1466. Within two days after every action, the surgeon on duty with a regiment or detachment participating will forward through military channels to the chief surgeon a list of wounded in duplicate. The chief surgeon will immediately forward one copy to the Surgeon-General and retain the other to accompany his report to the commanding general.

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS.

1467. Every officer, enlisted man, or employee of the military forces of the United States who, in the line of duty or through disease contracted in service, shall have lost a limb or the use of a limb will receive once every three years an artificial limb or appliance, or commutation therefor if he shall so elect, under such regulations as the Surgeon-General of the Army shall prescribe. The money value allowed as commutation is, for a leg, $75; for an arm, foot, and apparatus for resection, $50.

1468. Necessary transportation, including sleeping car accommodations, required for travel to place where artificial limbs may be fitted, will be furnished by the Quartermaster's Department, the cost to be refunded from any money appropriated for the purchase of artificial limbs.

1469. An officer who pays an account for transportation of persons to enable them to procure artificial limbs will, as soon as payment is made, forward the original account to the Quartermaster-General, with a letter of transmittal, in which he will state that the account is forwarded under the provisions of this paragraph that it may be referred to the Surgeon-General for repayment to the Quartemaster's Department. The paying officer will take credit for the amount paid on his accounts for the month, and will note thereon the fact that the account was forwarded to the QuartermasterGeneral, on a specified date, for the purpose aforesaid.

1470. The Quartermaster-General, if he finds the account correct, will forward it to the Surgeon-General with request that the amount be paid to the depot quartermaster, Washington, D. C., and the Surgeon-General will cause the amount to be paid from the appropriation for artificial limbs. The depot quartermaster will deposit the money in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation for Army transportation, and in his account current will state from whom the money was received, and that it was a refundment to the Quartermaster's Department from the appropriation for artificial limbs, of a sum paid by -, quartermaster, U. S. A., on voucher

No. ——, for ———, 18-, for the transportation of a person en route to procure an artificial limb. He will also immediately notify the Auditor for the Interior Department of the receipt of the money (stating amount, and from whom and when received, and for what purpose), and where he has deposited the same, and that he will account for it in his account current for the month of

1471. On referring an account to the Surgeon-General for refundment, the Quartermaster-General will notify the depot quartermaster of his action, giving the name of the quartermaster who made the payment, date and number of the voucher on which payment was made, and amount paid. He will state that the payment was for the transportation of a person en route to procure an artificial limb.

ARTICLE LXXXII.

CORPS OF ENGINEERS.

NOTE.-Regulations for the government of the Corps of Engineers, prepared and pubfished under the authority of the Secretary of War, are distributed to its officers by the Chief of Engineers. Only such regulations are herein given as are general in their nature or affect other branches of the service.

1472. The duties of the Corps of Engineers comprise reconnoitering and surveying for military purposes; selection of sites and formation of plans and estimates for military defenses: construction and repair of fortifications and their accessories; planning and superintending of defensive or offensive works of troops in the field; examination of routes of communications for supplies, and for military movements and construction of military roads and bridges; execution of river and harbor improvements assigned to it, and such other duties as the President may order. It collects, arranges, and preserves all correspondence, reports, memoirs, estimates, plans, drawings, deeds, and titles relating to the Washington Aqueduct and public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia, and models which concern or relate in any wise to the several duties above enumerated. *

1473. The Chief of Engineers will have his headquarters at Washington, D. C., and will be charged, under the direction of the Secretary of War, with the command of the Corps of Engineers and the management of the Engineer Department as well as the regulation of the duties of all officers, agents, and others who may be employed under his direction.

1474. When officers or troops of the Corps of Engineers are detached from the command of the Chief of Engineers, they will continue to conform to the regulations of the Engineer Department in regard to the keeping of records and rendering of reports and accounts.

1475. Engineer officers and troops on special service under the immediate orders of the Chief of Engineers will not be diverted from such service, except in cases of marked public exigencies, and, when so diverted, the officer of the corps will immediately report the same to the Chief of Engineers, transmitting a copy of the orders he may have received. The officer issuing the order will transmit a copy direct to the War Department. Upon the termination of the exigency, such officers or troops will be returned to such special service, unless otherwise directed by the Chief of Engineers.

1476. Every organization or detachment of engineer troops will be entitled to the same provisions, allowances, and benefits, in every respect, as are allowed by law or regulations to other troops of the military establishment. 1477. The commander of the engineers serving with an army in the field will be attached to general headquarters.

1478. The senior officer of the Corps of Engineers serving with an army corps, a division, a brigade, or smaller body, will communicate to the commander thereof any orders he may receive from any superior in his own corps.

1479. An engineer directed to superintend any works to be constructed by troops will point out what is to be done, and will maintain such a supervision as will enable him to see that it is done correctly. It will be the duty of the officer having charge of the detachment to execute the work accordingly. The detail of troops for works to be carried on under the superintendence of engineers will be furnished on the requisition of the senior engineer, addressed to the officer in command of the troops. The requisition

will specify the number of men required, the time and place at which they will assemble to commence work, and the name and rank of the engineer officer to whom they will report. The requisition may be for part of a day or night, for a whole day or night, for a week or a longer period, according to circumstances; the duration of the service always being specified.

1480. When on duty with armies in the field, engineers engaged in surveys and reconnaissances will report their operations, also the execution of all other duties, to their immediate chief at headquarters of the army, who will report directly to the commander thereof.

1481. The senior engineer serving with the army in the field will. subject to the approval of his commander, report monthly to the Chief of Engineers the operations of the engineer force under his direction sufficiently in detail to show the nature and extent of the operations and the respective portions executed by the several engineer officers engaged therein.

1482. The senior engineer will also cause to be made exact plans of all military works executed under his direction, and in case of attack or defense will cause exact journals to be kept, showing, by drawings and descriptions, every particular of each day's events. These plans and descriptions, with maps of all surveys and reconnaissances and explanatory reports or memoirs, will be carefully preserved and transmitted at suitable opportunities to the Chief of Engineers.

1483. When an engineer is sent to any military department, fortress, garrison, or post, a duplicate of his orders will be sent to the commanding officer. On his arrival the engineer will communicate his orders, and necessary facilities for executing them will be afforded by the commanding officer. While so on duty, without being especially put under the direction of the commanding officer, the engineer officer will be furnished with copies of all orders and regulations of the command relative to etiquette and police, and with the countersign when quartered within a chain of sentinels. The engineer officer will report to the commanding officer when relieved from duty within the limits of the command.

1484. Engineer officers engaged in the construction of fortifications or other public works are entitled to allowances of quarters, mess rooms, and kitchens, with fuel for the same, as are provided by regulations for officers at garrisoned posts.

1485. No alterations will be made in any fortification or in its casemates, quarters, barracks, magazines, storehouses, or any other building belonging to it, nor will any building of any kind or work of earth, masonry, or timber be erected within the fortification or within a mile of its exterior, except under the direction of the Chief of Engineers and by authority of the Secretary of War.

1486. When the Chief of Engineers is satisfied that any fortification is in all respects complete so far as the functions of his department are concerned, he will give notice thereof to the Secretary of War, that it may be turned over for occupation by the troops. Until its completion has been announced, no work will be occupied by troops except by the special order of the Secretary of War.

1487. Officers of the Corps of Engineers, or those on engineer duty, traveling on service connected with fortifications or works of public improvement, will be paid their travel allowances from the special appropriation for the work. When traveling on any other duty, the mileage will be paid by that branch of the service intrusted with such payments for the Army.

ARTICLE LXXXIII.

ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.

NOTE-Regulations for the government of the Ordnance Department, prepared and published under authority of the Secretary of War, are distributed to its officers by the Chief of Ordnance. Only such regulations are herein given as are general in their nature or affect other branches of the service.

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

1488. The Chief of Ordnance, under the direction of the Secretary of War, is charged with the duty of procuring, by purchase or manufacture, and distributing the necessary ordnance and ordnance supplies for the Government, and establishes and maintains arsenals and depots for their manufacture and safe-keeping. All officers or other persons in the military establishment, to whom ordnance and ordnance supplies or funds are intrusted, will make accounts and returns thereof to the Chief of Ordnance at the times and in the manner prescribed by him.

1489. Vacancies in the grade of first lieutenant of ordnance are filled by transfer from the line of the Army. To be eligible, an officer must be less than thirty years of age, must have served at least two years as an officer in the line of the Army, and must have passed a satisfactory examination before a board of ordnance officers. Applications for examination will be made to the Adjutant-General of the Army.

1490. Should the applicant be directed to appear before a board, he will, after passing a satisfactory preliminary examination as to his physical qualifications, be examined upon the following, or such other subjects as the Secretary of War may prescribe: Gun construction, present and past state of the art; ballistics and ballistic machines; types of projectiles and gun carriages; gunpowder, types and modes of manufacture; small-arms and machine guns; employment of artillery, kinds of fire, etc.; armored defenses; materials for ordnance construction and processes of manufacture; torpedoes for coast defenses; general principles of mechanics.

1491. In the absence of the officer commanding an ordnance establishment, if there be no other ordnance officer present, the command devolves upon the ordnance storekeeper.

ISSUES AND SALES.

1492. Ordnance and ordnance stores include cannon and artillery carriages and equipments; apparatus and machines for the service and maneuver of artillery; small-arms ammunition and accoutrements; horse equipments and harness for the artillery; tools, machinery, and materials for the ordnance service, and all property of whatever nature supplied to the military establishment by the Ordnance Department.

1493. In time of peace, ordnance and ordnance stores are issued from the arsenals and armories by direction of the Chief of Ordnance. Should an issue be made not directed by the Chief of Ordnance, the order therefor will be promptly transmitted to him by the issuing officer.

1494. In time of war, issues may be made to troops in service, on the order of any general or field officer commanding an army, garrison, or 12851 A R-14

detachment. To authorize an issue to militia, they must have been regularly mustered into the service of the United States, and the requisition for the stores must be properly approved.

1495. The Chief of Ordnance will, on the recommendation of a department commander, approved by the Commanding General of the Army and the Secretary of War, establish ordnance depots at such points as may be designated by the Secretary of War, where ordnance stores will be held for distribution to the troops under such regulations as the department commander may prescribe.

1496. When practicable, these depots will be under the charge of ordnance officers, and only such limited supply of ordnance stores as may be required to meet emergencies will be kept at or issued from them. All other ordnance stores will be supplied from the arsenals as provided in paragraph 1493.

1497. Requisitions for ordnance supplies to meet emergencies will be filled from a depot, under the instructions of the department commander. The officer in charge will be responsible, under the department commander, that sufficient stores, procured by timely requisitions upon the Chief of Ordnance, are always on hand. Unserviceable and unsuitable ordnance and ordnance stores at such depots are under the control of the Chief of Ordnance.

1498. Requisitions for ordnance and ordnance stores not on hand within a department must be approved by the immediate commanders. The personal approval of the department commander, or of the chief ordnance officer of his department, is necessary, but in the absence of the department commander the approval may be made in his name by one of his staff officers. After approval, one copy is forwarded to the Chief of Ordnance direct.

1499. Requisitions will be made in conformity with the supply tables prepared by the Chief of Ordnance, unless extraordinary circumstances, to be plainly set forth in each case, should require a larger supply of one or more of the articles authorized.

1500. Requisitions for ordnance stores, to replace those condemned, will be accompanied by a certified copy of the inspection report; but issues may be made before condemnation on requisition and the officer's statement that the stores are immediately needed for the proper equipment of his command, and that the articles are to replace unserviceable stores, but if required to replace those lost or damaged by the carelessness of the men, the officer will certify that he has charged the cost of the same on the muster and pay rolls.

1501. The service arms, ammunition, accoutrements, and horse equipments required by an officer for his own use in the public service may be sold to him by the Ordnance Department at the regulation price, and the money received passed to the credit of the proper appropriation. Ordnance supplies thus sold to officers will not be disposed of to persons not in the military service. Officers who have once purchased can not be resupplied, except by order of the Secretary of War, and then only after certifying that the property previously purchased was not disposed of in a manner contrary to this paragraph.

1502. When the arms or equipments authorized to be purchased in the preceding paragraph can not be obtained from an ordnance officer, officers