This table is ample and sufficiently varied for ordinary practice, but in order to provide for the necessities of epidemics, and to indulge, as far as practicable, individual preference and training, a special requisition for articles not on the Supply Table, with an explanation of the nature of the emergency or case rendering it necessary, may be forwarded to the Quartermaster General for his action.

The panniers should, like those in use by the Medical Department, be so arranged as to contain only articles that are on the Supply Table. They should contain the articles of medicines in quantities allowed for one hundred horses in field service for three months, and a pocket-case, ball-forceps, cork-screw, 6-oz. graduate glass, prescription scales, two spatulas, 16-ounce syringe, memorandum book, and two lead-pencils.

328. Upon proper requisitions, galvanized iron feed-boxes will be supplied by the Quartermaster's Department. These feed-boxes will be useful at posts where there is a scarcity of lumber for cantonments, for temporary stables, and, in some cases, for wagon and escort trains.-[G. O. 15, 1876.]

337. Troops or trains will not be encamped on, or in the immediate vicinity of, sites previously used during the same year as camps for troops, during the prevalence of cholera.-[G. O. 75, 1867.]

338. Under section 4792, Revised Statutes, the aid to be rendered in the execution of Quarantine and Health laws is such only as the Secretary of the Treasury may from time to time in any emergency deem necessary. Commanding officers will therefore furnish such assistance to any collector or other proper officer of the revenue whenever he shall be specially authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury to apply for the same.-G. O. 109, 1874.]

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ARTICLE XXXII.

CEREMONIES.

PARADES.

342. Parades, reviews, guard-mounting, and other ceremonies will be conducted as prescribed in the authorized Tactics.

343. Officers on all duties under arms are to have their swords drawn, without waiting for any words of command for that purpose. [Regs. 1863, ¶ 336.]

344. There shall be daily one dress parade, at troop or retreat, as the commanding officer may direct, which will not be dispensed with except on urgent occasions. All Field officers and men must be present, unless specially excused, or on duty incompatible with such attendance. The ceremonies of parade shall be conducted as prescribed in the authorized Tactics.—[Regs. 1863, ¶¶ 337, 347, 348.]

MUSTERS.

345. Troops will be mustered for pay on the last day of February, April, June, August, October, and December. The musters will be made by an Inspector General, if present, otherwise by an officer specially designated by the Commander of the Army, Division, or Department; and in absence of either an Inspector General or officer specially designated, the muster will be made by the commander of the post.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 327.]

346. When one inspecting officer cannot muster all the troops himself on the day specified, the commanding officer will designate such other competent officers as may be necessary to assist him.— [Regs. 1863, ¶ 328.]

347. All stated musters of the troops, when practicable, shall be preceded by a minute and careful inspection in the prescribed mode; and if the command be of more than a company, by a review, before inspection. [Regs. 1863, ¶ 329.]

ARTICLE XXXIII.

GUARDS.

[This article refers more particularly to guard duty in time of peace. The same principles apply to police guards, the picket and grand guards, for which additional regulations are prescribed in the article entitled "Troops in Campaign."]

348. Camp and garrison guards will be relieved every twentyfour hours. The guards at outposts will ordinarily be relieved in the same manner, but this must depend on their distances from camp, or other circumstances, which may sometimes require their continuing on duty several days. In such cases, they must be pre