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time will be determined thus: August 21 to 30, inclusive (ignoring the 31st), ten days; from September 1 to 10, inclusive, ten days; making the time allowed twenty days.

6. Service commencing in February will be calculated as though the month contained thirty days, thus: From February 21 to 28 (or 29), inclusive, ten days. When the service commences on the 28th day of that month, three days will be allowed, and if on the 29th, two days.

7. If service commences on the 31st day of any month, payment will not be made for that day.

8. For commutation of subsistence and for services of persons employed at a per diem rate payment will be made for the actual number of days.

9. When services are rendered from one given date to another the account will state clearly whether both dates are included.

10. In computing the wages of persons employed at a per diem allowance the day on which service begins and the day on which it ends will be allowed in the computation.

11. Unauthorized absence on the 31st day of a month results in the loss of one day's pay. [1141606, M. S. O.]

740. Paymaster's clerks and the expert accountant of the Inspector General's Department when traveling on duty will, when transportation in kind can not be furnished by the Quartermaster's Department, be reimbursed for cost of transportation paid by them exclusive of parlor or sleeping car fares or transfers, and will receive in addition thereto, for all travel whether or not on transportation requests, 4 cents per mile for each mile necessarily traveled by them in the performance of duty; distance to be computed over the shortest usually traveled route. But in traveling on duty only actual expenses shall be paid for sea travel. [1141606, M. S. 0.1

1043. Officers on the active list may purchase from the Quartermaster's Department the fuel actually needed for their own use as certified to by them at the rate of three dollars per cord for standard oak wood, or the equivalent thereof in other kinds of fuel as determined by the Quartermaster General.

[1147772, M. S. O.]

1048. An officer may purchase from the Quartermaster's Department a reasonable quantity of kindling wood, which will be sold on the basis of its equivalent in oak wood. [1147772, M. S. O.]

1151. A quartermaster is authorized to transport books and

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musical instruments purchased for, or donated to, post chapels or to post or company libraries, and gymnastic and athletic appliances purchased with regimental, exchange, or company funds, for the use of troops, from the nearest market to the post or station of the troops. Also to furnish transportation at public expense for reading matter donated for use of the enlisted men of the Army, or the United States Military Prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, such transportation to be furnished from place of donation to the post, hospital, or prison, where intended for use. All such packages will be impersonally addressed and consigned to the proper commanding officer of troops or hospitals, or the commandant of the prison. [1157530, M. S. O.]

1295. The ten per centum allowed by law to officers serving beyond the limits of the United States and Territories contig. uous thereto, except Hawaii and Porto Rico, will be paid on their regular monthly pay vouchers, which will be made up to include the entire compensation, of whatever character, which may be due the officer for the calendar month, or months, included in the accounts. There will be noted on the pay accounts the numbers and dates of orders or any other facts which affect the officer's pay status for the period covered by the accounts presented for payment. [1141606, M. S. O.]

1299. The following officers are entitled to pay as mounted officers: Officers of the staff corps, whether permanent or detailed; officers serving with troops of cavalry; officers of a field or siege battery, duly organized and equipped; authorized aides, duly appointed; regularly detailed assistants to the Chief of Artillery; the authorized staff officers of artillery districts; officers serving as military attachés to the embassies and legations of the United States at foreign capitals; officers serving with companies of mounted infantry, and officers on duty which requires them to be mounted and which is so certified to by the Secretary of War or the commander of a corps or territorial division or department on their first pay vouchers while on such duty, the certificate being cited by the officers on their subsequent vouchers. Officers ceasing to draw mounted pay will file with the last pay voucher a copy of the order relieving them from duty which requires them to be mounted.

An officer claiming mounted pay on a certificate must certify on each account that when mounted he was mounted at his own expense, and on each account subsequently to the

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