplies for the posts and troops therein will filled from it upon the order of the commanding general, or otherwise as he may direct. The officer in charge will be responsible under the commanding general that sufficient stores, procured by timely requisitions upon the Chief of Ordnance, are always on hand to meet the probable wants of the troops in the department. Unserviceable orduance and ordnance stores at ordnance depots, being no longer of service to the troops, nor issuable under orders of the department commander, return to their condition of ordnance property under the control of the Chief of Ordnance, and their disposition is directed by the Secretary of War. Inspections of such property are made by ordnance officers, and the reports sent direct to the Chief of Ordnance for the action of the Secretary of War. BY COMMAND OF GENERAL SHERMAN:

OFFICIAL:

R. C. DRUM,

Adjutant General.

Assistant Adjutant General.

GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 23.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, March 9, 1882.

By direction of the Secretary of War the following order is published for the information and guidance of all concerned :

Plans and estimates submitted under section 1136, Revised Statuteswhich provides that "permanent barracks or quarters and buildings and structures of a permanent nature shall not be constructed unless detailed estimates shall have been previously submitted to Congress, and approved by a special appropriation for the same, except when constructed by the troops; and no such structures, the cost of which shall exceed twenty thousand dollars, shall be erected unless by special authority of Congress"will hereafter be prepared in duplicate.

BY COMMAND OF GENERAL SHERMAN:

OFFICIAL:

R. C. DRUM,

Adjutant General.

Assistant Adjutant General.

GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 24.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, March 10, 1882.

By direction of the Secretary of War the following is published to the Army:

Every officer who refunds money to the Government by payment to an Army paymaster will be furnished receipts in duplicate by the latter for the amount paid, and will forthwith forward one of the receipts, with a letter of transmittal showing his address, to the Paymaster General. Any such receipt hereafter forwarded to the Paymaster General's Office by a paymaster will be returned to him.

BY COMMAND OF General SherMAN :

OFFICIAL:

R. C. DRUM,

Adjutant General.

Assistant Adjutant General.

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