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articles ordered to be carefully packed, and shall turn them over to the nearest quartermaster for transportation, with an invoice, (see form No. 2.) A duplicate of the invoice shall, at the same time, be transmitted to the officer to whom the stores are addressed, or for whose command they are designed. The dates, when the order was received, and the articles turned over for transportation, will be reported in the next monthly statement of work done, (see form No. 29.) 49....Requisitions for ordnance or ordnance stores, needed at any armory, arsenal, or ordnance depot, shall exhibit, in addition to the description and quantity of property asked for, the amount of similar articles on hand, with full explanations, showing the propriety of the issue, (see form No. 24.) These requisitions shall be forwarded to the chief of the Ordnance Department, and, if approved by him, the requisite orders will be given.

50....In case of the authorized absence of a military storekeeper, and at arsenals or ordnance depots where there is no storekeeper, the commanding officer will be held responsible for the safe-keeping and preservation of all public property committed to his charge; but he may assign to a junior officer of the arsenal or depot the immediate charge of it, and also the duty of preparing the proper returns.

51....To guard against the embezzlement of ordnance and ordnance stores, they shall be distinctly and permanently marked, so as to identify them as being the property of the United States, previously to their being sent from the arsenals or ordnance depots.

52....No hired or enlisted man engaged in the service of the Ordnance Department, at any national armory, arsenal, ordnance depot, or with any military command, shall be employed for the private benefit of officers or other persons, with or without compensation; and no public property appertaining to the Ordnance Department shall, under any pretence, be sold, exchanged, or used for the private benefit of any person or persons whatsoever. The public workshops, tools, and materials, must be used solely for purposes of public benefit; and all private work in the public buildings, and all other application of public means to any other than public purposes, is expressly prohibited. It shall be the special duty of all officers or other agents of the Ordnance Department, and especially inspectors, to see that this regulation be strictly observed.

53....The number of enlisted men authorized by law for the Ordnance Department shall be assigned to the arsenals and depots by the Colonel of Ordnance, who shall likewise determine the number of each specified grade of workmen to be employed at each arsenal or depot, all of whom shall be enlisted in the grade of laborer; from which grade promotions shall be made of such as may be found to merit it, at the discretion of the commanding officers of arsenals and depots, under the provisions contained in the next article of these regulations.

54....Enlisted men in the Ordnance Department will be mustered in either of the grades authorized by law, except that of master workman, at the discretion of the senior Ordnance officer at the arsenal or depot at which they may be stationed; provided, that every enlisted man shall be efficient in the discharge of the duties required of him, according to his grade. Enlisted master workmen will be appointed, when required, by the chief of the Ordnance Department, upon recommendations of the senior officers of arsenals or depots. Ordnance men will be discharged by their commanders on expiration of enlistment; but for any other cause they can be discharged only by the War Department, or by sentence of a general court martial.

55....Enlistments of ordnance men will be taken in duplicate, according to form No. 26; one to be forwarded to the chief of the Ordnance Department, and the other to be retained at the post or station where the man was enlisted.

56....Enlisted soldiers who may be detailed from the line of the army for extra service, under the direction of an officer of the Ordnance Department, shall be allowed, while so employed, for every period greater than ten days continuously, a per diem of eighteen

cents.

SECTION IV. ORDNANCE SERGEANTS.

ARTICLE 57..The Secretary of War shall be authorized to select from the sergeants of the line of the army, who shall have faithfully served eight years in the service, four years of which in the grade of non-commissioned officer, as many ordnance sergeants as the service may require, not to exceed one for each military post, whose duty it shall be to receive and preserve the ordnance, arms, ammunition, and other military stores, at the post, under the direction of the command

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ing officer of the same, and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War, and who shall receive for their services five dollars per month, in addition to their pay in the line. (Act 5th April, 1832, Sec. 2.)

58....The appointments and removals of Ordnance sergeants stationed at military posts in pursuance of the above provisions of law, shall be reported by the Adjutant General to the chief of the Ordnance Department.

59....An Ordnance sergeant in charge of ordnance stores at a post where there is no commissioned officer, shall be held responsible for the safe-keeping of the property, and he shall be governed by the regulations of the Ordnance Deepartment in making issues of the same, and in preparing and furnishing the requisite returns. If the means

at his disposal are not sufficient for the preservation of the property, he shall report the circumstances to the chief of the Ordnance Department, who shall take measures accordingly.

SECTION V. ORDNANCE STORES IN SERVICE.

ARTICLE 60..In time of war, arms, ordnance, and ordnance stores, for arming, equipping, and supplying the troops in service, will be issued upon the order of any general or field officer commanding any army, garrison, or detachment, whose order shall be transmitted to the Ordnance Department by the officer or agent by whom the issue is made. The arming of permanent fortifications will be specially directed by the Secretary of War.

61....Any officer commanding a district or geographical department, who, in time of peace, may require authority to call, at his discretion, for ordnance and ordnance stores from the arsenals and depots within the extent of his command, shall make application for that purpose to the Secretary of War, through the Adjutant General's office.

62....No arms, ordnance, or ordnance stores shall be issued otherwise than as provided for in these regulations, except by special authority from the President of the United States, or in cases of servile insurrection or foreign invasion. Whenever issues are made under this exception, the order therefor shall be immediately forwarded to the Ordnance office, accompanied by a statement of the reasons for the issue.

63....Ordnance stores issued on urgent occasions, as provided in the next preceding article, shall, if not expended, be carefully stored at some convenient ordnance depot when the urgency ceases.

64....One complete set of arms and accoutrements of each description may, if the state of the public supplies will permit, be issued to any officer of the army for his own use, and no other's, on his payment of the cost price thereof to the issuing officer.

65....All ordnance stores issued for the personal use of officers, agreeably to article 64, shall be accounted for on the quarterly return of property of the officer making the issue; and the voucher for such issue shall be the duplicate acknowledgment of the officer receiving the stores, stating the fact of having received the same and paid for them; the amount paid being likewise stated in the acknowledgment, (see form No. 21.) The disbursing officer of the arsenal, armory, or depot, from which the issue is made, will credit all moneys thus received in his next quarterly account current.

66....Ordnance and ordnance stores in charge of any ordnance officer, or the commander of any regiment, company, or detachment, cr other agent of the Ordnance Department, shall in no case be issued or loaned to individuals, except as provided in article 64, or authorized by law; nor shall they, under any circumstances, be used for private purposes by any officer, or other agent of the army, or be diverted from their legitimate use, as indicated by the regulations and the laws appropriating money for the service of the Ordnance Department.

67....Requisitions (according to form 24) for ordnance and ordnance stores for the use of regiments, companies, detachments, or military posts or stations, shall, in time of peace, be transmitted to the general or commander of the district or geographical department within which such regiment, company, detachment, or military post or station is situated; who will sanction, modify, or annul such requisition at his discretion. If sanctioned or modified, he shall transmit the same through the Adjutant General, for the decision of the General-in-chief.

68....In cases of urgent necessity, the requisitions may be transmitted direct to the Adjutant General, for the decision of the Generalin-chief; duplicates thereof being immediately forwarded, as prescribed in the preceding article.

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69....Requisitions for ordnance or ordnance stores for the Military Academy shall be made as prescribed in article 67, and forwarded to the chief engineer, whose decision in the case shall be communicated to the chief of the Ordnance Department.

70....The chief of the Ordnance Department shall examine all requisitions for ordnance supplies, and under the direction of the Secretary of War shall modify and regulate them in such manner as to curtail all extravagancies, to suit them to the exigencies of the service, to existing appropriations, and to just and proper views of economy; and in the performance of this part of his duty, he shall invariably communicate with the General-in-chief of the Army.

71....It shall be the duty of the chief of the Ordnance Department, under the direction of the General-in-chief, to see that a sufficient quantity of ordnance, ammunition, and ordnance stores, are deposited at every military post at which troops are stationed.

72....On the receipt of ordnance or ordnance stores by any officer of the Ordnance Department, or by any other officer or agent of the Army, such officer or agent shall cause the same to be immediately examined, and entered on the property return of the post, company, or detachment, and he shall transmit to the forwarding officer duplicate receipts for the same, (form No. 7,) stating the number or quantity and the condition of the articles received. If, on examination, it shall appear that they are less than specified in the invoice, or have sustained material injury in the transportation, it shall be the duty of such officer or agent to report the amount of loss or damage to the chief of the Ordnance Department; and also to the proper officer of the quartermaster's department; to the end that, if such loss or damage has been caused by neglect of the agent of transportation, it may be deducted from the amount allowed him for that service.

73....The receipt of ordnance stores at an arsenal or ordnance depot, shall be noted on the monthly statement of work done, (form No. 29.) The receipt of stores at any other military post, or by an officer in command of troops, shall be immediately reported to the chief of the Ordnance Department.

74....When an officer or agent of the Army, who shall have received an invoice of ordnance or ordnance stores to be forwarded to him, has reason to believe that they have been lost or miscarried, or are deposited in irresponsible hands, it shall be his duty to acquaint