Uniform, shoulder-knots; officers of other staff corps..

Quartermaster's Department.

Subsistence Department..

letters embroidered in old En-

United States attorneys to take charge of cases where de-
livery of property is refused by land-grant railroads..
Vacancies, in regiments and corps to rank of colonel; how
filled

Varnish, on certain ordnance stores

Vedettes. (See Sentinels and vedettes.)

Vegetables (fresh), for sale or issue to companies

Vehicles (see Public horses or vehicles)..

Vessels of war, official visits by military commanders and
others

Veterinary supplies, by whom issued.

how furnished

Volatile oils, use prohibited..

how precedence is determined

Visits and official compliments between foreign officers and

Volunteer officers, compliments by guards or sentinels

Volunteers, not paid until mustered into service..

position on parade.

Vouchers, lost (see Lost vouchers).

625

65

original (see Original vouchers).

for disbursement of public moneys; how made
fractions of cents in footing of

number made and disposition of copies

when disbursing officers are allowed to issue as
due bills for unpaid accounts

Vouchers, when not sent with accounts; explanation re-

quired

Wagon-masters, duties of..

employment of

not to be interested except as agents in
means of transportation or sale of public
property

Wagons, for guards and escorts to commanders of corps, di-
visions, &c..

War-rebels (see Armies in the field)

War-traitors (see Armies in the field)

Witnesses, certificate accompanying vouchers for traveling

expenses, to be attested

charges for return journeys; how made up and
paid

correctness of items of traveling expenses; how

attested

Wounded. (See Battles.)

Yellow fever, cholera, or other epidemic diseases; how re-

ported..

Adjutant Generals of States, abstract of returns submitted
to Congress...

Affidavit of company officer as to loss of vouchers, company
books, &c. (See Oaths, power to administer.)

Aids, of the General of the Army

of the Lieutenant General

of major and brigadier generals..

Allowance of fuel, quarters, and forage to officers

Allowances to officers..

1269

368

Annual statement of contracts and purchases to Congress..
Appointment in the Army, persons who served in the rebel-
lion ineligible for

Appointments and promotions in staff corps and depart-
ments

Arms and ammunition for militia.

323

and accouterments in possession of persons not sol-
diers

and accouterments not to be sold, bartered, exchanged,
pledged, loaned, or given away

1242

362

Army, as a posse comitatus

429

not to exceed thirty thousand enlisted men
organization and composition.

1115

330

1094

324

provisions of act for organization of, not construed to

require new appointments to fill grades now prop-
erly filled.

1217

357

provisions of the Constitution and acts of Congress
for employment of the..

430

Army corps badges

1227

359

Army Regulations and General Orders, authority for codifi-
cation and publication.