rates, except at contract or reduced prices. This is not to prohibit purchasing tickets over land-grant roads or over roads with which a contract has been made, when the cost to the Government is not greater than the rates to which it would be entitled under the contract or after the deduction for land grant. In case of purchase of tickets under these circumstances, full explanation will be made on the face of the voucher.

1986. As circumstances may occur to prevent the use of tickets, all such unused tickets, or parts of tickets, whether purchased as aforesaid or procured on Transportation Requests, will at once be returned to the officer from whom they were obtained, and the proportional value thereof will be deducted from any money due or to become due the company from which they were obtained. On collection of the value of such unused tickets they will be returned to the company from which they were procured.

1987. When a number of persons or troops are to be transported on the same day or train, it should be done in squads, so far as practicable, and the lowest possible rates obtained, and a single Request or set of Requests-unless tickets are purchased-given to the ranking officer or most responsible person of the several detachments. Requests for "one man," "ten men," and the like, without designating any name, are improper.

1988. Officers traveling on duty with troops are to be furnished transportation in kind, and will not be allowed to draw mileage.— [G. O. 3, 1872.]

1989. In marches the officers should move as do the troops, and when transportation is specially devoted to the movement it should be sufficient for all included therein.

1990. In all cases of individual travel, the authority issuing the order may, at discretion, prescribe that transportation in kind be furnished to the officer. Such an order will be a bar to payment of mileage, unless it be shown by certificate of the proper officer of the Quartermaster's Department that the transportation in kind could not be furnished.-[G. O. 97, 1876.]

1991. When transportation is required to any given point and return, the Request for return transportation or tickets should be obtained at the point of arrival provided it can be there procured; otherwise, the Quartermaster will, unless tickets are procured, issue two sets of Requests, one for use to the place of destination, the other for return transportation.

1992. Upon the Request, and voucher if tickets are purchased, all the facts should be presented necessary to enable the paying officer to decide as to the regularity or propriety of issuing the same. Should it appear to the paying officer that transportation has been improperly furnished by the issuing officer, payment for the service will be made to the carrier, who by performance of service upon a regular Request is entitled to payment; and all the facts, with the Request or voucher inclosed (a copy being retained by the offi

cer in place of the original), will be reported to the Quartermaster General, that the officer issuing the same may be held responsible.

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1995. An officer relieved from duty or transferred to another station will turn over to his successor all unused Requests in his possession, unless ordered to do otherwise, taking a receipt therefor, showing numbers from and to inclusive, which receipt will be forwarded to the Chief Quartermaster of the Department. If no successor has been designated, the officer will forward the Requests to the Chief Quartermaster.

1996. In no case will Requests be taken or sent out of the Department to which they have been supplied, nor will they be transferred or supplied to officers not authorized to receive them, nor to officers not under the orders of the Chief Quartermaster, except on orders from higher authority.

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1998. If Requests are lost or stolen, a report, giving numbers and series of those stolen and all other facts in the case, will be made at once to the Chief Quartermaster of the Department and to the Quartermaster General. The Chief Quartermaster of the Department will promptly notify the transportation lines in his Department and vicinity of the loss and caution them not to honor the Requests.

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2001. Whenever it shall be necessary for troops, Government teams, or persons in the military service, to pass on public duty over & turnpike, bridge, or ferry, when the owners are authorized to collect tolls or ferriage, the officer in command of such troops, or the persons in charge of such persons or teams, will apply to the officer of the Quartermaster's Department, at the most convenient station, for a Request or pass over the turnpike, bridge, or ferry. (Form-not numbered.) If it is impracticable to obtain the Request or pass from a Quartermaster, the officer or person in charge of the party will give to the person in charge of the turnpike, bridge, or ferry, a certificate for the toll or ferriage, setting forth the number of persons, and whether mounted or on foot; the number of loose animals; the number of teams, and the number of animals to each team, for which toll or ferriage should be paid, and that the travel is on public duty. Accounts accruing for such service, accompanied by such Requests, or passes, duly receipted, will be presented to the nearest disbursing Quartermaster for settlement. Before payment of such accounts, the disbursing Quartermaster will satisfy himself that the rates charged do not exceed the authorized or usual public rates, and that the indebtedness was incurred on Government account, and was necessary for the public service. Payments may be made at the authorized or usual public rates, unless a more favorable special arrangement can be made.

2002. It is the duty of commanding officers of posts, and inspectors, to see that these regulations are properly carried out.

PARLOR CAR AND SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS.

[G. O. 102, 1875.]

2003. Officers of the Army, except when drawing mileage, and clerks and agents of the Government in the military service, traveling under orders on public business, are allowed one double berth in a sleeping car, or customary state-room accommodations on boats and steamers where an extra charge is made therefor. Officers traveling as aforesaid are also allowed one seat in a day parlor car. These allowances will be provided by the Quartermaster's Department if practicable, when transportation in kind is furnished.-[G. O. 69, 1874; G. O. 68 and 102, 1875; G. O. 32, 1878.]

2004. Officers who draw mileage are not allowed parlor car and sleeping accommodations at Government expense.-[G. O. 97, 1876.] 2005. Clerks accompanying officers in change of station are not entitled to sleeping car accommodations at Government expense.[Sec. War, June 19, 1876, and Dec. 11, 1877.]

2006. Officers providing parlor car and sleeping accommodations will issue Requests therefor, and will be particular to state the number of berths or seats required.

2007. Whenever a journey is to be performed covering the route of more than one sleeping or parlor car, separate Requests should be issued for each car in which the person is to travel. Officers will be particular to ascertain, so far as possible, the routes covered by sleeping or parlor cars.

2008. In case a Request is issued calling for sleeping or parlor car accommodations to a point beyond the run of any one car, the holder thereof will receipt for the number of berths or seats furnished, and the points between which they were furnished.

2009. Persons holding Requests for such accommodations will in all cases, when 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, berths or seats will be secured from the conductor of the car, it being understood and expected that they will have the choice of such berths or seats as have not already been taken.

2010. Special sleeping or parlor cars will not be chartered at Government expense, when such expense exceeds the cost of the number of berths or seats authorized to be furnished.

2011. Whenever it is impracticable for agents or conductors to furnish berths or seats in sleeping or parlor cars because all the berths or seats have been previously taken, or for any other cause, the holder of the Request will, on the termination of his journey, return the Request to the issuing officer, with a statement of the

reasons why it has not been used; which officer will account for it in his report of Transportation Requests received, issued, canceled, &c., for the month in which it was received by him.

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2013. The Quartermaster's Department will pay accounts for sleeping and parlor car accommodations when made out in the name of the company furnishing such accommodations, and based upon Requests issued by officers of that Department.

2014. When it is impracticable for the Quartermaster's Department to furnish sleeping and parlor car accommodations, the expense incurred by officers for such accommodations will be reimbursed through the Treasury Department. Accounts for such expenses should, however, be forwarded to the Quartermaster General properly prepared and certified or sworn to, and, if approved by him, they will be referred to the proper officers of the Treasury for payment.

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2059. In all cases where land-grant railroad companies to which payment for military transportation is forbidden by law, having received military property, stores, supplies, or baggage, for transportation over their roads, refuse to deliver the same, on demand, to the officer to whom such property, stores, supplies, &c., are consigned on Bills of Lading issued by the Quartermaster's Department, or to his successor or proper representative, the officer entitled to possession of the property will immediately submit all the facts in the case to the United States attorney for the district, with request that the necessary steps be taken to replevy the goods, or that such other proceedings be instituted as may be deemed advisable to protect the interests of the United States.-[G. O. 100, 1876.] 2060. If there is reason to believe that the property has been damaged while in possession of the railroad company, and possession of the identical property is not necessary, proceedings to recover the value of the property may be advisable.-[G. O. 100, 1876.]

2061. A written demand for the property should be made upon the officer or agent of the company having custody of the same before submitting the matter to the United States attorney; and if there are any back charges, i. e., charges for transportation over roads not land-grant, which the land-grant road has advanced or become responsible for, such charges will be paid as provided for in paragraph 2054 of these Regulations, or tendered at time of making the demand.-[G. O. 100, 1-76.]

2062. After possession of the property has been obtained under proceedings in replevin, the officer will dispose of the same for the purposes for which it was shipped to him.-[G. O. 100, 1876.]

2063. Full reports of each case will be made to the Quartermaster General.-[G. O. 100, 1876.]

2064. All United States attorneys are instructed, by orders from the Department of Justice, dated September 23, 1876, to take charge of all cases, such as are contemplated in the foregoing paragraphs, when submitted to them by the proper officer of the War Department; to institute the necessary proceedings to recover the property or its value, and conduct the same to final issue, provided the Department of Justice is not to be charged with costs or any attorney's fees.

CLOTHING, CAMP AND GARRISON EQUIPAGE.

2065. A table of the price of clothing and equipage for the Army, with the allowance to each soldier for clothing in kind during each year of his enlistment, and the money allowance therefor for each year and day, also of the allowance of camp and garrison equipage, is published in General Orders annually, or oftener if changes in pattern or price require.

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2067. For each company, or separate detachment if less than a company, one copy only of an estimate for clothing and equipage (Form No. 48) shall be made annually by its commander, based on the organic strength of the command, and stating the quantities of the various sizes of articles required. No estimate shall be made for more than ten per cent. in excess of the annual allowance without a full explanation of the necessity therefor.

These estimates will be forwarded, at the same time, by the different company and detachment commanders, to the commanding officer of the post, who, after carefully revising them, shall cause his Quartermaster to consolidate them, and to add such as may be needed for post purposes. The quantity for each company will be stated on a separate line, the whole will be added together, and from this total the actual or probable amount on hand will be deducted. The company or detachment estimates will be retained in the office of the Post Quartermaster for the information and guidance of the officers at the post and the record of issues.-[G. O. 114, 1874; G. O. 29, 1876.]

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2069. The contents of each package, and the sizes of clothing in it, will be marked on the package.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1146.]

2070. After the clothing and equipage are received at a post, the Post Quartermaster will make issues on special requisitions (Form No. 44), in the usual manner, in such quantities and at such times as the company or detachment commanders may require.[G. O. 114, 1874.]

2071. To avoid errors in filling requisitions, the Infantry shoe