requisition on the Quartermaster-General. Money accounts will be rendered quarterly. Items for necessary cost of exchange will be entered on accounts current, the entries of each being supported by the certificate of the officer that current rates of exchange were paid and that other vouchers are not obtainable. TRANSPORTATION. GENERAL PROVISIONS. 1109. For wagon and pack transportation mules wih generally be employed, but horses may be used for saddle purposes by wagon masters, messengers, expressmen, and employees or enlisted men having similar occupations which require them to be mounted. For draft purposes, except at depots or posts in or near large cities where little transportation is needed, horses will not be used, unless specially authorized by the War Department. 1110. The allotment of draft and pack animals to each military department will be made by the Quartermaster-General under the direction of the Secretary of War. 1111. The allowance of spring wagons, exclusive of the prescribed ambulance for the sick, is fixed at one to each post, except when otherwise authorized by the War Department. All four-wheeled passenger wagons (except ambulances) having springs under the body shall be considered spring wagons. 1112. Spring wagons will be used only by direction of commanding officers and for the purpose for which they are supplied, viz, for the transportation of officers and enlisted men traveling on duty when other means are not available. 1113. The Quartermaster's Department will provide the necessary ambulances for transporting the sick and wounded upon the requisition of the proper medical officer. 1114. All means of public transportation at a post will be accounted for by the quartermaster, and will be under his charge except as provided in paragraph 1446. Commanding officers will cause mounted organizations to be provided daily with the proper facilities for policing stables and hauling forage. 1115. Commanding officers will give timely notice to the proper officers of the Quartermaster's Department of all contemplated movements of troops and supplies, that proper and sufficient transportation may be in readiness. 1116. The duty of furnishing transportation at any post, station, or depot will be intrusted to one officer of the Quartermaster's Department, on whom requisitions will be made therefor. 1117. The Quartermaster's Department of the Army is charged with the transportation of troops and supplies between the United States and such over-sea garrisons and military commands as shall be authorized. Those officers and employees who are detailed to carry out the work constitute the Army Transport Service. All necessary expenses incident to that service will be paid from the appropriations made for the support of the Army. The Army Transport Service is governed by special regulations promulgated by the Secretary of War. TRANSPORTATION OF PERSONS. 1118. When troops are moved, suitable transportation will be provided; proper orders and an exact return of the command will be furnished to the quartermaster who is to provide the same. 1119. A person requiring transportation will exhibit an order from competent authority. The quartermaster will indorse on the original order, over his signature, the fact that transportation has been provided, its kind, the places from and to which it has been furnished, and the number of pounds of extra baggage transported, if any. The original order will be retained by the person who receives the transportation, and, in case of a soldier entitled to commutation of rations while traveling, will be disposed of as directed in paragraph 1250. When a quartermaster furnishes transportation, under the provisions of paragraph 109, to a soldier on furlough, he will report the actual or probable cost thereof to the company commander and will enter on the furlough a statement that the transportation has been furnished. The officer paying the account will notify the company commander of the actual amount paid and the date of payment. 1120. When transportation is furnished for the entire journey, the route, if not designated in the order, will be determined by the Quartermaster's Department, in accordance with existing rules. 1121. A quartermaster who provides the transportation for troops will notify, by mail or telegraph, the quartermasters at places where changes of route are to be made, or means of transportation are to be changed, of the day on which the troops will start, their route, destination, the number of officers, enlisted men, and animals, and the quantity of public property and baggage for which transportation will be required. 1122. The quartermaster who provides the transportation, or a duly authorized representative, will be present at the embarkation of the troops, and will see that the accommodations contracted for have been provided. A similar course will be pursued, where practicable, at places where changes of route or important connections are to be made. If delay is necessary in either case in order to complete the arrangements for transportation, the commanding officer of the troops will be duly notified. 1123. The Quartermaster's Department will furnish transportation to accepted applicants for enlistment from general recruiting stations to designated recruiting depots (including recruit depot posts) and return transportation to such of these applicants as are rejected on final examination. TRANSPORTATION REQUESTS. 1124. A request for transportation issued by a quartermaster should set forth date and place of issue; time for which it will be valid; name of company required to furnish transportation; name of the person, or of the one in charge of the party to be transported, with number thereof; pounds of extra baggage, if any; organization to which the person belongs, if an officer or enlisted man; the places of original departure and ultimate destination, with the initial letters of each road or line to be used on the journey. 1125. Requests should be properly receipted by the party named therein, and tickets procured before commencing the journey, as conductors are not authorized to accept transportation requests. If more than one person is to be transported, the officer or person in charge of the party, in filling the receipt, will state the number of the persons and pounds of extra baggage carried, and the class and description of transportation furnished. In no case will a receipt be given for transportation of more persons or extra baggage than the request calls for. 1126. The blank receipt at the bottom of the request will be filled in ink, and if the person receipting can not write his name he will make his mark, which will be witnessed. Names and places will be written in full. If the transportation is furnished by other than passenger train or in other than passenger cars, the fact will be stated in the receipt. 1127. No portion of a request above the signature of the issuing officer will be changed in any particular. If explanations are required, they will be made on the back of the request. 1128. All unused tickets or parts of tickets procured on a transportation request will be returned to the officer who issued them, and by him forwarded to the officer who pays the account for the service. The value of such ticket or parts of tickets will be deducted from any money due or to become due the company for transportation over whose line they were obtained. On the collection of the value of such unused tickets they will be returned to the company by which they were issued. 1129. When transportation to any given point and return is required, the request for return transportation should be obtained at the destination, provided it can be there procured, except in cases where round-trip tickets can be obtained at reduced rates and made available for the journey; otherwise the quartermaster will issue two sets of requests, one to the place of destination, the other for return transportation. 1130. An officer drawing mileage is entitled to free transportation for 150. pounds of baggage. If his ticket does not cover the full 150 pounds, the Quartermaster's Department will furnish transportation for the difference as excess baggage. 1131. When an officer travels under orders by a route over which less than 150 pounds of baggage for each passenger is transported free, and transportation is furnished to the officer by the Quartermaster's Department, the transportation request will state the amount of excess baggage to be paid for by the Government, this excess being the difference between the amount carried free and 150 pounds, the amount the officer is entitled to take. When an officer under orders for temporary duty or permanent change of station certifies that it is necessary for his field allowance of baggage to accompany him in addition to the amount carried by his ticket, the Quartermaster's Department will furnish transportation for the same as excess baggage. The allowance authorized in this paragraph, together with the quantity of baggage transported by ordinary freight, will in no instance exceed the allowance provided by paragraph 1144. Transportation for 250 pounds of baggage, including 150 pounds usually carried free by railroads, is authorized for army nurses when they join for duty under the first order, upon permanent change of station, and on return to their homes upon annulment of contract. Receipts covering an excess of baggage will contain certificates as to whether transportation for such excess has been furnished. 1132. For enlisted men and applicants for enlistment traveling under orders without troops, each ticket furnished by the Quartermaster's Department will usually cover 150 pounds of baggage free. Where this is not the case, as on stage lines, the Quartermaster's Department will provide for the transportation of sufficient excess baggage to make a total of free and excess as follows: Noncommissioned officers_. Privates of the Hospital Corps. Pounds. 100 100 50 1133. Quartermasters, in issuing requests for transportation of officers and others traveling under orders, will not include therein public property of any description, nor the allowance of personal baggage carried free by the various transportation lines. FERRIES, TURNPIKES, AND BRIDGES. 1134. Whenever it shall be necessary for troops, teams, or employees in the military service to pass on public duty over a legally constituted toll bridge, ferry, or turnpike, the officer or person in charge of the party will apply to the nearest quartermaster for a request for such passage. If he can not obtain it, he will give to the keeper of the bridge, ferry, or turnpike a certificate stating the number of persons and whether mounted or on foot, number of loose animals, teams and animals to each team for which toll or ferriage is due, and showing that the travel is on public duty. Accounts for such service, accompanied by the request, or certificates duly receipted, will be presented to the nearest disbursing quartermaster for settlement, who, before payment, will. satisfy himself that the rates charged do not exceed those authorized, or paid by private individuals, and that the indebtedness was necessarily incurred for the public service. Payment may be made at the authorized or usual rates, unless more favorable terms can be obtained. STREET-CAR AND FERRY TICKETS. 1135. For the transportation of officers, messengers, and employees of the United States in the transaction of public business, street-car tickets can be supplied by the Quartermaster's Department, when this form of transportation is preferable in convenience and cost to the supply of a Government wagon. This will not apply to an officer traveling under orders covering mileage, or to an officer in his travel from his home to his office and return. The tickets when purchased will be taken up on the return and expended solely in the performance of public duty. Written requests for street-car and ferry tickets will be prepared by quartermasters and forwarded to the Quartermaster-General for authority to purchase. PARLOR AND SLEEPING CAR ACCOMMODATIONS. 1136. The following persons are entitled at public expense to a double berth in a sleeping car, seat in a parlor car, or to the customary stateroom accommodations on steamers where extra charge is made for the same: Officers of the Army when traveling on duty with troops; army nurses, civilian clerks, and agents in the military service, and licensed officers of the United States Army Transport and Harbor Boat Service of the Quartermaster's Department when traveling under orders on public business; and also the following when traveling under orders without troops: All noncommissioned officers above grade number 17, paragraph 9, and firemen, Coast Artillery Corps; also invalid soldiers when so traveling on the certificate of a medical officer showing the necessity therefor. The enlisted attendants accompanying invalid soldiers are entitled to accommodations equal to those herein allowed invalid soldiers. Noncommissioned officers below grade number 16, paragraph 9, except firemen, Coast Artillery Corps, when traveling under orders without troops will be furnished, if they desire, second-class transportation with tourist sleeping-car accommodations when available. When the number of officers traveling with troops is too small to justify the hire by the Quartermaster's Department of a standard sleeping car for their accommodation, they shall be furnished with such part of a tourist sleeping car, or other suitable sleeping car, properly curtained off for their accommodation, as the Quartermaster's Department may provide for their use during the journey. 1137. Quartermasters providing parlor and sleeping car accommodations will issue requests therefor, and state therein the number of berths or seats required. 1138. When a journey is to be performed covering a route requiring change of sleeping or parlor car, separate requests will be issued for accommodations in each car in which the person is to travel. 1139. Persons holding requests for sleeping or parlor car accommodations will, whenever practicable, present them to the proper agent and obtain tickets for the number of berths or seats required before commencing the journey. When not practicable to do so, berths or seats will be secured from the conductor of the car. They will receipt for the number of berths or seats furnished, naming the points between which they were furnished. 1140. Special sleeping or parlor cars will not be chartered when the expense exceeds the cost of the berths or seats authorized to be furnished. 1141. When it is impracticable for agents or conductors to furnish berths or seats in sleeping or parlor cars, the holder of the request will, on the termination of his journey, return it to the issuing officer with a statement of the reasons why it has not been used, and that officer will account for it on his return. 1142. An officer, traveling with troops, who incurs expense for authorized sleeping or parlor car accommodations when it is impracticable to obtain a request therefor, will be reimbursed by the Quartermaster's Department, upon application supported by a receipt for the amount paid by him and a copy of the orders under which the journey was performed. TRANSPORTATION OF BAGGAGE. 1143. In changing station, an officer's authorized allowance of baggage will be turned over to a quartermaster for transportation as freight by ordinary freight lines. 1144. The baggage to be transported at public expense, including mess chests and personal baggage, upon change of station will not exceed the following weights: First lieutenant, contract surgeon, and contract dental surgeon. 15,000 1,000 10,500 700 8,400 400 7,200 200 6,000 Noncommissioned officers above grade 17, paragraph 9, and firemen, Coast Artillery Corps.. 3,000 Civilian employees of the classified service transferred for the good of the service.. 3,000 These allowances are in excess of the weights transported free of charge under the regular fare by public carriers. They may be reduced pro rata by the commanding officer, if necessary, and may in special cases be increased by the War Department on transports by water. Shipments of officers' allowance of baggage will in all cases be made at carrier's risk, including those over roads where tariffs provide for extra charge therefor, unless the officer files written authority with the shipping quartermaster to ship his entire baggage released. An officer detailed for duty in 28327-08 -13 |