will be sent to the commanding officer. On his arrival, the Engineer officer shall communicate his orders, and the necessary facilities for accomplishing them will be afforded by the commanding officer. While so on duty, without being specially 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. 2491. The senior Engineer serving with the army in the field will, subject to the approval of its commander, report monthly to the Chief of Engineers at Washington 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.—[Regs. Corps of Engrs., ¶ 11.] 、 2492. He will also cause to be made exact plans of all military works executed under his direction; and in cases 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, together with maps of all surveys and reconnoissances, with explanatory notes or memoirs, will be carefully preserved, and transmitted, at suitable opportunities, to the Chief of Engineers at Washington.-[Regs. Corps of Engrs., ¶ 12.] * * * * * 2494. 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 exigency, 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, and the officer issuing the order shall transmit a copy direct to the War Department for the decision of the Secretary of War.-[Regs. Corps of Engrs., ¶ 5.] * * * ARTICLE LXXXIV. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. NOTE.-In addition to the following regulations and forms pertaining to the Ordnance Department, are the ORDNANCE REGULATIONS, and the ORDNANCE PROPERTY REGULATIONS, which are published in pamphlet form, and distributed to those officers who require them, by the CHIEF OF ORDNANCE. 2501. The Chief of Ordnance, under the Secretary of War, is, by law, charged with the administration and government of the Ordnance Department. By virtue of this authority he gives such orders and directions to its officers, soldiers, and employés as the necessities of the Ordnance service demand. He is also charged with the examination and settlement of the property accountability of all officers or other persons in the military establishment to whom ordnance and Ordnance stores are intrusted.-[R. S., § 1167 ; Regs. 1863, ¶ 1406.] * * * * * * 2513. The general denomination "Ordnance and Ordnance stores" comprehends all cannon and artillery carriages and equipments; all apparatus and machines for the service and manœuvre of artillery; all small-arms, accoutrements, and horse equipments; all ammunition, and all tools, machinery, and materials for the Ordnance service; and all horse equipments and harness for the artillery; and, in general, all property of whatever nature supplied to the military establishment by the Ordnance Department.-Regs. 1863, 1407.] ISSUES AND SALES. 2514. In time of peace, ordnance and Ordnance stores are to be issued from the arsenals and armories only by authority from the Ordnance Bureau of the War Department. In case of an issue not specially directed from the Ordnance Bureau, the order for the issue will be promptly transmitted to the Bureau by the issuing officer.— [Regs. 1863, ¶ 1415.] 2515. In time of war, issues may be made to supply troops in service, on the order of any general or field officer commanding an army, garrison, or detachment. But, to authorize issues to the militia, they must have been regularly mustered into the service, and the requisition must be approved by the mustering and inspecting officer of the United States, or by a general or field officer commanding in the regular service.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1415.] 2516. To meet emergencies which may arise with troops serving in the field, the Chief of Ordnance will, under section 1165, Revised Statutes, on the recommendation of the Commanding Generals of Military Geographical Divisions and Departments, indorsed with the views of the General of the Army, and upon the approval of the Secretary of War, establish Ordnance depots at such points (preferably one in each Department) as may be determined on by the Secretary of War, where Ordnance stores will be accumulated in bulk, and afterwards distributed to the troops under such regulations as the Commanding Generals may prescribe.-[G. O. 14, 1878. ] * * * * * * 2518. When such a depot is established in any Military Department, all requisitions for Ordnance supplies for the posts and troops therein will be filled from it upon the order of the Commanding General, or otherwise, as he may direct. The officer in charge will be responsible under the Commanding General that sufficient stores, procured by timely requisitions upon the Chief of Ordnance, aré always on hand to meet the probable wants of the troops in the Department.-[G. O. 14, 1878.] 2519. Requisitions, according to the prescribed form (Form 22), for ordnance and Ordnance stores for companies or posts may, in urgent cases, be sent direct to the Adjutant General's Office, a duplicate being forwarded at the same time to Department Headquarters, but in such case the urgency must be explained. Requisitions for supplies for arsenals and armories are sent direct to the Ordnance Bureau.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1417.] 2520. Requisitions (Form 22) must be approved by the immediate commanders, post and Department. The personal approval of the General commanding the Department is necessary, but in his absence it may be made in his name by one of his Staff officers. After approval, one copy is forwarded to the Chief of Ordnance direct.-G. O. 132, 1864; G. O. 95, 1873.] 2521. A set of horse equipments complete will consist of the following parts, viz: One saddle (which includes two stirrups, two stirrup-straps, six coat-straps, one carbine socket and strap, and one girth). One curb-bridle. One halter. One pair of saddle-bags. One surcingle. The following articles, not being embraced in the foregoing list, will not be considered as called for when requisition is made for complete sets of horse equipments. It will, therefore, be necessary to make special mention of them in the requisitions when desired. They will also be taken up and accounted for under separate headings on the property returns, viz: Saddle-blankets, watering-bridles, sweat-leathers, cruppers, hitching-straps and snaps, spurs and straps, nose-bags, lariats, side lines or hobbles, picket-pins, horse-brushes, and currycombs. When requisitions call for complete sets, the parts comprising a set, as herein fixed, will be issued, and the invoice will state the number of sets, consisting of [here enumerate the number of complete parts of each kind].-[G. Ŏ. 13, 1872.] 2522. A supply table for light batteries and sea-coast forts is from time to time published for the guidance of officers in making requisitions for Ordnance stores for the care and preservation of artillery, artillery carriages, &c. Requisitions must be made in conformity with these tables, unless extraordinary circumstances, to be plainly set forth in each case, should require a larger supply of one or more of the articles authorized. 2523. Requisitions for Ordnance stores, to replace those said to be "worn out" or "condemned," are not honored, unless accompanied by a certified copy of the inspection report by which such property was so "condemned."-[Regs. Ord. Dept.] 2524. When a requisition is made for an advance of stores, to be held as a reserve, the officers requiring and approving must state the necessity therefor and the basis on which made.-[Regs. Ord. Dept.] 2525. When Ordnance stores called for on requisitions are required to replace others previously in service, the disposition of the latter must be satisfactorily accounted for, as follows: 1. If the articles are worn out or unserviceable, a certified copy of the inspection report condemning them is to be appended. The form for this purpose is furnished from the Inspector General's Office, War Department. 2. If the articles have been unavoidably lost or expended in service, it must be so stated. 3. If lost or damaged by the carelessness of the men, the officer must certify that he has charged the cost of the same on the muster and pay rolls.-[Regs. Ord. Dept.] 2526. 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 at the regulated price, to be passed to the credit of the proper appropriation at the Ordnance Bureau. Officers' rifles can only be sold in this manner, and when purchased become the private property of the officer.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1416; G. O. 4, 1879.] 2527. When the arms or equipments authorized in the preceding paragraph to be purchased cannot be obtained from an officer or agent of the Ordnance Department, at an arsenal or Ordnance depot, officers may take from those in their possession for the use of their commands such articles as they require for their personal use, or may sell to officers of their command, on refunding to the Ordnance Department the cost price. The receipt to accompany the officer's quarterly return is made out according to Form 3 (b), and states the name of the United States depositary or Assistant Treasurer United States where the money has been deposited, giving the date and number of the certificate of deposit, &c.—[Regs. Ord. Dept.] 2528. Officers of the Army, serving with troops, may draw for their personal use, from those belonging to the command with which they are serving, one regulation rifle or carbine, and one revolver, with the appropriate belts, holsters, carbine-slings, and cartridge-boxes, and the usual quantity of ammunition for each arm. This Ordnance property can be used in target practice, action, &c., and will be accounted for in the same manner as similar stores belonging to the United States in the hands of the troops.-[G. 0. 4, 1879.] 2529. Ordnance stores shall not be loaned by any officer to individuals, corporations, Indian agencies, or any other parties whomsoever, and any officer making such a loan is held responsible for the money value of the articles.-[G. O. 95, 1877.] 2530. Any officer who makes an issue to an officer not in com mand of troops, unless under orders from competent authority, is charged with the money value of the stores so issued.-[Regs. Ord. Dept.] * * * * * * 2535. Civil employés of the War Department may be armed, in cases of emergency, when necessary for the protection of life or public property, and the same responsibility attaches to the officers accountable for said arms that attaches to officers of the Army accountable for the arms in the hands of enlisted men.-[G. O. 47, 1876.] 2536. The sale of ammunition to civilians engaged in exploring, or surveying expeditions authorized by law, and to civilian employés of the War Department, may be made for hunting purposes when considered necessary for their subsistence, or for the interest of the United States.-[G. O. 103, 1874.] 2537. Arms lost, destroyed, or embezzled by hired men in the employ of the Government, are charged in the same manner as stores similarly lost by enlisted men-a certified statement made of it in duplicate (Form 14), and the money accounted for to the Ordnance Department. One copy of the statement is filed with the return.-[Regs. Ord. Property, ¶ 86.] 2538. When ammunition is furnished to scouts, or civil employés, it is not to be dropped from the returns as "issued to scouts," issued to civil employés," "issued for escort duty," &c. It must be actually expended by firing from the piece (rifle, carbine, or pistol), and for a purpose authorized in orders from the War Department, before it can be dropped. Ammunition must not be expended by scouts or civil employés in drill or target practice, or in hunting, but only in action. All cartridges not fired from the piece in the authorized manner must be returned to the responsible officer after performance of the duty for which it was issued, and accounted for by him, or paid for at the prices fixed.-[G. O. 95 and 103, 1874; G. O. 47, 1876.] ex 2539. The officer's certificate as to the necessity for all expenditures of ammunition must accompany his property return. And when ammunition is dropped from an officer's return as pended in action by civil employés," a statement giving the place, date, and attending circumstances, sufficiently in detail to insure verification, must be filed with the return.-[G. O. 95 and 103, 1874.] 2540. Ammunition expended without orders, or not in the line of a soldier's duty, or which may be damaged or lost by his neglect, must be invariably charged to him.-[Regs. Ord. Dept.] SURPLUS AND DAMAGED STORES. 2541. Serviceable surplus Ordnance stores may be turned in at the nearest arsenal on the order of a Military Department Com |