No. 6. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, At the request of the Quartermaster General, the following directions are published to the Army: Officers serving in the Quartermaster's Department are instructed that amounts withheld for other Departments to cover charges against credi. tors of the Government, on making payments to such creditors, will be disposed of in the same manner as amounts refunded-i. e., placed at once in the nearest U. S. depository to the credit of the Treasurer of the U. S. on account of the Department for which the charge is made-and the original certificate of deposit will be forwarded to the Quartermaster General, accompanied by a statement of the reasons for making the deduction, the name of any officer thereby relieved of responsibility, and, generally, any information required by existing orders. The amount deposited will be drawn from the appropriation from which the account is paid. Amounts withheld on account of appropriations for the Quartermaster's Department will simply be carried to the proper appropriation on the account-current, no deposit being necessary. For example: If from an account of $100 for transportation services there is a deduction of $25 for Ordnance stores lost, the Quartermaster will take credit, under the head of "Transportation of the Army," for $75 paid to the carrier, and also for $25 deposited to the credit of the US. Treasurer on account of the Ordnance Department; but if the deduction is on account of forage lost by the carrier, he will take credit on his account-current, under transportation, for $25 as carried to "Regular Supplies," under which head he will charge himself with that amount. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS WAR DEPARTMENT. No. 8. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, The ordnance and ordnance stores now in store at the Leavenworth Arsenal will be transferred to Rock Island Arsenal, or otherwise disposed of, and as soon thereafter as practicable the Chief of Ordnance will turn over the Arsenal to the Quartermaster General for the use of the line of the Army. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. |