articles, and one to be sent to the Surgeon General, accompanied by a copy of the report. A packer's list (Form No. 19) will be furnished by the issuing officer, whenever requested by the officer making requisition. The contents of medicine wagons must be invoiced in detail. When supplies are turned over to a Quartermaster for storage or transportation, a duplicate of the Quartermaster's receipt for the packages will be forwarded to the Surgeon General with the invoice.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1273.]

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2266. Medical officers are forbidden to transfer surgical instruments issued to them for their personal use, unless authorized by the Surgeon General. The instruments must be ready for use at all times. If lost or damaged, they are to be immediately replaced or repaired by requisition on the Surgeon General, at the expense of the Medical Department, if the loss or injury be unavoidable, otherwise at the cost of the Medical officer responsible.-[Regs. Med. Dept.]

2267. Surgical instruments, medicine cases, panniers, and mess chests that need and are worth repairing, will be invoiced and sent to the nearest purveying depot. They are not to be submitted to inspection with a view to condemnation, unless the probable expense of transportation and repair will exceed the value of the articles.-[Regs. Med. Dept.]

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2271. All requisitions, claims, or official communications which require the action of the Surgeon General should be forwarded to him through the regular channel.-[Regs. Med. Dept.]

MEDICAL OFFICERS.

2272. No person shall receive the appointment of Assistant Surgeon unless he shall have been examined and approved by an Army Medical Board consisting of not less than three Surgeons or Assistant Surgeons designated by the Secretary of War; and no person shall receive the appointment of Surgeon unless he shall have served at least five years as an Assistant Surgeon in the Regular Army and shall have been examined and approved by an Army Medical Board consisting of not less than three Surgeons, designated as aforesaid. -[R. S., 1172.]

2273. All candidates for appointment in the Medical Corps must apply to the Hon. Secretary of War for an invitation to appear before the Medical Examining Board. The application must be in the handwriting of the candidate, stating age and birthplace, and be accompanied by testimonials from professors of the college

in which he graduated, or from other physicians in good repute. Candidates must be between twenty-one and twenty-eight years of age (without any exceptions), and graduates of a regular Medical college, evidence of which must be submitted to the Board before examination.-[ War Dept., Nov. 30, 1878.]

2274. The morals, habits, physical and mental qualifications, and general aptitude for the service of each candidate will be subjects for careful examination by the Board, and a favorable report will not be made in any case in which there is a reasonable doubt. -[War Dept., Nov. 30, 1878.]

2275. The following will be the general plan of the examina

tion:

1. A short essay, either autobiographical or upon some professional subject to be indicated by the Board.

2. Physical examination. This will be rigid, and each candidate will, in addition, be required to certify "that he labors under no mental or physical infirmity, nor disability of any kind, which can in any way interfere with the most efficient discharge of his duties in any climate.” 3. Oral examinations on subjects of preliminary education, general literature, and general science. The candidate must satisfy the Board in this examination that he possesses a thorough knowledge of the branches taught in the primary schools, and a failure to show this will end his examination.

Oral examination on scientific subjects will include chemistry and natural philosophy; and that on literary subjects will include English literature, history of the United States, and general history ancient and modern. Candidates possessing a knowledge of the higher mathematics, the ancient and modern languages, will be examined therein, and due credit given for a proficiency in any or all of these subjects.

4. Written examination on anatomy, physiology, surgery, practice of medicine and general pathology, obstetrics, and diseases of women and children. Oral examination on these subjects, and also on medical jurisprudence, materia-medica, therapeutics, pharmacy, toxicology, and hygiene. Few candidates pay the attention to hygiene which it deserves; it is made an important subject in this examination.

5. Clinical examination, medical and surgical, at a hospital. 6. Performance of surgical operations on the cadaver.

The Board will deviate from this general plan whenever necessary, in such manner as they deem best to secure the interests of the service.-[ War Dept., Nov. 30, 1878.]

2276. The Board will report the merits of the candidates on the several branches of the examination, and their relative merit in the whole (Form No. 32), according to which the approved candidates will receive appointments to existing vacancies, or to vacancies which may occur within two years thereafter.-[ War Dept., Nov. 30, 1878.]

2277. An applicant failing one examination may be allowed a second after one year, but not a third.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1319; War Dept., Nov. 30, 1878.]

2278. No allowance will be made for the expenses of persons undergoing examination. But those who are approved and receive appointments will be entitled to transportation in obeying the first order assigning them to duty.-[ War Dept., Nov. 30, 1878.]

CONTRACT PHYSICIANS.

2279. When it is necessary to employ a private physician in the military service, the Surgeon General, the Medical Director, or, in emergencies, the commanding officer of a detachment may do so, by a written contract (Form No. 33), at a stated compensation not to exceed $- - per month when the number of persons to be attended is one hundred or more; $- when it is from fifty to one hundred, and $- - when it is under fifty.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1304.]

2280. But when he is required to abandon his own business, and give his whole time to the public service, the compensation may be fixed at $per month. He shall also receive the quarters of an Assistant Surgeon of the rank of 1st Lieutenant, be furnished with fuel in accordance with the laws and regulations relating to commissioned officers, and when traveling under orders, the same traveling allowances as may be prescribed for commissioned officers of the Army by laws and regulations in force for the time; and when serving west of the Mississippi River, one daily ration in kind. He shall further receive, at the expiration of his term of service, traveling allowances as aforesaid, for actual travel only, to the place of making the contract, provided his contract shall not have been annulled for misconduct or neglect of duty.-[ Regs. 1863, 1305.]

2281. When a private physician is required to furnish medicines, he shall be allowed as compensation 25 to 50 per cent. on the sum paid for his services, as may be determined by the Surgeon General.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1306.]

2282. In all cases, contracts will be made in quadruplicate, two copies of which shall be forwarded, through the Medical Director, to the Surgeon General with the prescribed oath of office (Form No. 34); one copy shall be retained by the officer making the contract, and one copy by the physician contracted with.

2283. Form of Contract with a Private Physician for service as an Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Army.

Army, and Dr.

said Dr.

between

of

in the State of

in

of the United States

witnesseth: That for the consideration hereinafter mentioned the

promises and agrees to perform the duties oʻ

the

a Medical officer, agreeably to Army Regulations, at [or elsewhere (1),] [and to furnish the proper medicines, (2*)]; and the said promises and agrees, on behalf of the United States, to pay, or cause to be paid, to the said Dr. sum of dollars for each and every month he shall continue to perform the services above stated. When on duty at a post or station where there are public quarters belonging to the United States, he shall receive the quarters in kind allowed by law to an Assistant Surgeon of the rank of First Lieutenant; when on duty at a post or station where there are no public quarters, he shall receive the commutation for quarters allowed by law to an Assistant Surgeon of the rank of First Lieutenant; he shall be furnished with fuel in accordance with the laws and regulations relating to commissioned officers, and when traveling under orders, the same traveling allowances prescribed for commissioned officers of the Army by laws and regulations in force for the time: and when serving west of the Mississippi River he shall receive one daily ration in kind. [And if the said Dr. shall be required

to furnish his medicines, he shall be compensated therefor at the rate of per cent. on his monthly pay, to be determined by the Surgeon General (3*).] And it is furthermore agreed, that at the expiration of his term of service, the said Dr.

shall

receive traveling allowances, as aforesaid, for actual travel only, to the place of making the contract; provided said contract is not annulled for misconduct or neglect of duty, in which case no traveling allowances will be furnished. All of which shall be his full compensation, and in lieu of all allowances and emoluments. This contract to continue at least if not sooner determined by the General commanding the Military Division or Department, the Medical Director, or the Surgeon General.

It is furthermore expressly agreed and understood that, in conformity to the requirements of Section 3741 of the Revised Statutes, no member of, or delegate to, Congress shall be admitted to any share or part in this contract, or to any benefit to arise therefrom. In this contract (1*) (2*) (3*) ha- been stricken out.

Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of—

[Seal.] [Seal.j

NOTE 1.-Contracts with private physicians should be made in quadruplicate: two copies to be forwarded to the Surgeon General for his action and record; one copy to be given to the physician contracted with, and one copy to bo retained by the officer making the contract.

NOTE 2.-Accounts arising under this contract will be paid by the Pay Department. Those clauses in [] not applicable to this contract shall be stricken out before signature and so noted.

NOTE 3.-Contracts with private physicians, made by the Surgeon General or the Medical Director of a Department, will be annulled only by the direction of those officers, or by that of the Commanding General of a Military Division or Department. (General Orders No. 3, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, D. C., January 21, 1869.)

This form of contract and the allowances specified in it approved by the Secretary of War November 17, 1880.

2284. A contract with a private physician, made by the Surgeon General or the Medical Director of a Department, will be annulled only by the direction of those officers, or by that of the Commanding General of a Military Division or Department. The date of annulment of a contract shall be immediately reported to the Surgeon General.-[G. O. 3, 1869.]

2285. The accounts of Contract Physicians will be paid by Paymasters, and are to be made out in the ordinary form of an officer's pay-account, vouched for by a certificate thereon by the commanding officer that it is correct and according to contract, and that the services have been duly rendered, which certificate he will not make unless the contract has been approved by the Medical Director of the Department or by the Surgeon General. The payments shall be made under the same rules that govern in the payment of officers at the same station.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1308; Regs. Med. Dept.; G. O. 90, 1866.]

2286. Contract Physicians (Acting Assistant Surgeons) are entitled to the same protection in their positions, also to the same respectful subordinate conduct and to the same military courtesy from enlisted men as if they were commissioned officers. They are placed in the position of commissioned officers, so far as relates to their duties as Surgeons, by the United States Government.-[G. O. 100, 1875.]

2287. Surgeons from civil life who tender their services for the benefit of the sick and wounded in the field, under the invitation of the Secretary of War, will each be allowed transportation to and from the place their services may be needed, and, while so employed, the use of a public horse, a tent, and the privilege of purchasing Subsistence stores from the Subsistence Department.[Regs. 1863, Ap. B, ¶ 69.]

SURGEON'S CALL.

2288. At Surgeon's call, the sick then in the companies will be conducted to the hospital by the 1st Sergeants, who will each hand to the Surgeon, in his company book, a list of all the sick of the company, on which the Surgeon shall state who are to remain or go into hospital; who are to return to quarters as sick or convalescent; what duties the convalescents in quarters are capable of; what cases are feigned; and any other information in regard to the sick of the company he may have to communicate to the company commander.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1284.]

SERVICE OF HOSPITALS.

2289. The senior Medical officer of a post is charged with the management and is responsible for the condition of the hospital,