rules and regulations of the Army.1 Sec. 9, act of June 17, 1878 (20 Stat. L., 144). The following table shows the number of rooms, the quantity of fuel, and the allowance of cooking and heating stoves to be supplied for the use of officers and men in quarters and barracks: The Commanding General of the Army.. The commanding officer of a territorial department.. The aids to the commanding officer of a territorial department. An assistant or deputy quartermaster- The commanding officer of a regiment An acting assistant quartermaster, an A sergeant-major, quartermaster-ser- * Except at Military Academy. 1 4 1 3 1 333333 54321 As quarters. As kitchen. As office. From May 1 to Aug. 31. From Sept. 1 to Apr. 30. Between 36th and 43d deg. North of 43d deg., onethird. Cooking stoves or ranges. Heating stoves. † Except when serving in a detachment. 3 2 1 1 Officers tem porarily absent to lose right to 572. Hereafter officers temporarily absent on duty in the field shall not lose their right to quarters, or commutation in the field not thereof, at their permanent station while so temporarily quarters. absent. Act of February 27, 1893 (27 Stat. L., 478). Feb. 27, 1893, v. 27, p. 478. Each employee of the Quartermaster's, Subsistence, or Medical Department to whom subsistence in kind is issued by the Government For library, reading room, schoolroom, chapel, and gymnasium, 1 heating stove for each, and when the garrison exceeds 150 enlisted men, 2 heating stoves, and such quantity of fuel for the same as may be certified to as necessary by the officers in charge and approved by the commanding officer. For a company: 2 large stoves in dormitory, 1 large stove in each mess room and day room, 1 small stove for each of the two rooms for noncommissioned officers, 1 small stove for the library, and 1 cooking stove or range sufficient to cook its food Each hospital kitchen. For each authorized room as quarters for civilian employees. For each six civilian employees to whom fuel is allowed For mess of civilian employees For telegraph office.... For each blacksmith, carpenter, and sad dler shop....... (Par. 1006, A. R., 1895.) ALLOWANCE AND ASSIGNMENT OF QUARTERS. At each post and station where there are public quarters in buildings belonging to the United States, the quartermaster, under direction of the commanding officer, will allot to each officer the quarters to which his rank entitles him. (Par. 984, A. R., 1895.) An officer reporting for duty at a post will, immediately upon his arrival, make written application to the commanding officer for quarters. If in command of troops he will apply for quarters for himself, for his subordinate officers, and the enlisted men of his command. The application will be accompanied by a copy of the order directing him to report at the station, and will be referred to the quartermaster for proper action under such instructions as the commanding officer may indorse thereon. (Par. 987, ibid.) An officer will not occupy more than his proper allowance of quarters, except by permission of the commanding officer when there is an excess of quarters at the station. The allowance will be reduced pro rata by the commanding officer when the number of officers and troops present makes it necessary. If the public buildings are inadequate, the commanding officer will apply, through the department commander, to the Secretary of War for authority to hire necessary quarters. (Par. 988, ibid.) Officers on duty without troops at stations where there are public quarters will be furnished them in kind. If insufficient, application for authority to hire quarters will be made as directed in paragraph 988. (Par. 989, ibid.) An appropriate set of quarters, equal to those of a captain, will be set apart ACCOUNTABILITY FOR CLOTHING. Feb. 27, 1877, v. Returns of 573. Every officer who receives clothing or camp equiclothing and equipage. page for the use of his command, or for issue to the troops, May 18, 1826. c. 74, 82.v. 4. p. 174; shall render to the Quartermaster-General, at the expira69, p. 243 Mar. tion of each regular quarter of the year, quarterly returns 29, 1894, v. 28. P. of such supplies, according to the forms which may be preSec. 1221, R. S. scribed, accompanied by the requisite vouchers for any 47. equipments not Mar. 3, 1863, c. 735. Sec. 3748, R. S. issues which shall have been made.' Uniforms and 574. The clothes, arms, military outfits, aud accouterto be sold, bar- ments furnished by the United States to any soldier shall tered, exchanged, loaned, etc. not be sold, bartered, exchanged, pledged, loaned, or given 75, s. 23, v. 12, p. away; and no person not a soldier, or duly authorized officer of the United States, who has possession of any such clothes, arms, military outfits, or accouterments, so furnished, and which have been the subjects of any such sale, barter, exchange, pledge, loan, or gift, shall have any right, title, or interest therein; but the same may be seized and taken wherever found by any officer of the United States, civil or military, and shall thereupon be delivered to any quartermaster, or other officer authorized to receive the same. The possession of any such clothes, arms, military outfits, or accouterments by any person not a soldier or officer of the United States shall be presumptive evidence of such a sale, barter, exchange, pledge, loan, or gift. permanently for the chaplain. He will not be displaced, except by a reduction when the quarters are insufficient for the garrison, and he will not then be entirely displaced, nor allowed to choose others. (Par. 991, ibid.) An officer's right to quarters is solely one of occupancy; when he and his family cease to occupy them, except in case of temporary absence, they are open to selection by, and reassignment to some other officer on duty at the post. (Par. 992, 1bid.) When assigned to duty without troops or awaiting orders for the convenience of the Government, officers will be entitled to quarters, but in no case will they be furnished quarters at two stations at the same time. (Par. 993, ibid.) For statutory provisions respecting commutation of quarters see the chapter entitled THE PAY DEPARTMENT. See also, for provisions respecting the construction of quarters for hospital stewards, paragraph 692, post. LOCKERS. The Quartermaster's Department will provide in all permanent barracks a box locker for each enlisted man for his uniform and extra clothing. Each man will provide his own lock. (Par. 981, A. R., 1895.) The question of property accountability in the War Department is now regulated by the provisions of the act of March 29, 1894 (28 Stat. L., 47), which will be found in the chapter entitled THE PUBLIC PROPERTY. ence Depart tion. 299, s. 16, v, 14, p. 334;June 23, 1874, c. 458, 8. 3. v. 18, 575. The Subsistence Department of the Army shall The Subsistconsist of one Commissary-General of Subsistence, with ment; organiza the rank of brigadier-general; two assistant commissaries- July 28, 1866, c. general of subsistence, with the rank of colonel of cavalry; three assistant commissaries-general of subsistence, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel of cavalry; eight commissaries of subsistence, with the rank of major of cavalry; and eight commissaries of subsistence, with the rank of captain of cavalry.1 The Department was reorganized by the act of June 23, 1874 (18 Stat. L., 244) which provided that the number of lieutenant-colonels should hereafter be fixed at three and the number of captains at twelve; by the act of February 12, 1895 (28, Stat. L., 656), the number of captains was reduced to eight. The requirement of the act of March 3, 1883 (22 Stat. L., 457), authorizing appointments to this Department from civil life, was repealed by the act of August 6, 1894 (28 Stat. L., 234). Appointments to the lowest grade are now required to be made from the next lower grade in the line of the Army. For general provisions respecting appointments and promotions in this Department, see the chapter entitled THE STAFF DEPARTMENTS. GENERAL DUTIES. The Subsistence Department, under the direction of the Secretary of War, provides for the distribution and expenditure of funds appropriated for subsisting enlisted men and for purchasing articles kept for sale to officers and enlisted men. The Commissary-General furnishes lists of articles authorized to be kept for sale, and gives instructions for procuring, distributing, issuing, selling, and accounting for all subsistence supplies. (Par. 1226, A. R., 1895.) Subsistence supplies comprise (1) Subsistence stores, consisting of articles composing the ration and those furnished for sale to officers and enlisted men, also lantern candles for stable use, forage for beef cattle, and coarse salt for public animals and rebrining. (2) Subsistence property, consisting of the necessary means for handling, preserving, issuing, selling, and accounting for these stores. (Par. 1230, ibid.) p. 244; Feb. 12, 1895, v. 28, p. 656. Sec. 1140, R.S Duties, 576. It shall be the duty of the officers of the Subsistence Apr. 14, 1818, c. 61, s. 7, v. 3, p. Department, under the direction of the Secretary of War, 427; Mar. 3, 1835, 780. c. 49, s. 1, v. 4, p. to purchase and issue to the Army such supplies as enter Sec. 1141, R.S. into the composition of the ration.' Officers not to trade in articles 577. No officer belonging to the Subsistence Department, for issue or sale. Or doing the duty of a subsistence officer, shall be conApr. 14, 1818, c. 61, 8. 9, v. 3, p. cerned, directly or indirectly, in the purchase or sale of any 427; Mar. 3, 1835, 780; Mar. 3, 1865, p. 336. c. 49, s. 1, v. 4. p. article entering into the composition of the ration allowed c. 81, 8. 6, v. 13. p. to troops in the service of the United States, or of any 497; July 28, 1866, c. 299, s. 25, v. 14, article designated by the inspectors-general of the Army, Sec. 1150, R.S. and furnished for sale to officers and enlisted men at cost prices, or of tobacco furnished for sale to enlisted men, except on account of the United States; nor shall any such officer take or apply to his own use any gain or emolument for negotiating or transacting any business connected with the duties of his office, other than that which may be allowed by law. Subsistence to seamen and ma rines. 578. The officers of the Subsistence Department shall, Sec. 1143, R.S. upon the requisition of the naval or marine officer commanding any detachment of seamen or marines under orders to act on shore, in co-operation with the land troops, and during the time such detachment is so acting or proceeding to act, furnish rations to the officers, seamen, and marines of the same. Post commissary-sergeants. POST COMMISSARY-SERGEANTS. 579. The Secretary of War is authorized to select from Mar. 3, 1873, c. the sergeants of the line of the Army who shall have faithSec. 1142, R.S. fully served therein five years, three years of which in the 224, v. 17, p. 485. grade of non-commissioned officers, as many commissarysergeants as the service may require, not to exceed one for each military post or place of deposit of subsistence supplies, whose duty it shall be to receive and preserve the subsistence supplies at the posts, under the direction of the proper officers of the Subsistence Department, and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War. The commissary-sergeants hereby authorized shall be subject to the rules and articles of war, and shall receive for their services the same pay and allowances as ordnance-sergeants.2 For general provisions respecting the procurement of supplies, see the chapter entitled CONTRACTS AND PURCHASES; see also the chapter entitled THE QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT. 2 The act of June 30, 1882 (22 Stat. L., 123), authorizes the detail of one commissary. sergeant to act as assistant to the commissary of cadets at the Military Academy. CIVIL EMPLOYEES. The employment of civilians in the Subsistence Department is regulated by the annual acts of appropriation. The amount to be expended for such services was fixed at $105,000 in the acts of March 3, 1883, July 5, 1884, March 3, 1885, and June 30, 1886; at $110,000 by the acts of February 9, 1887, September 22, 1888, March 2, 1889. June 13, 1890, February 24, 1891, July 16, 1892, and February 27, 1893, and at $100,000 by the acts of August 6, 1894, February 12, 1895, and March 16, 1896. |