COMMISSARIES. 1205. Purchasing commissaries make purchases of supplies in accordance with Article LI, and distribute them as directed. Upon direct calls of chief commissaries they transfer to commissaries of posts and stations such funds from the appropriation "Subsistence of the Army" and such authorized subsistence supplies as chief commissaries, under instructions from department commanders, deem necessary. 1206. A chief commissary will make calls upon purchasing commissaries designated by the Commissary-General for funds and supplies for posts and stations supervised by him, and under instructions from the CommissaryGeneral will furnish funds and supplies to posts within his department which are exempted from the supervision of the department commander. He will keep a commissary book for each post and station, and decide whether the quantities of articles called for on requisitions should be allowed, increased, or diminished. 1207. Commissaries will make timely estimates and requisitions, approved by their commanding officers, for funds and supplies for the troops with which they serve, and forward them, through military channels, to the chief commissaries. If any of the supplies can be obtained advantageously in the vicinity of the places where needed, the fact will be noted in detail on the requisitions by the commissaries. SUBSISTENCE SUPPLIES IN BULK. 1208. Subsistence supplies comprise— 1. Subsistence stores, consisting of articles composing the ration, those for other authorized issues, and those furnished for sale to officers and enlisted men. 2. Subsistence property, consisting of the necessary means for testing, handling, preserving, issuing, selling, and accounting for these stores, and cooking apparatus in the field and when traveling (except on transports), bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto. 1209. When articles of food in good condition furnished for sale have accumulated at a post, and will become damaged if kept on hand solely for sale, the excess may be issued to troops in lieu of parts of the ration of equal money value on request of company commanders for such issue. In case of articles which are equivalents of some of the components of the ration, issues may be made in the quantities prescribed for the components. No stores thus issued are to be bought by the commissary as savings. When canned baked beans accumulate at a post in excess of anticipated demands for travel rations or for sale, they may, to prevent loss by deterioration, be issued, upon the order of the commanding officer, at the rates prescribed for that article when issued as part of the travel ration. 1210. Stores longest on hand, if in fit condition, will be first issued, sold, or shipped. 1211. Subsistence supplies in good condition, but not required for use, will be disposed of under the direction of the Commissary-General. In urgent cases, such as sudden abandonment of a post, liability to rapid deterioration, etc., they may be sold, or otherwise properly disposed of, on the recommendation of an inspecting officer, approved by a commanding general. 1212. Subsistence supplies will not be transferred gratuitously to another staff department, nor obtained, issued, sold, or otherwise disposed of, except as authorized by regulations. TRANSFERS IN BULK. 1213. When subsistence supplies are to be transported, the invoicing commissary will make timely requisition in writing upon the proper quartermaster, stating as nearly as possible the kind and amount of supplies to be transported, when they will be ready for delivery, when they should reach their destination, and any other information relating thereto which the quartermaster should possess. The commissary will give the quartermaster invoices in duplicate of the packages and their contents as marked and obtain from him receipts in duplicate. The commissary will forward similar invoices in duplicate to the consignee and obtain receipts in duplicate from him. STOREHOUSES. 1214. Storehouses, sheds, paulins, or other means of covering and protecting subsistence supplies will ordinarily be provided by the Quartermaster's Department. 1215. Coal oil, gunpowder, quicklime, or other articles of like dangerous nature will not be kept in or near subsistence storehouses. FRESH MEATS. 1216. Fresh meats from the block will usually be provided for troops by contract. Beef cattle will ordinarily be purchased only when necessary for supplying beef to troops in campaign or on the march. THE RATION. 1217. A ration is the allowance for the subsistence of one person for one day and varies in components according to the station of the troops or the nature of the duty performed, being severally known as the garrison ration, the field ration, the haversack ration, the travel ration, the Filipino ration, and the emergency ration. The garrison ration is issued to troops in garrison or in permanent camps; the field ration to troops not in garrison or permanent camps; the haversack ration to troops in the field in active campaign when transportation is limited; the travel ration to troops traveling otherwise than by marching and separated from cooking facilities; the Filipino ration for use of the Philippine Scouts, and the emergency ration to troops in active campaign for use on occasions of emergency. The commanding officer will determine which of the several prescribed rations is appropriate for the particular service to be performed and will direct the issue of the same. After troops have, through the exigencies of the service, subsisted on the field or haversack ration the commanding general may, in written orders, direct the issue in kind of specified articles of subsistence stores of money value equal to the difference in the price between the field or haversack ration issued to and used by such troops and the price of the same number of garrison rations. Such issue will be made only when necessary for the health and comfort of the troops and will be independent of and in addition to the ration issues being made, but such issues will not be ordered after sixty days from the last date on which the troops were subsisted on the field or haversack ration. 1218. Enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, prisoners of war, military prisoners at posts, hospital matrons, and nurses in the Nurse Corps are each entitled to one ration in kind per day, according to the station or the nature of the service; and when the rate of pay of a civilian employed with the Army does not exceed $60 per month, if the circumstances of his service make it necessary and the terms of his engagement provide for it, there may be issued to him in kind one garrison or field ration per day, according to the exigencies of the case. Civilian employees traveling with organizations of troops will be rationed as are the organizations. 1219. Rations will be furnished to officers and men of the Marine Corps and to officers and seamen of the Navy when acting, or proceeding to act, in cooperation with the land forces of the United States, in conformity to the requirements of section 1143 of the Revised Statutes. 1220. The kinds and quantities of the component articles of the army ration and the substitutive equivalent articles which may be issued in place of such components shall be as follows: Potatoes 2. 20 ounces_ Prunes 3 Coffee, roasted and ground. Milk, evaporated, unsweet ened. Vinegar. (Potatoes, canned. Onions, in lieu of an equal quantity of Tomatoes, canned, in lieu of an equal 1.28 ounces--Jam, in lieu of an equal quantity of 1.12 ounces- 3.2 ounces- .5 ounce... .16 gill.. .64 ounce prunes, but not exceeding 50 per [Coffee, roasted, not ground. Coffee, green_ Tea, black or green. Pickles, cucumber, in lieu of an equal 14 ounces. 18 ounces. 16 ounces. 16 ounces. 18 ounces. 16 ounces. 20 ounces. 1.6 ounces. 1.6 ounces. 15 ounces. 1.28 ounces. 1.28 ounces. 1.12 ounces. 1.4 ounces. .32 ounce. Salt. Pepper, black_ .04 ounce 1 In Alaska, 16 ounces bacon, or, when desired, 16 ounces salt pork, or 22 ounces salt beef. 2 In Alaska the allowance of fresh vegetables will be 24 ounces instead of 20 ounces, or canned potatoes, 18 ounces instead of 15 ounces. 3 At least 30 per centum of the issue to be prunes when practicable. NOTE.-Food for troops traveling on United States Army transports will be prepared from the articles of subsistence stores which compose the ration for troops in garrison, varied by the substitution of other articles of authorized subsistence stores, the total cost of the food consumed not to exceed 24 cents per man per day. 6. EMERGENCY RATION. To be furnished, in addition to the regular ration, as required for troops on active campaign or in the field for purposes of instruction, and not to be opened except by order of an officer or in extremity, nor used when regular rations are obtainable, except one day in each alternate month of the season of practical instruction, not exceeding three days in each year, when its use, to the exclusion of the regular ration, will be required by all troops in the field for purposes of instruction. Ration returns upon which emergency rations are drawn will bear the certificate of the organization commander that such rations are required for the enlisted men of his organization, and that the money value of any rations previously drawn by him and improperly opened or lost has been charged against the person responsible. Company and detachment commanders are responsible for the proper care and use of emergency rations carried on the person of the soldier. 1221. When it is contemplated to grow vegetables in a post garden, the post commissary, with the approval of the post commander, will notify the chief commissary of the period during which the post garden may be relied upon to supply vegetables, and that period will be excepted from the operation of any contract that may be made for supplying vegetables to the post. 1222. When troops supplied with travel rations arrive at their destination or rejoin their station, such of the travel rations furnished them in excess of the time actually consumed by the journey as may be in good condition will be turned in to the commissary in exchange for the regular ration, and subsistence upon the latter will thereupon be immediately resumed. 1223. In adjusting charges to be made against enlisted men or others on account of increased expense to the Government for their subsistence, the value of the garrison and field rations will be estimated at 25 cents each; the Filipino ration at 20 cents; and the travel ration at 40 cents. LIQUID COFFEE. 1224. When an enlisted man or an applicant for enlistment, supplied with cooked or travel rations, travels unaccompanied by an officer, and it is impracticable to cook coffee en route, he may be supplied with funds for the purchase of liquid coffee in lieu of the coffee, milk, and sugar components of the travel ration, at the rate of 21 cents a day for the number of days that the travel is expected to cover, to be paid to each man on the order of the commanding officer who directs the journey, a copy of the order being filed with the voucher on which payment is made. When an enlisted man or an applicant for enlistment, supplied with cooked or travel rations, travels under the command of an officer, and it is impracticable to cook coffee en route, funds at the rate of 21 cents a day for a similar purpose may be transferred to the officer to be disbursed and accounted for. At the end of the journey all money in excess of 21 cents a day for each man for the actual number of days traveled will be transferred to the nearest commissary. Should any part of the 21 cents a day for the actual number of days traveled be unexpended it will be transferred to company commanders pro rata, to be taken up by them as part of the company fund. ISSUES OF RATIONS. 1225. Issues of rations to troops, and to applicants for enlistment while held under observation, will be made on ration returns signed by the immediate commanders of the organizations, the issues to be ordered by the commanding officer of the post or station. Ration returns will be made for the individuals |