section of the Act of August 4, 1854, the following remarks should be placed opposite their names: $2 pr. mo. for former services"-the expression "former services" being used to designate the whole period of the soldier's service prior to the date of the act. If he be entitled to $1 additional for re-enlisting subsequent to its date, the remark will then be, "$2 pr. mo. for former services, and $1 for re-enlisting;" for a second re-enlistment, “$2 pr. mo. for former services, and $2 for 2d re-enlistment," &c. For soldiers coming under the provisions of the 3d and 4th sections of the act, note as follows: "$2 pr. mo. for cert. merit;""$2 pr. mo. for previous services, $2 for cert. merit, and $1 for re-enlisting," &c., according to the facts of the case. The bounty of "three months' extra pay" allowed for re-enlistments under the 29th section of the Act of July 5, 1838, is not to be entered on the muster-roll, as this bounty is paid by the recruiting officer, and not by the paymaster; but installments of bounty due for enlistments made under the provisions of the 3d section of the Act of June 17, 1850, will be noted as follows: (or t, t, or 4, according to its being the installment due for the 1st, 2d, 3d, or 4th year's service), "Ret'd bounty ($· -) due-" the regulation amount of the bounty to be specified. The installment for the fifth year's service will be thus noted: "$. Ret'd bounty ($ -) due." The pay certificates given to soldiers at the time of their discharge must also clearly set forth the extra allowances to which they are entitled. 1194....The retained pay is due to a discharged soldier unless forfeited by sentence of a court-martial, or as provided in Paragraph 1197. 1195.... The traveling pay is due to a discharged officer or soldier unless forfeited by sentence of a court-martial, or as provided in Paragraph 1197, or the discharge is by way of punishment for an offense. 1196....In reckoning the traveling allowance to discharged officers or soldiers, the distance is to be estimated by the shortest mail route; if there is no mail route, by the shortest practicable route. Rations of soldiers, if not drawn in kind, are estimated at the contract price at the place of discharge. The price of the ration shall be stated on the certificate. 1197....Every enlisted man discharged as a minor, or for other cause involving fraud on his part in the enlistment, or discharged by the civil authority, shall forfeit all pay and allowances due at the time of the discharge. 1198....Paymasters or other officers to whom a discharged soldier may apply, shall transmit to the Paymaster-General, with their remarks, any evidence the soldier may furnish relating to his not having received or having lost his certificates of pay due. The Paymas ter-General will transmit the evidence to the Second Comptroller for the settlement of the account. 1199.....No paymaster or other officer shall be interested in the purchase of any soldier's certificate of pay due, or other claim against the United States. 1200....The Paymaster-General will report to the Adjutant-General any case of neglect of company officers to furnish the proper certificates to soldiers entitled to discharge. 1201....Whenever the garrison is withdrawn from any post at which a chaplain is authorized to be employed, his pay and emoluments shall cease on the last day of the month next ensuing after the withdrawal of the 'troops. The Paymaster-General will be duly informed from the Adjutant-General's office whenever the appointment and pay of the post chaplain will cease under this regulation. 1202....Funds turned over to other paymasters, or refunded to the Treasury, are to be entered in accounts current, but not in the abstracts of payments. 1203....Whenever money is refunded to the Treasury, the name of the person refunding, and the purpose for which it is done, should be stated, in order that the officers of that Department may give the proper credits. 1204....When an officer of the army receives a temporary appointment from the proper authority to a grade in the militia then in actual service of the United States higher in rank than that held by him in the army, he shall be entitled to the pay and emoluments of the grade in which he serves. But in no case can an officer receive the compensation of two military commissions or appointments at the same time. 1205....Whenever the Paymaster-General shall discover that an officer has drawn pay twice for the same time, he shall report it to the Adjutant-General. 1206....The Paymaster-General shall transmit to the Second Auditor, in the month of May, a statement exhibiting the total amount during the year up to the 31st December preceding, of stoppages against officers and soldiers on account of ordnance and ordnance stores, that the amount may be refunded to the proper appropriations. These stoppages will be regulated by the tables of cost published by the chief of the Ordnance Department, and shall have precedence of all other claims on the pay of officers or soldiers. 1207....The following returns are to be transmitted to the Paymaster-General after each payment: 1st. Estimate for succeeding months (Form 1). N 2d. Abstracts of payments (Form 6), accompanied by the vouchers. 3d. General account current, in duplicate (Form 7). 4th. Monthly statement of funds, disbursements, &c. (Form 9). 1208....The accounts and vouchers for the expenditures to the regular army must be kept separate and distinct from those to volunteers and militia. 1209....Pay-roll of militia will be according to Form 8, the certificate at the foot to be signed by all the company officers present. 1210....No militia or volunteers shall be paid till regularly mustered into service, as provided in the General Regulations. |