RATIONS-Continued.

Publishes act authorizing issue of to the sufferers by the inundation of the
valleys of the Alabama Tombigbee, and Warrior Rivers..
Republishes G. O. No. 54 of 1872 respecting issue of, to Indians
Respecting savings on hospital, (See MEDICAL OFFICERS)..

.(I)

56, 81

129

133

REBELLION,

Publishes act making appropriations for the publication of the official
records of the war of the...

RECORD-BOOKS

RECORDS.

Medical history of military posts to be kept with hospital,

81

Enumerates, to be kept by officers doing duty in the Quartermaster's De-
partment...

2

125

Publishes act for the publication of the official, of the War of the Rebel-
lion

81

RECRUITING DEPOTS. (See BOARDS OF EXAMINATION )

RECRUITING OFFICERS.

To use every means to avoid enlisting minors or bad men
RECRUITING SERVICE.

Respecting construction of paragraph 901 General.; rule that when ad-
journment of court is for less than three days its members are not liable
to other duty to be regarded es directory only and able to modification....50
Calls attention of officers to paragraph 1426 General, calling for reports on
state of arms in the hands of troops

Rescinds part of paragraph 1151 General, modified by G. O. No. 2 of 1865...
Suspends in stated cases requirements of paragraph 1759 General,.

REPAIRS

Pespecting, to post hospitals, (See MEDICAL OFFICERS)

REPORTS.

Of Inspectors investigating rumors, &c., against an officer to embody the
officer's written stateinent if one is made

92

.91

..116

65

.5

A detailed, to be made by the medical officer who may be designated to
visit towns at which cholera prevailed in 1873

29

Of inspections of accounts of disbursing officers to accompany the annual
report of the Secretary of War

.33

Of inspection of accounts of disbursing officers to be promptly forwarded
to the War Department.

45

65

Immediate, to be made by medical officers of the fact that their respective
hospitals need no repairs.

Blank inspection, furnished from Inspector General's Department designed
for use only when inspecting accounts of officers disbursing large sums
of money.

Bi-monthly, on the state of arms in the hands of troops required; old form
of monthly, on breech-loading arms discontinued
Annual as well as special sanitary, to be forwarded through the regular
chantel, (See RECORDS)..

REQUISITIONS.

.64

.92

.125

Publishes act authorizing Chief Clerk of War Department to sign, on the
Treasury du ing temperary absence of the Secretary of War .........(II) 23
RESERVATIONS, (Military.) (See INDIAN RNSERVATIONS.)

Publishes act granting portion of the, near Salt Lake City for a public
cemetery

Publishes act donating the, at Fort Steilacoom 10 the Territory of Wash-
ington for an insane asylun

(II) 32

Publishes act for the relief of certain settlers on the, of Fort Randall

to reduce area of the of Fort Sanders, (See SURVEY)..
authorizing sale of the, of Fort Reynolds, Colo. Ter.
Secretary of War authorized to turn over to the Interior Department parts
of the, of Forts Yuma and Whipple and Camp Date Creek, Ariz. Ter. (II) 88

(I) 47
(H) 47

-(11) 60
..(I) 88

RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. (See ACTS.)

Joint resolution authorizing a special court of inquiry concerning General
O. O. Howard-approved February 13, 1874.

Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to detail a medical offi
cer of the Army to inquire into, and report upon, the causes of epidemic
cholera-approved March 25, 1874.

Joint resolution authorizing the President to issue Army rations and cloth-
ing to the destitute people on the Tombigbee, Warrior, and Alabama
Rivers-approved May 28, 1874

.14

99

(I) 56

(II) 89

Joint resolution authorizing the issue of clothing to certain enlisted men
of the Army-approved June 19, 1874

A resolution to facilitate the settlement of accounts of disbursing officers-
approved March 2, 1867...

.118, 127

RETIRED LIST.

RHODE ISLAND.

Announces names of officers placed on the,
Officers on the, entitled to stationery..

.12, 27, 77

...16

RIGHT OF WAY.

Secretary of War authorized to deliver to the State authorities of a cer-
tain gun marked "Battery B, First Regiment R. 1. Light Artillery,
Battle of Gettysburg"

(I) 19

Secretary of War authorized to grant the City Railroad of Port Huron,
Mich., the, across portion of military reservation of Fort Gratiot....
Publishes act granting, through the arsenal grounds at Pittsburgh, Pa..
to the Allegheny Valley Railroad

(I) 70

.(I) 86

RIVERS.

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL.

Publishes act making appropriations for repairs, &c., of certain public
works on, and harbors

.82

Ordnance and ordnance stores at the Leavenworth Arsenal to be trans-
ferred to the,.

8

ROCK ISLAND, ILL.

Publishes act transferring the military prison from, to Fort Leavenworth
SAINT LOUIS, MO.

...52

Headquarters of the Army to be established at,......

.108

SALARY.

Government officials not to receive any compensation beyond legal, to
which entitled......

SALE.

Regulates, of cartridges to enlisted men for hunting purposes.
Respecting, of arms to settlers

Forbids, of new uniform clothing to civilians, (See EMPLOYÉS)
Authorizes, of unserviceable ordnance and or Inance stores

.68

103
9,103

130

military reservation of Fort Reynolds and of Government
buildings thereon

Opinion of the Attorney General on question of, by State authorities of the
arms issued to them for arming the militia

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TFK.

.(1) 85

(I) 88

132

Publishes act granting portion of military reservation near, for a public
cemetery

(I) 47

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

Clothing depot at. to supply the posts in the Division of the Pacific.........124

SAVINGS.

On hospital rations can only be disposed of to the Subsistence Department...133
SCALES. (Ser METALLIC SCALES.)

SCRUBBING-BRUSHES.

For the use of troops to be purchased from appropriation for garrison equi-
page. and accounted for.

Announces monthly allowance of, for the use of troops.

94

..120

SEALS.

Official, prepared by the Ordnance Department alone to be used in secur-
ing packing-boxes and arm-chests; issued to company commanders to
be accounted for on quarterly return of ordnance stores..
Official, of particular depot or post to be used in securing boxes contain.
ing quartermaster's stores...

.17

.37

SECRETARY OF WAR.

INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

To deliver a certain gun to the State authorities of Rhode Island
To ascertain expenses incurred by the Territory of Dakota in arming the
troops called out in 1862 to suppress Indian hostilities

(I) 19

.(II) 19

To detail a medical officer to visit towns at which cholera prevailed in 1873....29
To cause frequent examinations of accounts of disbursing officers and for-
ward reports of inspection with his annual report

..33

To deliver certain condemned cannon to divers authorities and associa-
.......(III) 34, (II) 56, (III) 60, (II, III) 85
tions, (See CANNON)
Publishes act to enable the, to issue food and clothing to the sufferers by
the overflow of the Mississippi; detailed report of expenditures to be
made, (See INUNDATION, OVERFLOW)..

Authorizes the, to take possession of the Louisville and Portland Canal as
property of the United States

41

.42

. (1) 44

To employ temporary clerks for a specified purpose
Authorizes the, to connect by telegraph certain posts in Texas with De-
partmental Headquarters..

.(II) 55

To assume full control over particular channel in course of improvement
at the mouth of the Mississippi River

To ascertain amount of expenses incurred by the States of California and
Oregon in suppressing Indian hostilities.
(See RIGHT OF WAY)

(I) 55

Authorized to purchase certain lots in Washington City, (See RECORDS).
sell unserviceable ordnance and ordnance stores
transfer part of site of Fort Houston to the Fisk University. (II) 86
(See RESERVATIONS).
To turn over 10,000 suits of old clothing to the National Home for Dis-
abled Volunteer Soldiers.

SENTENCE.

By a Court Martial to confinement with or without forfeiture of pay can
not in terms be made to commence at a date prior to confirmation of
proceedings

Publishes opinion of the Judge-Advocate General on legal construction
of a, imposing a total or partial forfeiture of monthly pay for a stated

term..

SETTLEMENTS.

(II) 88

.(I) 89

105

.121

.(II) 55

.9, 103

Publishes act for better protection of the frontier, of Texas against Indian
or Mexican depredations...

Publishes act for the relief of certain, on the Fort Randall reservation...(II) 47

Secretary of War to deliver condemned, to certain posts of the Grand
Army of the Republic, &c.....

SIGNAL OFFICE.

-(II) 56

Publishes act making appropriations for certain expenses of the,
Publishes act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropri
ations for the,

.81

.79

SIGNAL SERVICE.

Enlisted men of the, at stations where subsistence cannot be furnished in
kind to receive commutation therefor at the rate of forty cents per day,
(revoked by G. O No. 11)..

.7

Publishes opinion of Special Assistant to the Attorney General on subject
of telegraph in connection with the,

.36

Publishes order of Postingster (General fixing rate of pay for telegrains on, . . . . 83
Regulations requiring issues of clothing to soldiers to be witnessed by an
officer or non-commissioned officer suspended so far as relates to enlisted
men of the, at isolated stations

SOLDIERS AND SAILORS' MONUMENT ASSOCIATION.

.116

SOLDIERS' MONUMENT ASSOCIATIONS.

Secretary of War to deliver four condemned cannon and sixteen cannon-
balls to the, of Chester, Pa.

.(II) 56

Secretary of War to deliver four condemned cannon and sixteen cannon-

.(II) 56

SOLDIERS' MONUMENT FUND.

Secretary of War to deliver four condemned cannon and sixteen cannon-
balls to the, at York, Pa..

SOLICITOR GENERAL.

.(II) 56

Publishes opinion of the, on question of payments to land-grant railroad
companies for transportation

84

Secretary of War to deliver four condemned cannon and sixteen cannon.
balls to the Soldiers' Monument Association at,.

-(II) 56

Publishes act reorganizing certain of the, of the Army..

.78

SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

STAFF CORPS.

STATE, (Secretary of.)

Publishes letter of the, explanatory of the Presidential order forbidding
Government officials to accept State or Territoral offices..

STATUE.

Secretary of War to turn over certain condemned bronze cannon for an
equestrian, of the late General G. G. Meade..

STATIONERY.

Regulates allowance and issue of, to retired officers
STORES. (See ODNANCE STORES, PUBLIC STORES, &C.)
SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT.

.90

. (III) 85

Authorizes three Assistant Commissaries General with rank and pay of
Lieutenant Colonel; number of Commissaries reduced to twelve; re-
peals law forbidding new appointments or promotions in the,
Respecting disposition of balances of certain appropriations for the service
of the.

Enumerates additional extra articles to be kept by the, for sale to officers.
Savings ou hospital rations can only be sold to the and all required articles
to be purchased from it, if forming component part of the ration......
SUBSISTENCE STORES.

Purchase of, to be made in strict compliance with existing laws; selection
of best markets for purchase of how determined

Publishes rules to govern issues of..........

Enumerates additional extra, to be kept for sale to officers

SUPPLIES.

16

.78

58

122

.133

48

66

.122

.1

Purchase of all Government, to be reduced to lowest possible limit
Republishes General Orders No. 54 of 1872 respecting issues of, to Indians...129
SURGEON GENERAL

To have rank, &c., of Brigadier General; Assistant to rank as Colonel,
(See MEDICAL DEPARTMENT)

78

SURGEONS, (See CONTRACT SURGEONS.)....

SURGICAL HISTORY.

SURVEYS.

.78

Publishes act making appropriations for publication of the Medical and,
of the War

81

Publishes act providing for the, of the reduced reservation of Fort Sand-
ers. Wyo Ter.

(II) 60

Publishes act making appropriations for, of the western and northwestern

lakes

81

TELEGRAMS.

Publishes order of Postmaster General fixing rates of pay for, on Signal
Service.

TELEGRAPH LINES.

83

Malicious injury, &c., to Government, made a misdemeanor, (See FINE,
IMPRISONMENT)

TENTS.

TEXAS

Forbids use of serviceable, to cover laundresses' quarters.

Publishes act for better protection of frontier settlements of, against Indian
and Mexican depredation, (See TELEGRAPH LINES)

Secretary of War authorized to construct, to connect certain posts in Texas
with Departmental Headquarters

Publishes opinion of Special Assistant to the Attorney General on ques
tion of constitutionality of certain legislation to aid construction of, and
rights of the United States...

36

(II) 55

.72

128

(II) 35

INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

TOMBIGBEE RIVER.

Publishes acts for relief of sufferers by the inundation of the valley of
the..

TRANSFERS.

Announces, in the Army..

Instructions to disbursing officers respecting, of funds, &c., (paragraphs
3 and 4 revoked by G. O. No. 21)

..(1) 56, 81

.27

.10

Of stores from one Bureau or Department of the Government to another
not considered as sales....

.20

49

TRANSPORTATION.

To be furnished furloughed men only in urgent cases..
Authority of Division or Department Commanders to be obtained for the,
by express of funds of the Pay Department; such, to be furnished by
the Quartermaster's Department..

In lieu of mileage to be confined to actual traveling expenses, (See TRAV-
EL NG EXPENSES, BAGGAGE ;) allowances applicable to civilian em-
ployés of the Army traveling under crders..

Respecting, allowances to officers changing stations in cases involving
change of status..

(See LAND-GRANT RAILROADS)

TRAVELING EXPENSES. (See HOTEL EXPENSES.)

.80

69

.102

..58, 79, 84, 107

..69

..102

Enumerates items of expenditures allowed as, (See TRANSPORTATION). Advance payments on account of, not allowed, (See GRADUATES) TURNPIKE COMPANY. (See LOUISVILLE AND BARDSTOWN TURNPIKE COMPANY.) VACANCIES.

WAR.

Respecting filling of, in the Medical and Ordnance Departments........

Publishes act making an appropriation for publication of the official records
of the, of the rebellion....

WAR DEPARTMENT.

78

.81

Instructions of the, looking to retrenchment in expenditures
Publishes act authorizing the Chief Clerk of the, to sign requisitions on the
Treasury during the temporary absence of the Secretary of War
Publishes act fixing the clerical force in the, and its Bureaus
Publishes act making appropriations for printing and binding for the, (See
MAPS).

Publishes acts for relief of the sufferers by the inundation of the valley of
the.

..(I) 56, 81

.81

Secretary of War authorized to purchase certain lots in,

.81

Publishes act donating the military reservation of Fort Steilacoom to the
authorities of, for an insane asylum..

(II) 32

WINTERPORT, ME.

Secretary of War to deliver four condemned cannon and sixteen cannon-
balls to the corporate authorities of,

.(II) 56

Secretary of War to deliver four condemned cannon and sixteen cannon

Northern part of, in Elmira, N. Y., to be deemed a National Cemetery so
for as relates to care of graves and headstones..

.81

(II) 56