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for the further action of the President of the United States. The inventory shall be left with the officer having charge of the ordnance and ordnance stores.

95....All articles condemned and ordered for sale by the President of the United States shall be disposed of at public auction, under the superintendence of such officers as may be designated for that purpose by the chief of the Ordnance Department, due public notice being previously given of the sale. An authorized auctioneer shall be employed, and the sale shall be conducted in conformity with the established usages of the place where made.

96....An officer directing a sale of unserviceable ordnance stores will cause the articles to be offered in such lots as he may think will command the best prices; and he is authorized to bid in or suspend the sale of any articles when, in his opinion, they will command better prices at private sale. No article shall be sold at private sale until after it shall have been offered at auction, nor then at a price less than that offered at public sale.

97....All sales shall be for cash. The auctioneer shall make certified bills of sale of the property, and deliver them to the superintending officer, to whom the money shall be paid on delivery of the property. All expenses of the sale shall be paid from its proceeds. The auctioneer's certified account of sales in detail, and the vouchers for the expenses of the sale, shall be forwarded to the Ordnance office, unconnected with quarterly accounts, whence, after examination and record, they shall be transmitted to the proper auditor for settlement; the nett proceeds of the sale shall be disposed of in such manner as the chief of the Ordnance Department shall direct. (See Appendix, No. 2, article 9.)

SECTION VII.

ISSUE OF ORDNANCE STORES TO MILITIA IN THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES.

ARTICLE 98.. Whenever any regiment, battalion, company, or detachment of militia shall be called into the service of the United States, they shall be mustered and inspected by an inspector general, or by some other duly authorized officer of the regular troops, who shall ascertain the condition of the arms, accoutrements, ordnance, and ordnance stores in their possession, and if it should be found necessary to supply them with arms and accoutrements, or ordnance

and ordnance stores, belonging to the United States, the commander thereof shall make a requisition for the articles required, according to form No. 25, which, if sanctioned by the inspecting officer, shall be submitted for approval or modification to the commander of the regular troops present or in the vicinity; and upon such requisition, duly approved by such commander, any officer, or agent of the Ordnance Department, may issue the articles required, taking duplicate receipts therefor, one of which shall be forwarded to the chief of the Ordnance Department, in order that the same may be charged on the books of the department to the officer who received them. And the commander of said regiment, battalion, company, or detachment, shall be held responsible for the care and preservation of the articles thus received, and that the arms and accoutrements are issued to the men constituting his command, and that each individual is charged on the muster roll with the actual number of arms and accoutrements delivered to him; and the same shall be entered upon every successive muster roll until the men shall be discharged.

99....When any militia are about to be discharged, they shall be mustered for payment by an inspector general, or some other duly authorized officer of the regular troops, who shall at the same time critically inspect the arms and accoutrements in their possession, in order to ascertain if any loss or damage has accrued to them whilst in their possession, either by negligence or carelessness, and if any, shall charge the amount of said loss or damage, according to the rates established by the Ordnance Department, to each individual, opposite to his name on the muster roll; which amount the paymaster shall deduct from the pay due each individual at the time of his discharge. And it shall be the duty of the inspecting officer, or of an officer of the Ordnance Department, at the time of muster and inspection for discharge, to receive the arms and accoutrements, ordnance and ordnance stores, in the possession of the regiment, battalion, company, or detachment, and to give duplicate receipts for the same to the commander thereof, in order that he may settle his accounts with the Ordnance Department.

100....No payments shall be made to any militia called into the service of the United States until they shall have been mustered, and shall have delivered up their arms and accoutrements, as set forth in the preceding article, unless they were absent by reason of sickness

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or some other justifiable cause, at the time of the muster and inspection for discharge; and in such case they shall produce receipts to the paymaster that they have deposited their arms and accoutrements with some officer authorized to receive them, who shall state in the receipts the condition of the arms and accoutrements, and the amount of loss or damage (if any has accrued whilst the same were in their possession) according to the rates established by the Ordnance Department, which amount the paymaster shall deduct from the pay due them at the time of their discharge.

101....In all cases when arms, accoutrements, ordnance, or ordnance stores, issued to any officer, non-commissioned officer, or soldier of the militia called into the service of the United States, shall have been lost by unavoidable circumstances, it shall be the duty of the inspecting officer, who shall muster and inspect the same for dis charge, to require the affidavit of some officer or non-commissioned officer, testifying to the unavoidable circumstances of the loss, and such affidavit, if deemed satisfactory, shall be sufficient authority for the inspecting officer to relieve the individual who shall have been charged with the loss from all charges on account of such loss, which shall be entered with the affidavit on the proper muster roll.

SECTION VIII. ISSUES TO STATES FOR ARMING AND EQUIPPING THE MILITIA.

[See Appendix, No. 1, Articles 26 and 27.]

ARTICLE 102..Ordnance or ordnance stores for the use of the militia of any State or Territory, under the act for arming and equipping the militia, shall be issued only upon special orders from the chief of the Ordnance Department.

103....The arms to be issued to the States for arming the militia are made at private armories, and such arms will be issued accordingly. In cases where no arms of this kind are on hand at the depot to which the order is addressed, others may be furnished. The arms and accoutrements furnished, must, in all cases, be of good quality and in order for service.

104....Arms issued under the law for arming the militia will be transported to the State, at the expense of the United States, and will be delivered at any place within the State, situated upon navigable waters, or otherwise easily accessible, which may be designated by

the governor or other authorized officer. The United States cannot incur any extraordinary expense for transportation of arms, ordnance, or ordnance stores, to the interior by land.

105....All expenses attending the issue, delivery, or transportation of ordnance or ordnance stores to the States, are chargeable to the appropriation for arming and equipping the militia, and will be paid by the disbursing officer of the depot whence issued. The officer who issues will engage the transportation, and defray all other necessary expenses; and it shall be the duty of the ordnance officer, or military storekeeper at any post, to attend to the transportation and forwarding of such stores as may be consigned to him for that purpose from any other post.

106....Accounts with the several States and Territories will be kept in terms of muskets; but other descriptions of small arms, accoutrements, and field artillery, will be furnished at the request of the proper authority of the State or Territory, if the state of the public supplies shall permit, and the sanction of the Secretary of War be first obtained. In such cases, the arms, artillery, or equipments, substituted for muskets, must be equal in value to the assigned quota of muskets, estimated at the average cost at the national and private armories, including all incidental charges; such cost and charges being as stated in article 83. No other arms or equipments will be issued but those of the patterns regularly adopted for the United States troops.

107....In all cases where ordnance or ordnance stores are transported, before delivery, to the State authorities, an invoice specifying the numbers and description; the date and place whence forwarded; name of person to whom delivered for transportation; name of person and place to whom and where to be delivered, will be prepared and certified by the issuing officer; which invoice will be transmitted to the chief of the Ordnance Department, immediately on delivery for transportation.

108....Triplicate receipts, according to form No. 8, enumerating all ordnance and ordnance stores issued, will be prepared by the issuing officer, and transmitted for the signature of the Governor, or other officer or agent appointed by him; and as soon as said issuing officer shall obtain these receipts, (duly authenticated,) he shall transmit one to the chief of the Ordnance Department, unaccompanied by, and unconnected with, any return.

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SECTION IX. INSPECTION OF ORDNANCE AND ORDNANCE STORES.

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ARTICLE 109..Regulations, in detail, for the inspection and proof of all ordnance and ordnance stores shall be prepared by the chief of the Ordnance Department, with the approbation of the Secretary of War, and the mode of inspection and proof shall be the same for all articles of the same kind, whether fabricated at the ordnance establishments, or procured by contract or by open purchase. The existing regulations on this subject will remain in force until changed by the proper authority.

I. Inspection of ordnance and projectiles.

110....The inspection and proof of ordnance and projectiles shall be made, under the direction of the Colonel of Ordnance, by such officers of the Ordnance Department as he may, from time to time, designate for that purpose, who will be held strictly responsible that all ordnance and projectiles received by them for the United States shall have been subjected to the inspection and proof required, and that they shall conform in all respects to the established models.

111....The inspecting officer of ordnance and projectiles at the foundries shall give to the contractors triplicate certificates of inspection, according to form No. 32.

112....Duplicate reports of inspection of ordnance and projectiles at the foundries (forms 33 and 34) shall be made immediately after each inspection; one copy to be forwarded to the chief of the Ordnance Department; and in the month of July, a consolidated report (form 35) of all such inspections made during the year ending 30th June, shall be forwarded by the inspecting officer to the chief of the Ordnance Department. The inspecting officer will keep books in which shall be recorded all reports which he is required to make, and all correspondence connected with this particular service. These books will be carefully preserved, and in case of relief, turned over to his successor.

II. Inspection of small arms and accoutrements.

113....All small arms and accoutrements manufactured by contract, or purchased for the service of the United States, shall, before